And now this is happening...Adam and Lara went to New Zealand and all you got was this shitty blog./~site/Scripts_BlogElement/BlogElement.dll?cmd=CMDGetFeed&handle=1755890716&path=/index.html&domain=www.andnowthisishappening.com&format=atom&type=entries2020-06-29T08:35:21-05:00Apache Rollerhttp://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=happy-2013-y-allHappy 2013, Y'all!Adam Saraceno2013-01-05T15:57:04-06:002013-01-05T15:57:04-06:00<div align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8351634744/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="500" height="313" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8092/8351634744_1fe614f1b4.jpg" alt="Untitled" /></a>
<br /><i>Lara's sister Anne showing us the Texas peace sign, which in Texas means "2 chicken fried steaks, y'all."</i><br /><br /><div align="left">Happy 2013 folks. Hope you've been keeping up with those new year resolutions. Let's face it, those Shake Weights aren't going to pull themselves out of the closet and <a href="http://www.noob.us/humor/south-park-shake-weight/">jerk themselves back and forth endlessly towards your face</a>! Nope, they need you to do that.<br /><br />We thought we'd start off the new year in the laziest way we could possibly image. No, we're not going to eat our way through a 20 lb ham while watching the Lethal Weapon series on VHS. Did that last week. We're gonna share our most favorite video chat screenshots from 2012. And by "most favorite" we pretty much mean all. So if you didn't make the cut, CALL US AND QUIT BEIN' A <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wbuZ3Wl1I">DOUCHE</a>.<br /></div><br />
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<br /><i>There's something about watching your parents interact with technology that never gets old.</i><br /><br />
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<br /><i>It's hard to tell from the picture but Bonny is actually wearing that tiara in real life. She's retired now, and evidently that's what you do.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8350571249/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="500" height="408" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8192/8350571249_1ae96364f1.jpg" alt="Untitled" /></a><br /><i>Adam has been working for <a href="http://peakdesignltd.com">Peak Design</a> for the past year, and had to take way WAY too many conference calls with Pete while he was laying in bed in his unmentionables. Not sure what's going on here but Pete is loving it.</i><br /><br />
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<br /><i>Startup culture is not all that different from the corporate world. You still have long rambling meetings where a few people talk and everybody else struggles to listen. But in startups we get to wear funny accessories and smoke flavored tobacco out of vaporizers. How Web 2.0 is THAT?!</i><br /><br />
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<br /><i>Luke lives in London where monacles and bushy moustaches are commonplace, and pirate hats are quite silly, indeed. </i><br /><br />
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<br /><i>When talking to the Annas, any lull in conversation is seen as an opportunity to pick up animals and shove them into the webcam.</i> <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8350572035/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="500" height="313" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8224/8350572035_3848dc81c2.jpg" alt="Untitled" /></a>
<br /><i>K WAIT UP GOTTA SAVE MY WOW SCORE</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8351639082/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="500" height="313" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8055/8351639082_bc2af493eb.jpg" alt="Untitled" /></a>
<br /><i>Travis and Rod (congrats on the engagement!) got some really neat pillows that totally tied the room together. They think the pillows look like Adam's beard. Adam thinks his beard is of unmatched fluffiness.</i><br /><br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8351636314/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="500" height="313" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8353/8351636314_3e0928f5bc.jpg" alt="Untitled" /></a><br /><i>When you're hanging out with Ivy, Pete and Jojo in the garage, there's always a chance that creepy uncle J-Bro will pop in.</i><br /><br /><div align="left">Sometimes our video chats go on for hours. Like that time Lara's brother Luke showed up how to make pizza...<br /><br /></div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8350573249/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="320" height="200" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8509/8350573249_646feaf3d7_n.jpg" alt="Untitled" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8351637020/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="320" height="200" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8353/8351637020_853a212625_n.jpg" alt="Untitled" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8351636732/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="320" height="200" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8194/8351636732_b7bff53176_n.jpg" alt="Untitled" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8350572511/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="320" height="200" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8330/8350572511_c2320e473f_n.jpg" alt="Untitled" /></a>
<br /><i>He's special.</i><br /><br /><div align="left">Or that time when we had a fat face contest with Brooke and Sophie...<br /><br /></div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8351637514/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="320" height="200" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8506/8351637514_0cf6373673_n.jpg" alt="Untitled" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8351637714/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="320" height="200" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8352/8351637714_cab493d06a_n.jpg" alt="Untitled" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8350573855/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="320" height="200" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8183/8350573855_50f00a0e22_n.jpg" alt="Untitled" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8350574047/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="320" height="200" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8333/8350574047_bd6a03b154_n.jpg" alt="Untitled" /></a>
<br /><i>Brooke won, making it her 7th straight title since Tahoe, 2007.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8351638482/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="500" height="313" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8081/8351638482_6ee3c66e88.jpg" alt="Untitled" /></a>
<br /><i>Keeks doesn't like being typecast as a straight-laced news reporter. She's actually very laid back and fun-loving, and in her spare time likes to fish.</i><br /><br /><div align="left">Hope you enjoyed this filler material as much as we enjoyed slopping it together before going to watch NFL playoffs. Looking forward to our next post, when we smear some more sticky globs of fun-time butter on this crispy brown blog toast.<br /></div><br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8351639330/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="500" height="313" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8330/8351639330_d6f6b175fb.jpg" alt="Untitled" /></a><br /><i>Dat's nasty.</i><br /></div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=merry-chrimbusMerry Chrimbus!Adam Saraceno2012-12-26T03:08:52-06:002012-12-26T03:08:52-06:00Merry Chrimbus from Australia!<br /><br /><div align="center"><a title="photo(4) by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8309369989/"><img width="500" height="375" alt="photo(4)" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8079/8309369989_2a9c07428e.jpg" /></a><br /><i>Traditional Australian Christmas Decor</i><br /><br /><div align="left">We hope you all have had a fantastic day of socially acceptable binge drinking/eating. We spent our Chrimbus with the wonderful people of 115 Easey Street, inviting other wayward orphans to join. The result was fun, and gradually more messy as the night went on. I'm sure pics of that will sprout up on Facebook eventually. But we want to give you something different here:<br /><br /></div><div align="center"><a title="photo(3) by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8310419066/"><img width="375" height="500" alt="photo(3)" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8495/8310419066_307d2005a6.jpg" /></a><br /></div><i>In order to conform to Australia's flexible fuel standards, Santa's Aussie Sleigh was retrofitted with the necessary components to accept E85, which is at least 85% etho-ho-ho-nol.</i><br /><br /></div>
<div align="center"><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" src="http://distilleryimage5.s3.amazonaws.com/f553755c4db311e2a1fa22000a1f9261_7.jpg" /><br /><div align="center"><i>Looking forward to 2013, the year in which the Mayan calendar predicts blogging will reach total obsolescence.</i><br /></div></div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=happy-birthday-jimHappy Birthday Jim!Adam Saraceno2012-12-04T13:38:44-06:002012-12-04T13:38:44-06:00For those of you who don't know Jim Saraceno, let me give you a brief introduction:<br /><div align="center"><br /></div>
<div align="center"><iframe width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/n9b-ENY9c58"></iframe><br /><i>Jim, the videographer.</i><br /><br /></div>
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<br /><i>Jim, the animal lover.<br /></i><br /><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6064298544/" title="DSC_0032 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="500" height="331" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6208/6064298544_ab2ee059c6.jpg" alt="DSC_0032" /></a><br />Jim, the lighthearted prankster.<br /><br /></i></div>
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/4231012744/" title="jim and bonny by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="500" height="375" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2780/4231012744_b83f9595c7.jpg" alt="jim and bonny" /></a><br /><i>Jim, the birthday princess.</i><br /><br /><div align="left">Anyway, happy birthday big guy! Hope you and mom are out getting crunk!<br /><br /></div></div>
<div align="center"><a title="DSC_0497 by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6064712786/"><img width="500" height="331" alt="DSC_0497" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6078/6064712786_8d11932879.jpg" /></a></div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=omg-are-you-alrightOMG ARE YOU ALRIGHTAdam Saraceno2012-12-03T04:13:11-06:002012-12-03T05:32:26-06:00Oh. My. God. Are you okay? You must have been sitting here for hours... days... weeks... 8 AND A HALF MONTHS?!<br /><br />Okay, you're mad. We get it. We left you here, like a poodle in a station wagon, to fry in the summer heat while we were carelessly meandering about the new Westfield Plaza, stuffing Auntie Ann's pretzels in our faces like poodles in station wagons. But seriously, it's not like that.<br /><br />
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8168558882/" title="Nepal2-0294 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="500" height="331" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8067/8168558882_e2b0e6c120.jpg" alt="Nepal2-0294" /></a><br /><i>We've been busy doing awesome shit.</i><br /><br /><div align="left">We want to win back your trust. No, we're not going to shower you with gifts, unless you consider talking about ourselves a gift. But we will talk to you more. We'll be here for you, we promise. Here to share stuffs. 'Stralyah stuffs and other stuffs. Is gonna be fun. Here is stuffs:<br /><br /></div></div>
