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of course bumbies had to jump in and help us out.

bumbies, painter

This is how lazy we are, we brought the dirty dishes in a box with us to the new place so we could use the dishwasher and not have to wash them by hand.

new dishwasher

Someone just left a brownie on the ground by my car, it was delicious.

who just leaves a brownie

Im not really sure what this is supposed to accomplish, but it was successful.

a new way to participate

“If one ball takes down that many pins, 4 balls should take down 4 times as many!”

now we are getting ridiculous

stern doesnt go to the club the club goes to stern

lisa stern dance party

We got stomped by heather, she is a total ringer

what is this

We were chatting about our Pokemon fan club

Once a pimp always a pimp

“And then I said to Dave, you’re an idiot!” Heather exclaimed to Kayla.
“I remember saying the same thing to Zach very recently,” Kayla thought to herself.

this photo kind of encapsulates their relationship


the girls

Stern doesn’t leave Manhattan, ever - so this picture is a small miracle to begin with.

bffs

There’s something about bowling alleys that make it possible to create wonderful old school shots.

keepin it real at the bowling alley

Kayla and Heather treated themselves to a round of mexican fondue for dessert.

fondue time

The two week period that is Kayla’s yearly birthday extravaganza began today, as we went to celebrate at Mojave and Astoria Bowl in Queens.  Here, Kayla is opening her gift from heather, which included knitting classes in town!

happy birthday

This particular hairstyle is a combination of us being too lazy to comb out her mats and being to cheap to pay for a proper grooming.  Also, you have to admit, it is pretty hilarious.

bumbies is a lion

Kayla finally sits down to enjoy the fruit of her labors

a well deserved meal

It was the juiciest, most flavorful fried chicken I have ever had.  Recommendation: make it immediately  Recipe: http://www.inuyaki.com/archives/84

Ready to eat

The dry part of the buttermilk batter

Dry Part

All you need to break down a chicken properly are poultry shears, the internet, sharp knives and a can of sugar free red bull.

future poop

“Discard or use for chicken stock”

Chicken Backbone

What you can’t see is, off camera, the laptop with youtube videos of how to break down a chicken.

Breaking down a chicken

The brining solution for Kayla’s fried chicken

Brine

GET IN MY BELLY

Turkey

Watching us try to figure out how to open a coconut was probably like watching the start of 2001, but with more power tools.

coconut

Kayla and Tina talking about a variety of topics (actually just one topic) after heather’s fitting.  Kayla is making Heather’s bridesmaid dress for Allison’s (not pictured) wedding.

dresses cont.

If you’re not drunk and beating up dave, you’re doing it wrong.

beer garden means violence

This picture kind of encapsulates their whole relationship

eating

Beer gardens is the kind of thing you can only do like once a season.  This was that once.

Beer gardens round 2

Kayla and Tina do the measurements, or something, for heather’s dress.  I don’t know how clothing making usually goes but I always thought there were more asians involved.

patterns

We’ve caught no less than 7 mice since the basement flooded.  One time, we caught 2 mice in the same trap.  Let that one roll around in your brain for a while.

a mouse

Another fine day in the park

picnic

I WILL DIE BEFORE I CALL THIS THE RFK BRIDGE

Triborough

the first pretty day of the year brings all the people and babies (who are not people) out

Queens life

How can you have a massive grin on your face as you pedal your 2 six year olds thirty miles through new york city?  HOW?

the brave one

Big apple bike tour happens every year and goes right through my front yard

Big apple bike tour

Kayla’s doing something with this mirror that involves antiquing and power tools

keepin it crafty

For April Fools my wife posted an ad on Craigslist for a “free parrot that says hello in 3 languages”, with a phone number that happened to be mine.  I got 25 calls in 20 minutes.  Here is one of the many text messages I got.  Oh rodrigo, what won’t you fall for…

for april fools I took a ride on the lollercoaster

A water main broke and there’s like 2 feet of water in the basement.  The whole house stinks and there’s no hot water.  Kayla had to shower at the gym this morning.  That’s all nothing compared to the people next door, who live beneath the street at this level, who have all their shit flooded.  […]

basement flooded


plants


basil 2


basil

After she gets shaved, bumbies has a cat butt.  It’s the worst, like some kind of evil sphincter eye staring at you.  The worst is… well I won’t go on, but it’s bad.

