(Drum Roll Please) Nicole & Tony!

A Good Morning to all of you that frequent the blog! And by frequent I mean that you daily get on the Monorail of Blog [MoB], drink blogalicious beverages (whether that be coffee, soda pop, juice, water or whatevs… it’s up to you), associate with other bloggerites, get off the MoB, and then enter BlogLand to truly take it all in. So, for all of you frequenters, you’re in for a treat. As for those of you out there that are new to the blog (I heard there were 3 of you) I couldn’t see a better way to start than with

Nicole & Tony!

You see, it’s time for a Life Lesson from Milo [LLfM]. When a man loves a woman, and a woman loves a man, they get together, and say “hey you! Wanna, like… spend the rest of your life with me?” Usually it’s a resounding yes from both parties and there is a big extravaganza called a wedding. Everything gets all official and your friends and family show up and it’s just one of the best celebrations ever.

With that said, it should be no surprise then that Nicole & Tony decided to do just that! Except at their wedding they had fire-breathing dragons, the world’s strongest man, an Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonator, a team of flying lemurs, ABBA, a roller coaster, 27 trick bike professionals, and FIREWORKS. Pretty crazy right? Thankfully, the two were able to sneak down to the FunCenter with their wedding party in the midst of it all for some good old-fashioned photographs! They were either really happy because

A) They had just gotten married

or

B) They REALLY thought that the Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonator was hilarious

I’m going to go with B (I heard he got into a scuffle with the team of flying lemurs) but you can decide for yourselves! Here they are, the two I’ve been telling you about… Nicole & Tony!

Enjoy!

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A Little Bit Later, With Kimee & Nathan!

Now, my old chum Milo seems to be up and at ’em on a night so late, but there’s one thing that he needs to understand, and it is this: even though he is young and agile with the words, his good ol’ Uncle Otis has been doing this for almost as long as he’s been alive. Midnite? Ain’t but a thing. One? Just getting warmed up. Two? Now, that’s when the goods start goin’ on. But instead of talking about these skillz with the words during the late nitey-nite time, me thinks it an opportune time to talk a little bit about a wonderful coupld of o&j peeps that we like to call Kimee & Nathan!

Hear ye Hear ye, fellow People of Blog! I come to you with goodlygreat news! The reason that I’m hittin’ (I’m not quite sure what the story is with me not wanting to include any of the g’s, but I think it has something to do with the time of night that this is being written. Apparently, if it is after midnite I no longer think it truly all that vital to include this letter in much of anythin’…I mean, anything. There was one time that I refused to make left turns, but that story is not for right now, that story is for around campfires, and since neither myself or Milo has completed our safe burning course, we’re gonna have to hold off on that one…now, where was I…ummmm…I REMEMBER! Kimee & Nathan!) all you all over the head with these words is that the Otis & James Caravan of Love got to be a part of the wedding of Kimmy & Nathan! Did you hear that??!! They got married!

Alright, alright…keep it down out there, we still got a couple of words to go on this ride, so here goes. We had the truly great pleasure of working with this absolutely wonderful couple, and their equally lovely families during this past week, and we couldn’t have been any happier to have done so! Every last person that we worked with was not just sugar and spice, they were everything nice as well! Yes! I have no idea what that means, but I’m really hoping that it means something like, ‘they were all awesome, and they made our time together a treatytreat!

Well, seeing as how I’m at that point of the words where I just start making them up, I now think that it is time for us to put all of these words away, and get to the goods. Before I totally leave you, I want to give MuchLove & ManyThanks to one and all involved with this joyous day! And, to my faithful peeps of the blog that wonder what a Milo is, and why he can’t be the Mayor of Blogville, and if there is a way to conduct a recall election, I say this – Enjoy!

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Late Night with Trish & Chad!

