January 2007 – Page 3 – Otis & James Photography

Becca…The Magnificent Sister of James!

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Kinzo…The Magnificent Tester of Backdrops!

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Otis…The Magnificent Headphones Wearing Creepy Guy!

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Derek!

Now, I’m probably gonna have to ask you over there in the front row to sit down so those of you in back can see. And, I’m probably gonna have to ask you to let all the negativity go…you know, I’m trying to keep all the negativity at bay in 2007…that’s my goal, and after that, I’m probaly gonna have to ask you to free your minds, and the rest will follow…wait…that’s a C&C Music Factory Song…I meant, I’m probably gonna have to ask you to prepare your synapses to be rocked. For I’m about ready to lay some serious serious stuff down. You ready? What’s that? You need a minute? Too bad. We’re jumping in, and you got two choices: Either to try and fight it, and have a horrible experience, or just let yourself go, and enjoy the ride. Alright, thought so…now let’s go.

Derek came down to Center of Fun, and he didn’t come down to have me check the oil in his car, or even give him absolutely horrible directions of how to find us (but I did do the latter, and he still managed to find us), no no no my people of blog – he came down here for some totally and completely sweetlysweetseninorsnaps.

Guess what. He got ’em. Rocked? Ahh yeah. You know it. And what about the huge helping of MuchLove that we normally extend to all that enter the Center of Fun? I’m extending it now. MuchLove, my friend, for taking time to visit us on this day that shall remane nameless due to the fact that I stopped keeping track of days, and I now just keep track of seasons (it appears to not be summer), and to all of my faithful of the land of blog tending to their lovely little blog homes and feeding their lovely little blog children and animals – Enjoy!

Brandon!

And there we were. Standing around, waiting for something good to happen in the land of Otis & James. No words were being said. The birds had stopped singing, the sun had stopped shinning, the children had stopped singing, the Rooster had stopped roostering, the rainbow went back into the pot of gold, the kangaroo’s stopped hopping, the Woodpeckers had stopped pecking (there are a lot of birds in the land of blog), the music – in fact – did stop. Hope was not lost, but it was fleeting, and we were only holding on to the smallest of threads. And it wasn’t even noon yet.

Awkward silences fell over the FunCenter. Otis tried his song and dance, but they had all seen it before, and instead of being charmed by it they found themselves feeling strangely bitter over it. I mean, it wan’t as if they didn’t like Otis, it was just that it all seemed so desperate at times, like the band playing on the deck of the Titanic; he only does it because it’s all he knows how to do, and even in the most dire of situations he will continue with what he calls his ‘Song/Dance/Seltzer In His Pants’ routine which has been his modus operandi for more than a decade..did you hear that…a decade now. Like a broken record, on and on with the same song. Otis Otis Otis.

‘Twas then. At this moment, that a ray of sun broke through the drudgery! What was this magical feeling creeping over the FunCenter? It was none other than the man of the hour, the one and only Brandon! He was on a quest for the perfect seniorsnaps, and his travels took him right into our lives! I don’t know how the how’s and the why’s, all I know is that thank our lucky stars that he walked into our lives, and thank goodness that he came in and totally and completely rocked it up, in ways that we had not seen since the Great Senior Fest of ’73…need I say more, people? I didn’t think so.

MuchLove to Brandon for stopping down, and to all of my peeps out there in the land of blog (and I’m not talking ’bout the marshmallow ones just a waiting to be eaten in a couple of months) – Enjoy!

Ashley & Eric!

Doors.
FunCenter.
Wide Open.
In walks.
Ashley & Eric!

Why?
Engagement Pics!
Really?
Yes!
Fun?
Yes!
Outside?
Yes!
Results?
Fantastic!
MuchLove?
Indubitably!

What you have just witnessed is an affliction affecting many of our nations youth. They are called ‘MySpace Fragmented Sentences’, and they will be the downfall of society as we know it. Really now, it is a problem that needs to be addressed from our local municipalites all the way up to the highest reaches of society. Our youth need to be aware of proper punctuation, proper use of uppercase and lowercase, and most importatly, what constitutes a complete sentence. Here, let me give you an expample:

We had a wonderful time working with Ashley & Eric during their sojourn to the FunCenter this past week! Our time was filled with sunshine, roses, love and beautiful photographs! We would like to extend a large bag of thanks to this wonderful couple for giving us a little bit of their sweet and prescious time, and to all of you out there in the land of blog – Enjoy!

See??!! Easy as that! You have been made aware, there are no more excuses. It is up to us to stop this problem. Gods Speed. And, MuchLove! Oh…one more time – Enjoy!

Last Week, On Minot ND, 58701…

Riyaz is rollerblading in the park while the television show Keep It Together is filming an episode. The producers seek him out as an emergency replacement for one of the extras. He hits it off with the star, Lydia Leeds, and is considered for a recurring role. However, Lydia is only using him to make her leading man/boyfriend jealous so that he will end his holdout. Emily fills in for Riyaz at the Peach Pit. She is in over her head until she adopts the persona of Kinzo, a sassy, gum-chomping waitress. She quickly charms all of the customers with her wisecracks and lip-synch routines.

Factoid:
Due to a contractual dispute which lasted three episodes, the characters of Ben & Adam were not featured in this episode. The popular character Luke also was not in this episode, but his absence was due to a freakish accident during filming, which involved a clown, a pizza, and a mongoose.

