life is as sweet as something really awesome and sweet

well, i am back from a righteous trip to california. had so! much! fun! i went to 2 weddings, they were both super fun in their own ways, which didn’t make it repititive. took the dog to the beach in huntington. drank coffee at kean. drove the passat down pch while blasting jams on the stereo. made a random mix cd and put it the cd changer for someone else to listen to down the road. i think my brother is the only one who would turn on the cd changer anyways. had a double dip beef and swiss french dip and a custard from phillipes. wore shorts. drove a prius throughout los angeles in a suit (the jacket was in the back, but i knew that i was wearing a sweet suit) and felt like a hotshot (jams were adjusted accordingly). saw the awesome folks. ate hecka good food. saw a wide range of people from the past. ate some sweet carnitas tacos from alejandros late at night. had a number two from in n out. had roast duck in plum sauce. good salmon. danced my first legitimate hora to a slamming israeli ska band for like an hour straight with friends and hasidic rabbis. twice. rocked some french cuffs. walked through venice beach in that aforementioned suit until 3am. took a marina del rey cab 2 blocks by accident. ate doughnuts twice and del taco once, in the space of like 3 hours. saw an epicly long sweeping view of the whole great salt lake from not so high up in the air at dusk. saw downtown detroit and michigan for the first time. ate howie longs not so great chicken wings at the detroit airport. and probably a bunch of other sweet stuff. took a few cell phone pictures as partial evidence…

then i came back and took the worst photos ever of 4th of july in philadelphia. these three i think are just hilarious

actually i kind of like that one, but it could have been so much more! so much more!

i made this photo look like its something youd find in a lomography book. now its considered low brow. get me vice magazine on the line!

this one just makes me chuckle.

then doran came to town. the full experience is best summed up in this 21 second video, which is best watched over and over in full screen.

we went to the delightfully dated and ramshackle ben franklin museum. came in fourth in quizzo at the locust. got stoked on some next level history shit. walked around. watched too many late night hours of mtv reality shows online. they used to call me bikini cory… and i earned it! loves it. ate mexican food. ate at reading terminal market twice. ate jewish sandwiches. i ate amish bbq, which rules. we ate an epic cuban meal and had mojitos. i started an awesomely challenging lithography class. laughed too much and drank beer from 3 states. good times.

as i was walking back from seeing doran off, i noticed they are doing some demolition in the alley behind my building… so i took some photos.