Hello again to all of our loyal readers out there! Sorry for the break in posting…I know you all missed us SO much. I know this will probably just sound like an excuse, but we got a 31,000 shirt order that we had to complete in two weeks. That’s A LOT of shirts! You should have seen our warehouse…it was like a maze trying to maneuver around all of the boxes of shirts. Thankfully, we got it done and all of the boxes and shirts have left the building. On that note, here is a music video to sum up how we all felt after we finished the order!

On Tuesday night my boyfriend and I went to eat some scrumptious barbeque at a place called Good Smoke…I’m pretty sure I’ve blogged about their deliciousness before.  Anyway, we had an appetizer called Pig Candy and let me tell you, it was like magic in my mouth!  Pig Candy, as described by Good Smoke’s menu, is a “basket of bacon, fried crispy and tossed in our Original bbq sauce and pork rub”.  If I could eat Pig Candy with every meal, I think I could even eat salad and vegetables for every meal also because the Pig Candy’s deliciousness would drown out the un-deliciousness of healthy eating.  I didn’t even want to eat my meal because all I wanted to do was eat more Pig Candy.  If you’re ever in Rochester, I highly recommend stopping by Good Smoke and having a meal…or at very least a basket of Pig Candy!

Today would have been Gideon Sundback’s 132nd Birthday.  You obviously know who that is right?!  I’ll give you a hint…you use something he invented probably almost every single day.  In fact, probably more than once a day!  I’ll give you another hint…go to www.google.com right now and I bet you’ll figure it out, as this is how I figured it out!  Sundback is the inventor of the zipper.  Just think about how different things would be if he never invented the zipper..we’d have to button everything!  True, someone might have come up with the zipper at another time, but Sundback is the genius who did!  Check out the article below from mid-day.com all about him.

I don’t know about you, but I’m a huge fan of all of the Batman movies, even dating back to the ones that my family owned on VHS with Cat Woman and Penguin.  I remember whenever I had sleepovers when I was younger, we would always pop in one of the Batman movies.  I even wanted to be Cat Woman one year for Halloween.

In “The Dark Knight”, I thought Heath Ledger did an amazing job as the Joker.  He was super creepy and fit my imagined image of the Joker perfectly.  I also very much enjoyed Christian Bale’s “Batman” voice.  Although these two parts stood out to me, I really enjoyed the whole movie.  One of my old co-workers saw it in the theater at least five times.

Due to my love for the Batman movies, I had to share the below article that I found on huffingtonpost.com.  It looks like the movie may be even more amazing than I had hoped, especially if I see it in IMAX!

“Dark Knight Rises” IMAX:  Christopher Nolan Shoots Over An Hour of Footage in Large-Screen Format

By Christopher Rosen

“The Dark Knight Rises” IMAX bona fides are already strong — after all, the first eight minutes of the film debuted in front of IMAX screenings of “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” last year — but if you had any doubt about Christopher Nolan’s dedication to the format, consider this: the director shot over an hour of footage in IMAX, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Nolan has long been a fan of IMAX — he filmed 40 minutes of “The Dark Knight” using IMAX cameras — because he says it allows the audience to become “immersed” in the film. (Shooting an entire feature in IMAX is still not totally feasible, as the equipment is heavy, loud and expensive.)

He isn’t the only director to embrace IMAX: Brad Bird used the cameras for “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,” instead of the more en vogue 3D.

“3-D was never a choice for us, so the matter never really came up,” cinematographer Robert Elswit told Movieline about “Ghost Protocol” back in March, before later adding that “Brad wanted to use IMAX right from the start, and that was mainly due to Chris Nolan’s success in using it for sequences in his ‘Dark Knight’ film.”

The IMAX trick worked for “Mission: Impossible,” which earned $46.1 million in ticket sales from IMAX screens during the holiday season. (IMAX tickets are routinely more expensive than regular tickets.) Expect “The Dark Knight Rises” to top even those lofty grosses when it debuts on July 18.

For more on the IMAX craze, head over to the Wall Street Journal. Check out the newest “Dark Knight Rises” trailer in front of “Marvel’s The Avengers” on May 4.

[via WSJ]

Since it’s finally starting to get warm out this spring (I’m trying not to think about/not count the awesome 80 degree days we had in March), I am in the mood for some serious ice cream. Rochester has this place called Abbott’s which is frozen custard instead of ice cream and let me tell you, it sure is delicious! My favorite ice cream is a kind called Bananaberry from a small shop in New Hampshire called “King Kone”. Whenever I go home to visit my parents, I always insist that we take a trip to King Kone. I also very much enjoy Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup sundaes from Friendly’s.
Now that I am making my mouth water, did you know that there is a whole page with instructions for how to make an ice cream sculpture? I’ll admit, when I was little I did play with my food, but there is no way I was this advanced! I wouldn’t want to make an ice cream sculpture now because I feel like the effort I put in would make the sculpture too awesome to eat, but then I would be losing out on the deliciousness of the ice cream! However, if you do want to try making an ice cream sculpture, instructions are below from ehow.com.

How to Make an Ice Cream Sculpture

By an eHow Contributor

Shape favorite flavors of ice cream into a whimsical sculpture for any special event. Your only limitations are your creativity and imagination. However, work quickly and use the help of a freezer before the malleable ice cream soon becomes a melted mess. Does this Spark an idea?

Instructions
1.  Create a picture or drawing of a subject to use as a template for the ice cream sculpture. Calculate the size of the sculpture based on each quart of ice cream serving 3 to 4 people.

2.  Set up a kitchen work station with a container of boiled water, an ice cream scoop, a chef’s knife, a chilled tray and different flavors of hard ice cream according to the colors of the desired sculpture.

3.  Dip the ice cream scoop into the boiled water and quickly remove. Use the scoop to shave out the first flavor of ice cream needed onto the chilled tray. Continue to scoop ice cream onto the tray until there is enough to mold.

4.  Cut and mold the ice cream into shapes using the chef’s knife. Dip the scoop or chef’s knife into the boiled water when switching between different ice cream flavors.

5.  Place the tray with the shaped ice cream back into the freezer approximately every 5 minutes, in increments of 7 minutes, to help the ice cream retain its form. Remove tray from the freezer. Repeat the process of scooping and molding the ice cream.

6.  Embellish the dimensions and texture of the sculpture with candies, cookies, fruit, nuts, cake decorations or any edibles. Select items that compliment the sculpture and ice cream flavors. Replace back into the freezer until ready to serve.

Read more: How to Make an Ice Cream Sculpture | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_2267028_make-ice-cream-sculpture.html#ixzz1sWGBwBS5

We are sorry to say that today famed TV producer and “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” host Dick Clark has died from a massive heart attack earlier this morning after undergoing an outpatient procedure last night…attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful. At the time of his death, Dick was 82.

Upstate New Yorkers like us are proud to say that we were a part of Dick’s history in entertainment, as he began his career as a radio announcer at WRUN in Utica, NY (about 2 hours east of us in Rochester, NY) at the age of 17.

TMZ has posted this slideshow of Dick Clark through the year that we think you’ll enjoy….we did.