I suppose now i can move back home

they are seriously opening a shake shack in miami. ive dreamed about this moment for years, but never actually thought it would happen. check out the details here.

Baby Buster

This is Buster/Baby Robot. I love him very much. He is the newest addition to the 52w14 family.

Buster can't come home to the big apple just yet, he is still a baby who needs to hang out with his mom & dad (Hektor). I just look at his picture all day waiting for our reunion. You can now look at it too. You're welcome.

a very strange/cold way to watch football.

this is what we look like at normal dolphins games.this is what we look like at dolphins games in new jersey.thank god they sold landshark beer, so we at least felt slightly at home.

brrrrrrrrrrr.
thanks for the tickets, brother.
go dolphins.

obviously im posting this.

Happy Halloween!

I hope ye be havin' a fun weekend. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Love, Captain Leroy Hook.

ps: please dont ever make me wear this stupid outfit ever again.

You tell him, joy and andrew!!!

watch the clip here.

i slipped on a banana peel this morning.

it was in real life, not in a cartoon. i know that jessica did an experiment to see if they really are slippery, but you cant really understand it until you're leaving your apt in the morning and out of nowhere you slip and fall into the wall. obviously you assume its dog poo, but then you look down and realize that you jsut had a real life cartoon moment.

its gonna be an interesting day.

the balick kids (dr. alli and andrew) are flying out to ny on nov 1 for the dolphins jets game. this will be all of our first times going to a professional sports game when its not sweltering hot outside. i think ill be fine with the cold, but alli and andrew, coming from miami and la, both bust out long underwear if it goes below 70. (im seriously not exaggerating). i saw that the forecast was 60 degrees with "brilliant sunshine" so i got real excited and showed them. andrew was dead serious when he responded... "woah woah...HIGH is 60!? im scerd.."
its gonna be a long, cold game for the balick siblings.

Jenn's Dream Big Apple Landmark #24

Updated: THEY TIE DYED THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING (a for effort)

Caayute.

shattered dreams.

for the last three years, lindsay and i have been trying to make it up to buffalo for their annual chicken wing festival in hopes of entering (and winning) the miss chicken wing pageant. two years ago we missed it becuase i was in miami. this year we couldnt go becuase lindsay was in a wedding. next summer we are going, no questions asked. her mom was even trying to plan lindsays wedding for that same weekend, but lindsay said she had more important things to do.now that september 4-5 is marked in lindays outlook (that means its official), i started doing my research on what we need to do to prepare for the miss buffalo wing pageant. i found the details here and discovered some incredibly unfortunate news.

Contestants must be single and never married, not pregnant and between the ages of 17 and 23.

not only is silly lindsay going off and getting married a month before, BUT we are old folks who arent allowed to enter!! can you beleive it??? does anyone know how to get us ny state 23 year old fake id's??? regardless, were still going. we have 11 months and 16 days to figure out how to be a non married, non pregnant, 23 year old, chicken wing loving new yorker.

there should be a leroy in every borough.

today we volunteered with nyc cares, and painted this awesome mural on an elementary school in bk. jenn painted leroy and he will now forever be honored at PS 59 K William Floyd School. After taking the beautiful photo seen above, jenns back immediately looked like this. (cool scrunchie)

Let the Wild Rumpus Start

As you might know, 52w14 is no stranger to the mighty crown. As you might have somehow heard, Where the Wild Things Are comes out today.

Due to our incredible fame, we were invited** to an early screening on Wednesday night. Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers, Karen O, Cathrine Keener, Max Records, and John Hodgmen (and his iphone) all graced us with their presence. Then they gave us Max crowns.
(you might notice the nose picker in the back is crownless, just saying...)
The movie & the soundtrack are really really neat. You should partake in the fun.

**Working definition of "invited" in this post means we donated to 826nyc, a non profit (founded by Eggers) dedicated to supporting students with their creative & expository writing skills. There's a few around the country so consider paying your dues to childhood and helping some kids get creative.

i'm cleansing again.

this time i thought id ad a little extra torture to the deal. i got a beautiful cheeseburger manicure so everyday i wake up and look at my finger, and remember that i CANNOT eat a cheeseburger til a week from friday. its gonna be a looooong 12 days.

i did lots of fun things last night.

then i woke up and discovered this today. how on earth did i get undressed last night?

it was a real good birthday.

i rocked my new furry zebra blanket pants and went to the shake shack. thanks for everything, everyone.

mirror images

so ever since iphone added picture messaging on friday, alli and i have been really into texting eachother photos of whatever we're doing. (i spent the weekend in indiana. it made for very exciting parts of my day). now that im back, its rainy and i got in bed with leroy and put on the dolphins game and sent alli this photo.then she responded with this photo.weird, huh?

butts everywhere.

doesn't it look like radcliffe's pooing into leroys ear and leroy's barfing out poo?

my parents just tried jimmy johns for the first time.

