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Buddy Media Launches!!!!

Earlier today I announced my latest venture, Buddy Media. You can check out my post on the subject here.

Here is some early coverage of the announcement:

TechCrunch, Howard Lindzon, PaidContent, Mashable, Jason Murphy Show.

Redskins at Hill Country

One of the benefits of owning your own restaurant is that you can pick what's on the TVs. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that Marc showed the Skins game today on the main projection TV at Hill Country. The DC crew -- plus wives (Kass, Chloe, Kristin), kids (Ava, Myles, Cole, Austin) and parents/grandparents (Epsteins) -- got together to watch the Skins beat the Dolphins.

Hill Country is a great place to watch the game. The BBQ is awesome, as you all know already. There are TVs everywhere (upstairs and downstairs bar and downstairs stage). And Marc makes BBQ wings in the smokers that are out of this world. The ones with sauce are great. The plain ones are even better.

I plan to spend many Sundays and Monday nights there this NFL season. Please join me.

Video Narrative: An Evening in Turks and Caicos

Video Narrative: An Evening in Turks and Caicos

I took these videos last evening. I don’t have my Mac (and video editing software) here, so the best I could do was put together this video narrative. Watch, read and enjoy!

We have a grill here. So I’ve been doing most of the cooking. After chicken fajitas, a dance competition broke out. So you think you can dance?

Myles clearly won the indoor competition. Would he extend his lead in the beach portion or would he break down under the pressure of competitive dance?

The judges scored the first round 36 for Myles, 32 for Kass and 21 for Cole. So Kass decided to pull out all stops and showcase her secret moves.

Exasperated, despondent and danced out, Cole gives up and decides to go swimming.

They then play in the sand.

And Myles takes a break to take care of business.

And finally, it’s time for a bath before bed.

This one is an extra from the DVD version.

Back in NYC

So we're back in NYC. We spent the last week in Vail. We had a really relaxing time. Thanks to my amazing wife who knew I needed a break, I got in 4 rounds of golf. The highlight was a 79 on Wednesday. I went birdie-birdie on hole 13 and 14 of the Country Club of the Rockies course. I hit a 6 iron to within a foot on the gorgeous par 3 over the Eagle River! In addition to some golf, we swam with the kids a bunch, Kass and I saw Bourne Ultimatum (loved it) and worked out most days and we ate a ton, which is typical of a Vail trip. The best meal was probably Splendido in Beaver Creek. (Kass, for the record, would not share her chocoloate souffle with me!).

This week we're catching up on work and hanging in the city. It feels great to be back. I walked around the Upper West Side this afternoon and realized that I actually missed the energy of the city even though we loved the clean air and open space of the mountains.

On Saturday we're heading to Turks and Caicos for 2 weeks. We rented a house on the beach. Though I'll need to work to get a new company I'm starting up and running, the plan is to recharge, spend time together as a family and enjoy the beach. We have several visitors while we're there and plan to enjoy the end of summer (hopefully hurricane free!) in the Caribbean.

We have a few days with an empty bedroom. Let me know if you want to join us! Turks and Caicos is great for the soul.

What a Day

Walking home from park with Mama Kass.

Nice ... Kass is back in action

Vivian's First Pics!

Check out the pics from her first day

by clicking here! More pics to come!

Mr. and Mrs. Lazerow

Scary Times

These indeed are scary times. Here are the pictures to prove it. And yes, Kass and I actually spent a night on the town wearing these costumes.

New Photo Galleries Are Live!!!!

The great photo purge of 2006 is complete. I have downloaded all pictures since February 2006 from my digital camera and posted the appropriate ones to the site. New galleries include the following:

• Kids in DC: Anabel, Harol, Myles and Cole. Together again!
• New York Welcome Party: Robin and Mark hosted a wonderful party for about 50 friends at their amazing place. It was a great, great evening.
• South Beach Spring Break 2006: Kass, the boys and I hit South Beach for Spring Break 2006. Thanks Louis for letting us use your amazing place.
• Cole Turns 2: The headline and pictures say it all!
• May 2006 Photogasm: Enjoy the hodgepodge of pictures from May 2006.
• Summer 2006 in NYC: School's out and summer's in. Kass and the kids enjoy their first summer in NYC.
• July 4th and The Wedding in The Butte: Kass, the kids and I headed to Crested Butte for 2 weeks for the Fourth of July and Kevin & Ashley's wedding.

October Smorgasbord

Ton of events this past week. Please excuse the smorgasbord post.

Kass and I spent the weekend in New York celebrating our anniversary. Given the rocky history of marriage in today's society in general (and both our families in particular), we're thankful for each year we have together. We also have promised to spend our anniversary day together no matter what day of the week Oct. 23 happens to fall on. The weather was dreary, but the food and fun was plentiful. We spent Friday night with Julie and Sharie. On Saturday night we met up with Marc, Renny, Erica and Kristin.

This past Friday we attended the Harbor School Halloween parade. The kids were really cute. They all made their own costumes (Myles' class made cats). Grammy Sheila, Nan Nan Nancy and Grandma Tina joined Kass, Leslie and me to watch Myles, Anabel and the rest of the kids strut their stuff.

Saturday. 11:30 a.m. The 4th Annual Lazerow Halloween Bash. Kass went overboard once again. The decorations were amazing. The house was filled with spiders large and small, bats, balloons, pumpkins and more. She also made her now famous chili. Amazing. I grilled all beef kosher dogs. Andrew shocked everyone with his costume. Best grandparent costume went to Nan Nan and Pops. Food was so good that John returned for dinner for another chili dog and to watch Northwestern lose to Michigan.

Runaway Train

Official 2005 Family Pictures

Jennifer Hughes paid us a visit earlier this month. She's amazingly talented. Jennifer is great with the camera and even better with kids. She was once again able to capture both Myles and Cole's personalities (at least those personality traits we find most appealing!). To access the pictures from our shoot, please click here and use the event code "Lazerow". You can purchase any pictures you like directly from the web site. If you ever need a professional photographer for your kids, a wedding, a birthday, whatever, give Jennifer a call. She's phenomenal.

NEWS FLASH -- MYLES AWAITS SIBLING

This just in. The rumors are true. Lazerow.com has learned that Myles is expecting a sibling on April 13, 2004. While the due date rarely matches the actual birthdate, April 13 is an interesting birthday. Garry Kasparov (1963), Eudora Welty (1909), Samuel Beckett (1906) and Thomas Jefferson (1743) were all born on that day. If Baby #2 is born a day early, s/he will share a birthday with 90210's Shannen Doherty (1971), the Late Show's David Letterman (1947) and music icons Herbie Hancock (1940) and Lionel Hampton (1913). Let's hope that s/he is not a week late. April 20 birthdays include actors Joey Lawrence (1976) and Carmen Electra (1972), washed-up in-fielder Don Mattingly (1961) and Adolf Hitler (1889).

The Myles High City

From Aug. 6 - Aug. 19, we spent two weeks in Edwards, Co., now known as Kobe Country. We had a fantastic time. The newly rehabbed Zirkin Colorado house is amazing -- two floors of fun.

Click here to view the pictures!