Sesame Street: Bert Interviews Andy Samberg

I found this video after browsing on The Vulture. Filmed in a very Charlie Rose-esque fashion, this clip has Bert of Sesame Street fame interviewing Andy Samberg of Lonely Island and SNL fame (Click here for an old review of his Nerdist podcast or here to watch one of his more recent videos, 'Captain Jack Sparrow'). Who knew that Bert was such a good TV show host? I was impressed by Samberg's improv skills as Bert took the conversation in a couple unexpected directions. I'm also surprised that he didn't break his relative seriousness too much. :) I'm sure I would have.

Highlights:
"What does the real Andy Samberg like to do in his free time?"
"What does the imaginary Andy Samberg like to do in his free time?"
"Rayon is like silk but more afforable."





Speaking of socks meeting their matches...check out this old post.

Excerpt: Snow Falls and Then Disappears

'The violin goes out of tune whenever it enters a new environment, as though it loses confidence before a performance.'
--From Simon Van Booy's short story Snow Falls and then Disappears


This quote doesn't have much to do with the plot of the story, but I just liked the way he described the instrument going out of tune.


So far, Snow Falls and then Disappears has been my favorite story in his book. I want to tell you about it, but writing about it will spoil it! (As is also the case for most Doctor Who episodes) I had to reread it again to confirm that I understood it properly. What a story! If you can somehow find it, read it! It's only 6 pages in my small paperback.

Trailer: 50/50

Read about this movie on Vulture this morning. Seth Rogen wrote a screenplay about a young man diagnosed with cancer. Where the title comes from? His 50/50 chance of survival. (In reality, I'm pretty sure they don't give these kinds of diagnoses. They're more likely to give percentage survival rates at the 1 year, 5 year, 10 year, etc. marks. But for the purposes of entertainment, it's probably better their way. Imagine '60% chance at 1 year, 30% chance at 5 years, and 10% and 10 years' as a movie title. Yeah, I don't think it works either.)

The film stars Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, two actors I admire. In the supporting roles are Anna Kendrick of the more recent Up in the Air fame, Bryce Dallas Howard of Ron-Howard's-my-dad fame, and Anjelica Huston of comedic and I'm-part-of-the-Huston-dynasty fame. Sidenote, the director of Up in the Air wrote the character for Anna Kendrick after seeing her in 2007's Rocket Science. Because of this fact, I watched the film and enjoyed it a lot! Kendrick plays a similar fast-talking cold-but-not-cold girl.

I think 50/50 will have just the right combination of adorableness and humor based upon the cast.

The Daily Show: Guest Jimmy Fallon

Thanks to the Night Owl for sending this to me. It seems like I'm having a little Jimmy Fallon extravaganza on my blog recently. 


Check out Fallon's guest spot on the Daily Show. As the Night Owl writes, "YEAAAHH they LOOOVE each other :))" I couldn't agree more. 


In this clip, Fallon talks about his hit book, Thank You Notes (I think it was a smart move to make it paperback and more affordable in its first issue), and his 'Whip My Hair' duet with Bruce Springsteen. If you want to hear Fallon speak about what it was like to work on this song, check out the Nerdist podcast. If you have iTunes, you can listen to the 'making of' starting at 45:00 (It starts out slow because they were having technical difficulties. It lasts until about 55:00.)

The Daily Show - Jimmy Fallon
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The Hollywood Reporter: The Unexplainable Surge in Good Sitcoms

I read this article back in March, but I didn't need to read it to recognize that good TV was all around. I am a huge TV watcher. M once pointed out to me: 'you sound like a TV addict. don't worry, i am too. lets join a support group.'

I wouldn't say I watch a lot of TV shows. I just keep up with the weekly episodes--which amounts to a lot of television.

Sadly, the season of finales is here, which means all my shows are on hiatus. I am a huge NBC fan--I watch Community (I love Troy and Abed), 30Rock (I've been watching this since its first season!), and Parks & Recreation (Amy Poehler and Tina Fey are neck and neck for title of my favorite comedic TV actress). My only forays into other networks involve ABC for Modern Family (what a great ensemble cast), CBS for The Good Wife (The only non-comedy that I watch. The dramatic writing and acting is par none on television, I think. Also, I secretly wish I could have Alicia + Kalinda's wardrobes), and again CBS for the occasional How I Met Your Mother (I only watch this because the the Night Owl, the Song Bird, and the Knitter are pretty faithful watchers and I want to be in the loop. And because John Lithgow of 3rd Rock from the Sun appeared this season. Thanks to the Night Owl for reminding me!).