<div align="center"><a title="Wilson's Prom by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/7629288508/"><img width="500" height="331" alt="Wilson's Prom" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8158/7629288508_9b76fdd388.jpg" /></a><i><br />Lara got short hair.<br /><br /></i><a title="Wilson's Prom by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/7629305554/"><img width="500" height="331" alt="Wilson's Prom" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8293/7629305554_e8535b0491.jpg" /></a><i><br />Adam sat in chair.<br /><br /></i><a title="Salami Making Weekend by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/7667612724/"><img width="500" height="331" alt="Salami Making Weekend" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8011/7667612724_3d783a9ca2.jpg" /></a><br /><i>Lara butchered animals and looked rad.<br /><br /></i><a title="Salami Making Weekend by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/7667665424/"><img width="331" height="500" alt="Salami Making Weekend" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8005/7667665424_427b46c7a8.jpg" /></a><br /><i>Adam squeezed out 'roo salami and wore plaid.<br /><br /></i><a title="Nepal-0225 by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8119210128/"><img width="500" height="352" alt="Nepal-0225" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8184/8119210128_551f903d1b.jpg" /></a><i><br />Lara made friends with monkeys.<br /><br /></i><a title="Nepal2-0833 by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8166673666/"><img width="500" height="331" alt="Nepal2-0833" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8062/8166673666_de76031159.jpg" /></a><i><br />Adam and Shane danced like honkies.<br /><br /></i><a title="Nepal2-0945 by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8166613057/"><img width="500" height="331" alt="Nepal2-0945" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7268/8166613057_af878a4ef6.jpg" /></a><i><br />Adam cheered for Yadi in Nepal.<br /><br /></i><a title="Nepal2-0407 by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8168522811/"><img width="500" height="331" alt="Nepal2-0407" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8204/8168522811_f240939fff.jpg" /></a><i><br />Lara got a hand so she wouldn't fall.<br /><br /></i><a title="Family Dinner-12 by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/7558644100/"><img width="500" height="331" alt="Family Dinner-12" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8161/7558644100_b9b5280e69.jpg" /></a><i><br />Adam got crazy with a spooner.<br /><br /></i><a title="Williamstown 2-13 by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/7558575248/"><img width="500" height="331" alt="Williamstown 2-13" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7119/7558575248_2d12ac07b8.jpg" /></a><i><br />Lara met her relatives on a schooner.<br /><br /></i><div align="left">And that brings us to where we are now. And all of you chunder buckets reading this have been pretty busy too... WHERE'S YOUR BLOG POSTS AT?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5189024224/in/set-72157625635393704">Bonny</a> retired to a life of Zumba, cosmopolitans and attacking house guests with Tide Sticks. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5520517272/in/set-72157626587797604/">Mary Jo</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5520518408/in/set-72157626587797604/">Joe</a> got engaged. So did <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8240309837/in/photostream">Molly</a> and Warren, and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8241505708/in/photostream">Becky and Aaron</a>. So did <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/334891038/in/set-72157594442742819/">Louie</a>. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5660387142/in/set-72157626463879091">Rivi</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5659809769/in/set-72157626463879091">Alex</a> got <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=up%20the%20duff">up the duff</a>. So did <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/4081873853/in/set-72157622751852402">Angie and David</a>, and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8241365456/in/photostream">Rohit and Dimple</a>, and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8241384572/in/photostream">Danielle</a> and David, and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8241397084/in/photostream">Lindsay and Dan</a>. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5641234401/in/set-72157626587774038">Eric and Lydia</a> got married. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5641786168/in/set-72157626587797604/">Luke and Kira</a> got married <i>and</i> bought a house. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/393726577/">J-Bro</a> also bought a new house according to Facebook, but we're still waiting for confirmation. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8240492597/in/photostream">John and Karen</a> picked it up and moved it all the way out to Sonoma. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5519926143/in/set-72157626587797604">Kira</a> got a new job. So did <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5794559310/in/set-72157626752940625">Anna</a>. And all the while <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/8240340911/in/photostream">Anne's been hanging out with A-list celebrities</a>.<br /><br />So there you go. Blog is back. We're back. And we STILL GOT IT BABY.<br /><br />For now at least.<br /></div></div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=this-just-in-we-reTHIS JUST IN: We're taking a vacation.Adam Saraceno2012-03-21T01:28:07-05:002012-03-21T01:28:07-05:00Alas, living on Easey Street has taken it's toll. We're up to our <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pouch_(marsupial)">marsupiums</a> in naked bike rides, yoga classes, <a href="http://www.squashvic.com.au/customdata/index.cfm?fuseaction=CustomItem&ItemID=47503">all-female recreational squash leagues</a> and all those other stressful realities of everyday life. HOLIDAY TIME!<div><br /></div><div>We're going on a trip. First to the Great Ocean Road, then to Tasmania, and then to Western Australia. We'll be gone for 2 weeks with limited access to email and voicemail. If we owe you anything, Jim Saraceno is the guy you're looking for.</div><div><br /></div><div>We're also looking forward to seeing this guy:</div><div><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/4670291137/" title="IMG_7835 by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/4670291137/" title="IMG_7835 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1280/4670291137_e38bd59b29.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="IMG_7835" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; ">Fig.1: THE SHANE TRAIN</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/352360252/" title="how we roll by adamcno, on Flickr"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/352360252/" title="how we roll by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/151/352360252_8e22d515a1.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="how we roll" /></a></a></div><div style="text-align: center; ">Fig. 2: August A. Busch VI</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">But seriously though, Adam didn't hang out exclusively with douchebags in high school.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">Consider this our out-of-office message.</div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=naked-timeAnd now for the full frontal nudity you've been waiting for!Adam Saraceno2012-03-18T05:47:45-05:002012-03-18T05:57:43-05:00If you're reading this blog you're probably friends with Adam and Lara on Facebook. This post is for you. But before we get to the MANY PHOTOS OF NAKED HUMANS we'd like to have some words with those of you who aren't friends on Facebook...<div><ul><li><b>If you're not our friend but you're on Facebook</b>, then you probably got here by Googling our names, in which case we know you're after us and we've already cancelled our credit card and moved to Australia. Furthermore, we don't think we should be obliged to pay $9.99/month because your magazine insert clearly said "10 casette tapes for the price of 1 with nothing else to buy EVER."</li><li><b>If you're our friend but you're not on Facebook</b> all we can say to you is that your judgement day will come, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bqto/3006310434/">John Stanley</a>.</li><li><b>If you're our friend but not familiar with Facebook</b>, then hello Grandpa Ernie and Grandma Dot! You can get to The Facebook by creating a new Microsoft Works document, typing "www.facebook.com," pressing the spacebar until the text turns blue, and then moving your pointer arrow over it and clicking the mouse button.</li></ul></div><div>Anyways, our Facebook friends have recently seen some pictures containing more than just Adam's face. Namely his nasty bits, raucous regions, and/or party parts:</div><div><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6807828784/" title="world naked bike ride - melbourne by adamcno, on Flickr"><i><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7036/6807828784_da46a634c4.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="world naked bike ride - melbourne" /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Those are 40 oz cans. Think about it.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>A couple weeks ago, Adam participated in the Melbourne installation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Naked_Bike_Ride">World Naked Bike Ride</a>, called <a href="http://www.asbareasyoudare.com/">As Bare As You Dare</a>. And if you know him well you can understand why this is right up his alley, since it's a hybrid of the two pastimes he loves the most: riding bicycles and exposing his genitals to thousands of complete strangers.</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6832081856/" title="nakedride2 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7185/6832081856_9599838f05.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="nakedride2" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>The best part was that you didn't even have to ride your bicycle the whole time.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left; ">The event was a demonstration meant to increase the public's awareness of cyclists on the roads. Come to find out, the subset of the public willing to ride a bicycle around buck-ass naked is also the same subset of the public who will happily protest just about anything. Hence we protested against cars, fossil fuels, nuclear energy, pollution, war, consumerism, negative bodily image, and de facto anybody trying to enjoy a sausage or calamari dish on Brunswick Street between 3pm and 5pm.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6992537517/" title="naked11 by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6992537517/" title="naked11 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7047/6992537517_4f770a6e90.jpg" width="500" height="341" alt="naked11" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>To answer the question I know you're thinking... it just sort of hangs out on whichever side of the seat God wants it to.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6992538067/" title="naked13 by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6992538067/" title="naked13 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7179/6992538067_00eb07cd03.jpg" width="500" height="335" alt="naked13" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Embarrassment is not a concern when you're wearing a chick-piece. </i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6846411182/" title="naked14 by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6846411182/" title="naked14 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7062/6846411182_07a2c10874.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="naked14" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>300 people were bumpin' uglies on the streets of Melbourne, just not with each other.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6992538843/" title="naked15 by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6992538843/" title="naked15 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7208/6992538843_ac68778751.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="naked15" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Going stark naked was not the only option - some girls covered themselves with mud and some guys covered themselves with obvious overcompensation.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left; ">More Saraceno party parts <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/sets/72157629610418309/">here</a>.</div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=happy-presidents-dayHappy Presidents Day!Adam Saraceno2012-02-20T03:05:31-06:002012-02-20T03:09:17-06:00<div style="text-align: left; ">Happy Presidents Day folks! After the big holiday season it's refreshing to be celebrating our first big secular holiday of the year - a day when we honor the people who have led our great country through ideals rooted in philosophy and logic instead of religious doctrine. After all, how could a melting pot like the United States ever be driven by the influence of a single religion? For Christ's sake, look at the colorful diversity of our 44 presidents - we got Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Baptists, Methodists, Quakers, Dutch Reformed (I didn't forget you, Marty Van-Bizzle) and even one wacky Catholic!</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.someecards.com/presidents-day-cards/president-santorum-gingrich-romney-presidents-day-funny-ecard"><img src="http://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/filestorage/rick-santorum-republicans-gingrich-romney-presidents-day-ecards-someecards.png" alt="someecards.com - Celebrating Presidents Day is a great way to distract yourself from the possibility of a President Santorum" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">We thought that you might like to know what they think of Big-B Obamatron over in this part of the world. They like him. