Thing of the Week: Reality Show Shockers!

Happy Friday! Hope you had a nice week and have an even nicer weekend! And now, your Thing of the Week:

Reality Show Shockers!

In last night's eviction ceremony, the houseguests made a major move and voted to evict Dustin out of the Big Brother house!

Clearly Dustin was shocked by this vote, and you can expect to things to really shake up in the next few weeks. Click his pic for the video.

In other shocking plays, Sabra was voted America's Favorite Dancer on So You Think You Can Dance last night. I think she's great, but what was really shocking was the fact that Lacey was cut right away.

She definitely deserved to win, in my opinion, but each of the top four dancers were fantastic. What did you think? Click the pic for Lacey and Sabra's weird Wade Robson choreographed "foxes" dance.

Black20 News with Jessie Cantrell

It's Thursday, which means time for some Black20 News. I found out through the grapevine that some people don't actually watch these videos... what is your problem?! My Dad told me last weekend that he watched it for the first time and is hooked... so get on that!

This week host Jessie Cantrell tells us about the latest in the Trapped in a Closet Series, MuggleLove.com and the scariest cat lady I've ever seen in my life. Enjoy!

A Bicycle Built for Two

I mentioned my adventure on Kelly's tandem bicycle. Words really aren't necessary for this post. Enjoy.

The World's Strongest (and Scariest) Clown

The other day I posted an awesome photo of me as a clown from Halloween when I was probably 3 or 4 years old. My Uncle Jim reminded me of a very traumatic birthday party I had when I turned seven years old that I cannot resist sharing.

I'm sure that my parents had great intentions of helping me to have an awesome party, but something went terribly wrong that fateful day in October. I had all my family at our house, and several friends from Mrs. Cadman's first grade classroom. I was having a great time at the party... until he arrived.

I literally remember it like it was yesterday, not 17 years ago (wow, that long?!) The party was going on in the basement, but I went upstairs to help my mom in the kitchen when I saw a weird van driving down my street. It was a big, purple delivery van with balloons painted on the side. My heart stopped. I remember saying something like, "THAT'S NOT COMING TO MY PARTY, IS IT?!" But it was too late... Buffo was already here.

Buffo The Clown's claim to fame is that he is the "world's strongest clown," and I have no doubt that his title is accurate. I will have to ask though... What is the link between entertaining children and ripping a phone book in half? To this day I'm still not sure. Please feast your eyes on this horrific photo to see what I'm talking about.


No, that is not a cover of a horror movie. It's a promo shot for Buffo, The World's Strongest Clown. There are several other frightening photos on Buffo's website... if you are brave enough to visit. Buffo will kill you.

Imagine that you are me; a bright-eyed, intelligent and adorable child celebrating a birthday. Now replace the phone book in that photo with your own soft and fragile skull. That basically recreates my party for you.

The worst part about it is that someone in my generally technologically-challenged family managed to capture the whole show on video! It still gives me chills thinking about it, and we unfortunately had to watch the tape again this weekend while the family was together. Oy. Between making passes at my Mom and Aunt Carrie, Buffo annoys the sh*t out of me by making me do stupid magic tricks. The worst of which involves a multiplying magic wand that, to this day, still makes my Dad cry with laughter. Ya, it's funny (no, it's not.)

In conclusion, I would like to say this:

Buffo the Clown- I know you are a good clown. You are still around almost two decades later entertaining the masses of Western Pennsylvania with your feats of strength and comedy. Kudos to you on doing what you love. Keep up the good work.

Parents of the World- Don't ever book a scary clown for your kid's birthday... or any clown, for that matter. It just... it just really isn't a good idea. Especially if this particular clown can bend steel or crush a baseball in one hand. Do your kids a favor and take them somewhere with a ball pit. Kids go nuts over that stuff.

Adventures in Carlisle, PA

Happy Monday, everyone! Hope you had a nice weekend... I know I definitely did. I had the chance to get out of the city for a few days to visit my family in central Pennsylvania. My aunt and uncle just bought a beautiful, new house so the whole Sandora side of the family (minus Erin, Jim and Jay) got together.

I took Amtrak from NYC to Harrisburg with my friend Kelly (of Miami vacation fame) because her family lives about 5 minutes from my Aunt's new place... small world! Kelly and I also rode a bicycle built for two at her house. It was amazing, and I will share the photos with you as soon as Kelly passes them along (hint hint, Kells.) We also watched the infamous Buffo video, to which I will dedicate a full post tomorrow.

I would share my own photos, but I left my camera on the train on the way there :( :( :( I'm beyond bummed. If anyone finds a silver Casio Exilim camera inside a sweat band with a picture of a guy and a girl holding giant cookies up to their face while riding on a train it's mine! Thankfully Uncle Jim took a few photos from the festivities and forwarded them to me. Enjoy.

The family bought me a cupcake cake to for my b-day because they probably won't see me in October (and I got to wear that sweet hat)


We missed Uncle Joe's birthday, too so he went next


And we missed Aunt Patty's, too... so then it was her turn


And Kelly showed up in the middle of all this, so she got to go, too.

As soon as I retrieve some additional photos I will post. And again... if you find my camera please send it back because I am lost without it :(