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The (not) Friday Five!

1. Harry. Harry made Thanksgiving dinner this year and did a fantastic job. On the menu: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, green beans, Brussels sprouts* and acorn squash.  And not only did he do the shopping and cook, but he cleaned up as well!

2. Marcel the Shell with shoes on 2. The cute little shell is back to share his adventures and musings on life.

3. New foods. This week I tried two foods that I had never had before. Pretty impressive for the unadventurous eater. I’d heard horror stories about Brussels sprouts all my life, so I was a little worried. But I had nothing to fear, they were pretty good!  The Nutella was  for a snack I made with my 4 year old nephew (Acorns. We also made fall wreaths with leaves we picked up around the neighborhood). The Nutella was yummy. I’m not a fan of hazelnut, but the flavor wasn’t overpowering.


Cute and tasty.

Unfortunately, one of these foods gave me an all-over body rash. My money is on the Nutella. But it’s possible it was my new coconut lime breeze shower gel from Bath & Body Works.

4. Zombies. Harry got The Walking Dead compendium, so after he finished I stayed up a couple nights reading it. I won’t spoil anything but there are some major differences between it and the tv series. It will be interesting to see how the tv storyline unfolds.

5. Cooper. Just because he’s so damn cute. Here he is in his food dish. Stay tuned for Cooper’s blog – coming soon!

Runners up: mashed potatoes, naps, not going out on Black Friday and this:

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It’s The Friday 5÷2!

Like last year at this time, Mikey has abandoned us for the sunny shores of Adam Corolla, North Carolina.  We can only imagine that he’s again eating giant tubs of cheese balls, drinking gallons of alcohol and feasting on just a bit too much Nutella.  I only hope that this year’s gluttonous behavior has not turned off his travel companion: Jeopardy! Champion Ty Cone.  After a week of debauchery, it’s needless to say that Mikey is in no shape to write a Friday Five.  So in his absence, Michelle M. and I have decided to each write a Friday 2.5.  Because 2.5 + 2.5 = 5.  I think.  Yay math!  Here goes…

Michelle M.’s First: Harry!

When we bought our house it came with a sunroom.  We found out after the first rainfall that the sunroom came with major problems including leaky walls and a crap foundation. It would have to go.

Harry and his friends were going to tear it out this summer, but Harry ended up doing it all by himself. I mean, I know it’s not like he changed the ballast in a fluorescent light fixture, but still, I’m pretty darn impressed!

Adam’s First:
Topping my list this week is Zoila Chavez, the housekeeper on Bravo’s Flipping Out.  Over five seasons as Jeff Lewis’s house keeper on Flipping Out, Zoila has proven herself to be a smart-mouthed, occasionally working, hilarious addition to the design/house-flipping reality show.  This season, Zoila had a facelift and recovered for a few episodes.  That left Jeff to clean up for himself (including washing Zoila’s underwear) until he could find a temporary replacement.  Hilarity ensued…

Michelle M.’s Second: The Woman in Black. I saw the trailer for this movie the other day. I LOVE scary movies. Especially the ones that keep me from sleeping at night. This one has lots of spooky elements: old timey photos, a decrepit house, rhyming, little girls, creepy ass dolls, creepy ass clown dolls, creepy ass monkey dolls, mud and a ghost. I can hardly wait! But I’ll have to – it doesn’t come out until Feb. 2012 : (.


Adam’s Second: This week, my #2 is Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody. Yesterday I did the unthinkable: I watched straight porn.  And as you know, that’s not my thing.  But lemme explain: I watched Star Trek The Next Generation – A XXX Parody!  It was everything I had hoped for (and some things that I hadn’t hoped for).  The story was great, the actors did a decent job, and the sets and special effects were phenomenal!  Commander Data even had makeup … all over his body!  All that has left me feeling even more excited for my next straight porn experience, Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody.  Check out the totally SFW trailer:

Michelle M.’s Half: Adam’s tags. Sometimes they’re funnier than the posts. Some of my favorites: tam loves worms, chris d. got naked on his blog, harry should keep his day job, michelle doesn’t care about adam’s feelings, mikey loves video posts, I can always lie and pretend my mistakes are games, poor craig probably cried and why do we have to keep looking at polt’s ass?

