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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Wrecks on Display
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Between the faded-out colors and crumbled who-knows-what littering her face, Tyra has seen better days.
I can see why the construction crew was called in: this cake-tastrophe not only split the earth asunder, it also rained cigarette ash from the sky. Nice blue border though. Er, why is that there again?
Nah, these aren't Wrecks. They're actually kind of cool, in a bizarre way - so I thought I'd share. The green prickly one in particular fascinates me.
What in the Sam hill is going on here?!? Is that supposed to be Barbie's skirt? Because it looks like some massive icing eruption, with her shooting out of the top like a human cannon ball.
And speaking of eruptions and cannon balls, I hope I don't get in too much trouble for posting these next, honorary "cake" Wrecks:
Really, these have got to be the least phallic looking phalli I've ever seen - so if your kids ask, they're little rocket ships, mkay? Just ignore that little sign. Check out the sweet display setup, too: that yellow plastic bucket is totally selling 'em. And what do you suppose that crumbly bread-ish looking thing is next to it? Wait, scratch that; I don't want to know.
Thanks to eagle-eyed Wreckporters Mark T., Monique R., MR, Rachel D., and Xanna C.
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- brittany said...
It's funny that you should mention cigarette ash right after Tyra cause she had a show on recently about a girl that ate cirgarette ashes! Not that I watch that crap, I saw it on The Soup. :)
- September 2, 2008 at 8:33 AM
- Gallifrey said...
Funny as, as usual!!
What's with the Willy on the right back corner, someone used their teeth!!
Ouch... pmsl - September 2, 2008 at 8:44 AM
- Rachael M. said...
Um...you're supposed to eat penises in honor of gay pride?
I am not gay, but I can't imagine I would find that appropriate if I were. - September 2, 2008 at 8:47 AM
- Peeeeka-chu said...
My first thought on the Barbie cake was the standard bachelor party present of a stripper in a cake. Not really age appropriate. :)
- September 2, 2008 at 8:49 AM
- Kaye Prince said...
Hilarious! The Barbie one looks like she's jumping out of the cake. Poor Barbie, she's only stripping to put herself through med school.
- September 2, 2008 at 8:56 AM
- Wonderful World of Weiners said...
Seriously, that Barbie cake looks like a train wreck. And those gay pride peni? Really? Couldn't they at least taken pride in the product they produce?
Hallie :) - September 2, 2008 at 9:06 AM
- ClunyCapull said...
lol, I thought they were some kind of mushroom cookie/cupcake!
- September 2, 2008 at 9:11 AM
No lie, I had a cake like that Barbie one, only my mom used a brunette Barbie knock-off instead (in her defense, I'm a brunette too and it was my 6th birthday) - it was pink, and the cake WAS the skirt. Pretty lady took a header about 3 slices into it.
- September 2, 2008 at 9:14 AM
- Trevor said...
Wow, that Barbie cake is just... I don't know. You were FAR kinder with that cake than *I* would have been in my description of it.
And the gay pride cookies? Jeeez, what were they thinking on those? Could they be any more stereotypical. *sigh* - September 2, 2008 at 9:17 AM
- Laura ~Peach~ said...
lol I was thinking is it remotely possible that the broken construction cake was broken ON PURPOSE??? but then the poor running cake and the phallic mini cakes? Oh my how funny!
- September 2, 2008 at 9:17 AM
- Brandi said...
lawl. too funny. I shot a wedding on Saturday and the grooms cake said.. "Congratulations "Grooms Name"" Hahahaha. I was like.. inappropriate quotation marks! I thought of Cake Wrecks immediately. I would send it in but you know.. being a client and all, I decided against it. :) So just imagine it for me. :P
- September 2, 2008 at 9:18 AM
its barbie jumping out of a cake for ken!
haha! im SO gonna ask the bakery down the street to make that for a friends bachelor party next month! - September 2, 2008 at 9:21 AM
- V. Nicharico said...
Not even going to comment on the pink and yellow willies, LOL! I think I would have cried after making all those icing roses just to have them melt, but certainly wouldn't have displayed it to the whole world >.> And why is it always green? I mean, the rest of the cakes in that display ate beautiful, but the green ones? Who wants to eat cake the color of mold?
- September 2, 2008 at 9:22 AM
Because when I think of gay pride, I think of pastries shaped like wangs!!!