"i cant take my mouth off this jimmy johns"-abbey kaplan (that's my dad. he has a girl name)

today's breakfast

how come nobody told me how fun office life is?

1st best nights of my life.

ok...so long story short, i got picked to be in taylor swifts vma performance. i know i know..dream come true. anyways, i got to bring a friend (thank god because some talyor swift fans can be quite irritating). so about 3 weeks ago jayne and i filmed the first half of it on an nyc subway car til like 4am. we were dancing so close to her that she smacked me in the face with her hair. then, at the end, we hugged and i told her i loved her and it turns out she loves me too! today we got to go to the awards to film the 2nd half of her performance cuz that part was live. obviously we began the night by posing on the red carpet like any vma star would.right before we were about to go on..the producer came down with the look of death on her face. she told us that taylor won best female video, but in the middle of her speech, vagina-face-kanye came up on the stage and said that beyonce deserved the award more than her. taylor came down to us in tears. but since shes the amazing fantastic girl that she is, she sucked it up and rocked it. and now...here is the long awaited "world blog premeire" of my mtv debut!!!!

New Music - More Music Videos

at the end, super awesome beyonce won best video and let taylor come on and have the spotlight and let her give her acceptance speech. kanye made taylor the star of the show. suck on that ass face!

LexTV

In case you've somehow the past 50 posts Alexis has done about her favorite singer, Lex will actually be live in Taylor Swift's performance tonight at the VMAs. She's been there all day, yet was kind enough to take the time away from her rehearsals to send me an update:

Leroy and I are eagerly awaiting her big debut.

Jenn's Dream Bestie #23

This morning I woke up to this glorious email from Mags
Even though he doesn't know how to spell my name, his message proves he understands my pov:

"Jens dream... Road?

Gypsy merchant opportunity?

Place ever?"

what did YOU get leroy for his birthday?

first off, at midnight, my mom sent him this HILARIOUS ecard (make sure you have your sound up). then, not only did i get to bring him to work on his birthday, but my new office/jenns office (oh yes, we work together now) got him this amazing birthday cake and a pig ear.if he wasnt full enough from that, his aunt jayne, knowing how much he loves to eat poo, got him this sweet new toy that freaks me out every time i see it on my brand new white comforter.unfortunately, his party got rained out, but it will be rescheduled and he will be able to enjoy his poochini at a later date.

Overheard in 52w14 #20

Alexis while checking next week's DVR schedule:

"OH MY GOD...REGIS AND KELLY on OPRAH!!"

leroy will only turn 4 once.

join us.

dan humphrey saved my life.

today was my first day of work and lucky for me it was blood drive day! unfortunately, after giving blood i went to the gym and learned the unfortunate lesson that working out after giving blood is not a good idea. even though i was getting all dizzy i refused to quit. then, all of the sudden, my knight in shining armor walked in. gossip girls own dan humphrey was right in front of my face. i quickly came to the conclusion that it would be way too embaressing to puke all over the eliptical in front of him, so i made the responsible decision to get off and go home and eat a cheeseburger.

today this is my favorite song

it's probably yours now too, right?

we are going to bed with stomach aches.

goodnight.

2nd best night of my life.

ive seen some pretty serious concerts in my life. ive seen crosby stills nash and young, phish (8 billion times), britney spears, neil diamond, mc hammer, boyz II men. ok ill stop now but the list goes on and on. my point is, last night taylor swift was the absolute BESTTTTTTTT ever of all time. lindsay and i will never be the same.taylor was so fuking cute and grateful to be performing at madison square garden. she said, "ive been waiting my whole life to say this. whats up madison square garden!!" and shed like stop all the time and just take it in and listen to the crowd and she literally had tears in her eyes. shes just the absolute most awesome cutest person ever.
you'll find out about the 1st best night of my life in due time...

$$$$$

jaynes running a race to help cure breast cancer. give her all your money. go here and type in jayne miranda.