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard likes him too. Sources say she <i>like</i>-likes him. Here's what the Melbourne Herald Sun had to say about Obama's visit in November:</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="text-align: left; "><div class="story-intro" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><i><font color="#e3e3e3">Julia Gillard and Barack Obama are a touchy pairing. Their hands, like disembodied life forms, seek out the other's shoulders and backs. When such targets are out of reach, digits settle on forearms or the nearest available body part.</font></i></p></div></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left; ">We can't legally quote the rest of the article because Intuit Websites hosting service doesn't allow pornographic content. But you can <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/touching-times-for-prime-minister-julia-gillard-and-us-president-barack-obama/story-fn7x8me2-1226197260438">read it here</a>.</div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=stralyah-day'Stralyah DayAdam Saraceno2012-02-19T03:53:38-06:002012-02-19T04:06:08-06:00Happy 'Stralyah Day everybody! We're pleased to be popping yet another fresh blog post out of the oven, a mere 5 weeks after our last blog post. Needless to say we're on fire right now. We're birthing so much nascent material from our brains that perhaps we should consider <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOI7fokqkFc">stuffing some Bayer Aspirin deep within the folds of our cerebellum</a> (Lara and Adam share a singular).<div><br /></div><div>"'Stralyah Day" is how they say Australia Day in these parts. Here is some other weird shit that comes out of people's mouths here:<div><ul><li>Mate (friend)</li><li>Bogan (redneck)</li><li>Root (hump; do the nasty; engage in baby-mekkin practice)</li><li>Pissed (drunk)</li><li>Budgie Smugglers (men's Speedo)</li></ul><div>'Stralyah Day is a national holiday that every Australian celebrates and no Australian can tell you what they're actually celebrating. According to Wikipedia it's the anniversary of the day that the British put a flag up (they used to LOVE doing that) in Sydney and proclaimed that they owned specifically all the nice parts of this landmass.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>In modern times, you celebrate 'Stralyah day by sitting around in your budgie smugglers and getting so pissed with your mates that you end up rooting some bogan that you meet at the park.</div><div><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6855277777/" title="australia day by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6855277777/" title="australia day by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7207/6855277777_1b9b1e1971.jpg" width="500" height="385" alt="australia day" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>A beah bong? That's a funny noime for a thing loike that. Oid'a called it a Pissery-Doo.</i></div><div style="text-align: left; "><i><br /></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6855279467/" title="australia day by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6855279467/" title="australia day by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7068/6855279467_8e7af7e471.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="australia day" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>'Stralyah Day was especially poignant for the Kiwis, who grow up amidst a heated rivalry. Tom was particularly overcome by the better pies versus better coffee debate (he maintains that New Zealand wins on both levels), and eventually fainted from emotional exhaustion.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left; ">Our full 'Stralyah Day photo essay can be seen <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/sets/72157629383244833/">here</a>.</div>
</div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=oh-shit-we-re-awesomeOh Shit We're Awesome AgainAdam Saraceno2012-01-09T04:01:50-06:002012-01-09T04:01:50-06:00Since we left New Zealand we've been meandering around aimlessly trying to rekindle the blogworthyness of our previous lives. We used to <a href="http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=tongariro-crossing">climb volcanoes</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5281825192/in/set-72157625509680169">jump off bridges</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5007859258/in/photostream/">all sorts of other crazy shit</a>. For Christ's sake, we <a href="http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=zorb">ZORBed</a>.<div><br /></div><div>These days things have slowed down a bit. We just spent 45 minutes scouring Flickr for the craziest thing we've done in the past 10 months, and this is what we came up with:</div><div><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6019048472/" title="IMG_0342 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6023/6019048472_6cc76694d8.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_0342" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Excuse me ma'am, you're driving on the wrong side of the bridge. Wait a sec, YOU CAN'T EVEN DRIVE ON THIS BRIDGE! WOAAOAOAOH!</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Ahh, that was neat. But just not the same kind of neat you've come to expect from a couple of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5794005571/in/set-72157626752940625">floor-humping</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5070529187/in/set-72157625509695523/">lamb-snugglin'</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5070529187/in/set-72157625509695523/">earthquake survivors</a>. And that's why we couldn't wait to tell you the great news: as of right now we are completely fucking awesome again.</div><div><br /></div><div>You see, Lara just got a new job at a bakery. On her 3rd day of work the Fleet Foxes came in, commented on her crazy-delicious iPod selection, announced themselves as the <a href="http://fleetfoxes.com/">fucking Fleet Foxes</a>, and subsequently put us on the VIP list to get into their sold-out show. Boom goes the dynamite.</div><div><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6665503445/" title="2012 Beginnings-39 by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6665503445/" title="2012 Beginnings-39 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6665503445_a6c20f83cf.jpg" width="500" height="331" alt="2012 Beginnings-39" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>We were so close that we could literally smell the <a href="http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/fleetfoxes/theshrineanargument.html">Apples in the summer, golden sweet</a>. But then we realized that was just some weed somebody was passing around.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6665504371/" title="2012 Beginnings-40 by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6665504371/" title="2012 Beginnings-40 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7148/6665504371_6ccf7e0c5e.jpg" width="500" height="404" alt="2012 Beginnings-40" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>"Oh hey Adam and Lara, I hope you guys are comfortable in those free VIP seats. Why don't I play your favorite song next. What's that? You want us to put up a giant pulsating Incan-inspired disco light behind us? Done."</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6665508915/" title="2012 Beginnings-44 by adamcno, on Flickr"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6665508915/" title="2012 Beginnings-44 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7175/6665508915_d7e50f007f.jpg" width="500" height="331" alt="2012 Beginnings-44" /></a></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>And finally, proof that we were actually there.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">The rest of the pics can be seen <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/sets/72157628789614561/">here</a>. For those leaving comments we just want to let you know that "jealous" is spelled the same in the Queen's English.</div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=mandatory-holiday-blog-postMandatory Holiday Blog Post!Adam Saraceno2011-12-29T03:57:05-06:002011-12-29T04:37:23-06:00<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6593469467/" title="easey street christmas card 1 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/6593469467_2d48f256f9.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="easey street christmas card 1" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">We really hope that you've been enjoying your Judeo-Christian holidays, and even if you're not Jewish or Christian, we hope you've enjoyed having the holidays shamelessly thrust in your face. It's not the worst thing that's been shamelessly thrust in your face, right <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6145256900/in/set-72157627538312811/">Fogle</a>?</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">Speaking of thrusting things in faces...</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6593425369/" title="DSC_0046 by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6593425369/" title="DSC_0046 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7174/6593425369_2b8292fc1f.jpg" width="500" height="331" alt="DSC_0046" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>This stuff is kosher, right?</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">Either way, Adam's beard is kosher enough to let it slide. Let's talk Jeebus. We had an epic Christmas over here. Everybody got exactly what they wanted. Especially Tom.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6593433743/" title="DSC_0116 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7147/6593433743_9d17e6acb2.jpg" width="500" height="267" alt="DSC_0116" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Tom got drunk.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6593438091/" title="DSC_0165 by adamcno, on Flickr" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6593438091_e795d54d13.jpg" width="500" height="331" alt="DSC_0165" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Lara got drunk and weird.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6593425827/" title="DSC_0062 by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6593425827/" title="DSC_0062 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7164/6593425827_fc2de58ca7.jpg" width="500" height="331" alt="DSC_0062" /></a></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Adam got exceptionally weird.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6593426883/" title="DSC_0071 by adamcno, on Flickr" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7144/6593426883_f7fe0c3479.jpg" width="500" height="331" alt="DSC_0071" /></a><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "> </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><i>And Jacqui got Tom's presents that she bought for him, gun-lighter included.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">Hanukkah was off the charts as well. Sans the 22 pounds of glazed ham that we ate for dinner during days 2, 4, 5 and 7, the rest of 4 crazy nights were spent in pious observation.</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6593421447/" title="DSC_0018 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7147/6593421447_5e8c1e18a6.jpg" width="500" height="331" alt="DSC_0018" /></a></div>
<br /><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Poor planning forced us to spend Hanukkah just like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabees">Maccabees</a> of yore - huddling around a menorah made from a scotch bottle container and tea candles, wearing makeshift yarmulkes we found behind the couch. And now you, our friends, know the story of Hanukkah!</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left; ">See you kids in 2012.</div>
</div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=meet-the-easeysMeet the EaseysAdam Saraceno2011-12-18T03:20:45-06:002011-12-18T03:21:29-06:00<div style="text-align: left; ">We lived in New Zealand for an entire year and spent the whole time living with French Canadians, Brits, Irishmen and South Africans. We got all dressed up to go to the bar mitzvah, and when we got there we spent the entire time hanging out with Uncle Marty's shiksa girlfriend and her sons Chris and Roman.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now that we're living in Melbourne, it's only fitting that we're sharing a house with 3 hilarious Kiwis. And now to introduce the Easey Street crew...</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6530401083/" title="jaqueefa by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6530401083/" title="jaqueefa by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6530401083_b28901878d.jpg" width="500" height="362" alt="jaqueefa" /></a>
