Archive for January, 2009

25 Random Things about Me

Friday, January 30th, 2009

This came off my Facebook. These have been doing the rounds with everyone contributing, so I finally did my own when Cannetti caved and did one himself.

Pete’s Note:
Unlike every other one of these you read I am not including things like, “I am currently sitting at a desk which is brown!”
Instead I am going to try and make them thoughtful. I apologize if they read long.

1) Probably one of the most random bad things that ever happened to me in my life yet, was I was once attacked by a swarm of bees. Although there is no exact count of how many times I was stung, it is estimated to be in the hundreds. A great many bees that were still lodged in me by their stingers were washed off in a bathtub before I was rushed to the hospital where they still pulled off 36 more.

2) I have only ever dated and kissed one woman, and I married her after 7 years. It will be 10 years since we met in April. We dated from the time we were 16 through college all long distance, seeing each other as often as we could, got engaged on our 5th anniversary, and got married in August of 2006. We have been living together in NYC ever since.

3) I am completely straight edge. I have never in my life drank so much as a beer, smoked a cigarette or used anything but prescribed drugs. I intend for this to last til the day I die, hopefully a ripe old age. I did not even drink the champagne at my own wedding.

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Pete Presents: Wild Animals – Gizzle Edition.

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

This is a story I wrote in March 2008. It’s being reposted for the masses to see.

It was during my time in Tanzania Africa recently that I came across a marvelous discovery. To preface, before I left I had discussed with my good and dear friend Michael Cannetti, the existence of a very special and very rare animal.

Mike had asked me, “So are you going to watch the Gizzle as it grazes in the open plain (Australian accent needed for this statement.)”. I at first mistook his meaning for watching a Gazelle graze, but then I recalled having heard of a mysterious animal by that name. As we began to discuss, Mike at first suggested he thought it resembled something of a “dog-like” creature, a Dingo. But that wasn’t it. I thought hard about it and remembered that it was known to be a very fast animal with some interesting facial features. Finally and triumphantly, Mike recalled that it was part Gazelle, part Ostrich, and part something far more sinister.

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The Greatest Prank I Ever Played… (Part 1)

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

It comes as a great disservice that the story of the Great Kitten Prank has never been put to page until now. After all, the events that largely affected one Mister Michael Vincent Cannetti, unfolded in the balmy summer days of July 2006. Though it has been told on occasion to friends of Mike Cannetti’s or mine, it never had the full effect. The reason is, this prank was largely carried out over the internet. And as things that happen in real life can seldom be told well over the internet, the opposite applies here. One must be able to read the correspondence that took place that really gave this prank its amazing longevity and potency when the final bells tolled.

Before I dig into the prank, I should clarify a few things in the writing to come. Some of the story is lost to time. Faded memories will allow me to only input what I can remember about it well, the rest I will have to recreate to the best of my ability. Everything else will be carried by copied and pasted excerpts from the actual email chains that took place throughout. These actual surviving excerpts will be italicized. Please enjoy.

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