Jenn's Dream "Me in 30 years" #22

Thanks to one of my all time favorite blog[ger]s, Jeff (aka Cold Splinters) for this inspirational photo:

*Updated: While i was busy sharing this beautiful imagery with you readers, this happened...
(my dream arrow added for emphasis)

#1 most effective way to block the sun.

temperatures in nyc FINALLY got into the 90s today(yay). lucky for jayne, she wore this lovely tiny hat she picked up in bolivia in order to keep the bright sun out of her eyes.

stick to the original.

i really don't know what to think about t-pains remix(?) of the miami dolphins fight song. im pretty positive i hate it. i like the version ms. kadison taught me in kindergarten way better.

you can listen here if you want, but don't say i didn't warn you.

Ocean Puppies

Lex and I went to go see The Cove today. Lex bawled during at least half of the movie. However, I didn't even make fun of her because it was totally tearworthy. Not only are dolphins incredibley intelligent & awesome, they also love belly rubs--just like Leroy.
You guys should check out the movie. And save the whales.

reason #894975 that summer is better than winter.

a taylor swift dance off

i accidentally promised my extra taylor ticket to 4 different people, so i did what any normal person would do. i turned to my favorite rom-com, fever pitch, for inspiration. 4 poeple (jayne, jenn, lindsay, and caity) have been chosen to participate in the first ever, "A Taylor Swift Dance Off" presented by part of 52w14. If they choose to enter (which which obviously they will), they will be competing to pay me $85.

the dance off will consist of different rounds such as, freeze dance, tie dance, freestyle dance, etc(suggestions welcome). i will supply the alcohol. to be fair, they will be judged not on skill, but rather on effort and creativity. obviously the choice of music will be all taylor all the time. if you'd like to be a judge and/or just come to cheer them on/laugh at them, email me for details. good luck to all the contestants.

Vail, Colorado

Home of the worlds most beautiful pedicure

finally!!!!!!

from now on, my face permanently looks like this:do you wanna know why? it's because i finally scored myself a pair of these bad boys!!! after months and months of begging and pleading to anyone who'd listen, i finally got me some tickets to FINALLY see taylor swift at madison square garden!!! and i didn't pay $687 like they're charging on stubhub.com, i paid face valueeeeeee. the countdown to august 27 officially begins now!

jimmy johns a la chicago

my absolute most favorite lindsay was in chicago this weekend and basically missed her flight in order to bring me back a sub from jimmy johns. luckily there were crazy storms in ny and her flight got delayed, so she made it onto the plane (with subs in hand).i tried to photograph the delicious tuna sub, but it disapeared too quickly.

wtf.

this morning i walked into yoga and there was a 9 foot tall furry purple monster standing there.it left before class started and nobody ever spoke of it again.

giant yellow plastic bracelet.

last night we gotta go to this diesel party and see passion pit and clipse w/ kanye and cobra starship without blair (sad face) and the roots with lykke li (the dopest).i woke up this morning with this beautiful bracelet on. dare me to never take it off?

one time, in 7th grade i went to a no doubt concert with my friend lauren. we had the SICKEST seats and we got these amazing pink plastic bracelets that said, "you are now entering the moshing area." i kept mine on for 6 months until it turned white and they made me take it off for softball.

...i dont think im gonna do that this time though.

jenn!!!!!

why the fuck did you just throw my brand new underwear in my dinner???!!!!!**she seriously just did that.

Mad Men, starring 52w14

I MadMen-ized us. doesnt it look EXACTLY like us? (NOTTTT! ...haha thats fun to say). the only one that looks slightly realistic is leroy.
now listen up, just because i turned us into mad men, doesnt mean im all caught up. i still have to watch all of season 2 minus the first episode so dont ruin anything for me.

lucky dude.

so, im sure most of you have read a thing or two about these secret private dumpster pools in brooklyn. but all those articles pretty much say nothing about how to actually go swimming in these magical pools. This lucky dude got to go in and wrote the best/happiest blog post about his perfect nyc summer day.

Owning a Pet 101

Sometimes at 52w14 we can't help but take off our clothes and put them on Leroy. This one time Leroy wore Lex's shirt and it was too long on him and he fell on his face running to open the door for his friend Kim.
But that was nothing compared to how handsome he looked the time we put cut-offs on him.
*Authorities, please don't take Leroy away from us. He's actually really loved.

my dream puppies

i have a big thing for dogs with disabilities. one day i promise ill own a one eyed and/or three legged dog. until then, perfect little leroy will have to do. luckily, i have this awesome website to hold me over.

billy the adult.

last night we went to billys VERY grown up birthday party. his blog is our absolute favorite and he's recently taken a little blogging break. this is why we think you should all annoy him to start again, because we miss mr mundo very much.