</div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Jacqui likes Barbie dolls, making collages, glow sticks, <a href="http://www.freddofrog.com/">candy shaped like animals</a> and anything else that a 7-year-old girl (or a briefly confused 12-year-old Adam) loves.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7142/6530306801_408ecf121a.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="_DSC3336" /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Like most trans-Tasman folk-blues-fusion musicians, India is a very complex person driven by artistic passion, creative impulses and an imaginary maternal relationship with a toddler whose picture she found at a thrift store. His name is Artie by the way.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6530307015/" title="_DSC3322 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6530307015_dc9ffb27e4.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="_DSC3322" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Thomas Petrie (right) is a man of contradictions: he's a horticulturalist with a voracious appetite for meat, a hip-hop lover who wears skinny jeans, and a sour cream addict who gets nightmares if he eats too much cheese. Tom wants you to know that he is now 27 and 1/2 years old.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6530298821/" title="gotta love the easeys by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6530298821/" title="gotta love the easeys by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7159/6530298821_dc39ba1b05.jpg" width="500" height="331" alt="gotta love the easeys" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Responsible living is always practiced on Easey Street - for example, we always have a designated biker.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6530305999/" title="_DSC3272 by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6530305999/" title="_DSC3272 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7009/6530305999_492d2a68eb.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="_DSC3272" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Next time you're in Melbourne stop on by and meet the family!</i></div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=melbourne-to-sydney-on-bicycleMelbourne to Sydney on Bicycle: CHECKAdam Saraceno2011-12-15T17:44:11-06:002011-12-18T02:02:04-06:00Per the usual, we're going to start this post out with an apology for not posting in so long. And as always, there is no good excuse for why we've been out of service - Adam just cycled 1100 km (684 mi) from Melbourne to Sydney, that's all.<div><div><br /></div></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6518623501/" title="adam and dan arrive at the opera house by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/6518623501_c238d9f921.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="adam and dan arrive at the opera house" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Adam and Canadian friend Dan arrive at the opera house on Dec. 14th after leaving Melbourne on Dec. 3rd. Dan convinced Adam to go on this epic bike ride in the first place - yet another instance of Canadians trying to convince the world that doing outlandish things is OK (case in point: wearing a denim jacket with a denim shirt and jeans).</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Once we get the pictures up we'll give you a little more detail. Until then, Adam is still trying to get caught up everything that's happened since he's been off the grid. What have you folks been up to? How are those Pujols contract negotiations going?</div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=eleven-eleven-elevenELEVEN ELEVEN ELEVENAdam Saraceno2011-11-11T14:37:26-06:002011-12-18T02:01:55-06:00What are you doing for 11/11/11? If it's half as glorious as what we did then you, my friend, deserve a fancy wooden nickel.<div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><img src="http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.3283666.1319945481!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.jpg" align="baseline" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>The Cardinals won their 11th World Series in a legendary 7-game grind. The boys went completely berserk and celebrated like there would be no tomorrow, except for old Poops who needed his eyeballs intact for <a href="http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2011/11/11/2553801/albert-pujols-miami-marlins-contract">reviewing offers from the Marlins</a>.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6334589656/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6215/6334589656_0b527bb25d.jpg" width="500" height="331" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>We drank 11 shots of Old McCallister's 7-month scotch and made 11 inanimate objects get all nasty and nekkid together.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6335705124/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6119/6335705124_56e48d4d4c.jpg" width="500" height="331" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>The Easeys ate 11 pounds of kangaroo meatloaf. Picture left to right: India, Charles Manson, Tom. Imagine the meat-sweats that you'll get after eating that much roo-loaf.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6335117387/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6116/6335117387_1899f7bec3.jpg" width="500" height="331" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Lara's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s--hg43ybY&feature=related">spoon was too big</a>.</i></div>
<div><br /></div></div><div>And now we're off to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s--hg43ybY&feature=related">Harvest Music Festival</a>. You'll meet all of the Easeys in our next post.</div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=homeruns-coming-out-the-pujolsHomeruns Coming Out the PujolsAdam Saraceno2011-10-23T04:31:03-05:002011-10-23T04:48:45-05:00Finally Adam and Lara have their Halloween costumes picked out:<div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><img src="http://sportschump.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/nolan-ryan-george-bush-rangers-game.jpg" align="baseline" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>We're still deciding who will go as the pitcher and who will go as the belly-itcher.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">You just can't beat watching Poops hit 3 dingers in a World Series game. That shit is ridic. Here's what it looks like to peep ridic shit in Australia:</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6271110717/" title="DSC_0221 by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6271110717/" title="DSC_0221 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6111/6271110717_c443dff689.jpg" width="500" height="331" alt="DSC_0221" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Key to getting a bar in Melbourne to show an MLB game with the volume up: continuously order $9.60 pints.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6271110717/" title="DSC_0221 by adamcno, on Flickr"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left; ">The icing on the cake was watching the <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/rugby-gold/all-blacks-fail-to-make-france-pay/story-fn8ouw0e-1226174483507">All Blacks edge out France</a> to win the Rugby World Cup. At least Dubya can still enjoy his freedom fries.</div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=it-feels-so-good-downIt feels so good Down UnderAdam Saraceno2011-10-22T02:21:12-05:002011-10-22T02:21:12-05:00<div style="text-align: left; ">We're not the kind of people who would go to painstaking efforts to keep up a blog for an entire year and then completely drop off the map for 2 months in the midst of one of our most blog-worthy adventures yet. That's why we're dropping this update on you, a mere 1 month and 22 days since our last post. You're completely welcome.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyway, we're sorry we've been silent thus far - we've been busy doing the typical immigration rigamarole... finding an apartment, getting settled in with jobs and hanging out with a hip-hop producer and badass MC.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="www.trillytuesdays.com"><img src="http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/227100_173248596063307_101500866571414_367674_2744708_n.jpg" align="baseline" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">He's staying in one of the 4-bunk dorms at our hostel, which used to be a <a href="http://www.nunnery.com.au/">nunnery</a>, no big deal. He's got an apartment lined up for next month. He spends his days mixing fresh beats and smoking joints. His eyes actually do shoot laser beams. Do your eyes shoot laser beams? Perhaps that's because your beats aren't really that sick.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">So anywho we're in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne">Melbourne</a> now, the birthplace of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Football_League">Australian Rules Football</a>, which is a combination of rugby, soccer and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUdWApwbudQ">man-hugs</a>. Lara has gotten back into her old habits of suckling at the corporate teat, and Adam has been slanging <a href="http://peakdesignltd.com/">Capture Camera Clips</a> like his friendship with Pete depended on it (which it probably does at this point). But life on "Easy Street" won't last long - unfortunately we're leaving our hostel on Monday and moving into an apartment on <a href="http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=easey+street,+collingwood&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x6ad6431c0019f0ad:0xa5efd5cc06a509d7,Easey+St,+Collingwood+VIC&gl=au&ei=C4SiTurDA4msiAes87jCBg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=2&ved=0CCwQ8gEwAQ">Easey Street</a>. We'll let the pictures tell the rest...</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6268212183/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6268212183/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6105/6268212183_a73db86985.jpg" width="500" height="331" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>We got crap-tons of friends already, no big deal.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6268737986/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6268737986/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6114/6268737986_06030198dd.jpg" width="500" height="331" /></a>
</div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>You get exposed to a whole new fleet of automobiles in this part of the world - from the big gay kind to the little gay kind.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6268734896/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6268734896/" title="Untitled by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6172/6268734896_3e3a6d9b0d.jpg" width="331" height="500" /></a></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>It's refreshing to leave San Francisco, a town with a giant homeless problem, and arrive in Melbourne, a town with a giant black demon baby problem.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left; ">And that's that for now. Just want you to know that we are alive and doing well. It's a little bit more moist down under than we'd like it to be, but that's Spring in Melbourne for you!</div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=and-now-this-is-finallyAnd now this is finally happening again.Adam Saraceno2011-08-29T08:54:38-05:002011-08-29T08:54:38-05:00<div style="text-align: left; ">Sorry for sleepin' on y'alls!</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/6093341506/" title="after party in room 112 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6183/6093341506_b386beebbf.jpg" width="500" height="331" alt="after party in room 112" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Shhhhh... I'm changin' the channels.</i></div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">It's time to get this sappy crap basket of a blog rolling again. One more apology for the extreme lull in blog action. All of our recent action has been entirely devoted to our back sactions. Observe:</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; "><div style="text-align: center; "><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqgtvl79qe1qeyl5ho1_400.gif" align="baseline" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Source of action: back sactions.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left; ">We've got 2 more weddings behind our belts, both of which have forced us to buy bigger belts. We're currently living with Lara's mom Mary Jo and her borkfriend, Joe Bork, in Eden Prairie, MN. Adam is now working for <a href="http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=jeepers-pete">Peter and his amazing technicolor Capture Camera Clip System</a>, which is part employment and part reparation for Adam constantly ripping on Pete's antique vernacular. Most importantly, the air conditioning is working in our '91 Lexus again.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">Least importantly, we're moving to f*cking Australia on October 5th. More to come on that too.</div></div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=luke-got-the-klapLuke Got The KlapAdam Saraceno2011-07-11T20:39:41-05:002011-07-11T20:42:29-05:00After several years of dabbling, Lara's brother Luke finally and irrevocably got the Klap. <a href="http://www.knvn.com/mostpopular/story/Kira-Klapper/994C45mZjEKD2i8kj2iEDA.cspx">Chico NBC Action News Anchor Kira Klapper</a>, that is!<div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; ">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5928330805/" title="luke and keeks by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6022/5928330805_6217112be7.jpg" width="500" height="376" alt="luke and keeks" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Luke and Keeks had their engagement picture taken 2 years ago at a </i><i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SItFvB0Upb8">b-roll</a></i><i> video shoot for a Cialis commercial.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Luke proposed to Kira on June 25th, but he had been thinking about doing it for quite a long time.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; ">
