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Cabin Fun!

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Testing

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Grumpy Old Man.

Mr. and Mrs. Josh Gustin

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Congratulations, guys.

The annual birthday weekend visit

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Grandma and Charlize putting together an ancient Barbie swimming pool.

Little Logan wants to phone home?

Ah, must've been for his mother.

Carter and his cousin play a game of some sort.

The happy family before we sent 'em back from whence they came. See you in November!

All pictures by me except for the last one, which was taken by my father (leave messages on his blog telling him he needs to write more).

Shakespeare on the Green

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Sorry, no flash photography during the play, so you just get pictures of my friends before the play and during intermission.

The stage.

A large, stuffed duck.

Jennie's in town for three more weeks! And that's just Becky. She's always here.

A Rose by any other name...

Eric and Liz dropped by for a bit.

Becky's "hardcore" sister, Heather. Word.

"I'll take one of you if you'll take one of me."

I think it's intermission now, what with the darkness and all.

After the play, at BW3, Becky's boytoy joined us.

It was an exhausting evening, as you can see.

The Wedding of Ryan and Jami

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The "official" start of the festivities was the rehearsal dinner Saturday evening.

The soon-to-be-wed happy couple.

Best Man, Groom, and Bride

Making plans for the rest of the evening, perhaps?

The "unofficial" start of the festivities involved a bar and beer after the rehearsal dinner.

Ryan concentrating on pinball.

Ryan's friend and former co-worker (before she moved to the Bay Area), and Jami's Personal Attendant (AKA Helper Monkey), Kristie.

Ryan's younger brother, Daniel, victorious in his quest for food, with Kristie dancing behind him.

Shortly after noon, the ushers began setting up.

The obligatory "runaway bride" shot.

Picture time with Jami and Helper Monkey Kristie.

A nice stress-free moment.

The Best Man and Groomsmen, Ryan's brothers, Daniel and Stephen, take their places.

Proud parents begin to walk their son down the aisle.

Shortly followed by the beautiful bride and her parents.

"Wave to the crowd!"

A child's eye view of the ceremony.

Jami's friend Rich sung a song that Jami wrote (in only five hours!!!) for the occasion. (If you look really closely, you can see Jami holding back the tears. Both she and Ryan were shaking like leaves.)

Mazel Tov!

After the ceremony, Jami's older sister, Juli, the Matron of Honor walking up the aisle with the Ring Bearer (her's and Jami's nephew, Benjamin) on one side and the Best Man on the other.

Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Lercher.

Reflections

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More boredom.

Ooo, shiny

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Boredom.

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More mountains of Colorado.

Check out them zeros

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Finally hit forty-thousand miles on the car on the way home from California.

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Hee...

New Mexico

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It was a pretty good day for drivin'.

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Interesting formation.

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You can sorta see the layers of rock, the different colors, in this one.

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More "America @ 80 MPH!"

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Stopped at a New Mexico rest area.

Out of Arizona

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Same mountains, different angle.

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Arizona mountains.

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Look at that clear, blue sky.

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Arizona in the mornin'.

Welcome to the Cactus League

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Former Dodger catcher and current Angels manager, Mike Scosia.

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Crosby taking a hack.

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Chavez at the plate.

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Young A's hitting phenom, and "Moneyball" kid, Nick Swisher.

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All-Star Eric Chavez at third, with last year's Rookie of the Year, Bobby Crosby, behind him at short.

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Play ball!

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A's ace, lefty Barry Zito, signing the first pitch ball.

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The A's.

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The Angels.

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Spring Training, Angels against Oakland.

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The hills have hobbit holes in them. Or, perhaps, giant worms.

Cacti abound

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I spent the last couple of days in Phoenix, staying with friends of my parents, Barbra and Allen Chandler.

Barbra was quite proud of her cactus garden.

Arizona in the Afternoon

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Dark and dreary Arizona.

Leaving SoCal

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Don't ask. I have no idea.

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"America at 80 MPH" returns!

Bored today

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Not really a photograph, but I needed somewhere to store this online. And yes, I was extremely bored earlier.

Tired...but there was cake!

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What better way to end an exhausting comic convention than to eat cake?

I mean, other than all the drinking.

Caballeros!

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Fellow fans of Brian Vaughan, whom I met through BKV's forum, this is Stephanie Lantry and Josh Cottingham. They had a cool mini-comic at the con (which I've heard sold really well), and Stephanie drew my half-Japanese/half-Mexican samurai inside my copy.

Signing for the Fund

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Jeff Smith was passed the fundraising torch by none other than Neil Gaiman. And how, exactly, does one say no to Neil?

Right. One doesn't say no to Neil.

Jeff will be embarking on a short reading tour a bit later this year, the proceeds of which will go to the CBLDF.

Sergio!

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This is Sergio Aragones, creator of Groo, and one of the nicest and funniest guys. He's also a huge supporter of the Fund.

The Man

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Kevin Smith spent a great deal of time at his booth. He talked with fans, signed a bunch of autographs, posed with people for pictures. He's a very cool, very humble guy.

"Get him, Steve-Dave!"

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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Mr. Steve-Dave himself, Bryan Johnson, who was manning the Viewaskew booth across the way.

"Who's the fat guy?"

