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The weekend before last I traveled back up to Seattle for my friend Waatti’s wedding. I hadn’t actually been back there since I moved away almost 3 1/2 years ago!! Amazing huh? So it was really good to see everyone. The wedding was great and it was nice to see Waatti’s family - my adopted-extended Seattle family. Waatti and I used to work together at 2 different companies (her name is actual Sharon… Waatti is her last name but we just call her Waatti). I did the photography of the wedding and Dylan did photos/video of the ceremony. I still have to sort through the pictures but once I do, I’ll post the best up here online. I usually don’t do wedding photography but I couldn’t pass up the chance to cover this wedding and help out.

Most of the long weekend was just spent hanging out with old friends/roommates and drinking and eating. I stayed at my friend Ben Waldman’s beautiful house on Lake Washington… thanks Ben (I’m pretty sure he doesn’t read this blog… but oh well lol)

This past weekend was Kale’s birthday and the boys from Seattle came down to San Diego to visit and party. We did the usual night out of dinner and drinks and then a little dancing at Rich’s. Kale ended up getting bottle service at Rich’s, which is really a lot of fun. It goes for about $150 and gets 4 people in the door free, a bottle of Vodka and unlimited mixers, plus a private booth. It’s nice to be able to go dance for a bit and then regroup back at the booth where you always have a place to sit and chat and drink more. I recommend it to anyone with a decent size group going out. After 4 or 5 people the bottle service pretty much pays for itself with drinks and cover etc.

Here’s a quick shot I took with my iPhone of the dance floor in Rich’s… not very exciting but oh well. The lights are cool.

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This weekend was fun and relaxing. Another couple of perfect 90 degree San Diego days. Saturday night a group of us went downtown to a new bowling alley for a friend’s birthday. I hadn’t been bowling in many years so it was fun to hit the lanes again. It was a little more expensive then the last time I bowled… $60 bucks per hour per lane!  So the lanes, with shoes, beer and food ended up costing us a total of just about $400. Definitely not a family leisure-time activity anymore. But on a good note, surprisingly, I won both rounds on our lane. I still got it! haha

This weekend also marked the opening of the latest nightclub in Hillcrest called Universal. I actually ended up stopping in all three nights for a different event each night. Friday was a little private opening party. Saturday was the grand opening and then Sunday night was the industry party and we had a couple of booths with bottle service. The club is nice and the design and construction are well done, but we are all a little skeptical on how popular it will actually be. It’s a mixed crowd, straight and gay, which is cool but we’ll see how long that lasts. Already last night I heard people saying, “some drunk chick just spilled her drink on me… let’s head out and go to Rich’s” lol A lot of gay guys have a short fuse when it comes to really drunk girls. I felt like the club might be a little too LA or Las Vegas. I think people live in San Diego for a reason and that type of uppity dressed up crowd is a tough sell. Boys like their jeans and flip flops. Visually, I think the club adds a lot to that area of University Avenue. We’ll see if they can actually fill the place. I’ve always said the 2 rules of a successful club are 1- good drinks and 2- a good crowd. People want to be where everyone else is. If nobody is going there to look pretty and get a strong drink, the crowd will migrate someplace else.

Anyway, here’s a few pics from my iPhone.

The last picture is just a shot of a sunset I caught last week driving home through Solana Beach, just a couple miles south of my office on Highway 101. Summer is here!

Universal:

Bowling:

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On Sunday, Andre and I  took a little day trip over to La Jolla to have lunch and check out the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCASD). It was a great day and really relaxing… one of those days where you ask yourself, why don’t I do this more often?

It started with a couple drinks (a Bloody Mary for me of course) at George’s at the cove. They have such a great view and it was a perfect sunny day. From there we walked down to the museum. Andre wanted to check out one of the current exhibits called Matrix II. Matrix II is an entire room filled with little green LED lights, setup in a matrix evenly spaced across the room. It’s really incredible. I took a few pictures but they hardly give it justice. I didn’t stay in there very long, as it started to mess with my equilibrium… I get motion sick very easily lol 

From there we walked back and of course had to stop along the way for ice cream at Stone Cold. If you’ve never had Stone Cold, you are missing out. I had my favorite, vanilla ice cream with crushed Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.

Anyway, I posted a few pictures up to my Flickr account. All of these were taken with just my iPhone. I’m impressed with the quality that the phone takes. Not as nice as a full size digital camera, but it does fine when that’s all you have.

Click here or the photo below for the full gallery slideshow.

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He’s still my choice for Idol. Here is David Archuleta’s most recent performance. He forgot his lyrics last week, which was awkward, but he pulled it all back together again for this one. His version of Imagine from a few weeks ago is still my favorite.

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The official video of the 2008 Rufskin Fashion show is now up on YouTube. My roommate Dylan (www.dylanglockler.com) shot and edited the video.

2008 Rufskin Fashion Show, Rich’s San Diego.

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Saturday night was the annual Rufskin fashion show at Rich’s in San Diego. Once again this year I did the photography for them.

We posted the pictures up in a few places:

our BoyImage.com site: http://www.boyimage.com/Rufskin_2008/index.html

or Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dylanglockler/sets/72157604041457287/

If you re-post these photos, please provide proper photo credit to myself, Joe McDonald @ Jpatrickm.com - Thanks!

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I received this video link in an email. I’m not jumping on any band-wagon to bash Islam or Muslims… but I think there’s something to be said for being too politically correct at the expense of individual freedoms. The biggest lesson of this video, I think, has nothing to do with Muslims… it’s the hard reality of our dependence on oil. Imagine what a world we would live in if we were not dependent on oil and it was removed as a financial source to fund terrorism? Where would radical fundamentalists get their money to wage war? This isn’t nearly as much about the environment as it is about humanity.

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