<i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5281213629/" title="luke & anna visit by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5242/5281213629_ff3fa0e330.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="luke & anna visit" /></a>
</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Here he is thinking.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Kira had been thinking about the impending proposal and practicing her reaction for when the time finally came.</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5928956268/" title="happy kiki by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5928956268/" title="happy kiki by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6006/5928956268_4a7440634d.jpg" width="371" height="490" alt="happy kiki" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Here she is practicing.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left; ">We couldn't be happier for Luke and Keeks, and just hope that Farmer John is cool with all of this.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5519928563/" title="chico visit by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5056/5519928563_2eb3dc9d13.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="chico visit" /></a></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Farmer John spits game while Kira searches for the panic button on her Subaru key fob. It was her only defense.</i></div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=happy-4th-of-julyHappy 4th of July!Adam Saraceno2011-07-04T07:47:12-05:002011-07-04T07:47:12-05:00What is every 28-year-old's dream?<div><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5901294200/" title="crazy pig man by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5901294200/" title="crazy pig man by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6060/5901294200_d6b29f0063.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="crazy pig man" /></a></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>If you answered "spending every single day and night with your parents for 6 weeks straight," then you are absolutely correct.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">Happy 4th of July from the Saraceno house. Hooray Merikuh.</div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=happy-canada-day-and-belatedHappy Belated Canada Day and Bonne St. JeanAdam Saraceno2011-07-02T07:33:06-05:002011-07-11T20:42:54-05:00<div>Happy Canada Day!</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><img src="http://www.thetelecomblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/riots.jpg" align="baseline" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Big news this past month - Canada just got the iPhone 3G.</i> </div><div><br /></div><div>Today we salute the Canadians who have made a difference in our lives.</div><div><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5892708384/" title="IMG_8887 by adamcno, on Flickr"><i><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5040/5892708384_0d24cfed29.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_8887" /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Pat and Kim are Quebecers - a group of Canadians who speak French and are almost always willing to fight. In addition to Canada Day they celebrate <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Holiday_(Quebec)">La Fete de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste</a>, </font></span>a holiday where all of Quebec becomes a mosh pit at a Flogging Molly concert. In the above photo Kim is holding a Coke bottle half-filled with Captain Morgan, which is actually how Coke is packaged and sold in Quebec.</i></div><div> </div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5892596019/" title="172 by adamcno, on Flickr"><i><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5034/5892596019_a6bb91f97e.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="172" /></i></a></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><i>Robyn is from British Colombia, the California of Canada. If you ever meet a Canadian who is really attractive, a hippie or bat-shit crazy, there's a 75% chance that person is from BC. Robyn is a lot of the first and the second, and a little of the third. She is pictured above with her favorite Canadian rapper, Special C.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5893437273/" title="scottie_k by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5309/5893437273_5ab96f9a08.jpg" width="331" height="497" alt="scottie_k" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Scott is an Ontarion (Ontarioite? Ontarioso?) who enjoys <a href="http://www.adventureskope.com/">downhill mountain biking, back country skiing, ultra-marathons</a>, and other activities that would cause Adam soreness and possible dismemberment. Here he is wearing standard-issue Ontario sporting gear.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5388673229/" title="milford track by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5054/5388673229_2fa404383c_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="milford track" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5389281232/" title="milford track by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5253/5389281232_2abb87d212_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="milford track" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Kim, Jarrett and Nikki are also Ontariosters (Ontarioats? Ontariomos?) and they walked the <a href="http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=milford-track">Milford Track</a> with us. In the midst of a grueling 4-day fight against nature's elements they kept our hope up by preaching the values of family and tequila shots.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5248305611/" title="cirkovic circus - queenstown and beyond by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5248305611/" title="cirkovic circus - queenstown and beyond by adamcno, on Flickr"><i><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5129/5248305611_1c1ed5aea6.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="cirkovic circus - queenstown and beyond" /></i></a></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>And let's not forget Lara's brother Luke. Born in Ottawa, recently engaged (future post coming) Luke now sells health insurance, which is the must un-Canadian thing you could possibly do. But that's how we roll in 'Merikuh.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div><div>So thanks, Canadians. Without you there would be no <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105793/">Wayne's World</a>, no <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098554/">Uncle Buck</a>, and these people probably wouldn't exist either:</div><div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; "><img src="http://failfamily.com/uploads/pics/big/12-Anonymous.jpg" align="baseline" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /><br /></div></div></div>
</div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=show-your-tatsShow Your Tats!Adam Saraceno2011-06-08T09:05:51-05:002011-06-08T09:10:32-05:00The Anna's are currently wrapping up their honeymoon in Hawaii. Adam and Lara have been staying at their house and trying to reenact the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH5E2PKO6TU">1999 Royal Rumble</a> with their pets. But since neither of the dogs will drink and spit out fake blood we have no way of portraying <a href="http://www.wrestlehut.org/images/3/3f/Gangrel.jpg">Gangrel</a>, and what is a late-90's Royal Rumble without Gangrel?<br /><br />Anywho, here's what the Annas have been up to:<br /><br />
<div align="center"><a title="anna's chicken tat by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5812151298/"><img width="500" height="282" alt="anna's chicken tat" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5306/5812151298_b390f0b215.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div align="center"><i>Anna S. got a rooster tattooed on her back. I would say "insert cock joke here," but then I would have to say "insert cock," which makes me even more uncomfortable than making a cock joke about my sister. </i><i>Note to self - don't publish jokes about cocks or inserting cocks to friends and family.</i><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><a title="anna's goat tat by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5812151256/"><img width="500" height="374" alt="anna's goat tat" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3152/5812151256_1bd3da0c47.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div align="center"><i>Anna V. got the traditional goat-wearing-a-Hawaiian-shirt tattoo, which has long been a tribal symbol of strength, honor and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QiwAf8ltuk">casual Fridays</a>.</i><br /><br /><div align="left">And here's what Adam and Lara have been up to:<br /><br /></div>
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<div align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5812251972/" title="IMG_3678 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="500" height="375" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3183/5812251972_8f56c2df1e.jpg" alt="IMG_3678" /></a><br /></div><div align="center"><i>From left to right, Mogwai, Rosie, Minky, Detective Olivia Benson, Comandah Adamah (fish). This picture was actually taken at a professional studio in front of a white screen, but the pet dander was so thick and perfectly distributed that it resembled the surroundings of the Annas' living room.<br /></i></div><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5808623758/" title="IMG_3632 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="500" height="375" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2035/5808623758_713a22193c.jpg" alt="IMG_3632" /></a><br /></div><div align="center"><i>We grilled and competitively drank with Stacy and Kristal, friends who we hijacked from the Annas while they selfishly absconded to foreign lands.</i><br /></div> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/annacno/5777744740/" title="Adam by AnnaCno, on Flickr"><br /></a><div align="center">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5808630208/" title="IMG_3661_flip by adamcno, on Flickr"><img width="180" height="240" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5306/5808630208_3a78fb1702_m.jpg" alt="IMG_3661_flip" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/annacno/5777744740/" title="Adam by AnnaCno, on Flickr"><img width="159" height="240" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5230/5777744740_59550ff7fd_m.jpg" alt="Adam" /></a><br /></div><div align="center"><i>Dressed down or up, Mogwai always looks good.</i><br /><br /><div align="left">Until we post again, we just hope that you all are cherishing the present. Specifically, be grateful for how often newscasters are saying the word "<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/08/weiner-family-turns-to-clintons-in-wake-confession/">weiner</a>." It won't last forever, and you'll miss it when it's gone.<br /></div></div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=the-gayest-thing-everThe Gayest Thing EverAdam Saraceno2011-06-03T13:27:58-05:002011-06-03T13:38:59-05:00Last weekend we witnessed the gayest possible thing we could ever possibly imagine. No, it wasn't <a title="2nd gayest thing ever" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5793888671/in/photostream">my bros in San Francisco "icing" each other with Mike's Hard Lemonade</a>. It was Adam's sister and her fiance celebrating their life-long love and commitment by having a big gay wedding that was the total shizznit.<br /><br />
<div align="left"><div align="center"><a title="IMG_3588 by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5794008163/"><img width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_3588" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3102/5794008163_14b0384ea7.jpg" /></a>