Adam’s Half: My half this week is none other than Tam!  Tam was a great sport when C&R had a lot of fun with her on our (2-day) “Tam Week.”  On top of that, she also sent me a present this week — for no reason!  Tam sent me a copy of The Vegan Table that she snagged at a Borders going-out-of-business sale when she was in Chicago last week.  She’s so nice!  Thanks Tam!  I’m totally inspired to use this cookbook when Michelle M. and I rip of Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bag with our new TV series on OWN.  Stay tuned!  I’m so excited!  (And delusional!)

Great idea, Tam!  That’s such a thoughtful idea!

This week’s Friday Five is made up of Harry, Zoila, The Woman In Black, Star Wars Porn, Adam’s Tags and Tam!  What a great mix!  What’s in your Friday Five?

Uhmmmmm Where's Mikey?

Details are sketchy as to where Mikey has disappeared to this week.  We’ve been told that he’s on vacation, but very little else.  In attempt to fill in a number of story gaps that don’t really exist in the first place, I will draw sweeping conclusions based on almost nothing (tweets, facebook statuses and my own sick imagination):

He may be in Mexico by now.

Adam Carolla: Get up in that.

It all started when Mikey crossed the border into Delaware on August 14th at 9:10am.  From there he “entered Maryland!” at 11:05am.  Less than an hour later, he tweeted: “And Virginia welcomes us!!!”  At 3:26pm, he was in North Carolina.  Then at 6:54, he tweeted: “Holla!  We’re in Corolla!”  At this point, I’m assuming that he was hanging out with Ellen Degeneres (because she’s the only person on Earth that still says “Holla!”) and that Mikey and/or Ellen was “inside” (sexually) Adam Carolla.  I’m picturing a filthy gang bang, and I’m sorry — it’s not a pretty picture.

From there, I made the fatal mistake of commenting: “Your tweets/statuses are boring.  Please make them better.”  Suddenly, his tweets about sexual exploits and interstate travel stopped.  I have quickly imagined a globe in my mind, and have scientifically determined that Mikey may be in Mexico by now.  Or maybe even Brazil.  After all, he left us 5 days ago and we have yet to determine the end point of his travels.

Where ever he is, they have theme days at the beach.

I don't care what you say anymore, this is my beach.

Where ever Mikey’s vacation stopped, there is a beach.  And on this beach, they have musical theme days.  On Tuesday at 9:31am, we read: “Yes!  It’s Michael Jackson day at the beach!”  On Wednesday at 10:30am, we were asked: “Who’s ready for Billy Joel day at the beach?” to which he answered, “This guy!”  A quick Google search leads me to believe that this beach must be in a remote location because there are no beaches on the Internet that advertise musical theme days.  One can only imagine which other classic rock icons are celebrating their own theme days.  The Beatles?  Neil Diamond?  Kris Kross?

He may be balding.

Skin cancer can kill, so one must always remember to wear sunblock.  For gingers like myself, I suggest an SPF of about 30 million.  For Mikey, I suggest at least an SPF of 30.  For most guys (like myself) who sport a thick head of hair, it’s not really necessary to apply sunblock to the scalp.  The hair simply shades my scalp from the unrelenting sun beams.  But for Mikey, who announced “I got sunburn on my scalp!” via Facebook status at 5:33pm on Monday, a hairy head may not have been enough.  It’s easy to surmise the obvious:  since he left us, Mikey has gone completely bald.  Further, his scalp probably now looks like overcooked vegan bacon.

He’s feeding on nothing but cheese balls, alcohol and Nutella.

A typical lunch.

Although photographic evidence of cheese ball consumption is all that our team of Cocky & Rude investigative reporters have been able to get their hands on, we have first-hand evidence of more.  In yesterday’s Biggest Cock & Rudest Loser update, Mikey claimed to be consuming “tons of yummy food” and as many as “4,000 cheese balls, 7 bottles of wine, and a cup of Nutella.”  Later tweets have mentioned “Watermelon Martinis.”  Lots of binging and no tweets about purging can only mean one thing:  after his gluttonous vacation, Mikey is a shoe-in for the BC&RL placing of Rudest Loser.

Seriously, who eats a "cup" of Nutella?

Further, his rampant hash tagging, misspellings and poor grammar can only mean one thing:  he’s completely drunk.  Watch out, people of Mexico and beyond!  A drunk Mikey has come to town, and it’s only a matter of time before he strips naked and jumps into your swimming pool.