Niiiiice. - September 2, 2008 at 9:24 AM
- EmBee said...
That pink monstrosity 'Bummer' cake?... Well that there is very definition of a 'Cake Wreck'
:-) - September 2, 2008 at 9:27 AM
- The Creeper said...
That last one is so wrong. So. Wrong.
LMAO! - September 2, 2008 at 9:29 AM
- The Courteous Chihuahua said...
Perhaps the FE on the Barbie cake sign stands for Frosting Eruption. $60??????
That looks like a dead cat next to the, um, chocolate-covered reflex hammers.rmxxyy - September 2, 2008 at 9:29 AM
If you had not told, I would have sworn those last ones were some kind of weird mushrooms.
- September 2, 2008 at 9:31 AM
- DaveX said...
If that's Barbie's dress, her legs must be about seven feet long. SCARY!
- September 2, 2008 at 9:38 AM
- Andrea said...
Wait - that last one could be used as a personality quiz. When I look at it, I only see mushrooms.
- September 2, 2008 at 9:45 AM
- Unknown said...
Man, just when you thought it couldn't get any worse.... what a shame these people call themselves cake decorators!
- September 2, 2008 at 9:45 AM
- Monstrosity said...
That Barbie cake looks like one of those toilet paper roll covers. Appetizing!
- September 2, 2008 at 9:55 AM
LOL, before I read the caption I though the phallic ones were mushrooms!!
- September 2, 2008 at 9:58 AM
- Ros said...
The Barbie one isn't a cake - it's a toilet roll cover. Isn't it? Really? You sure about that? Oh.
- September 2, 2008 at 10:02 AM
is that three-tier red one supposed to be erupting, or is it vomiting?
- September 2, 2008 at 10:12 AM
- hollygee said...
Regarding the bummer cake -- I immediately began hearing MacArthur Park playing in the background:
"Someone left the cake out in the rain..." - September 2, 2008 at 10:21 AM
- Sarah said...
I love the Barbie cake...it looks like a stripper jumping out of a giant cake...probably more for a bachelor party than a little girl's birthday.
- September 2, 2008 at 10:24 AM
That blue thing around the construction site must be like the fencing they have up in real life - it does need to be higher though, with some peepholes in it.
The prickly green cake might be a cactus - this is the least disturbing idea that came to me.
I adore this site, you are brilliant! - September 2, 2008 at 10:32 AM
- Meg said...
Any particular reason why one would want Tyra Banks on a cake? Anyone?
- September 2, 2008 at 10:39 AM
Apart from the blue border, I quite like the digging cake. xD
-Kazen - September 2, 2008 at 10:39 AM
Nice set. As for the last photo... 1) perhaps they're meant to be Segways, 2) If not, is THAT the end they should've dipped in chocolate?
(... sorry, couldn't resist! XD) - September 2, 2008 at 10:46 AM
- Meg said...
"Mommy, what are those?"
"Um, they're, uh, rocket ships! Yeah!"
Oy vey. LOL
P.S. You can post whatever you like--it's your blog! - September 2, 2008 at 10:46 AM
- Robert said...
I honestly thought those last ones were small children's hammers... continuing the construction theme from above. And what's with the "chocolate dipped" look?
Thanks for sharing! - September 2, 2008 at 10:51 AM
The question is, why are some of those still on display? I mean the point of displays is to lure people into the store so they buy things, if I saw a cracked cake in the window, I'd just walk on by. Your best is supposed to be in those displays.
On the non-wreck picture, I love the white edged roses, on the purple cake top center. Those look fantastic. - September 2, 2008 at 10:58 AM
I've seen those Barbie cakes before. In fact, I coveted one when I was...ooohhh, about eight. Then again, I never saw one that made me think she was sinking in frosted quicksand before.
Yes, you see shot from a rocket, but I see her going down waiting futilly for Ken to work out how to save her.
I'm morbid that way.
And I guess only men can take pride in their gayness. Where were the little chocolate-dipped vaginas on their separate tin cookie sheet? Would they have gotten their own bucket? Would it have been purple?
Then again, looking at what they did for the boys, I suppose it's a mercy they didn't get all equal opportunity on us. - September 2, 2008 at 11:03 AM
- Linz said...