<br /><i>Is that a play on "2 girls 1 cup" or am I just a complete asshole? Both is a possible answer.</i><br /></div><br />Anna Saraceno and fiance Anna Vanderzee tied the knot in the historic <a href="http://www.buskirkchumley.org/">Buskirk-Chumley theater</a> in downtown Bloomington, Indiana. Following the beautiful and interesting ceremony (take that, ALL OTHER WEDDINGS EVER) merriment was had in the form of eating, dancing and taking pictures at a photo booth that had both gay and straight silly accessories.<br /></div><br /><div align="center">
<a title="The Blushing Brides by AnnaCno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/annacno/5777648966/"><img width="332" height="500" alt="The Blushing Brides" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5301/5777648966_bb4028296d.jpg" /></a>
<br /><i>The blushing brides, Anna and <a href="http://www.adultswim.com/americaloveslists/fg_mayorwest/">Mayor Adam West</a>.<br /><br /><a title="Adam & Lara by AnnaCno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/annacno/5777155273/"><img width="332" height="500" alt="Adam & Lara" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3035/5777155273_55e5e4a4ef.jpg" /></a><br />Lara and her chickenhead.<br /><br /><a title="Family Armpit Fart by AnnaCno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/annacno/5777146895/"><img width="332" height="500" alt="Family Armpit Fart" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3173/5777146895_aa5f85287c.jpg" /></a></i>
<i><br />The ladies of both families doing armpit farts.<br /><br /><a title="Brian, Alan, Kathy, Leah, & Eric by AnnaCno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/annacno/5777767456/"><img width="332" height="500" alt="Brian, Alan, Kathy, Leah, & Eric" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5228/5777767456_6404d8e987.jpg" /></a></i>
<i><br />The Glass Family looking ab-fab.<br /><br /><a title="Ty by AnnaCno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/annacno/5777180951/"><img width="332" height="500" alt="Ty" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3404/5777180951_9a2b8387b0.jpg" /></a></i>
<i><br />Ty is a man with a plan... to make you feel discomfort.<br /><br /><a title="Uncle Joe by AnnaCno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/annacno/5777507098/"><img width="332" height="500" alt="Uncle Joe" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3529/5777507098_48fb26c65c.jpg" /></a></i>
<i><br />Uncle Joe raising the roof.</i><br /><br /><div align="left"><div align="left">If you haven't, you should check out <a href="http://www.annalovesanna.com">www.annalovesanna.com</a>. The two Annas chronicle the issues that arise when two people of the same sex try to marry each other in 'Merikuh. Things like <a href="http://annalovesanna.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/legalize-it/#more-196">congressmen trying to amend the f*cking constitution</a> to prevent you from getting married and having a big gay photo booth. Also things like <a href="http://annalovesanna.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/americans-unite-stop-the-spread-of-gay/">whackadoo Republican congressmen trying to make it illegal for teachers to acknowledge the existence of gay people to their students</a>. I'm sure the 2 people who still read this blog would agree with and appreciate this PSA:<br /></div><br /></div></div>
<iframe width="560" height="349" frameborder="0" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Lop4TokXmkU"></iframe><br /><br />On a lighter note, they also chronicle the <a href="http://annalovesanna.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/the-great-name-debate/">issues that arise when two people with the same first name get married</a>. I know what you're thinking... same first names?! If we let people like <i>that </i>get married next thing you know public schools are going to become little homo factories, pumping out gays faster than private performing arts schools! Ban that shit. Go 'Merikuh.<br /><br />Congrats to Anna and Anna for proving that "protectors" of traditional marriage are a bunch of stupids.<br />http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=jeepers-peteJeepers, Pete!Adam Saraceno2011-05-06T12:56:44-05:002011-05-06T12:56:44-05:00Well sack me in the ribs and call me Judy Garland! My long time crony <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/394482141/in/photostream/">Peter Dering</a> just invented a new-fangled camera fastening gadget that'll knock your socks off I tells ya! And I'll be damned if he didn't beat the Russians to it!<div><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><iframe frameborder="0" height="410px" src="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/97103764/capture-camera-clip-system/widget/video.html" width="480px"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Hop on the trolley and buy one yourself!</i></div><div><br /></div><div>What really sweeps my chimney is that he's mustered over $70,000 in dough from camera-machine fanatics across the globe - from here to Walla Walla, Washington I tells ya! That's enough greenbacks to buy yourself a Studebaker and a driveway to park it in, smack-dab in the center of the booming grainbelt metropolis of East St. Louis!</div><div><br /></div><div>And the press - we'll let me tell ya - the press ain't perked up like this since the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman">Dewey Defeats Truman boner of '48</a>! Electronic newspapers around the country have been bursting their flashbulbs to get the spin - <a href="http://gizmodo.com/#!5798644/this-industrial+grade-camera-clipholder-wants-to-make-the-neckstrap-obsolete">Gizmodo</a>, <a href="http://www.petapixel.com/2011/05/04/capture-camera-clip-attaches-dslrs-to-belts-backpacks-bikes-and-cars/">PetaPixel</a>, <a href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/capture-camera-clip-system-keeps-your-dslr-close-at-hand/">Digital Trends</a> - it's madness I tells ya! I must specifically point out that I am telling you these things, I tells ya!</div><div><br /></div><div>Well Pete, here's to all that tinkering you did with the leftover steel from the war. You're living the great American dream. Next time I see you I'm sure you'll be sporting a brand new jacket from Sears and Roebuck and driving one of them fancy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsel">Edsels</a> I read about in Popular Mechanics.</div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=crater-madnessCrater Madness and the Head-Shot Heard Round The WorldAdam Saraceno2011-05-02T11:51:26-05:002011-05-02T11:51:26-05:00You'll have to excuse us if this post isn't the sharpest. We were up all night last night marching around town with a bloodlusty flag-waving mob celebrating the death of Osama Bin Laden. And while we feel like that was a <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-acChLL9Q5Cs/Tb6DNaKQquI/AAAAAAAAFcM/5uVGl-z3WUo/s1600/Rot%2Bin%2BHell.JPG">completely normal reaction</a>, the fact of the matter is that we were up all Friday and Saturday night marching around town with bloodlusty flag-waving mobs celebrating the royal wedding. We're just praying that the NFL lockout doesn't end today since we don't know if we can handle another sleepless night of screaming the Star Spangled Banner.<div><br /></div><div>In any case, <a href="http://www.theonion.com/video/donald-trump-under-pressure-to-prove-hes-not-a-pat,20271/">suck it Trump</a>.<br /><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img hspace="0" border="0" align="baseline" vspace="0" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5102/5678309793_6584c14f34_o.jpg" /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Now's the time to place your bet on the <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vUsKa3oHbzk/SXA79LENdpI/AAAAAAAAAOo/tZl2lIdDudY/s400/obama-dope%2Bcopy.jpg">ultra-right's next arbitrary burning platform</a>! </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In other news, we've seen a shitload of craters in the last month. Two to be exact, but crater distribution being what it is on the Earth's forever evolving crust, seeing two is a pretty big deal.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The first one was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crater_Lake">Crater Lake</a>, which is a big round water-filled crater that was formed about 7,700 years ago in the middle of Oregon when a volcano blew up. During the Winter it's covered with snow, so we strapped on snow shoes and went at it.<br /><br /></div>
<div align="center"><i><a title="978 by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5659902484/"><img height="375" width="500" alt="978" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5067/5659902484_7040d0fece.jpg" /></a><br />The caldera in the middle is called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_Island">Wizard Island</a> because it was first discovered by Adam's middle school Dungeons and Dragons Group.<br /></i></div><br />Our second crater experience was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater">Meteor Crater</a> in Arizona, which is hailed as the most well-preserved impact crater site in the World. It's also located on private land and requires payment of a $15 admission fee to view, making it the World's most profitable giant f*cking hole in the ground.<br /><br />
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5659559599/" title="1391 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img height="375" width="500" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5222/5659559599_6368ae651e.jpg" alt="1391" /></a><br /></div><div align="center"><i>For $30 that's a pretty good view, considering that you can pay that same amount to attend an Astros game and see an equally empty void.</i><br /><br /><div align="left">There you have it. After the squirrel balls post we wanted to up the maturity of our content. We hope you're pleased with it.<br /><br /></div></div>
<div align="center"><a title="1394 by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5660131968/"><img height="375" width="500" alt="1394" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5142/5660131968_9bfaee8208.jpg" /></a></div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=stop-everythingSTOP EVERYTHINGAdam Saraceno2011-05-01T10:22:50-05:002011-05-01T10:26:20-05:00And look at the nuts on this squirrel:<div><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5659871327/" title="IMG_3387 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5305/5659871327_5ff2b6de81.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_3387" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Everything's bigger in Texas.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>You can thank Lara for having the patience and artistic vision for capturing that gem. Now that we've shocked your sensitive virginal eyes, let us soothe you with some of the nicer furry friends that we've met in our travels. We've translated the captions into LOL so you can understand what they're thinking.</div><div><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/5171075978_bb52ff0b01.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="646" /></a></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>DIS LIL PIGGY STAID HOME.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><i><br /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; ">
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171074864/" title="645 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/5171074864_4dc18d7e81.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="645" /></a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>O MAI GOD APPEL nom nom nom nom nom.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><i><br /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5186869674/" title="doubtful sound by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1002/5186869674_981c30af0b.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="doubtful sound" /></a></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>11 BABIEZ! I CAN HAZ REALITY TV SERIEZ?</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><i><br /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5186869674/" title="doubtful sound by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; ">
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5186868924/" title="doubtful sound by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4148/5186868924_57466f1cbe.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="doubtful sound" /></a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>POSE FOR TEH CAMERA... MAYBE HE LET US FREE!</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><i><br /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5186868924/" title="doubtful sound by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; ">
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5186284987/" title="doubtful sound by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4132/5186284987_458f76fa39.jpg" width="500" height="372" alt="doubtful sound" /></a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>DIS MAI ROCK, MUTHAF*CKAZ.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><i><br /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5186284987/" title="doubtful sound by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; ">
