Can't stop watching this

How can you not have a smile on your face while watching this?

Awkward Family Photos

It's almost time for my annual family vacation to Cape Cod. You know what that means...plenty of chances for awkward family photos.

Hopefully, this year we can achieve the awkwardness of this photo:


More at awkward family photos.

Wacky, Waving, Inflatable, Arm-Flailing, Tube Man

http://www.everythingwillbeok.com/

MJ

In honor of Michael Jackson, I leave you with one of my favorites.

Blips of the Heart

I was born in the wrong decade

Cunning!

A plant that's used as a toilet.



I wish I could be as cool as you, Mother Nature.

Food List

If you could put 5 foods on a list and have them be magically healthy for you, what would they be?

Mine:
1. Oreos
2. Burritos
3. Mac and Cheese
4. Cheetos
5. Pork Fried Rice

Man, I'm classy.

DailyFoodPorn

Between a rock and a hard place

A running list of...

Things that made Pete & Pete such an awesome show

1. Theme song that was before it's time


2. The fact that a 10 year old managed to get a tatoo and then subsequently named it Petunia


3. Mr. Tastee


4. The ties to Gossip Girl


5. When Little Pete loses his favorite song

This happens to my brain when I try to study

The best optical illusion yet

It's getting harder to defend you, NJ

Cheeky Monkeys

Happy Memorial Day Weekend

Summer Reading

This post comes to you from one of my best friends, Emily Miller. I tried to keep up with Emily's literary skills during freshman year of college when I took an 18th (or was it 19th?) century British Lit course with her. My science brain had a tough time adjusting to an English course but it was still fun to spend all of Tuesday and Thursday with my one and only Emily.

Cue Emily:

I have always been a huge book dork, and when I was younger one of my favorite parts of summer vacation was my library's Summer Reading Club. Each summer there was a different theme, and prizes were awarded as you read books from different categories--read a mystery book and you get a Frosty coupon. Biography = free fries at McDonalds. Fiction, a Tootise Pop. Yayyy childhood obesity.

Now that I'm in my mid-20s, I often have a tough time coming up with new books to read. Without the themes, guidelines and free Happy Meals from the Summer Reading Clubs of my childhood, I walk into Barnes and Noble feeling totally overwhelmed, and I leave wondering if the $14.99 i just paid was money well spent. The books on the list below are my summer reading recommendations. Enjoy--and if you get through the whole list, buy yourself a Frosty.

1. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
You get a gold star if you finish this one. It's long and the characters are very complex, but it's worth it. It's considered a "classic", but more importantly it's a great story.

2. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Office humor at its best.

3. The Devil in the White CIty by Eric Larson
Some of the sections about architecture are a little dry, but the real-life murder mystery combined with the descriptions of America at the turn of the century are fascinating.The Devil in the White City is non-fiction, but it reads like a novel.

4. Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin, Something Blue by Emily Giffin, and In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
Everyone needs some chick lit in her life from time to time (unless you're a guy, in which case you can substitute something else). These three are together as one entry because they're quick and somewhat forgettable, but perfect for beach reading.

5. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Weird title aside, this is a great love story--mostly because it avoids a lot of love story cliches. It's about love, but it's also about "why are we here", responsibility, industrial and cultural changes, and the passing of time. Pay attention and you'll get more out of it.

6. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Kind of a combination between Love in the Time of Cholera and The Devil in the White City. Part love story, part American history, mixed with some tragedy and drama. A very strong main character (based on a real person) ties everything together.

7.Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
Disclaimer: I know all of the words to The Sound of Music and I cried during The Princess Diaries 2, when Julie Andrews sang for the first time after she lost her voice to surgery. So if you don't love Julie Andrews, I don't know if you'll love this book--but I do, and I did.

8. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Again, this book is non-fiction but it reads like a novel. Jeannette Walls had an incredible childhood and manages to make her story sad, funny and inspiring all at the same time. She somehow manages to stay straighforward and almost objective instead of self-pitying.

9. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.
Both are hilarious.

10. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
One of my all-time favorites. Like East of Eden, it's considered a "classic" because the writing is so good (I first read it in my eighth grade English class, and then again in college in one of my senior seminars), but it reads like a beach book. Incredibly suspenseful, definitely a page-turner.

Books on my own summer reading list:

1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max
3. We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
4. The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant
5. God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens

Highlight of my day

My attending said this quote today to one of his patients:

"I'm at an age where I think more about food than I do about sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table."
-Rodney Dangerfield

That should have made me feel awkward but it didn't.

Speaking of Rodney Dangerfield:

Really, Denny's?

Mediocre Face

This is all kinds of wrong

Have a lovely weekend

Chocolate Porn

Take heed, cause I'm a lyrical poet

A great history of white people in rap.

Word to your mother.

This isn't going to turn out well in the long run

More of this at more new math.

A running list of...

Songs that I never want to hear on the radio again:

1. Who Says You Can't Go Home-Bon Jovi 

I know i'm supposed to like all Bon Jovi songs because I live in NJ but I just can't deal with this one.  It's terrible.

2.  I'm Like a Bird-Nelly Furtado

I liked this song when I was 15. I don't like it anymore. Fly away Nelly Furtado.

3.  Unwritten-Natasha Bedingfield

I also used to like this song until The Hills completely ruined it.

4.  Anything by Fergie

I'll only listen to Fergalicious when I am indeed "working on my fitness."

Note: Black Eyed Peas songs are okay (except maybe the new one).

5.  Anything by Pink 

One time I caught myself singing along to "So What." Terrible.

6. Anything by Avril Lavigne

No explanation needed.

Skeleton Keys

As a kid, I thought skeleton keys were the best.  With one little key I had the ability to open up any lock in my path.  That fantasy quickly subsided when I realized that a skeleton key actually opens nothing. So instead I settled for hair barrettes to pick the lock on my brother's door. 

I still think they are pretty cool.  And, these key charms from Tiffany might come in at a close 2nd to those old skeleton keys I've held on to. 

And if you threw a party, invited everyone you knew...

...you would see the biggest gift would be from me

and the card attached would say, "Thank you for being a friend."

Happy Weekend

These kids are amazing

I thought grade school choirs were supposed to sing

Gershwin songs and Beach Boy medleys?

A running list of..

Medical terms that would make great band names:

1-Thyroid Storm

2-Toxic Shock

3-Blueberry Muffin Baby

4-Phantom Limbs

5-Spastic Colon

6-Hemorrhagic Pancreatitis

Happy Earth Day

During the dry season in Zimbabwe, crazy tourists visit "Devil's Pool" in Victoria Falls to swim, take in the amazing view, and cheat death.  Just kidding.  The rocks form a natural wall so that you don't fall over the edge.  What if a strong current suddenly started up?

I can't decide if I would do this or not.  People wouldn't bring their kids in the pool if it wasn't safe, right?

100 Single Ladies

I love public dancing, even if it isn't spontaneous. See others 

here and here.

Honey, I want the heart, I want the soul, I want control right now.

This song is pretty great.

Two people singing into one mic is also pretty great (around the 4 min mark).

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