Today’s video that makes me happy is a music video…how appropriate!  it’s a live video from 2008 of The Cure’s “Friday I’m In Love Video”.  Even more appropriate!  Enjoy!

As you may or may not know, the majority of us here at Crazy Dog are big fans of zombies.  I, along with Amy, Pete, and Bill, the owner, all love “The Walking Dead”.  I often have dreams about zombies as well…I guess they’re probably actually more like nightmares, but same difference.  Anyway, imagine my excitement when I went on facebook this morning and came across the below image from dudeIwantthat.com.  How awesome is this, seriously?  I don’t think I could ever actually own this because then I really would be in a zombie nightmare but I still think it’s awesome!

I don’t know about you but I LOVE “The Grammy Awards”.  The Grammys are by far my favorite awards show to watch.  I don’t so much care about who wins the actual awards, I just love the live performances.  I consider the Grammys to be like a really awesome concert.  In fact, I wish I could get tickets to go see them for the price of a concert ticket.  It would be amazing!  You get to see a ton of different singers perform their most popular songs, so it’s perfect for someone like me, who, for the most part, only knows the songs of most musical artists that are played on the radio.  This would be the ideal concert because then I wouldn’t be spending money to go to a concert where I only know a few of the songs being sung…I would know the majority!  If I could just go the the Grammys, I would be able to see a lot of artists I like as well…I wouldn’t have to decide which ones I like the most and which ones are worth spending money on to see in concert.  Don’t you agree that the Grammys would be an amazing event to attend?

Happy Valentine’s Day to all of our awesome customers out there!  What are you all doing to celebrate?  Our  bosses bought us pizza, salad, garlic breadsticks, and cinnamon sticks for lunch as our present.  We also got some delicious chocolate covered strawberries courtesy of my amazing parents.  As our present to all of you, we’re giving you 15% off of all of your orders today if you enter “XOXO15″ at checkout.  Also, as a present to you all, I’m posting the trailer for “Valentine’s Day”.  I’m so creative!

Today’s video is my favorite commercial that ran during the Super Bowl this year.  True, I was really busy eating so I may have missed some other good commercials, but of the ones I saw I think this was the best.  I mean come on, it features vampires…what could be better?  Enjoy!

Last night I subbed for my boyfriend’s volleyball team.  I’ve never played real volleyball before in my life.  True, I did take a volleyball class in college for half a credit and I did go to volleyball camp when I was in junior high for a week during the summer, but I definitely haven’t played in a real setting, pun intended!  I started out the game as the first person to serve and of course my serve didn’t make it over the net.  Unfortunately, this kind of set the way, pun intended AGAIN!, for the rest of my first game.  My team lost the first game, but I don’t think it was entirely my fault.

As the night went on however, I did start to get better and better.  I started actually getting my serves over the net…in the third game I even got five in a row over!  And also, we won the second two games, so we won the match!  Even better news, we got a free pitcher of beer for winning!  I was definitely pretty awful, but I was asked to sub again next week, so I guess I wasn’t awful awful.  Hopefully I’ll be even less awful next week.

As you must know by this point, we here at Crazy Dog are all huge fans of bacon.  Bacon liquor, bacon and eggs, bacon by itself…we love it all.  So imagine our delight when we came across the below article from the LA Times/Booster Shots Blog…talking about the new, wait for it…Bacon Milkshake!!!  Sounds delicious to us!  How about you?

Are you ready for the 1,081-calorie bacon milkshake?

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new contestant in the who-can-top-this outrageous new fast food item: the bacon milkshake from Jack in the Box.

The bacon shake is made with no actual bacon, just real vanilla ice cream, bacon-flavored syrup, whipped topping and a maraschino cherry, according to the website. We were thinking this had to be the most trayf food known to mankind before we saw the ingredient list. We’ll get to the nutritional info in a minute.

The item is proving to be somewhat polarizing, with some people loving the product (or the idea of it, at least) and others finding it downright nasty. On MyFoxDFW.com, one commenter posted, “Disgusting!!!” while another said, “Mmmmm, Bacon … is there anything it can’t do?” One person was intrigued: “I have no interest in a bacon flavored milk shake, yet I find myself oddly inclined to want to see what it tastes like…”

On the Gizmodo site, this was posted: “I can’t be the only one grossed out by this,” followed by, “You’re not, but, you know, it’s very ironic and hip to like bacon mixed with totally inappropriate flavors.”

Bacon shakes are apparently not new, since we saw plenty of recipes on the Internet, ones that used real bacon. How anyone concocted this is beyond our imagination, even though we’ve heard the phrase “Everything’s better with bacon” repeated ad infinitum.

Fast food companies seem to relish coming up with new ways to fascinate and gross us out at the same time: Witness KFC’s Double Down (two two fried chicken fillets, surrounding two slices of cheese, two slices of bacon, sauce and no bun) and Domino’s Pizza’s Mac-N-Cheese Breadbowl pasta. The description on that reads: “a flavorful blend of melted cheeses mixed with penne pasta and baked to creamy perfection.” It sits inside a big “bowl” of dough.

OK, let’s get to the good stuff. A 16-ounce bacon shake weighs in at 773 calories, 28 grams of saturated fat, 2 grams of trans fat and 75 grams of sugar. Hankering for a 24-ounce size? That’ll be 1,081 calories, 37 grams of saturated fat, 3 grams of trans fat and 108 grams of sugar. Mmmmm. We’re saying that ironically.

Since we’re too afraid to order one, we’re relying on you dairy-and-bacon-lovers to do some recon for us and tell us what you think — yea or nay?

Another Super Bowl is down…so sad.  I personally, being from New Hampshire, was routing for the Patriots.  Unfortunately for me, but fortunately for the rest of the Crazy Dog staff, they did not win.  I feel like the Patriots never really got their game going.  Regardless of who you were routing for, I also think the commercials weren’t very good this year.  Check out our below shirt that, sadly, pays homage to the last time the Patriots and the Giants met in the Superbowl.   What did you think of the game and did your team win?

This weekend I went bowling not once, but twice!  Friday night I bowled really well, at least the first game…I got a 141 which I honestly think might be one of the best scores I’ve ever gotten.  Saturday night I also had one pretty good game where I got a score of 120.  Not too shabby.  It’s too bad my scores couldn’t have been reversed on the nights however, as Saturday night I was filling in for a bowling league team.  Oh well.

I grew up on a type of bowling called Candlepin.  Ever heard of it?  Most people who aren’t from New Hampshire haven’t.  When I was growing up, we referred to 10 Pin as “Big Ball Bowling”.  In Candlepin bowling, the pins are a lot lighter and resemble candles because they’re long and skinny.  Everyone uses the same size ball, which is about the size of a skeeball ball (and I’m assuming EVERYONE has heard of skeeball)!  Instead of bowling twice per turn, you bowl three times and the pins aren’t cleared out in between your three turns.  This works really well for people like me who sometimes throw the ball directly into the gutter because if a pin that I knock down falls towards the gutter, the gutter ball is likely to hit it causing it to knock down a lot more pins.  It’s also possible to get a score of 10 in Candlepin bowling…if you knock down all of the pins on the third throw of your turn.  If you ever get a chance to try Candlepin I highly recommend it…it definitely requires some skill!