Technically, we didn’t really spend a late night with Trish and Chad, nor is there a show after the nightly news called “Late Night with Trish & Chad.” I have to admit though, if there was a show on television called that, I would probably watch it. Trish would always be interviewing guests and have fun little cooking segments and hair tips, whereas Chad would do all of the animal segments and have a bunch of crazy antics that the audience would just think is a hoot. They’d have a quirky theme song that would involve Chad tripping over an ottoman and Trish shaking her head in funny disbelief. At the end of each show they’d wave good-bye and walk off as the announcer said, “Late Night with Trish & Chad was brought to you by Batman: The Animated Series, Grandma’s Cafe, Otis & James Photography, Bob’s Boulders, and Viewers Like You.

On second thoughts, I’m just going to stop there and confess the only thing late night about this blog post would be the time that it’s being posted. It’s currently 12:31 in the A.M. For those of you that don’t know, we here at the Center For All Things Blog [CFATB] find that the best time to construct this thing we call “blog” is at the most unexpected times of the day. One time, a long time ago, Old Man Otis and I were backpacking through the wine country of California. Two days into the trip I awoke to find the Old Man publishing a blog at 4:49 A.M. Come on, if 4:49 A.M. isn’t an odd time, then Father Time and Mother Nature really have to meet for coffee and rethink things.

I’m off point.

This is what I’ve been getting at (parents may want to shield their child’s eyes from the following supersweetness) TRISH & CHAD HAVE WED! It’s true. I’m sure some of you are in disbelief, some of you are crying tears of joy, and some of you are dancing around your computers with excitement. For all of you in disbelief, I know it’s hard to believe… I’m sure you meant to send a gift and congratulations, but even the best of us forget. As for those of you crying tears of joy, it’s best that you grab a hanky and clear your vision, because there are pictures to see. And all of you dancing about… sit down. I now summon all of the beings of blog, to help me harness the sheer awesomeness that is Trish & Chad…

BEINGS OF THE BLOG COME NEAR! TRISH & CHAD WERE A ROCK OF AGES! THEIR WEDDING PARTY WAS A PARTY THAT YOU ONLY HEAR OF IN LEGENDS! THE FRIENDS AND FAMILY WERE… THE FRIENDLIEST AND FAMILIEST! SO, WITH THE FOLLOWING WORDS I SUMMON THE AWESOMENESS….

“BLIGGITY BLOG!”

TA-DA! ENJOY!

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GABO v.13 :: The Chris & Rusti Edition!

It’s really too bad that the number 13 has such a bad stigma attached to it. Is it really “unlucky?” And if you attach the word “Friday” to it people think that it’s the end of the world. It was clear that the only way to disperse some of the bad stigma for the thirteenth post of the Great American Blog Off was to pick a truly extraordinary couple for the blog.

It’s not as easy as it sounds.

I couldn’t summon the help of my colleagues, because I knew that they wouldn’t have the slightest idea of how to choose the perfect couple to ward of the evil numbered aura. I sat for days brainstorming, thinking, pondering, wondering, and furling my forehead. I tried doing difficult math equations and reading Einstein’s biography in Swahili to help push my brain to the limits. I traveled the world, speaking with witch doctors, psychics, natives, scholars, priests, and even wood nymphs. Unfortunately, their advice could not help me pick the perfect couple. I came back to the studio, sad and dejected. When I sat down at my desk, I thought that this would seriously be an end to the blog.

Rejoice!

The one and only official robot of Otis & James, Orlace Hanes, had come to the rescue! He had found the perfect couple to “lucky the unluckiness” of the number 13, Chris & Rusti! (He wouldn’t really tell me how he found them. I assume it had to do with nanotechnology, circuits and logic boards. As I’ve said before, we’re simple photographers, we don’t fool with those intricate details). So, we have to thank Chris & Rusti for being so spectacular, so phenomenal, so… un-thirteenish… yeah. That’s all I got.

Enjoy!


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GABO v.6 :: The Jocelyn & Jordan Edition!

