April 19, 2010
Drunk Roommates
Date: December 28, 2000
Location: North Haledon, NJ
Description: Here, I am guilty of false advertising, as Cyrus and I weren’t roommates at the time this picture was taken, nor were we particularly drunk. This was the evening of the now-famous Drunk Party. Surely, since this was college, it was just an ordinary weekend, right? Not exactly. I was pretty adamantly straightedge during college. In fact, before the drunk party, I’d only ever had a total of 1 one wine cooler (that my sister snuck me when I was in my mid-teens), one and a half light beers (that was given to me at a frat party I found myself at, only for me to give it up and go down to the store to get some Dew), one glass of wine (in England) and a few sips of warm Schlitts from my dad when I was a kid. However, I decided to finally try alcohol proper in the form of the drunk party. I called all my friends who, for whatever reason, had never gotten drunk before and invited them, with a few drinking regulars as ‘chaperones.’ A few friends declined and decided to stay straightedge, but the rest of us gave booze a go. What ended up happening was a whole lot of rookies (myself included) drinking Butter Shots and thinking they were knocked on their ass after two of them. However, we did have an entire evening of people having a good time, with nobody really getting very drunk (except Scott, one of the chaperones, who had a deuce of a time trying to explain the rules to One Fat Fin through his inebriation.) Cyrus was one of the friends who came, and this picture was snapped at the beginning of the evening. If I could be roommates of Cyrus today, I would. He’s just that cool.