cat butt


potting chives

I enjoy chewing on chives, for my manhood.

chives

Mom got kayla a small herb garden kit… and it’s grown out of control - so it’s time to transplant into separate containers.  Bumbies, of course, was there to supervise.

transplants


bumbies

For some reason a different production is filming at the high school up the street from me.  The first time was cool, now it’s just a pain in the ass - I had to move the car like 10 blocks away or risk getting it towed.

filming again

Sometimes you see companies try and make audacious claims about the health value of their products - somehow Oreos “contain a full serving of vegetables”.  Not these people.  Q: Who eats a friggin donut as a bedtime snack? A: FAT PEOPLE

These donuts

It’s like the crime scene for a murdered penis

I dont know why that’s written on there

How else would you get enough pork fat to make bacon cookies?

3 POUNDS OF BACON

Kayla bought me a new portrait lens which, by some coincidence, is also fantastic for food photography

cupcakes


kayla

bumbies gets wierded out when I display atypical behaviors like stand on the chair.

bumps

Kayla and I decorated her sugar cookies for our friends.  Guess which ones I did.

decorated sugar cookies

They were beautiful… until I got to them

sugar cookies

We’ve been really boring recently, sitting around the house and playing Mass Effect 2.  Well, I have. Kayla has been making sugar cookies as evidenced by the mess she made in the kitchen :3.  We’re doing a ton of shit next weekend, so I’ll post pictures after our valentines day adventures

sorry I haven’t posted pictures in a while

NYC Pro Tip: The snow plows all point towards the right side of the road, so you probably want to park on the left to avoid getting snowed in.

New Car’s First Snow

it wasnt just a snow storm - it was SNOWPOCALYPSE 09 NYC

first snow of the year

oh hey we also got a new car.  Ain’t she pretty?

this guy

riley is fat

a lap for everyone

Gartner and Riley are going to be starring in a buddy cop movie where a K-9 dog that lost it’s master helps an emotionally distant alocholic cop find himself.  Riley is starring as the cop.

best buds

Pictured in front - Kayla’s award winning Triple Silken Pumpkin Pie, and in the background a classic Dutch Apple Pie

THE PIES

all dave ever really wanted was a red stripe and some Arrested Development

a happy man

Allison and Heather snuggle Bumbies and attempt to breathe around impossibly full bellies

Post noms haze


dinner for 7

you can see the cranberry sauce, the stuffing and under the napkins an amazing bundle of homemade biscuits.

in which we stuff our faces

I can hear her thought process from across the room

Don’t even think about it


I STAB YOU

As pretty as a magazine cover and as tasty as it looked

a magnificent feast


placesettings

The Thanksgiving bird, a sage rubbed apple basted something or other, before the cooking process that took an hour less than we thought it would.  We ended up frantically calling everyone telling them that dinner would be an hour early.

Sage Rubbed

it was all I could do to not just jam my face in and start chowing down right then

the magic

preparations for the dutch apple pie have begun in earnest

my favorite

we had a moment of panic when the turkey came out of the fridge still partially frozen after four days of thawing, but with emergency help from the Wilson ladies we persevered.

prepping the bird

the turkey people were kind enough to include a penis with our thanksgiving turkey

slap a turkey neck

I went as The Comedian from Watchmen.  This is him at the end, right before he gets thrown out the window.  Kayla did a good job with the human bean juice.

Its all a joke

Kayla as Sally Jupiter from Watchmen.  She made the whole costume herself by hand.

Sally

Kayla just threw that hair together in like 10 minutes, no problem.

On the bus

Dog 1: Im hungry can you get me some food
Dog 2: Im hungry can you get me some food
Wife: Im hungry can you get me some food

this is my life

Not the sight you want to see when you’re already late

track work

Riley advises Kayla on one of her many projects

cross stitchin

painting is an interesting process in the wilson household.  Outside of work (and some would say inside as well) I am not exactly “detail oriented”.  I am usually relegated to paint rolling - which I somehow manage to fuck up anyways.

Painting

We pulled the couch forward to clean…  and good god it needed it.  If you know anything about bumbies you wouldn’t be surprised to hear that there were about 30 bottle caps underneath.

