Clip Du Jour: The Middle Show

Today's Clip Du Jour comes from my good friends at Black20.com and their web series The Middle Show. The clip shows The Middle Show correspondents at New York's ComicCon 2007. As you can imagine, hilarity ensues. Check out the clip below.

Head over to Black20.com to watch the second half of the adventure and for lots of other viral videos and webisodes. Good stuff!

Clip Du Jour: Sandwich Pals

Today's Clip Du Jour is from AdamRayComedy.com and features the video for "Sandwich Pals."
Check out the hilarious clip and visit Adam's website, too.

Pets and the City

I don't have a pet here in the city, but I am a little bit jealous of people who do. I definitely miss my dumb dog, Grommit, back home in PA so it would be nice to have a little companion here in the apartment. Unfortunately, I'm not willing to be one of those people walking around with a plastic bag picking up doody off the sidewalk. Props to the people who could do it, but I'm not one of them.

I admire the people that are able to have pets in NYC. My family can attest to the fact that I am definitely not the best pet owner. I had a turtle that froze to death in its water dish (don't ask,) a guinea pig that caught pneumonia (again, don't ask,) and so many flushed fish that I lost count. I think it would be fun to have a little dog running around and to take for walks, but sometimes I forget to feed myself so I wouldn't want to do that to man's best friend.

I'm a little jealous when people get to go shopping for their pets and buy them cool toys or new collars and stuff. It's like having a kid that won't grow up and take all your money. My friend Eric happens to be a graphic designer for an upscale pet supply boutique in Philadelphia. I have to admit that sometimes I just want to squish little dogs wearing hoodies or prom dresses and stuff like that, but SniffnFetch.com has some cute and cool stuff for doggies.

All you pet lovers out there should check out their website, and if you don't have a pet you should look at it anyway because you know you're just avoiding doing work.

Gab about Cabs

Upon returning to NYC from Miami my roommate and I found ourselves having to wait in an endless cab line to get back into the city. It was probably one of the longest cab lines I've ever seen at the airport. The long line allowed Carolyn and I the chance to start making small talk about cabs and the different types and which ones we liked and disliked, etc. Gripping conversation, let me tell you...

We both decided that our favorite cabs are the SUV cabs, or Jurassic Park cabs as we like to call them (because they look like the automated SUVs that were destroyed by dinosaurs in the movie, obviously...) We were saying how each of us has only ridden in a Jurassic Park cab but once or twice because there seems to be very few of them in the city. We joked that we deserved to ride in one of these ellusive cabs because we were waiting so long in the line. Luck would have it, we got a Jurassic Park cab! Yes!

Once in the cab we were chatting about cabs some more (we should probably think of more important things to talk about, huh?) and I mentioned that I really wanted to accidentally get into the Cash Cab from Discovery Channel. It's a cab that looks just like any other one you'd see in the city, but once you get in it lights up and the driver starts asking you trivia questions for money. If you get them right you win cash, and if you get three questions wrong the cabbie stops and you have to get out! Awesome. Find out if you'd make it to your destination by taking the Cash Cab quiz.

During all the cab talk our driver heard our enthusiasm for public transportation and told us that if we really wanted to ride in style we needed to get into one of only two Lexus cabs in the city. What?! A Lexus cab?! Black is up, white is down! The driver told us that the two Lexus drivers were very selective about who they picked up and only travel to certain locations. It sounds slightly illegal, but it makes me want to take a ride even more! The New York Sun published an article last month about the new Lexus and hybrid cabs slowly appearing in the city. Pretty interesting. Apparently many drivers are feeling some cab envy towards these new, fancy taxis. Now if only they could bring Phoebe's "relaxi-taxi" idea to fruition we'd really be riding in style. Actually, those kinds of cabs probably exist already but I imagine they're pretty dark and sticky.

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Bienvenido a Miami

It was 14 degrees in New York City last Thursday and was wearing shorts and a t-shirt... that's because I wasn't in New York City; I was in Miami! Carolyn and I decided to scrape together our funds and escape the concrete jungle for the white sandy beaches of South Beach. We had been talking about taking a fun vacation for a while, but it finally all came together last weekend. Let me tell you... I couldn't have had a better time.

It was around 80 degrees the entire trip and nothing but sun sun sun! We really only had 3 things on the agenda for the trip:

1. Lay on the beach all day and get fried: check!


2. Eat delicious food: success!

3. Drink refreshing cocktails: mission accomplished!

The scenery was amazing and every single person that was saw was gorgeous. I guess that's what happens when you live in beautiful, sunny weather for 12 months a year. We didn't miss all the skinny, jaded New Yorkers in their all-black outfits that much. On our way to the beach one morning we passed the tattoo parlor featured on the TLC show Miami Ink. It's a lot smaller in person than on TV, but what isn't? (Don't worry, Moms, we didn't get any ink... yet!)

It was an awesome and relaxing vacation. What a bummer to come back to the colder weather and grey sidewalks of the city. Might have to start saving up for another vacation in the future. I'll leave you with some additional photos while I go put lotion on my quickly-peeling nose. Adios!