My apologies for the deluge of Stuck in My Heads on JTB, too many awesome songs keep popping up in my day to day. Enjoy this gem.

	Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight Tonight
	Found at skreemr.org

I was just about to write BLin an email to discuss the Tiny House Movement and see if his inclination for good/health conscious food had ever spilled over into a want/desire to dwell in a more conscientious space. Then I realized that I really haven’t ever talked with ANY of my friends about how obsessed I am with the Tiny House movement.

I purposefully made this image small.

A recent NPR article on the subject refueled my passion on the subject and I have slowly started to add ‘tiny house links’ to my delicious account for safe remembrance. For the past couple years or so I have slowly started to collect ideas for my eventual dream to either live in a barn (i probably need a lot of money to restore one of those bad boys), or to find a plot of land and build a small modern dwelling for myself. I have to admit that a lot of this started with my affinity towards good design in small spaces (think NYC apartments), but once I began reading about it, it became apparent that people all over the country (and world) are starting to take a smaller approach to where they live.

There are tons of styles of houses, some look like sheds, some like children’s play houses (i kid you not), and some ultra modern. I personally prefer the ultra modern style and love the idea of being able to actually afford to live in a more modern space. If you’re square footage is reduced significantly you can theoretically afford nicer materials. Theoretically.

At any rate, I theres plenty of reading that you can do on your own on the subject… but I basically wanted to know…Does this interest any of you guys in the least? It kind of fascinates me.

Went out for karaoke for a friend’s birthday this weekend. Been hummin’ this little number ever since.

Donation link

Hey Juicers. A good friend of mine, Reid Sacco, lost a battle 5 years ago to cancer. He was an incredible person worthy of another post in the future. In his honor, every year there is a 28-mile bike-a-thon, Reid’s Ride, that starts in my hometown of Lynnfield and travels up the north shore of Boston ending at Stage Fort Park in Gloucester, MA.

Each rider is required to earn $175 dollars or so in sponsorships in order to partake in the ride. The money goes towards the Reid Sacco Memorial Foundation and towards research to find a cure for cancer in young adults. It is, of course, a good cause.

I have never been very good at earning sponsorship. I am not very good at soliciting donations. Normally my parents sponsor me the minimum amount required to partake in the event. This year, however, I thought I would appeal to the good side of you juicers to help register me for this event and sponsor the good fight. I do not mean to use this blog as a platform for solicitation, but you are all my friends and oddly enough adults at this point in time and it seems like the appropriate place for me to ask for your help.

I would like to try to earn a minimum of $200 for this event through Juice sponsorships. Anything that you can donate would be ever so appreciated. $5, $10, $50, anything. I have never asked my friends for money like this. If we are able to make the minimum, I will do the ride with a juicetheblog.com logo affixed to my shirt. A true juicetheblog sponsorship!

I have set up a paypal donation link for the event here. Please forgive the poor appearance of the website: I just wanted to get something up and running. As a note, donations through paypal do suffer a small service charge. I wanted to offer it as a means of convenience as it can accept any major credit card. If you would like to donate through another means, I can give you my mailing address or we can work something else out.

The ride is on July 18th, so there isn’t much time to lose! Thanks Juicers! I love you all!

I couldn’t find the original music video that would let me embed it here on juice, but this will do. Sit back and enjoy the song.

Making good salsa was something of a unattainable quest for me for several years. At first, I wasn’t really quite sure what kind of salsa I really wanted. Was I trying to make a fresh salsa, or a cooked one? How about style? Traditional or Tex-Mex? What I definitely knew that I didn’t want was the spicy ketchup so commonly labeled salsa, sitting in jars on the store shelf.

While this crusade isn’t like my others, which usually centers around the ingredient list of whatever I’m replacing (turns out most salsas are pretty tame from the processed food standpoint), it was equally as important to me, and turned out to be solvable by sticking to similar principles.

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One of the things that has frustrated me so much is the calls for President Obama to “show some emotion” in regards to the oil spill.  The problem with this is that it is decidedly non-Obama thing to do.  It’s just not his style, and if he attempted it, it would probably come out tone-deaf.  Kind of like Pauly Shore trying to play a serious role.

The thing is, though, this is very much a Joe Biden thing to do.  In fact, it’s pretty classic Biden.

More of this please.

You do it

The latest from Pogo:

Don’t forget to check out past faves, Upular and Alice.

I’m posting this not because I think it’s pretty awesome, but because from this day forth, I’m going to wear a 3-buttoned shirt and an almost backwards redbull hat. Love it.

I heard this song this morning while getting a cup of coffee at Starbucks and its been stuck in my head ever since. Its gonna be a Jay May Day.

The DP for most CollegeHumor shoots, Vincent Peone, contacted me about using balloons for this sensitive location they were shooting at. I discounted the balloon 100% to help them out since they’re a real low budget, and I went and operated. The castle they shot at was unbelievable, and the night was as fun as the bugs were large…(Unbelievably).

(That’s me on the left. The JayMay jacket sparked up a few convo’s. Ay bay bay…)