This Amazing Weekend...

Friday night we all went out to celebrate Todd moving to France. I was going to Charlotte Saturday so this was the last time I was gonna get to see Todd for a while. The list of deviants included: Lilly, Dana, Scott, Mark, Andre, Todd, and myself. We started the night off at a favorite restaurant of mine and Todd’s, Five Star.
Five Star is this really cool restaurant/bar that serves some of the most amazing and pricey chinese food that you can find.

I got the crispy sesame beef... yum.

A little back story… Todd and I have the same birthday. Back on our birthday, there was a screw up and only one cake got made when there was supposed to be one for each of us. “Happy Birthday Zach” had already been written all over the cake, so cupcakes were made for Todd. “T” “O” “D” “D” was written on four different cupcakes. Todd was like, “What the fuck is this? I’m not good enough for a cake too?” Haha. Anyway, we got Todd a cake for his celebration that just says: “Fuck Cupcakes.” Hahahaha.

Todd was happy.

After getting stuffed at Five Star we all, minus Andre, headed over to The Raleigh Times and drank sangria. We just sat around and drank sangria and mingled. This was possibly the last time that this same group of people would ever all be around e ach other again. Scott works very hard and is rarely seen. Todd’s moving to France and then to Englad shortly after his return. Mark is like sasquatch, you hear tell of him and there have been sightings, but does he really exist?

Me playing with Mark’s lighter.

Some stupid lady wearing sunglasses at night… and no she's not blind.

Some of the fine artwork we saw on the walk back to the parking deck. Gangsta Elmo, with his Crystal and gold grill ready to pimp smack a hoe on the rough streets of Sesame.

Todd sends his greetings from below.

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This is the first photo of the start of my Saturday.

Saturday Michelle and I went to Charlotte to go see my friend John. This is the opening weekend of his new club called “Charlotte’s Underground.” On our 3 hour road trip up there we stopped off at Concord Mills mall. It’s a really huge mall right outside of Charlotte. I just wanted to show Michelle because it was one of my favorite malls to visit when I used to live near Charlotte. I bought a t-shirt from Hot Topic with the Joker’s face on it from the new Batman movie, in memory of Heath Ledger. I thought it’d be nice to sport that around the queen city.

Later after passing through Charlotte, we headed to South Carolina to Johns house. We hung out there for a while and played rockband, which is incredibly fun, and then headed off to the club.
It was really cool to see my design on the front door of John’s new club.

Now, Friday night was the actual opening night of the club and they do not have their alcohol license yet, so the place was actually dead on Saturday. They had done all of their promotions for Friday night, so there was not a big turnout. However, this was more fun for me because we could all hang out and play pool and not have to worry about other people. Plus, they just put in 3 brand new pool tables.

After shooting pool and signing the “wall of signatures” we went to uptown Charlotte. Have a Nice Day Café is where we spent the rest of our night.

Below are some before and after pictures of us taking shots of Irish whiskey.

On a scale from 1-10, 10 being tanked, how drunk am I at this point...? haha.

Too much rock for one hand!


I had an amazing time in Charlotte and can't wait to go back on the 8th.


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Sunday we crawled out of bed and got some Bojangles to fix us right up. Around noon we went to see my friend Chad preach at his church. After church Michelle and I made our way back to Raleigh. Along the way, we stopped to eat at Stool Pigeons in Charlotte.



Stool Pigeons is one of our favorite places to go. We are going to try to visit every Stool Pigeons location that they have, two down so far.

After lunch, we got back on the road to head home. We saw John Edwards as he was coming back from the South Carolina primary.


When we got back in town we were pretty hungry from all the traveling, so we stopped in to Duffy's and got some buffalo chicken. I had an amazing time this weekend and got to spend it with all of my favorite people.

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To Todd: "I'll miss ya man. I hope your travels are adventurous and you learn many great things. Take many photographs along the way and document it all. Stay creative. I hope to see you again soon."