For a more thorough (I know, I know, there's more to TV than comedies) discussion on the year's best television, read the original article here.

Nick Offerman aka Ron Swanson

Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson has got to be one of the many highlights of NBC's show Parks & Recreation.


Here's Nick Offerman making a Ron Swanson burger on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. For some reason, all I could think while I was watching was, 'Take that, Rachel Ray!' 


I especially liked this comment by SDuder: Nick Offerman: The manliest man with the girliest giggle.



And here's a lesson on taxes by Ron Swanson (Apologies for the poor video quality. If you can imagine it, the other option was worse--everything had a bright pink overlay): 

Music Video: Salton de Teixois

Thanks for the Knitter for introducing to me Tejedor way back when! I revisited this recently. These guys are crazy ridiculous. I listened to a lot of Tejedor back when the Knitter was taking bagpiping lessons. ;) And yeah, she's pretty awesome.

Song: Apertura from Motorcycle Diaries

Many years back, I basically had two albums on repeat while I studied--Dario Marianelli's Pride & Prejudice Soundtrack and Gustavo Santaolalla's The Motorcycle Diaries Soundtrack. Below is one of my favorite songs from the latter. Marianelli would go on to work on Atonement's score, and Santaolalla on that of Brokeback Mountain.

Wong Fu Productions: Buffet with Harry Shum, Jr.

Harry Shum, Jr. of Glee and iPod commercials fame stars in a Wong Fu short. They made three, but this one by far was my favorite.



Here's Harry hiding from the cameras


And Harry playing the spirit of the Gray iPod Nano in the TV spot. He appears at 0:20. He doesn't appear in the final V lineup though.

Nerdist: Ed Helms

Ed Helms on the Nerdist! Sorry this post is so late in coming.

Although he's most famously known for his roles on The Office and The Hangover movies, Helms is also a huge bluegrass fan! But he's not just a fan...he plays the banjo! And from what I hear, he's a pretty legit player. Helms talks about the Punch Brothers (Love love love love), the Watkins siblings, Nickel Creek, and Noam Pikelny. After gushing about these guys on the podcast, he won me over.

After hearing this bluegrass segment, some internet scavenging brought me to this site (click on some of the band names on the page's right to see the nicely done transitions) for the 2nd Annual LA Bluegrass Situation. While I tend to prefer the appearance of more spartan websites, this is probably the only 'busy' site that I loved loved loved. The colors, the pictures, the fonts, the layouts--it just all worked together so well! Kudos to whoever designed it.

Helms is also a super nerd. It seems that Helms uses an iPad on stage (kind of like a teleprompter), and he'd like a way for his manager to control the iPad from behind the wings. Helms and the Nerdist crew get into kind of ridiculously detailed discussions about the nuances of remote control, and it made me smile--only because I explain my own technological needs in the exact same way.

Fun Office Trivia fact: Ed Helms originally auditioned for Jim! In association with the Office, there are some interesting remarks about what Chris Hardwick calls 'the Coupling effect.' Coupling, a big hit in the U.K. (Thanks to the Knitter, the Night Owl, and the Songbird for watching this so I could find a new show to watch way back when!), was rewritten for U.S. audiences multiple times and failed in all attempts. The Office's success came, then, in spite of the many wary and critical eyes of the American (and probably British) public.

The requisite 'What was it like when you were starting off in the biz?' conversations are present. This podcast might not be as laugh-inducing as some of the other Nerdist podcasts (see John Oliver's and Alison Brie's appearances), but Helms comments are very thoughtful and made in earnest, making this podcast very smile-worthy (and I mean this in the best way). Discussion topics include Doing Stand Up versus Acting, and working on the Daily Show (a funny Stephen Colbert remark is made about some pre-show antics).

After listening to this podcast, I feel that Ed Helms is a super gracious, funny, thoughtful, bluegrass-lovin' fella. To hear the in its entirety, visit the Nerdist site to listen to it in your browser, or you can listen to it on iTunes.

And now, for some music!
Nickel Creek's instrumental Smoothie Song




Nickel Creek's The Lighthouse Tale. As my friend the Knitter pointed out when she first shared this track with me, 'You have to listen to the words! It's so sad.' Also, I can't get over how young they all are in this video.