Rachel & Reggie

Alright! Alright! I know you’re anxious to hop aboard the Otis & James WayBack Machine for another exciting adventure! I KNOW! But the WayBack Machine had some radiator problems this past week, and it’s totally been in the shop for like twice as long as they said it was going to be. You know how that goes…you bring it in for the radiator, and then they discover that sombody has shoved a bananna in your tailpipe, and your windshield washer fluid has been replaced by butter pecan syrup, and what you had thought was a radio is actually a cardboard cutout, and in the end, it turns out that the WayBack Machine is going to be in the shop for quite a while longer than you expected.

Really, have you ever tried to find a mechanic that can actually service a WayBack Machine? Luckily, there’s a guy that lives near Mohall, and he used to work at a WayBack Machine dealership during the 1970’s, and he’s totally THA MAN when it comes to working on these things, but, since he knows that he’s the only person that you’re going to find to work on these things, you can only imagine what the cost is. Thank goodness he does that ‘trade for services’ thing with us…the unfortunate part for us is that we are not just shooting pics for him, but for his children, his childrens children, and his childrens childrens children. Seriously…WayBack Machines are a pain. You may think that you want one, but in the end you’re just left with something that looks like a ’77 Monte Carlo, get’s .0000000000012 MPG, and all of your neighbors hate looking at in your driveway.

Which brings us to Reggine & Rachel! All aboard! Next stop…a space in time known as not this past Saturday, but this past Saturday past! You heard me right, children of the blog, that’s two Saturdays ago! We’re travelling all the way to a land called…well…the other side of Minot. So, we’re totally going to have time to stop at Loaf-n-Jug on the way there and get a couple of burrito’s (while the car was in the shop, I had them put a little dorm fridge and a microwave in the backseat…but we’ll have to wait to enjoy them until after this post is ovah.)

The reason for this epic journey in a machine so unsafe/unsanitary is the wedding of the suphadupah couple that we call, in fact, the whole world calls Rachel & Reggie! Ahhh shucks, man…what a totally and completely righteously rocking day it was, and how lucky good ol’ Otis & James were to be a part of the magical fantastical that was their wedding!

I could go on and on and on and on with all sorts of words. Some fancy, and others just plain misused. I fear, however, that all of these words would bore you even more than normal, and I know how much you want to get those sweet ‘ritos in the microwave. So I shall now just extend our love and congratulations to this wonderful couple, and to all of you out there in the land of blog that I like to think of being my super special friends – Enjoy!

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Natsha & Dustin

Our Incredible Voyages of the WayBack Machine (IVOTWBM) now continue, and this time we are going back…wayback (of course, Otis…it’s called the WayBack machine, after all – did you think that we were going to be going back in time to a place that was known as eighteen seconds ago…do you even think before you start typing these things? Geesh!)…all the way to a time that was known as the second to the last day of 2006, and to a land that is known as Harvey, home on this day to no big white rabbit (there was, a rather large white snow storm, but that’s another story for another time), but instead it was the land where the one and only, the ever-lovely and the truly wonderful Natasha & Dustin were to be married!

The Otis & James Caravan of Love made the at times tracherous trek to this far away land, but every moment of white knuckle driving was more than worth it as we had a truly truly wonderful time working with this incredibly fantastic couple, and their equally wonderful wedding party and families! We wouldn’t have missed it for the world, and how wonderful a day it was, as every aspect of the festivities was absolutely gorgeous!

We would now like to take some time and send some love to Natasha & Dustin, and wish them a heartfelt congratulations and thank them for having us be a part of their totally wonderful day! Well, it seems that I have reached that point where everything gets way way way too sappy, and I think that it is time for us to now forget about all of my words, and look instead at some of the sweetsamplesnaps that are just waiting for us to behold. So, behold! And – Enjoy!

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Ali & Nick

As the wheels at the O&J factory kept on a-turnin’ (despite the change in year, metamorphasis of my sanity, and perhaps more cracks in the street of Main) the aura surrounding the FunCenter continued to thrive and a heavenly aroma wafted from the air vents of the FunCenter; ’twas the sweet, sweet scent of fun.

Parked outside in the VIP space directly in front of the FunCenter (which our lovely hired hand, Benjamin, sits on through all hours of the night to ensure the rightful parkers (O&J) receive rightful parking) was none other than the imfamous and often underestimated, overexaggerated, discombobulated, extremely underrated, government-debated, inflated, tie-dye painted WayBack Machine. It turns out that the WayBack machine conquered the recent MegaStorm (which had no affiliations with any superhero, nor their powers) that engulfed Northdakotaland.

Though the WayBack machine is no longer in her prime (which occured during the late 70’s and again in the early 90’s) it found no trouble suiting up for its latest endeavor: The wedding celebration sensation of none other than the sweetness of Ali and Nick!

With all passengers aboard and the discoball in full swing (as the WayBack machine, during it’s prime, held many a discoteque) the party of Ali and Nick rocked, rocked…sweet bippy, they rocked. And rocked they did, so much in fact, that the WayBack machine, upon their departure, pulled me aside and whispered into my one good ear, “Otis, you’re killin’ me, man.” I’m not even kidding you.

Sweet thanks to Ali and Nick and to their rocking and über kool wedding par-tay for being totally, completely, sweetly, neatly, O&J-ly, undeniably awesome. Enjoy!

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