There is a problem with Jocelyn & Jordan. I don’t want to have to tell you this, but I feel that I have to. I know that you people out there – you goodly people of the land of blog – will be able to understand what it is that I am about to say. It is truthful, and I hope that you will know why it is I have elected to say anything about it. So, here goes.

Jocelyn & Jordan…they are too good. They are too perfect. They raise the bar too high for every other couple out there. Why…why do they have to be so good? Is it something that they have been in training for? Is there some sort of a ‘photographic coach’ they visit? Is it something that they are born with? Ahh shoot, man…I wish I had the answers to these questions. I wish there was a way I could let you in on their little secret, but I guess we shall have to just take comfort in the fact that they are awesome + awesome, which – according to my calculations, means they are double awesome, and that – my peeps – is a crazy amount of awesome.

Now that we have that out in the open, I hope we can all find a way to move on. If not, then I suggest that you just linger on this post and take in the sweetlysweets that is all things Jocelyn & Jordan! ManyThanks to this wonderful couple for stopping by FunCenter and giving us a little bit of their good times, and to all of my friends out there in land of blog – Enjoy!


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Give it up for Christina & Ryan!

For some reason, I’m going to have all of you out there in cyberspace gather ’round my “Virtual Bonfire.” Why? Because I said so. With that said, we’re going to pretend that it is dark out, we’re located near a forest, and the fire is a blazing. Old Man Otis has his old Toyota Cressida pulled up next to the fire, and is sitting on the hood. Queen James is very busy roasting marshmallows, while at the same time Kinzo scares the local woodland creatures. Roo and Emily Monstah are throwing sticks at each other, and I, (Milo) am chopping wood with my deluxe hatchet axe, with my flannel shirt open to give me the whole “rugged woodsman” effect.

Now the rest of you can pretend you’re doing one of the following —

1) Dancing to Haddaway’s “What is Love” pumping
from the speakers of the Cressida
2) Protecting the woodland creatures from Kinzo
3) Skinny dipping (but that is scandalous and you
probably shouldn’t because if Uncle Otis finds out
you will be banished from the Virtual Bonfire)
4) Skipping stones across a neat little pond
5) Star gazing for constellations, even though you
don’t know ONE SINGLE constellation besides the
Dippers; you should have paid more attention in
science class, right? right?! RIGHT!? Thought so!

or…

6) Hanging out with Christina & Ryan!

Now don’t get too excited, we can’t have all of you around the Virtual Bonfire wanting to hang out with Christina & Ryan. It’s just not fair to them. They can’t help how terrific they are. They can’t help that they just give off an “aura of fun, and an “atmosphere of originality.”

They just do what they do because they were born that way. THEY CAN’T HELP IT.

Here they are for all to see… Chris and Ry, Ryan and Christina, CHRISTINA and RYAN!

Enjoy!


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The Lisa & Sam Blog Slam!

I want to start this off by saying “Children of the Blog come hither!” but that gives me a weird Children of the Corn vibe. Instead I shall say “Men and women of the blog come here!” You want to know why? Well that’s easy! I have officially relocated my battle station down here at the CFATB [Center For All Things Blog]. Isn’t that exciting? I mean seriously… I put a new poster up… the robots brought desk warming gifts… I’m even at an angle… and everyone loves angles!

Okay, I probably have just bored you. For that, I am truly sorry. There is only one way I know to liven back up your blog time —

Lisa & Sam!

That’s right! We had them helicoptered in from an undisclosed location (rumor has it somewhere near the River Nile) just to brighten the blog! Some of you may want to question me on this, but I never lie… ever. They landed on the roof over here at the Temple Court building, crawled through some duct work and bam! they were in the studio. Lisa showed Sam how easy it was to tear it up inside, and Sam showed Lisa how to shake it up outside.

A smart match? I think so. So, without further ado, I present the tearers (is that a word?) and the shakers themselves — Lisa & Sam! Enjoy!


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