Alex Peck, Colter Harper and Tony DePaolis doing what they do in the living room/office.

Now that I've signed the lease to the place in Brooklyn, it's time to start packing up things in Pittsburgh. Ill-timed but well-intentioned, I invited folks over for one last meal and party. Throwing down on the day after Christmas meant a lot of people weren't able to make it out, seeing as they have families of their own and such. What about my needs?

This post has been devised to taunt y'inz with what could have been a a celebration of friendship, a night of heartwarming cheer and merriment.

It is also to provide you with a multimedia experience that you may have and share in the comfort of your own homes.

To roast garlic in the skin, you remove the top and drizzle the bottom with olive oil and salt. When you look at the top, it looks like a bunch of little larva in a wasp nest. You get weirded out. If you are me.

This fridge, once a bounty of Epicurean delight, has been reduced to essentials and condiments.

It's hard to look at the fridge like this. Oh, the great times we once had together!

I'll be moving to NYC this winter. Part of the process has been the planned exhaustion of resources. I just can't bear to think of produce as jetsam. I've been using it up as best I can, far too often at the expense of my taste and dignity.

That's not my Pabst in the back. Somebody left it there.