Kings: Long Delayed Drive-By

Hey, it’s PICTURE WEEK! Did I neglect to mention that? Because I should have. It’s PICTURE WEEK! What does this mean exactly? I’m glad you asked! PICTURE WEEK is the week in which I post all the pictures I have laying around! Because I am sick of thinking about the fact that I have not posted them! PICTURE week began with the snow pictures of the last update, and continues tonight with these pictures I am about to post. Stay tuned on THURSDAY for the third and final part of PICTURE WEEK in which I will post pictures of New Year’s Eve. And then PICTURE WEEK will be over and I can try to never take pictures again! Because they are such a pain!

I am going to level with you guys. PICTURE WEEK is not a good week, really. It may sound nice, what with it being in all capitals and such, but it can’t hold a candle to some of the other, better, weeks out there. It is, and I say this with full knowledge of its cheesiness, a weak week. Because, you know, there might be a reason I have not posted these pictures for quite some time. And that reason is this: I find them boring. I can’t even remember what was happening in most of them! I know it may sadden and shock some of you, but I think I have enough pictures of my university friends hanging out around a table and drinking.

It’s kind of like when you were a kid and you always wanted one of those POWER WHEELS car things. The commercials were awesome. The kids were always, like, tooling around in their jeeps, blasting through sand dunes and cutting a path through giant puddles. And the song was all pow-pow-power wheels. It was exciting! And I kept asking again and again for a Power Wheels because I wanted my life to be like those commercials! I wanted to blast through sand dunes and cut paths through giant puddles!

But then, one day, you met a kid with a Power Wheels. And maybe he even let you try it out. And you realized that, hey, this car is quite slow. We are really moving at a very low rate of speed. My bike is much faster than this.

And then you didn’t want a Power Wheels anymore. Wait. I am not sure this analogy makes any sense.

All that said, there are some good pictures here! I’d highlight them all but I think this way it is more like a treasure hunt for the reader. See how much gold you can find! The pictures cover my birthday, which featured things like this and this and this and oddly this! And also Rory O’Sullivan’s birthday, which featured things like this freakishly awesomely-poured glass of beer and group pictures and the bestest of buddies.

You’ll also see other miscellany including a series of pictures of Mike Weir, all taken in attempt to capture a truly bad picture of him. After dozens of minutes of attempts, this was the worst possible picture of Mike Weir. And, you know, it’s pretty good. Not a terrible picture at all. It just kind of looks like he’s wearing a neck-warmer made from his own facial hair. You’ll also see exactly what happens when people steal my camera for their own nefarious ends! And Mike recoil in terror as Kristine’s fingers try to harm his newborn baby. These are more spectacular than I remember!

Things wind down with pictorial evidence of what was and forever will be cookie day. Also: this is what our apartment looks like with Christmas lights on part of it! And this is what hilarity would look like, were hilarity entirely based on the interrelation between penis and vegetable. (Give it ten years and it will be) Finally, here are some girls who live below us and would probably not find penis vegetables at all amusing.

Check out the rest of them on your own. They’re all here. Post your favourites! And come back Thursday for pictures of NEW YEAR’S EVE 2005: The One That Was Spent In a Kitchen.

PICTURE WEEK rolls on,
Matt