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NightOwlcoholic: Where U Been?

Written by Rick Marr   
Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:56
Previous blog was from March '08. He's back with some Fish, SPB, and insight into his last year. We've missed you, Rick!
hi dudes. it's been a while, eh? i decided to try to make some regular like blogs again because i miss it and i miss you. here's a bit of a summary of what i've been up to for the past year. blog. i went to new orleans for the 2008 spb convention. it was pretty fackin awesome.

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mickey getting socked a bunch.

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true story.

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i won the mustache award at the convention dinner. it was made from real mustache hair.

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duane lamb won repper of the year. nice work dude.

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tourists.

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twang! if you drink mexican beer you need to get this stuff.

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i bought my grandfathers wooden wagon when i was in college and was really feeling nostalgic about this one. a guy named alex let me take it for a 'joy ride'.

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just add joy.

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back to sf and a stop at one of our favorite haunts. i also went to new york with fish to help out with his show at the joshua liner gallery.

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my favorite piece in the show.

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we stayed a night at mike bogart's spot in brooklyn. he's lives right in the middle of an oh so jewish neighborhood.

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he's a swell photographer and we had an inpromptu drunken photo shoot on his roof top. he took this.

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one of the aforementioned jewish peeps. it's a good thing he can't see through the sidewalk cause the girl below is german.

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this here is beergit. her birthday was the same day as the opening.

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opening.

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josh keyes had the other side of the gallery. i didn't get very good photos of his stuff so if you don't already know his stuff go here and see why i'm a fan.

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the after party was in the rooftop penthouse suite of the marritime hotel. also no good photos on account of the alcohol.

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saw this rad sign.

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then got 'tubucolosis, lukemia and sphyllis' about 5 minutes later. some photos...

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went upstate to see some family and swam. it was warm then.

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water bug. i also went to the lebowski fest.

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me, the real dude that lewbowski was based off of (jeff dowd), and my special lady.

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martin and the dude.

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a white russian.

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a beaver picture.

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walter sobchak. complete with security van.

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bunny and the big lebowski.

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the garden party.

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my personal favorite '3000 years of beautiful tradition from Moses to Sandy Koufax'.

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the dude bowling. fack yeah. so... the main reason i haven't been blogging is because i have a day job these days. i work full time as a photo editor at kink.com. if you're not familiar, they are a production company, more specifically, they make adult movies... also known as porn. i hadn't had a day job since 2002 and i've really been missing the free time i used to have. that being said, the job itself is awesome and kink treats it's employees really well. i'm staying. one of the many benefits of working there is that i get invites to the live shoots.

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this is ultimate surrender. it's 3 rounds of competitive non scripted wrestling between women.

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the live shows are tag teams.

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i was surprised at how hard they actually wrestle. they also gets points for finger banging and stuff.

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the catch is that there's a 4th round where the winners fuck the losers. neat eh?

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bam.

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pile on, yo!

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in addition to ultimate surrender, there have been a handful of live shoots at some bars around town.

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i'm a little more partial to these because the photos are more interesting. also, i tend to have more friends at them and free beer is cool. and free beer is cool. yeah, i said it twice. well, that's what i've been up to. i'll try to bust out some more regular like blogs in the future. in the mean time, fuck yeah. {moscomment}

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+LA
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