Excerpt: Preface to Shakespeare's Kitchen

Let me preface this excerpt from a preface with: 'No, not that Shakepeare.'


Today, I visited B&N (yet again). I decided to plop myself in front of the B section, but there was nothing to my liking. In fact, most of the books seemed to be romance novels etc. I migrated then to the S section. Just like in Hangman, Ms and Ss are safe bets. After looking at this book, this one, and this one, I finally found one that seemed more like my kind of thing. 


A book called Shakespeare's kitchen? I thought it was some kind of clever little thing that re-imagined what 'ol Will Shakespeare had in his cupboards. After reading the back cover, I found out that one of the character's surnames just happens to be Shakespeare. Well, guess I was wrong on that count.


I became more interested when I saw the NYT snippet of "Lore Segal is an astute and gentle observer." Aha, seems like my kind of thing. 


And so I opened the book, with the intention of reading the first few pages. But lo, to my surprise, there was a preface by the author herself! I really enjoy reading author's personal opinions on their works--if only to gain more insight into the writing. This was also the case when I read the personal statements made by Budd Schulberg in What Makes Sammy Run?, a book from the 1940s exposing the wheelings and dealings of Hollywood execs. 


But back to Lore Segal's book. In the collection of short stories (my favorite genre!), the main character finds herself among members of an intellectual think tank. 


A quote from Booklist:
'Her entry into the claustrophobic academic setting, combined with Segal's wonderfully funny power washing of conversational dynamics, is a perfect way to explore the roles we play and the truths and lies we tell ourselves about ourselves. Yes, at some level it's a comedy of manners set in academia, but given the light touch with which Segal shares her immense powers of observation' 





When I was reading the preface, I found this statement to be particularly striking: 
'I want to translate Gothe's Wahlverwandeschaften as 'elective cousins,' the cousins we choose. I was thinking about the sometime-comedy of providing oneself with such a new set. How do we meet people we don't knove? How do acquaintances become intimates? And I was thinking of the sadness when we divorce friends and they turn back into acquaintances who are less than strangers because they can never become future intimates.' 


I thought that last line was so sad. 


This book should be an interesting read. It's a little more than a dozen short stories, but they fit together nicely to make a novel. Originally, the stories appeared in various magazines. 


Check it out here.

Youtube: New World Record for Longest Lip Dub

I saw this on Roger Ebert's Blog. It's pretty impressive! From the Youtube title, I gather this is the new world record for a LipDub. And I think one of the rules is that the record-breaker must have been filmed in one shot. And you can get an idea for how difficult it was to do in the interviews below.



And as usual, some behind the goodies.


Here's a radio interview accompanied by production stills.

Everything is Better with Ducks: The Mythbusters

As originally seen on the Everything is Better with Ducks tumblr. 

Comic: Types of P.I.s

I saw this hanging in one of the labs I frequent. I find it kind of hilarious. The comic originally came from here. 

Baking: Homemade Rice Krispies Treats

Homemade Rice Krispies Treats. Probably one of life's simplest pleasures. However, definitely not one of the simplest baking experiment. Let's just say that things get sticky fast.

Homemade Rice Krispies Treats (adapted from the recipe on the Kellog's Rice Krispies box)
Ingredients:
1 10 oz bag of marshmallows
3 tbsp butter
6 cups of Rice Krispies cereal

Makes ~2 dozen treats

The igredients

Recipe:
1. Melt the butter over a large nonstick saucepan on medium heat.
2. Place marshmallows in pan. Wait until they become a uniform pile of marshmallow goop.

Thank goodness for nonstick pans.

• The recipe on the cereal box calls for low heat application throughout the recipe. If I had done that, it would have taken probably 20+ minutes for the marshmallows to become gooey. Because I'm impatient, I turned up the heat, and it didn't seem to be problematic. I probably wouldn't set it higher than medium heat though for fear of burning the marshmallows. 
• When the individual marshmallows start to lose their form, I began mushing and mixing them with a large wooden spoon. 

3. Add in the Rice Krispies, one cup at a time. After every 2 cups, I would mix the rice krispies and the marshmallows with two wooden spoons, Coldstone style. Mix until the rice krispies density is relatively uniform. I added about 1 cup of rice krispies more because I felt with just 6 cups it was still too sticky. 