The Barbie one looks like she is popping out of the cake like a stripper. Scary. I've seen some Barbie cakes where the cake is actually her skirt, and it is very cute. This one, not so much.
- September 2, 2008 at 11:04 AM
I seriously thought the willies were mushrooms, and you were going to comment on them having a resemblance to willies. But, um, well... no.
- September 2, 2008 at 11:11 AM
A Death to Smoochy reference? Very nice, I thought I was the only one who ever saw it :)
- September 2, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Barbie looks like one of those strippers that pops out of a huge cake at a bachelor party.
- September 2, 2008 at 11:18 AM
- Sabina E. said...
ewwww. all of these cakes are so gross. Makes me feel nauseous. Thank goodness today is the first day of Ramadan.
- September 2, 2008 at 11:30 AM
I had that Barbie cake for my 5th birthday in 1984. Glad to see it made it beyond my little town. To a 5 year old girl it's the best thing. It's massive dress of cake & frosting then when the cake is gone you have a new doll to dress. very sweet.
- September 2, 2008 at 11:33 AM
- Erin said...
That Barbie cake looks a little too much like a creepy looking candle to me. And not at all appetizing.
- September 2, 2008 at 11:35 AM
That must be Stripper Barbie jumping out of a cake at a bachelor party!
- September 2, 2008 at 11:36 AM
- Kat said...
Hilarious! Are those gay pride, um things, eclairs?
I just found your blog and have been loving it- it's so great to have a good laugh.
I've been referring everyone I know and put you on my blog roll.
Classic, funny stuff! Love it! - September 2, 2008 at 11:41 AM
beautiful blog you have jen, nice blend pictures nice themes..
wish you success...
warmst regards from the east... - September 2, 2008 at 11:42 AM
- Elephantschild said...
I'm going for the mushrooms rationale on that last picture.
Mom: "Look honey! Mushroom cookies!"
Kid: "Eeeewww! I hate mushrooms! Can we go to McDonalds?" - September 2, 2008 at 11:46 AM
- Izzy said...
60 bucks for a Barbie cake?! Sheesh!
- September 2, 2008 at 11:47 AM
On that last picture, I don't know what's funnier your comments, their misuse of the 's or that they called them willies. LOL!
- September 2, 2008 at 12:08 PM
- Momma J said...
First time visiting your blog, and I love it. Too funny!
Marianne - September 2, 2008 at 12:08 PM
Barbie... Looks like a stripper jumping out of the cake.
- September 2, 2008 at 12:10 PM
- The Isaacs said...
Obviously the Barbie cake is for an ADULT party. Duh. A stripper jumping out of the cake. :)
- September 2, 2008 at 12:11 PM
SIXTY DOLLARS for a pile of frosting with a Barbie sticking out of it? Yikes.
- September 2, 2008 at 12:22 PM
- Lulu LaBonne said...
The middle set are not cakes - it's clearly a milliners shop window, I know because I have a collection of my great aunts hats and they're identical - and I love them too.
- September 2, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Maybe Babs is jumping out of the cake.
Those tiny phallic things are hysterical especially with the sign. - September 2, 2008 at 12:38 PM
- Eli said...
In response to the "Gay Pride" cookies, here are pictures of some Dickerdoodles:
(you have to scroll down a bit.)
They aren't really cake wrecks, because they were purposeful, but I find them hilarious. - September 2, 2008 at 12:41 PM
- Amanda said...
I agree with everyone who says the Barbie cake looks like a stripper popping out of the icing. Her arms are even flung up in a leap!
The gay pride "cakes" - that's just wrong. - September 2, 2008 at 12:50 PM
That's it -- I'm never eating a chocolate ball again!
- September 2, 2008 at 12:53 PM
- i beati said...
hard to beleive really the melting cake the phallic symbols rather small sk
- September 2, 2008 at 12:57 PM
- MyCozyCreations said...
lol, the construction one is pretty funny. I wonder if they meant to do that. hmmmm...
- September 2, 2008 at 12:58 PM
- Nakia said...
OMG the "willie" in the far right hand corner looks like it was broken off! I didn't see it until I clicked on the picture and saw the full size.
I'm addicted to Cake Wrecks! - September 2, 2008 at 1:10 PM
- Julie said...