It seems i need to start eating more cheeseburgers

Grub Street put up a list of the 82 most notable nyc burgers. ive lived in this city for almost 5 years, and most of you know how i feel about cheeseburgers. unfortunately, it seems i have only tried 18 of these notable burgers. unacceptable in my opinion. i blame the shake shack. i always thought, "why would i wanna try another burger when i can just have a perfect shack burger?"but now after seeing the numbers, ive decided to start branching out a bit more (sorry shake shack, you'll always be number 1). lucky for me, my dads in town, so i get to start tonight. i picked the new french. not only does that photo look stupidly delicious, but it has brisket meat and pickles and spicy aioli and two different kinds of cheese.
on a side note, will someone please buy me this? (thanks, b)

mother of the year.

1st place: alexisrunner up: "what do you think would happen if we poured water all over him?"-jenn

*disclaimer: no leroy was harmed in the making of this blog post

Overheard in 52w14 # 19

Alex: "It's not like I'm gay. I just cut my hair short so I can wear tank tops."

jealous.

my parents get to live in colorado all summer and sometimes when they wake up in the morning, this is what they see.

I managed to find another job that doesnt pay money!

starting this week, ill be working at the putting lot in bushwick from 4-8 on thursdays. its off the jefferson L stop. its gonna be dope so come hang out.

Is this really what I'm up against?

he's back

remember nerdo? well last night he came in town and 52w14 time traveled all the way back to 2008. All that was missing was a hektor and an alex chung.

tiger woods is hot.

Disclaimer: there were absolutely NO cameras or phones allowed in the us open, so you're just gonna have to deal with my crappy illustrations.

this morning i woke up at 5 30am to go meet the barron clan + russ (who so very kindly provided me w/ a free us open ticket). i had never seen golf live and i wanted to make sure i was gonna fit in so i rolled up my jeans and put on my sharpest pair of argyle socks.lindsay and russ were the only two with passes to the free food and booze tent. lindsay, being the awesome/classy girl that she is, didnt want the rest of us to go w/ out free food and booze. so every so often shed go into the tent and stuff her sweater with food and sneak it out to us.(that drawing is not at all an exaggeration)it had been cloudy all day then all the sudden the sun came out more powerful than ever. i realized my shoulders were burning, so i decided to go sit under a tree and get some shade. i laid down all ready to start relaxing, when the cutest old man volunteer came running towards me asking if i was ok. i didnt really know what he was talking about and said, "of course im ok, im just relaxing." he said, "ok well take this cold water. are you sure you're ok?" it was super nice but i really had no idea why he was so concerned. then i got home and caught a little glimpse of my burnt shoulders...i think the water wasnt so much for drinking but more to put out the fire on my back....

copyright infringement

There has been construction going on down the street for over a year now. jenn and i were positive they were building us a pool for summer(which we would obviously have free access to as fellow 14th streeters). not only is it not a pool, but they are also biting our style. Dr. Alli, can we sue?

Attack of the Zack

As if going to a Phish show on Sunday night wasn't enough of a blast from the past...

Zack Morris is back.

Overheard in 52w14 #18

Alexis: I'll never forget that party I threw. Where I bought six cases of Smirnoff Ice. That's all there was, Smirnoff ice."
...
Alexis [in reference to this post]: "You should say it's when I was in 9th grade. So people know I was being serious."

like mother, like son.

ya know how they say dogs often act like their owners?well my dog takes it to a whole new level.

An Epic FAIL

today taylor swift is doing a free half hour concert outside Rockefeller center for the today show. caity and i had been planning all week to wake up at the buttcrack of dawn to get in line so we could see her and rock out. we got in line at 5:15am, there were HURRICANE LIKE downpours, and apparently people started lining up at 12:30am. we stood in the freezing cold rain for almost an hour until we realized we were way too far back in line to make it in. we looked at each other and were like, "uhhhhhhh what the F are we doing????? lets get outta here." taylor never got to see the beautiful, glittery sign caity made, but ive never been so happy to be in my warm, dry bed. hopefully there'll be some kinda miracle and i'll finally get to see her in august when her tour comes to town. third times a charm, right? goodnight/morning?....