Getting to this step involves a mini biceps and deltoids workout.

4. Set a large piece of parchment paper on a flat surface. Transfer rice krispies pile onto the parchment paper. 

And here, my friends, is a trick for how to get nice flat rice krispies treats. 

5. Place another piece of parchment paper on top of the rice krispies mixture. Using a large baking pan, apply pressure on the upper piece of paper to flatten your very large rice krispies treat. 

Set the mixture onto parchment paper. (Looks like popcorn, doesn't it? That's from the weird lighting.)

Drape the rice krispies with a second piece of parchment paper.

Use a baking pan to flatten your paper-rice krispies-paper sandwich.

Voila! One honking flat Rice Krispies treat.

6. Let the monster of a Rice Krispies treat cool for about 10-15 minutes.

7. Cut the Rice Krispies into squares that are a size of your choosing. This part is a bit messy too. Even after the rice krispies have cooled, the marshmallows stick all over the knife. 

The final product!!! 

Music Video: 'O Sole Mio

Funny thing that I stumbled upon this band, Il Volo, in an ad before getting my Nickel Creek fix. Upon first seeing this, I had two thoughts.
(1) Whoa. What a voice!
(2) Uh, this looks like the Italian version of the Jonas Brothers, or the boys men (Sorry, one of them got married, right?) more affectionately known as the JoBros.

Don't you think that they look kind of similar?

My later reaction:

They're so adorable!!! Look how happy they are while they're singing!!! They've even got me overusing exclamation points as they play in the background while I type!!!

And now for the music. Note the major product placement of those headphones. Lovely.

Baking: Chocolate-dipped Macaroons and Banana Bread

This afternoon, before my friends and I parted ways for vacation, we had a little baking party! I had some old bananas (isn't that how all banana bread stories start out?), so, yup, it was time for some banana bread! My go-to for recipes is Joy the Baker, and I was right! She did have Banana Bread.

But I also wanted to make something different--I had made a lot of chocolate and lemon-based things recently, and I wanted a different ingredient to be the focus of my next project. My ingredient of choice? Coconut! What's the first thing that comes to mind when I hear coconut? Macaroons. The next thing? Caramel de Lites. Hopefully, M will make these for her site one day so I can try making them myself... :)

My friend the Foodie also happens to be a super baker, and he told me that he turns to Joy of Baking for recipes. So after looking up macaroons on the site, I found a recipe that fit the bill, and another one that gave the macaroons a chocolate ganache accent. My apartment was much too hot, and my friends and I were much too tired--so we decided, 'Out with the ganache, and in with the melted chocolate chips.'

The results of the baking? Two great successes! The banana bread was fantastically moist, and the aromas of the banana really got the Panda antsy (in a good way). The macaroons were sweet and coconutty, and I think the chocolate was a great touch. When I was baking, I dunked those bad boys in a thick layer of chocolate, and then set them back on the parchment paper. My fridge is pretty packed, so I didn't have room to refrigerate the entire pans. Next best thing? Get some bags of frozen vegetables and stick them underneath your baking pans. Works like a charm. The macaroons and their little chocolate bottoms peeled off easily.

What did both of these recipes have in common? Joy! (I know, I'm very punny. But does it count as a pun if one's a proper noun? Is it even a pun? I'm not sure.) So have some friends over, and bake (preferably in a well air-conditioned apartment).

Banana Bread (adapted from Joy the Baker)

Ingredients:
3 large bananas (or 4 medium bananas)
1/3 cup of melted butter
1 cup of light brown sugar
1 beaten egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1 pinch of salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 + 1/2 cup of all purpose flour

Will make 1 loaf of banana bread

Recipe:
0. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
1. Combine the bananas in a large bowl. Smash them. (That sounds too violent.) Mush them until it is very smooth (I have read from various sources that the smoother the banana mixture, the 'rubbier' the bread is. When we baked it, we mashed the bananas pretty well, and I found it simply made for a super moist bread! It didn't seem unpleasantly rubbery to me.)
2. Add the butter and sugar. Mix together.
3. Beat one egg (oh, that sounds violent too.) Add it to the large bowl.
4. Add the vanilla and cinnamon. Mix together well.
5. Add the baking soda ans salt. Mix well.
6. Add the flour. Mix well (this probably comes as no surprise by this point).
7. Butter (canola oil works just as well) and flour a loaf pan. For this step, I used a 9''x5'' pan, and the loaf was kind of short (but still delicious!). This recipe is probably suited more for a 8''x4'' pan, which I didn't have.
8. Pour the mixture into the loaf pan (it should take up approximately 1/2 of the pan's volume). Bake for 1 hour. If you insert a utensil (I choose the chopstick) into the loaf, it should come out clean.
9. Let the bread cool.
10. Remove bread from pan and serve!