I got a Barbie cake for a birthday way back in the early 70s. They were common. The skirt/cake was more dome-like, like a princess skirt, and was very cute. The cake you posted, though...weird.
- September 2, 2008 at 1:12 PM
- Camille said...
Oh my gosh! This has to be one of my favorite posts. What's with barbies arms? It looks like she's hoping someone will pull her out before she sinks.
- September 2, 2008 at 1:22 PM
- Dea said...
The willies look like mushrooms, but not in the standard, willies-look-like-mushroom-caps way....
And the Barbie one looks like Barbie has a new night job... - September 2, 2008 at 1:30 PM
- Mrs. Andi said...
I totally want my cake to be vomiting out more cake! It reminds me of the drunk frat boys who make Jack-O-Lanterns that also get drunk & vomit out pumpkin innards.
- September 2, 2008 at 1:40 PM
I thought that last picture was of mushroom cakes or something at first.
- September 2, 2008 at 1:41 PM
That crumbly bread-ish looking thing next to the wangs is probably a bread alligator, which probably means this is from that bakery on Fisherman's Warf in San Francisco.
- September 2, 2008 at 1:41 PM
- Timi said...
LOVE IT!! Found you through Blogs of Note and just added you to my favorites. I have cake wrecks at home all the time (currently have one posted) it's nice to see even professionals make big ass mistakes!
Timi - September 2, 2008 at 2:19 PM
- CaliGirl9 said...
I knew what those little peen pastries were right away.
Anyone else see Jackass II? Bam Margera was "branded" with just that cookie cutter!
*crickets chirping*
You mean I am the only person who can admit to watching the Jackass movies? LOL
I am going to order a birthday cake for my daughter's 25th day. I'm getting old. I have everything written out and even printed out patterns for the bakery to follow. It is a very reputable bakery, but I just might have to threaten them with popping up on CakeWrecks if they don't do a good job. I believe everyone who works in that bakery is English-speaking anyway. - September 2, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Actually, the sign next to the penises has the price listed in pounds, so I'm guessing they're in Great Britain somewhere.
- September 2, 2008 at 2:59 PM
That Barbie cake could totally double as a bachelor-party cake if the groomsmen were too cheap to hire an actual woman to pop out.
- September 2, 2008 at 3:21 PM
I love the two-tones of the pride cookies. Like they're wearing little sweaters.
- September 2, 2008 at 3:33 PM
I saw boobies (like that boobie cake from the other day.) Does that mean I'm gay??
- September 2, 2008 at 3:41 PM
The Wang Cakes are amusing, but the fact they've been labeled "Gay Pride" makes me, as a gay man, cringe.
Those dolly cakes are really popular in Texas, and some of them are soooooo ugly.
LOVE this blog. - September 2, 2008 at 3:50 PM
The bread creature does look like an alligator, but the bakery isn't in San Francisco -- the willy prices are in British pounds.
Perhaps the willies were a further test for an apprentice pastry chef who had just passed Meringue Mushrooms 101 with flying colors. - September 2, 2008 at 3:52 PM
- Lidian said...
I have given you-all a lovely I Love Your Blog award over at
- so please do come on by and get it! - September 2, 2008 at 4:03 PM
- Sarah said...
The pink cake looks like it threw up on itself!! Blah!
- September 2, 2008 at 4:20 PM
- Unknown said...
All the folks calling the Barbie cake a cheap stripper cake are missing one important detail.
Her skirt (at the top of the cake) is going the wrong way.
Obviously Barbie was in some sort of terrifying cliff-hanging disaster and managed to fall to safety atop the fluffy, frilly cake.
The arms aren't conveying "surprise!", they're conveying "I lived! Now get me out of this cake crash pad!" - September 2, 2008 at 4:25 PM
- ella fae said...
I'm amused that the "Willy cakes" are displayed on a tray that is held up by a yellow bucket. High class there, all around.
- September 2, 2008 at 4:52 PM
- Carrie said...
I wonder whose idea it was to dip the testicles in chocolate...
Dear God, I think that Barbie is jumping out of the cake, stripper style! Who buys that again? - September 2, 2008 at 5:01 PM
- Cameron said...
I absolutely love the look of those green cakes in the window! they look.... idk modern and cute haha. As for the little willies on display. If they are going to make penis cookies for gay pride can't they at least make them bigger? lol. Barbie cake haha. My friend had one when we were little and i remember i thought barbie was part of the cake and tried to eat her head lol.