I beg you, people of Brazil, send Mikey back to us.  We need to reintroduce him to well-rounded vegan meals!  We need to send him to AA!  We need to fit him with hair plugs, extensions and novelty toupees!  We need to lather him in sunscreen!  We need him to start blogging again, because goddammit, I’m tired!  Mikey, come back to us!

Note: In the event that Mikey doesn’t return, I’ve already begun to court his replacement.

Biggest Cock & Rudest Loser: Week 6

The time has come for our biggest adventure yet: Biggest Cock & Rudest Loser. Really … who has a weight loss competition in the middle of summer when everyone is going on vacation?  Seriously, isn’t the point of vacation to stuff your face in exotic locations?  After Michelle #1 took some time off to enjoy the eastern (good) part of the country, Mikey is on vacation this week and Adam’s on his second vacation of the year next week!  Maybe lots of vacation food and boozing will tip the scales in favor of those who aren’t vacationing in the coming final weeks of our competition… or maybe not.  For now, let’s check in with all the fatties:

Mikey's vacation included a ball binge!

Adam's getting so skinny that he made this statue hard!

Adam: Over the weekend, my stomach decided to get angry and left me feeling kinda sick for a couple days.  As soon as I recovered, I was back to exercising and eating right!  In preparation for next week’s vacation, I avoided the grocery store this week — so I have hardly any food at all in my house.  Yay for starvation!

Spring: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz *kick* zzzzzz

Forget Farmville, the new game is Pac Mikey Man!

Mikey: As you might already have guessed, I’m on vacation!  That means tons of yummy food and no scales!!!  I can’t weigh myself this week, but I can estimate my weight at 4,000 cheese balls, 7 bottles of wine, and a cup of Nutella.

Michelle #1: I thought about taking a walk around the lake this weekend and I ate a salad on Monday. I’m afraid to step on the scale, but judging by the way my jeans fit, put me down as 3 pounds over my starting weight. And please enjoy my re-imagining of Mikey’s cheesy ball binge.

Polt: So this week, I gained another pound, putting me at one pound above where I started. I don’t, I go on a weight loss plan, and gain weight. Maybe I should do as someone suggested to me and go on a weight GAIN plan, then I might lose?

Matt. used "illness" as an excuse to purge his guts out.

Matt: After a week of puking what seemed like half my body weight, I managed to lose a few pounds. My jeans fit a little better for sure. The only downside is that everyone tells me I look pale and sickly. Well, as long as my ass looks alive and well.

When did a leaf grow on Enrico?

Enrico: After a disappointing weigh-in last week, I’ve found the solution for weight gain: depression. As one of the many young adults about to enter my senior year of college, worrying about grad school/the GRE/graduation has turned me into a depressed creature. When I get home from work, I sit in bed, eat ice cream, listen to Damien Rice, and cry. All this moping around is great for my diet–I’m back to a respectable weight!

Michelle #2: Shit. I gained a pound.

And without further ado, here are the results
for the 6th week of Biggest Cock & Rudest Loser:

Contestant % Lost Place
Enrico -8.18% Biggest Cock!
Adam 5.74% 2nd Place
Matt 3.50% 3rd Place
Spring
0.00% 4th Place
Polt
-0.38% 5th Place
Michelle #2
-1.32% 6th Place
Michelle #1
-2.68% Rudest Loser!

And so another week bites the delicious dust.  It’s starting to look a lot like Enrico and Adam will take the top two spots.  Or will someone rally at the end of our contest to steal the prize?  Or maybe Adam will eat so much while he’s on vacation that he’ll end up as Rudest Loser! Three more weeks — anything is possible!

My weight loss is still 0.00%.

This is due to the fact that I am basically not trying to lose weight in any organized way at all; since this contest began I have been eating Mexican food, goat’s milk brie, and potato chips with sour cream dip. I have exercised, like, three times. My caloric intake of alcohol alone the first week was… let’s just say it was a lot.

The good news, though, is that being in this contest has kept me aware enough to maintain. Without the contest, I’d probably be gaining right now. So thank you boys for that.

Of course, it ain’t over ’til it’s over. I could mummify myself at the last minute and totally win this thing, bitchez! Whoo hoo!

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