birthday bash!

by Kelly Carman

i had my birthday party last night and it was great!  thanks to all my friends for coming and extra thanks to foley for hosting and extra double thanks to LEAH AND DOUG who brought party decorations, foods, and amazing CUPCAKES WITH TINY PIES BAKED INSIDE THEM!  i made everyone dance to 90's dance music and hip hop and RnB.  i puffed with tobais fuke, i hugged a man with a snake for a penis, i chatted forever with lydia deetz and a shark bite victim.  the new liquor store that just opened nearby was visited by a dispatch from our party, in full halloween regalia, and the hispanic family that own the store all sang happy birthday to me!  my costume was a great sucess and i was very happy.  i drank too much though as i am apt to do and had to sleep most of the day with terrible headache.  and then i had to clean up and it was very very messy.  but that's ok.  i went home and finished reading "Island Beneath the Sea" by Isabel Allende which was about a slave and a concubine and Haiti before it was a haiti.  it was extremely moving and beautiful.  i would have made it a bit shorter if i was the editor, a few parts were clunky or boring but overall it was a great book.  i have gotten some swell b-day gifts so far including an awesome black gold earring for my rook from dann, a claw money hoodie from foley (claw is one of my favorite graffiti artists of all time), a kettle bell from brian for workouts, a kindle from papa (have yet to order that though, i should get on that, earrings and pez and buttons and light up bracelets from the lovely kelly, superstickers and baked things from doug and leah, and stoli from me!








here's pics of guests!  i stole them all because i didn't have any batteries for my camera.

by chelsea mcchesney

by kelly carman 

i was death from the sandman.  i like her, she's awesome.  I wanted to go to the party at the sacred gallery tonight but i was too worn out and tired and headachey.   we really did the dang thang last night.  ok well i think i'm ready for some sleeping.   see ya later!

by kelly carman

last night i fell down and hit my head. today i slept all day. this weekend was very strange. i went to a party and fell for this beautiful young girl, pre-med at fordham. i am trying to wait until wednesday to write to her. she plays the basoon and she's reading the same novel as me which is house of leaves House of Leaves). i never met a girl who was reading or had read that.then saturday morning i got up andhopped on the train to manhattan and then the amtrak to rhinebeck. there i saw my nana and she taught me to make kefir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kefir. she's starting to lose her memory so it was really cool that she was able to teach me and my sister something she knew and we didn't. she's been making kefir from the same started strain for thirty years! and now my sister and i are both making it. i am experimenting with different milks. my nana uses 2%. so far i've tried 1% regular milk,1% organic, and 2% regular. the organic was the best flavor so far. after visiting with nana (we took her out for pizza and sh said she hadn't had pizza in eight years and it was such a hoot!) i tried to get a train home to nyc but it was sold out. so my sister convinced me to stay with her and she would drive me to albany and ic ould see my dad before heading back to the city monday morning. so we went to see my mama's grave, and pop-pop too. we put little stones on the graves and cried and prayed together. i love my sister very much. then we went back to rhinebeck (my mom is buried in redhook) and we went to an awesome restaurant there called http://www.terrapinrestaurant.com which was so beautiful and lovely and the food was delicious! i had organic free range chicken breast with pesto mozzerella tomato on a ciabbata bread.then we went to albany and i went to my dada's house. i had a good night talking with my dad about god and death and life and getitng married and having babies and other stuff ... then i went to sleep. i love my dad very much. he has always been there for me, when i really needed him, at least since my adolescence into adulthood.\