- September 2, 2008 at 5:46 PM
- Mr. Nissan said...
These are some really creative designs with exception of the gay pride penises
- September 2, 2008 at 6:08 PM
- Kiley said...
But...but...how can you EAT them...I mean...I couldn't possibly...there's no way I'm sticking one of those little guys in my mouth, and you can't SLICE them because that would be weird...
- September 2, 2008 at 6:27 PM
I simply want to know why anyone would want Tyra on a cake. I don't want Tyra anywhere.
- September 2, 2008 at 7:05 PM
- Miranda said...
I thought the penises were mushrooms until I looked closer. :-)
I can't believe someone is charging $60 for that Barbie cake. Who would buy that? - September 2, 2008 at 7:10 PM
- Kat said...
My grandma made me a doll cake like the Barbie cake. I was a total tomboy and when she cut it open and I saw it was red velvet cake I thought the doll had bled to death or something. I was horrified... Looking back it was pretty funny.
I love this blog. - September 2, 2008 at 7:11 PM
The Barbie cake made me think of one of those crocheted thingies that grannies put over the spare roll of toilet paper. That association makes it almost as bad as the penis cookies. But not quite; nothing is as bad as those.
- September 2, 2008 at 7:12 PM
- Lisa said...
That Barbie cake is just wrong!!
Those rockets dont at all remind of anything I mind find on a man's body.
Poor Tyra. - September 2, 2008 at 7:51 PM
I would guess that the bread is dragon bread for St. George's Day.
- September 2, 2008 at 8:03 PM
OK - maybe something just LANDED on the pink cake? Because the rest of it looks fine.
If you enlarge the wienie photo, you can see the reflection of a young girl with possibly her mom. It looks like Mom has made her turn her back on the display. Good idea. - September 2, 2008 at 9:32 PM
The Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS flea market peddled truly awesome penis cookies one year. Remarkably detailed. Somewhere I have a picture.
- September 2, 2008 at 9:51 PM
- http://www.mostemailednews.com said...
Wow, I'm glad no one photographed my attempt at a Hello Kitty cake for my niece!
Lee - September 2, 2008 at 10:05 PM
- Victoria said...
I like the ones in the third picture, but all the others... until I found this blog, I had no idea how unappealing one could make cake, honestly.
- September 2, 2008 at 10:08 PM
- Karl said...
I can't believe this entire blog is dedicated to cake. Although cake is damn tasty.
- September 2, 2008 at 10:35 PM
- fuzzandfuzzlet said...
OMGOSH the Barbie crammed in a volcano cake is too funny.
- September 2, 2008 at 11:15 PM
I can't help but wonder what the thought process was for the baker who decided to display the cake with the flowers sliding off...
"Well, the cake does look pretty wrecktacular because of the slip-sliding decorations, but that IS my best flower work to date. Maybe my potential buyers will be willing to look past the fact that the a/c in my display case is on the fritz."
Unless, the avalanche look was intentional - in which case, that is so wrecktastic! - September 2, 2008 at 11:21 PM
- Brokemom said...
I thought the phallic picture looked like hammers. I was wondering why someone would need little hammers...and now I wondering the same about what they *really* are.
- September 3, 2008 at 12:01 AM
OMG! I get it! The "willy" cakes are dipped in dark choc at one end, and white choc at the other! And now I've said that, I think I'm going to puke lol.
- September 3, 2008 at 12:21 AM
I refuse to comment on the chocolate balls...
Oh wait... I just did. Grrrr....
I'm loving the Hover Cakes. Very fun. - September 3, 2008 at 12:23 AM
- d0nn3ll said...
Cake Wrecks ROCKS!
Very cool, kooky idea for a blog. - September 3, 2008 at 12:35 AM
- battlekow said...
The intro reminds me of a line in the song "Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend" by the Mr. T Experience:
"The odds are pretty good, but the goods are pretty odd." - September 3, 2008 at 12:37 AM
- Jackie said...
omigawd, your blog is so much fun. who knew there were such bad cakes out there? thanks for the laughs.
- September 3, 2008 at 1:14 AM
Can I add that there is a child behind the penis cake display?