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And like the Red Sea, they parted, and lo, there he stood, like a chubby evangelist surrounded by his flock...or something.

"Who's over there?"

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Somewhere, amidst the fanboys, lurked a certain Quiet Robert.

Next door neighbor

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Directly across from the CBLDF booth was the Graphitti Designs/Viewaskew booth, which got a little crowded every once in a while.

Home away from home

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So here's where I spent most of my weekend, the CBLDF booth. If you gave us money, we would give you such premium items as autographed Frank Miller comics and t-shirts with a frog wearing underpants.

I want to give a big thanks to Charles Brownstein, the director of the Fund, for giving me the opportunity to help out at the booth. I had a lot of fun, and I look forward to future volunteer duty in the comic months.

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Brian Azzarello, top, and Jim Lee (winner of this year's Defender of Liberty Award), the team currently creating Superman, stopped by the booth for a two hour signing on Saturday. For this particular signing, they helped raise over $1400 for the Fund. Good guys, both of them.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Judd from the Real World. I know him mainly as Judd Winick the great comic book writer (and occasional artist), but, yeah, I figure most of you out there watched the Real World at one time or another.

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Novelist and comic book scribe Greg Rucka stopped by the CBLDF booth for a signing. This is more of the top of his head than I intended to shoot.

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Quite a motley crew, aren't we? Like a dinner theatre version of Reservoir Dogs.

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This was good practice for that red carpet walk at the Oscar Awards, except...are writers even invited to walk down the red carpet? You never see 'em, and if you do, it's not like you have any idea who they are.

Kinda annoying, really. I mean, hello? Without the writers, all you freakin' bigshot actors and directors, you'd have nothing to do. And where are our accolades, huh? Where are our stars on the Walk of Fame? Our supermodels and starlets? None of you would have jobs if it weren't for us!

Sorry...got a little carried away there. I think I'll work that into my first award acceptance speech.

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It's like a still shot from an upcoming psycho thriller movie...or maybe I'm just reading into it too much.

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Nothin' snappy to say here. Just thought this picture came out really well.

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I know, I know. No one wants to see this.

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I could make a crack about the light bouncing off Eric's head, but c'mon, it was his wedding day. I'm not that mean.

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"Hello, my name is Dave, and I have a dr...hey, anything left in that bottle?"

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So that's what was going on up there...

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The two on the right make a happy couple, don't they?

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Liz sent me more pictures from Eric's wedding. The "official" ones. I have to convert the rest into jpeg files, which I'm not about to do tonight. But here's a nice one of the entire wedding party.

Marshmallows roasting on an open fire...

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I know I haven't put many pictures up here lately. Here's one from one of my going away gatherings.
This is the gang from Spencer's, where I worked for a little more than two years. Starting in the back and going clockwise, there's Megan, Ryan, Jolandi (white shirt), Lisa, and Glenda is the one in the middle.

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It was a long day. More later...

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Father and son...c'mon, say it: Awwww...

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Logan once again, with his mother (I have no idea what's wrong with her).

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The reason I get to crash for a night here in Denver, my brother, Bill. Here with his daughter, Charlize, and two week old son, Logan (snikt!).

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This is my niece, Charlize, with wet, tangled, hair.

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This is also Nebraska. West of Omaha, the whole state looks like this. You're not missing anything, trust me.

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This is Nebraska while driving 80 mph down the interstate.

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And by popular demand, here are two of the bridesmaids, Ann and Teresa, dancing with some guy. I dunno where he came from.

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Not sure if I'll get many more pictures uploaded before I leave town, so if not, here's a nice parting shot.

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What's a wedding without a wedding cake?

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Towards crunch time, I bet this is how the bride was seeing things, rushing around as she was.

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Lousy lighting, I know. I gotta work with what I have.

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"No, you can't eat it."

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Having had their pictures already taken down by the park, two of the bridesmaids, Teresa and Ann, found themselves some free time to just relax.

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See, I wasn't the only one walking around taking pictures.

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Liz's mother, Colleen, in the middle, along with her mother on the right and Heather on the left. In the background, you can Liz's sister-in-law, Michelle, and I think that's one of Liz's brothers, Joe, behind Colleen.

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By the time the wedding actually began, Jacob was a little tired of having his picture taken.

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More picture-taking. Indoors, at least. Here's Liz with her sister, Heather, and her two children, Matthew (I think), and little Jacob.

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It was a warm afternoon down by the park. Soon, back to the air-conditioning of Sokol.

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I just like the lighting in this picture. Here we have Ryan, Eric's brother-in-law, next to his wife, Jill, and her bridesmaid-in-arms, Ann.

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We were standing upstairs at the Upstream, waiting for our turn.

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First order of business was picture-taking downtown. The photographer is obscured by the tree in the middle.

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Too bad you can't see the Dr. Martens she's wearing under the dress.

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Finally, the wedding day has arrived.

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Unfortunately, the mohawk was gone before the wedding.

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The bride (and her tattoos) and her mother, Colleen.

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Coming to town from St. Louis, a friend of Eric's and mine from high school, Brian (a fellow groomsman), and his girlfriend, Kim.

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The night before the wedding, the bride and groom (surprisingly, the hats didn't make an appearance at the wedding).

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Testing...