Another picture that Kayla is going to hate me for posting

the best part of rock band is that it’s pants optional

rock band

sometimes you just gotta bust a move

dancing in the street

beer is #1

dave

beer is #1

dave


our german friends

skip the cups, drink straight from the pitcher.

how dave got obliterated

if you dont laugh looking at this image im sorry, your heart is blackened and dead.

the beer gardens are magic!

It’s seriously like 4 oclock, this guy must have been drinking at church.

who hasn’t been there.

Kayla and one of the delightful austrian exchange students we met at the beer gardens.  We are all now friends on facebook.

Beer Gardens

zach wilson, still ugly, now with worse skin

me

Josh and Kate are back from their second epic round-the-world trip, and came up to stay with Kayla and I while the US Open was on.  Just think, a week ago from this picture Josh was getting sodomized by a matador in the back of a winnebago somewhere outside of Kandahar.

us open 2009

trust me, riley - some times those last few fries aren’t worth the trouble.

riley gets to the heart of the matter

Working from home one day, kayla got creative - the end result being several hundred pictures of the dogs.
hires

Bumps

Kayla comes home after a long day at work.  Chances are those bags are full of sweet treats with which to enjoy Big Brother.

Return of the Queen

her only weapon is snuggling
hires

sweetie

hires

kayla

waking up next to me is like that burger king commercial where that insane mascot is next to that dude when he wakes up, except i’m not holding a hamburger.
hires

me and roopers

the only reason she’s staying still is because she is deeply focused on the bottle cap I am holding just out of view
hires

bumps

kayla reads up for the upcoming movie, despite me up in her face taking pictures.  Marriage is about patience.
hires

julie and julia

my lighting setups are ghetto fabulous
hires

portrait

is this super gay as the denizens of facebook have suggested or am I just really intense about my art?
hires

me

Kayla hates this picture

attack of the giant glowy sperm

can you tell the difference

I got a new camera

sometimes we go in in the morning together.

subway

we didn’t realize until just now that Bumps loves getting into boxes and sitting there.  I think that she hopes that we’ll give her a peanut butter kong if she goes voluntarily.

Boxaholic

no comb shall touch my scalp - surely the source of my power - on the weekends.  Just one of the many things that makes me… BADASS

weekend hair

so bumbies has discovered that we put food into the trash and she can get to it with a minimal amount of work.  Anyways, thanks grandma for buying us an anti-dog-that-steals-food device.

she strikes again

Kayla was going to go with me to the Explosions concert, but it rained.  Like torrential downpour.  As it happened, I was waiting at Broadway for a train into manhattan when her train to Astoria arrived.

that lady

This, by the way, was the least strange experience I had on the subway that day.

clowns gotta get around

In which I try to be artsy and fail miserably

kayla at the diner

what is it with dogs and laying in patches of sun?  I’m sure if I put a time lapse camera on Riley during the day, it would be her moving once every 30 minutes or so to get maximum sun area.

sunnins


Dad v. The Big Apple

Someone flying a kite over manhattan from a rooftop

It was that kind of day

My parents came down to pick up the dogs; here they are interacting with the art.

family

This month’s theme at the Socrates Sculpture Park is The Great New York State Fair.  I don’t know what this is but dad is regarding it with suspicion.

State Fair

Children are heartbroken 

The saddest poster ever

i’m pretty sure she’s plotting to assassinate me.

she lurks


bumbies haz a moustache

lolz

riley haz a moustache

One of the rules of Ring of Fire is if you draw a 10, you get to make a rule.  Scott kept trying to make rules where people had to ride the bike, but no one really went for it.  This is also how I spent a round with everyone forced to call me “Tampax […]

Scott bikes it

Here we are playing a drinking game back at Dave and Heather’s.  What’s noteworthy here is that Kayla is drinking a beer.  You can tell she’s real enthused about it.

Ring Of Fire

This woman was obliterated.  Like I have never seen anyone this trashed in my life.  The dude next to her was really trying hard to have a conversation with her.  I can’t even imagine what this hangover is going to be like.

epic wasted

Jeannie is our dog trainer; here she’s using Rosie (her dog) as a distraction for Bumbies.  We’ve taken the show on the road to Astoria Park, where it turns out there was a dog run this whole time.

jeannie and me

This was some kind of religious observance; I looked on wikipedia and couldn’t figure it out.  It certainly wasn’t in celebration of World Hemophilia Day or Syrian Independence Day.  Anyways, this stretched on for an awfully long time, right beneath the Yellow Line into Queens.

observances

Aunt Cathy, Tina’s sister was here on business and stopped by for the grand queens tour.  I like aunt cathy because she can drink me under the table.

aunt cathy

im freakin out man

my feet are so far away

Usually when we leave for work we close bumbies’ pen with a bungee cord so she can’t get out.  Today was not one of those days.