As a note: When my friends and I baked it, I had accidentally set the oven for 325 degrees Fahrenheit (which is the temperature for the macaroons), but the bread still turned out fine after 1 hour in the oven.

Chocolate-dipped Coconut Macaroons (adapted from Joyofbaking.com)

Ingredients:
4 large egg whites
1 cup of white sugar
1/4 tsp of salt
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup of cake flour (which can be substituted with 1/2 cup of all purpose flour + 1 tbsp of corn starch)
3 cups of sweetened coconut flakes ( I used Baker's Sweetened Coconut Flakes)
1/2 a bag of chocolate chips (semi-sweet or dark, depending on your preference)

Recipe:
0. Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
1. Fill a small saucepan with water. Apply heat to pan until water is simmering.
2. In a glass bowl large enough to sit on top of the pan, whisk together te egg whites, sugar, and salt until the mixture is creamy and warm to the touch. Remove the bowl from heat. (We whisked for several minutes, which might have been overkill, but it happened at no consequence).
3. Add the vanilla, flour, and coconut to the bowl. Mix it well (, young Jedi. Apologies, I'm just trying to mix up my 'mix it up' bits).
(Thanks to M for providing the conversion rate for going between all purpose flour and cake flour.

Here's the math:
1 cup of cake flour = 7/8 cup of all purpose flour + 2 tbsp corn starch
Since the recipe called for 1/2 cup of cake flour, that means we would need 7/16 cup of all purpose flour and 1 tbsp of corn starch. To make life simple, we approximated the 7/16 cup as 1/2 cup of all purpose flour.)
4. Place the entire mixture in the refrigerator for 2 hours. (We only refrigerated for 1.5 hours, and it was fine. The mixture is mostly coconut anyway, so 1.5 hours was plenty for the small amount of liquid-y baking goo. Doesn't that sound pleasant?)
5. Line two baking pans with parchment paper (parchment paper will be important for the chocolate application step)
6. Apply ~1 tbsp (a little more is better and makes for bigger macaroons) of the mixture onto the baking pan. You can place them pretty close together (approx 1.5-2 inches) because they don't expand much.
7. Bake for 15 minutes until golden brown. (At fifteen minutes, the bottoms of our macaroons were already browning, but the tops were still white. To avoid the risk of burning the bottoms, we took them out at 15 minutes. After cooling, the macaroons became pleasantly firmer.)
8. Let the macaroons cool for 10-15 minutes.
9. Melt the chocolate chips with your microwave (1.5 minutes should be sufficient).
10. Dunk the macaroons (flat side facing the chocolate) into the melted chocolate.
11. Place the macaroons back on the parchment paper, chocolate side facing down.
12. If you have room in your refrigerator, place the sheets of macaroons in the fridge until chocolate has solidified. If you don't have room, an equally successful technique (but more time-consuming) is placing 2 bags of frozen vegetables under each baking pan. You may want to flip the bags over after a while (10-15 minutes, or as you see fit) in order to get the greatest amount of cooling power out of your veggies.
13. After chocolate has solidified, you should be able to easily remove the macaroons from the parchment paper without having too much chocolate stick to the paper. The macaroons have finished cooling when more chocolate sticks to the macaroon than to the paper when you try to remove them.
14. Store macaroons in a cool place to avoid melting the chocolate.

Excerpt: The Secret Lives of People in Love

'When I watch people line up at the check-in desks [at the airport], I sometimes try and make eye contact with children so when I pray to allay their fears [of flying], I can see the pools of their eyes and then drop my prayers into them like coins being dropped into a well.'
--From the short story, The Shepherd on the Rock, in Simon Van Booy's book

After reading this, I thought it was one of the most darling images I'd read in a while. I reread the sentence a few times. It brought back childhood memories of throwing a penny into a fountain, the high-pitched 'plink' as it hit the water, and the coin's slow descent to the floor. As I felt it leave my fingertips, the weight disappeared as suddenly and impressively as if I had just released a bird from my own hands.

