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Today is my 45th birthday and I am "celebrating" by going to a carnivorous plant garden and then having a nice dinner with my girlfriend. I compare that to my 27th birthday where throughout the night I hooked up with four different girls in the bathroom of a night club and it's just insane to see how our lives change. I figured for story time today we could take a look back at some of my more memorable birthdays...

Might as well start with my 21st birthday. I was straight edge growing up (and to this day I have never been a regular user of recreational substances) but I decided I should get drunk for the first time on my 21st birthday. I did 13 shots of Maker's Mark and somehow didn't pass out, puke or even have a hangover. I did however randomly cry because a girl my friend Benny liked left with another friend of mine, and for some reason that just made me so sad for him. I don't have any photos from that night but here is a photo of Benny and my high school ex.

From my 21st birthday on I made it a tradition to drink on my birthday as a special occasion and my 23rd birthday actually features the guy in the red shirt in the above picture (Dylan). I managed a band at the time and we had a residency at this bar so I knew they would let me drink for free there cause they always tried to give me drink tickets but I didn't drink. I got real drunk and didn't want to be at the bar anymore. Dylan's roommate was a competitive Dance Dance Revolution player and had this insane DDR set up in their livingroom and we decided we were gonna DDR drunk in the middle of the night so we made plans to go over there. On the way out of the bar Dylan smacked my ass just to get me to stop talking to people and leave, and for some reason I decided to jump kick him into the owner of the bar. I was just playing around but Dylan flipped out and started punching me. He is way smaller than me so I kinda just held him off until we got kicked out of the bar. We still ended up playing drunk DDR.

My 26th birthday was my last one before moving to NYC. My friend's had this incredible place in Richmond, VA where I went to college and we always had parties there. They had nothing in their huge living room so it could be a big dance floor and it was always a good time so I had my birthday there. But of course that was the night the cops showed up to shut it down. When I drink I am way too friendly so when the cops were kicking me out I put my arm around this lady cop to apologize and needless to say she freaked the fuck out. Luckily she didn't arrest me and I brought the entire party to my apartment, but I didn't want anyone inside my apartment so I just put a literal mix CD in my car and we partied in the street for hours. No idea how the cops didn't show up again.

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You really have incredible stories for days 

love reading them

It was a compliment, I might even still have NBHNC shirt laying around

Not sure that’s a compliment, but he was a friend of mine

Happy birthday! Sounds like you were living and low key your writing style reminds me of the peak of Hunter Moore/ is anyone up? Twitter days

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Funny enough I did find a screenshot of my traffic in 2001. Adjusted for inflation this has gotta be like millions of people a day.

It was 2007 and I don’t remember what my traffic was like

HBD! Thanks for the great story.

What constituted as "a popular party blog in NYC" in those days? That was what, 2007ish?

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appreciate it, will send pics from the garden

happy birthday, man. 

as always, i love your crazy stories. 😂

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Dude you are so higher ❤️ happy birthday 🤜🏼🤛🏼🤍

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happy birthday king 💜🥳
hope this year is the best yet
ty for the pics and stories 🙏

Happy birthday! it's a really cool almanac)

Happy birthday DBB! Hope you don't get eaten by the plants