Parties & Fun
Ben Turns 30: In STYLE with a sombrero and a sash that proclaims his age: OLD!
Ben Turns 30: Lori and Chris meet us at Abuelo's for dinner. YARR!
Ben Turns 30: Ben is the first non-Mexican Mexican pirate. With him, his smarmy crew of Lori, Chris and Pat.
Ben Turns 30: Ben with his first mate, ME!
Ben Turns 30: I give you, the Dread Pirate camera-flash-light-beard! YARR!
Ben Turns 30: Saint San Francisco and his womens.
Ben Turns 30: The whole crew (at least those who were on time). ZING!
Ben Turns 30: The dread pirate team of Howard and Howard.
Ben Turns 30: Ben with a Darth Vader party favor in our kitchen about to blow out candles.
Ben Turns 30: Lori and Chris did the decorating while I got Ben out of the house. Sneaky sneaky.
Ben Turns 30: Rich, Ben, Lori and Chris, the house party crew. Rich was at dinner but we missed a pic of him.
Ben Turns 30: Our front door, Kong party style. The mismatch of decorations was complete.
Anniversary 06: Me in the Antares restaurant atop Reunion Tower in Dallas.
Anniversary 06: Here's Ben in the Antares restaurant in Dallas.
Anniversary 06: This was the hotel room we got for the night. It had a Sleep Number Bed!
Anniversary 06: We had a corner room with a SPECTACULAR view of the parking lot.
Anniversary 06: Here's me at the Dallas World Aquarium.
Anniversary 06: This is a three-toed sloth. He was SUPER cute and chewing a root!
Anniversary 06: These were some sting rays of sorts.
Anniversary 06: Here's me in front of a window, oh yeah, and some trees.
Anniversary 06: What's a trip to the aquarium without MONKEYS?!
Anniversary 06: More rays and some turtles.
Anniversary 06: Swimmy turtles.
Anniversary 06: The turtle bullpen. I love me some turtles.
Anniversary 06: Ben amidst some foliage.
Anniversary 06: Sea turtles!
Anniversary 06: These are seahorses. I swear. They were so rad and crazy looking.
Anniversary 06: Ben is disgusted by the tentacley thing in the corner.
Anniversary 06: Fish are neat.
Anniversary 06: Check out this guy. You won't find him on any menu.
Anniversary 06: This was the raddest tiniest little owl.
Anniversary 06: And he seemed very sad...
Anniversary 06: And smarmy.
Anniversary 06: And scared.
Anniversary 06: Ben met an old friend.
Anniversary 06: Hooray for Seahorses!
Anniversary 06: There's the backend of a Mayan dancer.
Anniversary 06: Flamingos! That's for you, Lori!
Anniversary 06: This reminded me of Chewie cat.
Anniversary 06: More of the Mayan dancers.
Anniversary 06: Eels are freakishly cool.
Anniversary 06: And scary.
Anniversary 06: Here's me in front of some penguins. The pit was SMELLY.
Anniversary 06: Here's a penguin, presumably pissed that I took his picture instead of giving him fish.
Anniversary 06: More penguins.
Anniversary 06: There's Ben and me outside of the Aquarium.
Anniversary 06: This is the JFK monument in downtown Dallas.
Ladytron: Ben and I get ready for some Ladytron and CSS action!
Ladytron: CSS opened up for Ladytron and they kicked ASS.
Ladytron: More CSS. I'm on a quest to buy any CDs they have out now.
Ladytron: A nice girl in the audience next to us offered to take our picture.
Ladytron: Here's Helen Marnie of Ladytron getting us started.
Ladytron: More Helen. I really like her hair.
Ladytron: Here's drummer Daniel Hunt continuing the beats.
Ladytron: You can almost see Mira Aroyo over Mr. Snow Miser's hair.
Ladytron: Here's Helen again. I think she was singing "Evil" but I can't be sure.
Ladytron: Here's a good shot of Mira.
Ladytron: Mira laying down some beats and their backup guitarist.
Ladytron: Here's a Mira and Helen combo! I think this was "He Took Her to a Movie".
Ladytron: More Mira and Helen. Mira should smile more, but I think that's her "thing".
Ladytron: More Mira, her bracelet is rad.
Ladytron: Here's Helen doing the encore. I think this was "Destroy Everything You Touch".
Ladytron: One last shot of Helen. She's about the only thing I could see the whole time.
The Kentucky Prophet, opens up for Frank Black at the Gypsy Tea Room.
Ben and I get ready for some Frank Black goodness.
Frank Black - I play some pachinko I play pachisi...
More Frank Black.
And some More Frank Black.
Wait, is it? YES, it's MORE Frank Black!
This was all he really did all night. You know, sing.
Laura and I get dolled up.
My broadway debut, at Nordstrom's. (Desi made me pose like this, I swear!)
This is Desi, she rocks and puts makeup on REALLY well.
Laura and Desi, in the middle of the Nordstrom makeup counters.
This isn't a great picture, but I thought Desi looked good so I'm including it.
This one is alot better, but still kind of funky.
Oh my god! I have makeup on!
Laura and Me, glamming it up.
Sorry, boys, we have husbands.
And then she went and chinbutted me...
I can't believe it's not butter!
Desi says "You're not really going to buy that are you?!"
Laura says "Ring me up, and smile while you do it!"
The Flametrick Subs at Club Clearview in Dallas. Rockin'.
The Flametrick Subs' bassist Lefty DeMarco lighting it up.
Only decent pick of Clem Hoot. Sorry about the hideous cowboy hat...
The Flametrick Subs: BEER
The Flametrick Subs: RUN
Laura and Dusti were enjoying the...um, show.
Laura reciprocating the love to Dusti.
Girl's Night Out - Lori, Laura and I at the Sunshine Bar
Girl's Night Out - Lori and Laura at the Sunshine Bar right before...
Girl's Night Out - THAT guy jumped in the picture.
Girl's Night Out - Laura was probably saying something REALLY important.
Girl's Night Out - This picture was taken as a ruse to get a picture of the elusive crazy lady at Caves.
Girl's Night Out - This was also a ruse picture at Caves.
Girl's Night Out - There's me and Laura at the Village, before the tallywhacker made an appearance.
Chris' Birthday 2006 - Witness the birth of Aslan, the Insult Lion.
Chris' Birthday 2006 - Aslan getting cheeky with Chris.
Chris' Birthday 2006 - The paparazzi gets out of control.
Chris' Birthday 2006 - Chris opening gifts.
Chris' Birthday 2006 - Chris getting the TV show "Fear" on DVD from us.
Chris' Birthday 2006 - Blowing out his candles and making a BIG WISH!
Chris' Birthday 2006 - Here Chris attempts to make his wish come true.
Chris' Birthday 2006 - Instead we try to blind him with the flashes of our dueling cameras.
Chris' Birthday 2006 - Random Lori and Jonathan yucks.
Chris' Birthday 2006 - Lori has a quiet moment with Jonathan.
Chris' Birthday 2006 - I don't know if Lori is drunk here or not...she probably is.
Chris' Birthday 2006 - Jonathan appears to be VERY serious about taking down that piece of cake.
Chris' Birthday 2006 - Let the camera war begin!
Chris' Birthday 2006 - The camera war is over before it ever gets started.
Chris' Birthday 2006 - Here's Ben pre-cake.
Chris' Birthday 2006 - Here's Ben post-cake.
Chris' Birthday 2006 - Its a murder of Halls. I represent La Mancha.
marlena's empty lunchbox