Back to the story--tossing positive thought pennies into the wells of children's eyes? I love it.

Youtube: Pachelbel Rant

Back in high school, I was in love with this video. Gosh knows how many time I rewatched this...




Darren Criss of Glee fame makes a similar point in this GQ video. Check it out at the Panda's blog post.

Trailer: The New Muppets Movie

I super <3 Jason Segel. If legend is right, he was signed on to the Muppets movie after demonstrating his puppets mojo in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Here's a funny video that pays tribute to The Hangover 2 Trailer:

Here's a look at the Hangover 2 trailer:


Now, see if you can catch the similarities.


I love how the font is even the same--Impact. The Impact font should only be seen in the 90s--back when people over-used Microsoft Word Art for anything and everything.

Film News: The Hobbit

Orlando Bloom joins the cast of The Hobbit! Turns out Elijah Wood and Cate Blanchett will be appearing also. I wonder how they're going to do that!

Here's the original news.

Interview: Terrence Malick

I liked this statement by Terrence Malick. It's another way of saying cliches are cliches because they have a grain of truth to them. 


When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in clichés. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public. 


   -Terrence Malick, director of the much lauded and anticipated film, Tree of Life


From what I've read, Malick is a very reclusive director. His interview with New York Magazine was pretty short, and he is one of Hollywood's famously private elite. His most recent film, Tree of Life, received the Palm d'Or, the most prestigious award given at the Cannes Film Festival. Past recipients of the award include...I just wikipedia-ed it, and I don't know any of them! Except for Michael Moore for Fahrenheit 9/11 and Roman Polanski for The Pianist. 


For a very rare glimpse at the movie, you can watch this clip exclusively revealed to EW.com. The trailer was released more recently, and I've included it below. 




You can read reviews about the film here.
NY Magazine ('Terrence Malick’s overblown, goofy, slightly ridiculous The Tree of Life should be seen immediately.')
Rogert Ebert (It's too difficult to identify a quotation from this piece. I recommend reading the entry in its entirety. I don't think you'll regret it. Ebert's an excellent writer.)
NYT ('“The Tree of Life” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). Birth, death, the end of the world." These end bits of NYT film reviews are my favorite. Sometimes they get kind of snarky, which is always fun.)

Joy the Baker: Baking for Boys

If you haven't heard of Joy the Baker, you should quickly go visit her website! Besides having really whiz-bang photos of food, her entries are fun to read. Sometimes her perkiness is a little overwhelming (and that's saying something considering emotion seems to get diluted over the interweb), but I just suppress the cynic in me and read on. I'm usually pretty glad I read on by the end of her posts. But really, Joy the Baker is my go-to for finding new recipes. I love her recipe index--a quick browse and you could easily bookmark a dozen at least (M knows what I'm talking about...)!

Doesn't Joy have the cutest table cloth ever?!

All we need is to get some birdies to stomp their little feet around the pie's edges...

Drool-worth, right?

In her post Love and Sugar, she writes:
"There’s something happening in my email inbox.  I’ve gotten lots… and I mean LOTS of emails from you about what to bake for boys.

Boys in the dorm room down the hall from you, boys that you work with, boys that live far away from you, boys boys boys.

You people are crushin’  hard. I like this.  I say thumbs-up.  I say dive in, head first!… as long as you’re not diving into the shallow end, and you’ve waited an hour after eating, and you’re wearing your floaties… other than that… dive in!

Or just slip n slide it… but go for it.  It’s Spring, why not love somebody!?"

If you liked that excerpt, you'll love the rest of it! So visit her blog here to continue reading. And check out her recipes to pick up some fun baking ideas! I myself am eyeing that Apple Crisp...I'd make mine with a very large crisp to apple ratio.

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: Ed Helms

Jimmy Fallon (and his show) is so much fun! Here's a clip of him and Ed Helms engaging in some friendly competition. The rules? With arms separated by a broomstick, each must pour three beers from bottle to glass and then from glass into a graduated cylinder. I wish Jimmy Fallon was around as a counselor when I went to summer camp. I think it would made group activities a lot more fun.

By the halfway point of this video, I was laughing out loud! The competition eventually brings out their more cunning sides.