been really slacking on the blog updates lately, and this is partly due to the fact that i’ve also been slacking on taking photos. seems like it’s too cold for people to bring their cameras out lately, because my usually photo-obsessed friends don’t seem to be snapping as much these days either.

the past weekend was pretty huge! on friday, john and i (upon his insistence) went to the OWL CITY show at the Dream Factory. unfortunately, we got there too late to watch ben houge play to a zillion prepubescent, screaming international schoolers (literally, there were 13 year olds in the crowd and the entire venue turned non-smoking for a night, parents were milling around in the back waiting for their kids, etc etc etc augh), but we did catch the entire OWL CITY set, which by the end was enough Owl City to last me the rest of my life.

afterwards, we went for a more grown-up affair and met up with everyone at CHINATOWN for our dear lin lin’s birthday. lots of drinks and fun, and we were finally piled into bed by 3.

on Saturday, there was BADTASTIC – does ANYONE have any photos? please send them to me! (you can see sammy’s HERE.

(if you’re wondering, the photo above is one of the winners of this year’s national geographic photography contest. check out some of the other images here, some of them are fucking mind blowing!)

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