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5187044330/" title="hokitika by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1306/5187044330_e2d02b0cf9.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="hokitika" /></a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>SO TIRED BUT MUS KEEP STANDIN.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><i><br /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5187044330/" title="hokitika by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; ">
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5188394783/" title="abel tasman by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4111/5188394783_4bbddfced2.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="abel tasman" /></a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>HOLY SHIT GUYZ DER IS WHOLE NOTHER WORLD UP HERE!</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><i><br /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5188394783/" title="abel tasman by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5281646061/" title="milford track by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5168/5281646061_362366d8af.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="milford track" /></a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>SUP DAWG LEMME GET CRACKER OR SOMETIN.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><i><br /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5281646061/" title="milford track by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; ">
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5283146934/" title="the catlins by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5008/5283146934_3c04713aab.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="the catlins" /></a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>LEEVE ME LONE I'S ENDANGERD!</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><i><br /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5283146934/" title="the catlins by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; ">
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5283163388/" title="the catlins by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5010/5283163388_563f2f5abf.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="the catlins" /></a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>I'S FROM SWITZERLAND!</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><i><br /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5283163388/" title="the catlins by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; ">
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5283162452/" title="the catlins by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5168/5283162452_aa0a286b77.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="the catlins" /></a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>HEY BIG FAT NEW ZEALAND PIGEONZ GOT FEELINZ TOO.</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><i><br /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5171075978/" title="646 by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5283162452/" title="the catlins by adamcno, on Flickr"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; ">
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5071134220/" title="589 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5071134220_d7663ee00b.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="589" /></a></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>DIS IS MAI MOMMY NOW?</i></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i><br /></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5666000376/" title="005 by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5666000376/" title="005 by adamcno, on Flickr"><i><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5189/5666000376_021eecddd7.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="005" /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>OK OK I HADZ ENUFF, PUT ME DOWN NOW PLS.</i></div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=well-that-was-awkwardWell, that was awkward.Adam Saraceno2011-04-26T23:56:45-05:002011-04-27T08:18:03-05:00Alright, we're just going to cut the bullshit and apologize for not writing anything for the last 6 weeks. We're sorry you had to spend your most recent 700 precious hours of internet time contacting family, reading news, and doing Google image searches for "<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1228&bih=615&gbv=2&site=search&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=tony+larussa+pinkeye&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=">tony larussa pinkeye</a>" instead of ravenously feasting on the comedy-rich braincandy served up by <a href="http://www.andnowthisishappening.com">andnowthisishappening.com</a>. Seriously, your lives have probably been miserable. But don't worry, our lives have been great.<div><br /></div><div>We still don't have jobs, but we managed to score a Lexus from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5641221419/in/set-72157626587797604">Lara's father George</a>. And since we only worked for a month in 2010, we scored some big fat tax returns that we're putting away in government bonds so that we may someday afford to buy one full tank of premium. Well, we call it a "government bond" but we're really just stuffing money in a mattress. Better APY.</div><div><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5641226657/" title="341 by adamcno, on Flickr"><i><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5027/5641226657_1a4974736e.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="341" /></i></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>The Lexus LS400 is widely recognized as the Volkswagen Bus of today's freeloading good-for-nothing pansy generation.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>In the past month and a half we've been to Eugene, Portland, Seattle, Spokane, the Oregon Coast, Crater Lake, Chico, San Francisco, the Mojave Desert, the Grand Canyon, Albuquerque and currently Austin. We even stood on the corner in Winslow, Arizona.</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5659569065/" title="1413 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5064/5659569065_7950d40b4a.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="1413" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><i>Winslow is one of many towns located along old Route 66 where weary travelers can stop in and experience a unique piece of Americana and afterwards do jack shit.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>This past weekend we hit up the first of five non-royal-family weddings on our summer agenda. Congrats to Rivi (Lara's college dorm roomie/bff) and Alex, whose <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/sets/72157626463879091/">beautiful and anthropologically fascinating wedding</a> marks the first time that a single extended family contained hipsters, cowboys and French people.</div><div><br /></div>
<i><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5660424364/" title="IMG_3189 by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5066/5660424364_de89c96a3c.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_3189" /></a></i></span></div></i><div style="text-align: center; "><i>When two hipster-dominant genepools mix there is always the danger of rare recessive genetic malformations to be expressed in the offspring, such as a baby who wears ironic '80s short shorts or enjoys the new <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA9LyxbA6GI&feature=related">Sleigh Bells</a> album.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Whew, that's it. We finally broke the seal. Stay tuned, since we'll probably be running back to the internet to piss out more blog posts soon.</div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=culture-shock-americaCulture Shock: AmericaAdam Saraceno2011-03-14T17:35:22-05:002011-03-14T17:35:22-05:00Coming back to America is somewhat freaky after you've been surrounded by this for a year:<div><br /></div>
<div align="center"><a title="luke & anne visit - arthur's pass by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5281678888/"><img height="333" width="500" alt="luke & anne visit - arthur's pass" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5249/5281678888_592de36e98.jpg" /></a><br /><i>Rush hour on one of New Zealand's new-fangled "motorcoach-ways."<br /><br /></i><div align="left">There are new Saturday Night Live cast members (when did Tim Meadows leave?!), new booming companies (when did Google get so big?!) and a new winner in <a href="http://thefranchisehound.com/2011/03/14/subway-finally-overtakes-mcdonalds/" title="Subway Overtakes McDonald's">who is making us the fattest</a>. About the only thing that didn't change was the conservative push to crush the rights of <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_0_t&usg=AFQjCNGwcEi_l-aX8LwcsjU2oT4D6FsZxA&did=2a8cbca2434c50b4&cid=17593871937692&ei=a65-TfiHGo2QlATiuKSvAw&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fox59.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Fwxin-gay-rights-gay-rights-activits-rally-at-statehouse-20110314%2C0%2C3797152.story">gays</a> and <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704893604576200702602253620.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">union workers</a>! Ahh, now <i>that's</i> the 'Merikuh that we remember!<br /><br />Apart from all the new crap, there's plenty of sights that we've been exposed to in the past few weeks that you just plain don't see in New Zealand...<br /><br /></div></div>
<div align="center"><a title="chico visit by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5519926261/"><img height="375" width="500" alt="chico visit" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5099/5519926261_7485b524ef.jpg" /></a><br /><i>Immense boxes built to facilitate extreme consumption!<br /><br /></i></div>
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5519926321/" title="chico visit by adamcno, on Flickr"><img height="375" width="500" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5052/5519926321_0088171e5c.jpg" alt="chico visit" /></a><br /></div><div align="center"><i>Immense boxes built to facilitate extreme consumption!</i><br /><br /></div>
<div align="center"><a title="chico visit by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5519926143/"><img height="375" width="500" alt="chico visit" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5018/5519926143_30377c8257.jpg" /></a><br /><i>Immense boxes built to facilitate extreme consumption!</i><br /><br /></div>
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5519925065/" title="return to san francisco by adamcno, on Flickr"><img height="375" width="500" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5140/5519925065_9776aee114.jpg" alt="return to san francisco" /></a><br /><i>Public yoga demonstrations!<br /><br /></i></div>
<div align="center"><a title="return to san francisco by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5519925207/"><img height="500" width="375" alt="return to san francisco" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5217/5519925207_fdab6b21ce.jpg" /></a><br /><i>Superfluous connectivity!</i><br /><br /></div>
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5519923143/" title="return to san francisco by adamcno, on Flickr"><img height="375" width="500" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5176/5519923143_1cb84c1cc1.jpg" alt="return to san francisco" /></a><br /><i>Old money!<br /><br /></i></div>
<div align="center"><a title="return to san francisco by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5519922065/"><img height="375" width="500" alt="return to san francisco" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5172/5519922065_60a73a72ee.jpg" /></a><br /><i>Bars that don't play drum & bass that are still full of attractive people!</i><br /><br /><div align="left">Needless to say, it's good to be back.<br /></div></div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=they-see-us-rollinThey See Us Rollin'Adam Saraceno2011-03-12T11:39:07-06:002011-03-12T11:39:07-06:00After 2 weeks back in the States we've done a good job of not sweating the small stuff. Cellphones, a car, jobs, health insurance and all that other crap can wait. We bought bicycles instead.<br /><br />
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5520519648/" title="chico visit by adamcno, on Flickr"><img height="375" width="500" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5137/5520519648_acdd67e0b6.jpg" alt="chico visit" /></a><br /><i>A 1950's Schwinn cruiser and a 1980's Peugeot mountain bike, 2 gether 4 ever.</i><br /><br /><div align="left">Why didn't we do this earlier?! These things were cheap, use no gas, and ensure that no matter where we go we arrive disheveled and glistening with perspiration. And according to the <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/swimsuit/">2011 Sports Illustration Swimsuit Issue</a>, that look is sexy.<br /><br />We bought these beasts from a quaint little establishment called <a href="http://www.newsreview.com/chico/content?oid=1916483">Farmer John's Barn</a>. It's a combination junkyard, junk barn and junk pile that sells old bicycles at a reasonable price. The service was impeccable. We were given a tour by Farmer John himself, who shared dirty jokes and a few suggestive comments that gave the ladies that old fashioned uncomfortable feeling that is hard to come by in today's obsessively PC society.<br /><br /></div></div>