- September 3, 2008 at 2:20 AM
OMG! I have to take a picture of Barbie cakes next time I go by this one big bakery that has similar samples in their window. They're really wrecktastic, but I never thought that they could and should be posted here.
- September 3, 2008 at 5:41 AM
- ~ Keara said...
I think it looks like Barbie is actually screaming while being sucked into an icing volcano.
- September 3, 2008 at 8:23 AM
- The Accidental Mommy said...
the, um, anatomical one is hilarious, I especially enjoyed the multi- cultural aspect.
My 3 year old daughter saw this and said, look mama, poops!
No honey, other side.
www.theaccidentalmommy.blogspot.com - September 3, 2008 at 9:44 AM
LOL – wasn't there once a kind of Barbie that came with cans of pastel-colored mousse to make her an 'outfit'? I seem to remember seeing the TV commercials for that when I was a little kid. The end result looked pretty much like that awful cake.
@ kat, re: the eclair willies... OMG... bwaahahaha! Wouldn't surprise me either... - September 3, 2008 at 9:56 AM
- ~Amy said...
Those are awesome! I really must start looking for wreck on a regular basis now! ;)
- September 3, 2008 at 10:00 AM
- 5elementknitr said...
It's the Stripper Barbie cake. For when you can't afford the real "Stripper jumps out of a cake" cake.
- September 3, 2008 at 10:18 AM
For what it's worth, those non-wreck (but very green) cakes are probably from a Chinese bakery. The green ones are likely green tea flavored.
- September 3, 2008 at 1:51 PM
- Ronnica said...
It looks like an earthquake hit that construction site...
- September 3, 2008 at 2:36 PM
Has anyone noticed the broken "willy" in the top right corner of the picture? EEK!!!
- September 3, 2008 at 3:06 PM
- Charly said...
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your blog!
- September 3, 2008 at 4:44 PM
I've seen a lot of green cakes in my area, they're "green tea" flavored. They mix green tea powder with a light creme, it's quite popular in Hawaii and very tasty too. :D
- September 3, 2008 at 9:11 PM
I guess the only thing to say about the Barbie cake is . . .
"baby got back"? - September 4, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Having lived in China, I agree with saxon, those middle cakes look very Chinese! I think they're just lovely. On the off-chance that bakery is in the US, could you please tell me how (or give a hint) to find it? Seriously, I'm in love with those cakes!
And as for the green color, if the Hawaiian poster was right and it's because they're green-tea-flavored... I want the recipe! Green tea ice cream is amazing... I can only imagine how rad the cake version would be.
PLEASE somebody help me find these cakes! - September 4, 2008 at 4:11 PM
- Anna said...
Barbie cakes *can* be done well. This Barbie is too tall and frilly. My guess is that the baker measured the entire Barbie, forgetting that the top half sticks out. As for the frills... no clue.
- September 4, 2008 at 4:33 PM
Until I clicked to see the full size pic I thought the crumbly bread was a sleeping cat!
- September 5, 2008 at 12:26 AM
The green prickly cake might be modeled after durian fruit, which is a stinky but popular fruit in southern Asia.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian
The other cakes were also unusual but pretty. - September 5, 2008 at 1:20 PM
- Hailey said...
Wow.. That Barbie cake is the thing nightmares are made of. This remains one of my favorite blogs.
- September 5, 2008 at 11:11 PM
- Kate Spinillo said...
Confession: I have always wanted one of those Barbie cakes. I don't know why.
- September 6, 2008 at 2:08 AM
- desertchick said...
I laughed so hard(no pun intended) when I saw the sad little gay pride objects.
They looked more like weird little mushrooms to me.
And WOW!...someone was actually trying to sell them? - September 6, 2008 at 6:42 AM
- DrillerAA said...
The Barbie cake reminds me of any pageant dress worn by a six year old!
- September 6, 2008 at 9:42 AM
- fug estate said...
OMG that pink cake with the melty action brings delight to my cold, black heart. It's like coming in fourth place when they only hand out medals to places 1-3.
Sadly, this may be the designer's best work. The seventh- and eight-place sweets are hiding behind the counter. - September 6, 2008 at 10:59 AM
- Miss Shirl said...
I made a Barbie cake once. My daughter loved it. Completely tacky but hey she's a little girl! :)
- September 6, 2008 at 1:03 PM
No, it is a letter T shape, not rocket-ships!