The Destroyer

They’re not even trying any more.

great moments in graffiti

Kayla has bought into the cross stitching craze that’s sweeping the nation.  She somehow got me to come to micheals crafts to help her pick out floss when I could have been playing video games and wallowing in my own filth.  One of these days I am going to call in all of my favor […]

cross stitching

Do you have a jew fro?  They have the tools to deal with that.  Robot hair?  No problem.  This is the preferred barber for superman who can only cut his hair using his own heat vision.  Think about that, mutants.

and they mean ANY kind of hair

the entire east coast was windy as hell - but somehow it made her look even better

waiting for the q104

Tagger Heaven

CONAN! What is best in life?

the fun squad

the two towers

Life is like a slide show

The Further Adventures of Bumblebee Wilson

What’s wrong with this picture?

Valentine’s Day Chocolates

CHOCOLATE COURSE

Fundue (i think I used that joke already)

Melted Cheese

engage!

dolla store

keep looking til you laugh

Astoria Least Finast Speling

Steinway between 30th and 36th in Queens

q104

Mr Bacon is not playing around

The Cobbler

Christmas 2008

chicken

pork chops

Creme Brulee

true genus

Yes I am crazy

Nice rack

this kind of thing happens a lot

Table Time

The face of stupidity

Nom Pile

The first snow of the year makes bumbies look like a coke head

booger sugar

Meanwhile, Back at Home

Aftermath 08

Thanksgiving 08

Extremely Trivial Edition

makin pasta

Miguel

Kayla and Eddie

Bumbies is one year old

farts are funny

Tradition!

sleeps

Here’s what she’s thinking: “…”, after which she farts

who doesn’t stand on the living room table

In response I chewed up her dog bowl.  I dont think it had the desired effect.

There are days when I hate having a puppy

these guys are awesome

Socrates - another view

I like art with a sense of humor

VRROOOOOOM

new sculptures

Le Monde

Its my island

I am in the bushes

federer

Arthur Ashe Stadium

federer takes the field

US Open

world and pancakes

Train Thing

sevens

aye carumba

Drinks + Jukebox = Dancing

to be honest it was probably weddings and video games they were talking about.  I don’t know, I was pretty drunk.

Conversations in progress: shopping and sports

gifted

ladies

crotchless

what

she gets really bad mats in her hair during the summer, and kayla and I tend to take the most direct route between point a and point b, so…
It looks like another dog is wearing a bumbas mask.

ah hahahahahahaha

at least I don’t have to wear my wedding band any more

you’re gonna find out about it eventually

Her treats are right behind her.  At least she’s creative, you’ve got to give her that.

this is something that happens

kayla and valerie

more rockband

I think she’s a warlock

the dogs were the real winners

the inevitable rock band

carlito and suni

lost in the supermarket

old times

Grandma and the Pups

My dogs

butt sniff

umbrella hat

Whose house?

waiting for the N to manhattan

rutily

Personal Space

take it from me, friend -

served

Art!

my ladies

bumbles in the park

Socrates

escalation

manhattan bound

and shes teething

haircut

The Stairs

beezy’s first night out

for whatever reason, I was interviewed for X-Play - a show about video games on G4.  I talked about my “career” and how to get into the “industry”.  Everyone said I was really enthusiastic and positive.  I was chanelling myself from five years ago.

call me hollywood

sleeps

just like her poppa

Christmas 2007

chilled out fam

tugs

geh… so… close…

just chillin

even riley appreciates a moment of peace

jury rigged

kayla and the pups

me and the pups

riley’s new couch

The greatest game… ever.

in which my parents rock out

what a strange coincidence

riley’s new sweater

the time for snuggles is now

first snow 2007

Brunch!

Our New Kitchen

The Spoils of War

US Open

what up radar

kayla’s new tattoo

riley’s nemesis

BLATs

The new digs

riley checks in

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