<div align="center"><a title="chico visit by adamcno, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5519928761/"><img height="375" width="500" alt="chico visit" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5297/5519928761_44689cb0a5.jpg" /></a><br /><i>Adam fraternizing with the who's who of Chico: Farmer John and <a href="http://www.khsltv.com/content/aboutus/meetourteam/story/Kira-Klapper/994C45mZjEKD2i8kj2iEDA.cspx">CBS 12 Action News anchor Kira Klapper</a>. They spent the afternoon together behind the barn, leaning on fence posts and flipping nickels.<br /><br /></i><div align="left">We're in Chico, CA at the moment, heading to Eugene, OR on March 16th. If you're in the Pacific Northwest and want a free dishwasher, dogsitter, hammer hand or gimp let us know.<br /></div></div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=time-for-a-new-lookTime For A New LookAdam Saraceno2011-03-01T18:54:04-06:002011-03-01T18:58:58-06:00And Now This Is Happening has a new look. It's slightly more 'Merikan than the old look, but slightly less 'Merikan than this look:<br /><br /><div align="center"><img hspace="0" border="0" align="baseline" vspace="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JRkgseRT7NY/S_tkywauXOI/AAAAAAAACAA/4UqVT2w7q0Q/s1600/sarah+palin+fan+t-shirt+politics+real+america+hypocrisy+money+tea+party.jpeg" /><br /><i>Even in this crippled economy, novelty t-shirt airbrush artists are never out of business so long as there are Tea Party conventions.</i><br /><br /><div align="left">In addition, we've been blogging consistently for an entire year now. To celebrate we've placed a new banner in the sidebar and we're going to come stay at all of your houses for free.<br /></div>
</div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=holy-f-cking-shitHoly F*cking ShitAdam Saraceno2011-02-26T04:44:00-06:002011-02-26T04:44:00-06:00We are back in San Francisco, safe and sound. Our year in New Zealand has officially come to an end. And let me tell you, we really went out with a bang.<div><br /></div><div>We left Queenstown and drove up to Christchurch on the afternoon of February 20th. Our flight out was at 6:35am on the 23rd, so we had to get our asses there asap since Queenstowners can't recognize a great deal on a high-miles but well-running campervan even if it were stapled to every god damn hostel message board in town. Luckily we sold the van before 10am the next day to a kind fellow who preferred to sit in the passenger seat and drink beer instead of test driving the vehicle himself. We spent the rest of the day making it rain on the local craft market.</div><div><br /></div><div>The next day we got up and went for a run since we knew we'd be spending the next 30 hours sitting and drinking at high altitudes. We got back to <a href="http://www.stonehurst.co.nz/">Stonehurst</a> (our hostel) and showered up. Adam went upstairs to start packing all his crap, Lara stayed downstairs in the bathroom engaging in her mysterious 30-minute post-shower ritual. At that point (12:51pm) was when a giant f*cking earthquake began, shaking the f*ck out of every inch of our building and terrifying the complete living shit out of us.</div><div><br /></div><div>It was a 6.3 magnitude and lasted for about 10 seconds. When it stopped Adam ran around the top floor looking for other people. There were none, so he ran downstairs and saw Lara in the hallway. We ran around looking for people on the bottom floor and then got the f*ck out.</div><div><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5470079247/" title="christchurch earthquake by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5014/5470079247_875df8f23e.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="christchurch earthquake" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Most of the windows were busted out of our building, and most of the furniture was either knocked over or had shimmied to the middle of the room. Some cracks had opened up in the parking lot and wet silt was starting to bubble up through them. The sky was clouded up with giant plumes of dust. Beyond that, shit seemed alright. So Adam got on his phone and called our friend Lucy in Queenstown to see if she felt the quake. That's when we saw the other half of our hostel and realized that shit was not alright.</div><div><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5470672250/" title="christchurch earthquake by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5173/5470672250_b960700ea2.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="christchurch earthquake" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>What once was a 3 story building was now 2 because the bottom floor had pancaked and the exterior wall had been entirely ripped off. Adam hung up the phone and ran over to help locate a girl that was trapped underneath the rubble. Firemen were quickly flagged down and they took over the dig and managed to get her out 20 minutes later, hurt but alive.</div><div><br /></div><div>At that point the hostel owner gathered up all of the staff and guests and did a role call to make sure nobody else was trapped inside. Since it was lunch hour on a weekday, most people were out and about so we couldn't account for them. But from what we could tell nobody was inside - a lucky coincidence of having an earthquake in the middle of the day.</div><div><br /></div><div>We ran back into our building which appeared to be standing solid, ran upstairs and began throwing our clothes and valuables into our bags. 30 seconds into that <a href="http://earthquake-report.com/2011/02/23/christchurch-earthquake-2011-the-impressive-list-of-aftershocks/">an aftershock hit</a>, once again scaring the complete and utter shit out of us. But this one was smaller and we immediately went back to packing. A minute or two later we ran back outside, lucky to have everything we owned with us in backpacks. We headed to nearby <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&sugexp=ldymls&pq=latimer+square+park&xhr=t&q=latimer+square+christchurch&cp=17&qe=bGF0aW1lciBzcXVhcmUgY2g&qesig=MXUbYs0-XHhxFOQrKNjRPg&pkc=AFgZ2tnXFXTHqgzK8bvintdkSOyYYVS8im1iVESGnsI9O57TT4PUjNnwZf4XReyMZYjWt09ML8_dm2ebqR2OC87B7TwtKBOYvQ&rlz=1G1ACGW_ENUS358&bav=on.1,or.&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Latimer+Square,+Christchurch+8011,+New+Zealand&gl=us&ei=sPFoTc_FKIG4sAPH9-2mBA&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CB8Q8gEwAA">Latimer Square Park</a> were people were converging.</div><div><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5470672684/" title="christchurch earthquake by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5260/5470672684_322b2cdd08.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="christchurch earthquake" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Half of the park was filled with folks who had evacuated their buildings and had nowhere to go. The other half had been roped off and turned into a makeshift triage center. Police cars and ambulances were coming and going, and bodies covered in white sheets were beginning to accumulate on the grass. The air smelled horrible - smoke was wafting through the city from several large fires. Helicopters began flying overhead and dumping tanks of water onto burning buildings nearby. Every once in a while somebody would run up screaming and crying because they had just got out of a fallen building that still had others trapped inside. Every 20 minutes or so the ground would start shaking again causing momentary panic. The environment felt nightmarish and the aftershocks instilled a pants-shitting fear of being anywhere near buildings.</div><div><br /></div><div>We sat down with a group of Israelis who were staying in our dorm room. They mentioned that back at the hostel somebody had arranged to bus us out, so we ran back and checked it out.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.elections2010.co.nz/2010/candidates/aaron-keown">Aaron Keown</a>, a Christchurch City Council Member who was in the area, had managed to flag down a city bus and direct it to Stonehurst. He wasn't sure where we'd go (or even if the streets were clear enough to navigate) but he said that we'd be better off getting out of the city center where all hell was breaking loose. We hopped on the bus immediately and 10 minutes later the bus was full and painfully turning away others.</div><div><br /></div><div>As the bus drove out of the city we became more aware of the full extent of the damage. Buildings all over the city were down, cars were crushed by falling bricks, power was out everywhere, cars were sunk in giant cracks in the road that had filled with mud. I stopped taking pictures for awhile because it felt wrong to be "sightseeing" in the midst of a totally f*cked up disaster.</div><div><br /></div><div>Getting out of our building unscathed, getting all of our stuff, and getting a ride out of downtown sparked a brilliant crescendo of luck that continued for the next 36 hours. In the late afternoon we decided to set up camp in a rugby field by the airport. The owner of the rugby clubhouse arrived and opened the facility for us to sleep in. This place had chairs and tables, running water and electricity despite the fact that the surrounding block of residences were blacked out. And, we're not shitting you, it had a full bar that the owner opened up for business. And, we're still not shitting you, they had the cheapest beer that we've seen in all of New Zealand.</div><div style="text-align: center; "><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5470673334/" title="christchurch earthquake by adamcno, on Flickr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcno/5470673334/" title="christchurch earthquake by adamcno, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5091/5470673334_433543a831.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="christchurch earthquake" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">The radio made an announcement that about 65 people were camped out at Burnside Park Rugby Club, so by the evening locals began stopping by with food and bedding. We literally ended up with more cookies, sausages, meat pies, blankets and pillows than we could possibly consume. By 8pm half of our group had been taken away to neighbors' houses to sleep on beds and sofas. We drank Speights until 1am with our Israeli friends who taught us a new set of rules to Asshole (the card game) involving more strategy and less binge drinking. As we slept aftershocks continued, which caused everybody to simultaneously wake up and poop bricks until the building stopped swaying.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">On Wednesday morning Aaron led our group on a 6:30am pilgrimage to the airport, which had reopened for domestic flights only. Our stupidly awesome luck continued when the Jetstar agent booked us on a same-day flight to Auckland. By 9am Jetstar was telling people that the earliest they could book was Saturday. A 4.2 aftershock hit 10 minutes before boarding, which really made us happy to get the f*ck off of the ground.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">That was the last we saw of Christchurch. We spent that night in Auckland and flew out to SFO the following day. To recap... Tuesday: giant earthquake in Christchurch. Wednesday: sitting in Auckland watching a jazz band which featured a xylophonist called "The Wizard." Thursday: sitting in <a href="http://www.hobsonschoice.com/">Hobson's Choice</a> with all of our San Francisco friends. There are still <a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0226/newzealand.html">200 people missing</a>, still rescue crews working around the clock, still people sleeping in Latimer Square Park. I'm blogging from my friends apartment on the other side of the world.</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br /></div><div style="text-align: left; ">That is a fortunate turn of events, and for it we will be eternally grateful.</div>http://www.andnowthisishappening.com/index.html?entry=campervan-for-saleCampervan For SaleAdam Saraceno2011-02-13T16:52:43-06:002011-02-13T16:52:43-06:009 days left in New Zealand. Almost 1 year in and all we've got is this shitty blog, a bunch of shitty pictures, a crap load of shitty friends, and one <a href="http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Cars/Toyota/auction-354716837.htm">amazing campervan for sale</a>.<br /><br />It's been a great run.<br /><br />One thing we just realized - we'll have to change the title of this blog once we get back to the States. Any suggestions?<br />