NYC local news RULES!

so far this is what i've learned:
1. on monday, theyre closing times square and harold square down to cars and are building pedestrian plazas. (cool, right?)
2. a swarm of bees trapped poeple inside the union square gamestop.
3. a man crashed his car into a cab and a runner and then ran from the police and hid out in the basement of an upper east side building stealing a janitors uniform to try and blend in but the real janitor saw him and reported him to the po.
4. in times square, a drunk shirtless kid got on the roof of a hummerzine and started dancing and the driver got pissed and climbed up on the roof and chased him. (there is video footage)then he got arrested.
5. jerry juices pool party might get rained out tomorrow (sad face)

final conclusion: local news is most definetly my new favorite show.

i made a big mistake

It's friday night, 1:06am. I'm home because I'm trying to make sure my weirdo illness goes away for good. this time last night i was two seconds away from getting on a 6:35am flight to LA so i could go to the taylor swift (my favorite!) concert with alli and rachel. but then i called my mom and i figured now that im 25 i should make a grown up decision and not get on a germ filled plane when ive been sick for almost 2 weeks.

(photo cred:Rachel Perahia)

alli is currently having the best night of her life. perez hilton is sitting right behind her. im over being a grown up....her nyc show sold out in less than a minute. can anybody help me get a ticket?

a promise is a promise

6? years ago alli and i were bored walking around venice beach. her suggestion to cure the boredom was for me to get a tattoo. i agreed to get "lex" on my toe as long as she promised that if i die before her, even if shes like 95, she has to get "lex" on her toe too.Unfortunaley, ive been sick for over a week and im pretty positive i have come down with some crazy disease and im pretty sure im not gonna live much longer. I will be seeing a doctor tomorow, but incase i don't make it, I'm asking all of you to make sure alli follows through with her promise. it was nice knowing all of you. goodbye.

graduation day.

except for this dork, im pretty sure alli (23 years old) is now officially the youngest lawyer around. congrats law nerd.

UPDATE: from now on she would like you all to refer to her as Dr. Balick..

alli:dude, i know they dont call lawyers dr, but thats seirusly what i am. im a doctor. will u call me dr balick?

Two Butts.

(photo cred: jessica "the third butt" ghersi)
click here for a very special message from doug

Counting down the seconds to august 14th.

Like many of you, in 2007 i went to the movies one night and saw knocked up. however, probably unlike most of you, when i left the theater the first thing i said was, "i LOVE that little stoney asian chick." her name is charlyne yi and i think we should be best friends. and now she wrote her own movie that shes starring in!!! its called paper heart and it comes out august 14th.

yipeeeeee!

Fat Kid Syndrome

My Favorite butt has a very serious disease. She thinks shes a 12 year old chubby boy. If you arrive at her facbeook profile page, you will see that 80% of her photos are food related.Now I would assume most of you that dont know her are trying to picture her in your head. Well she doesn't look like what you are picturing. In fact, she is about 900 lbs lighter than what you are picturing. She happens to look like this:(six pack included)

ps: she's wearing the jersey i had intended to give a newborn baby

coupon chaos.

yesterday i was watching oprah (for a change) and she gave away a free meal at kfc for anybody who wanted. she did this because shes the best lady ever in the whole wide world. now stupid kfc seemed to have not prepared themselves for the power of the O. were in a recession morons, if you get oprah on your team and you offer free food you better be prepared to dish it out.

"I went over to our nearest KFC a few minutes ago...and chaos ensued. Despite the very visible grilled chicken behind the register, the manager told everyone with coupons to leave and that the promotion was over for the day. The people there are currently holding a sit-in and refusing to leave until they get their free chicken...or the cops are called." gothamist

im sure oprah will arrive soon and make sure everyone gets the chicken they deserve.

One of those NYC moments.

incase you didn't already know, the residents of 52w14 apt #4Awesome(+kim) get really excited about hip hop dance movies. today i saw the most awesome dancers on the subway. look at that amazing photo. hes doing a backflip in the middle of the 7 train! It was like i was an extra in Step Up 2:The Streets.

it's actually true.

i've read the articles, heard the gossip, even saw photos, but i knew i couldnt truly beleive it unitl i saw it for myself. there really IS a shake shack in the new (amazing) mets stadium and you CAN eat a shack burger while watching the marlins kick ass (finally).oh yeah and lindsay caught a shirt...