Soundtrack: "Luchini (This Is It)" - Camp Lo

(Ryan's been schooling me in '90s rap. I completely missed out on it cuz I was too busy being

pretentious and only listening to Sonic Youth and excruciating noise bands. Shameful. Hey, anyone

remember Harry Pussy? I have all their 7-inches if anyone wants to take them off my hands.)

I'm trying to get a lot of Ryan time in between all his traveling and before he goes away on his big

summer photographic journey. On Sunday, we took the train to Jersey for a nice Sunday dinner with

the McGinleys. We put a quarter on the tracks so the oncoming train would flatten it. I'm a city kid

and never got to do shit like that growing up, so I get a big kick out of it now.

Yay, flattened quarter!

Ryan and his dad.

Ryan's family is so big, his mom labels everyone's cups otherwise it would be total beverage chaos.

I was so honored to have my own cup!

Ryan got his niece a remote controlled flying saucer thing. Then he totally bogarted it.

The next day: Plant shopping with the best interns ever. Don't they look like the cast of a wacky

sitcom here?

Dude can ride his bike with no hands while eating a banana and, like, checking his email all at the

same time. After seeing my lame attempts at taking pictures while biking, he was determined to make

me practice. I'm still pretty spastic at it, but I'm getting better.

Now pop the cork and steam the vega and get lit, what!