- September 7, 2008 at 12:51 AM
- Goddess Adrasteia said...
OMG, I had that Barbie cake when I was little -- the same freaking one. OMG. And the thing tasted like hairspray, too. *gag* Thanks for the traumatizing memories!
- September 7, 2008 at 8:02 AM
- lespitts said...
The barbie cake looks like she might be a suprise at a bachelor party!
- September 8, 2008 at 12:19 AM
I'm pretty sure having nuts all over her face is just a typical day for Tyra.
- September 8, 2008 at 12:33 AM
My son had that same construction cake last year for his bday LOL.
- September 8, 2008 at 3:31 AM
The Construction one is supposed to have a DARK blue border. It's actually on the spec sheet. And the Ash sprinkles are supposed to be black... you know.. the ones that come with the kit.
- September 9, 2008 at 10:14 AM
- Unknown said...
OWWWWWW!!!! "My" teef hurt.
- September 9, 2008 at 2:06 PM
- NWK said...
I thought the penises were mushrooms. Then I read the sign, ewwww!
- September 9, 2008 at 4:03 PM
Hey! I actually had a Barbie cake for my 4th birthday (that was 36 years ago). We had to go to out of state to get it. I lived in a tiny town in North Dakota and had to cross the border into a tiny town in Minnesota to get it from one of the "Most Decorated" cake bakers this side of the Mason Dixon.
- September 10, 2008 at 3:29 PM
That would be a quiche Lizard on the left there.
- September 10, 2008 at 6:27 PM
- Unknown said...
The Barbie Cake: It's the little kid version of the stripper in the cake! :)
- September 13, 2008 at 11:40 PM
wow im on a roll with actually having some of the cakes you have posted, but actually done WELL.
i had a sweeet barbie cake as a child (thanks mom), and lucky for me the dress didnt look like a volcano about to erupt.
mom was quite the creative one when i was a child. i also had a big bird cake, find any bad ones of those? - September 14, 2008 at 12:52 AM
- Valraven said...
I suppose a better place to look for gay pride food products would be Voodoo Doughnuts... First column, fourth down.
As for the barbie cake, yes, that's supposed to be her dress, and they're rather popular, I hear, but they're supposed to look like this. - September 14, 2008 at 2:56 PM
I recognize the "FE" logo on the sign next to the Barbie cake--it stands for Food Emporium, a supermarket chain here in NY that is currently trying to position itself as upscale. I've seen that particular style of cake at the location near my apartment.
I think doll dress cakes may be pretty popular in the NY area; I had one when I was a kid, but it was executed much better. - September 14, 2008 at 10:39 PM
- Unknown said...
My older sister had a similar Barbie cake when she was about 5 or 6. But hers was waaaaaay nicer. The skirt was not so abnormally large. It does resemble a girl jumping out of a cake...Hmmmm...
- September 17, 2008 at 2:08 PM
- no one said...
...Why, pray tell, is the Barbie Cake so darned expensive? I would not pay sixty bucks for it, that's for sure.
Noooo comment on the rather...phallic..mini-cakes.
....I'd totally serve them at a bachelorette party, though. :) - September 18, 2008 at 8:40 PM
I'm pretty sure the crumbling thing beside the gay pride cakes is a bread animal of some sort. My high school girlfriend's family had a tradition of making them, and a bakery in town here has a few on display.
For some reason, displayed bread animals seem to stay in the window for months... if not years. And they get crumbly and unappetising. I suspect they're more art than food.
(As for the gay pride cakes, of course they're for eating. So are the chocolate wangs, lollipop vulvas, etc, etc. It's just not weird to eat effigies of what you "eat" usually.) - September 19, 2008 at 2:19 PM
yeah the green spiky one is probably durian, we love durian cakes here in singapore and i've seen some similar in design too
- September 21, 2008 at 11:53 AM
I totally had a Barbie cake like that for my fifth birthday! I remember she had a dress on underneath the icing and my dad pulled her out of the icing and licked it off her butt.
- September 22, 2008 at 12:34 AM
The bread thing next to the penis-cakes looks like the tail/back end (the little lump sticking out on the top side is a foot, I think) of a loaf of bread baked in the shape of a lizard...I know it sounds strange, but when I went to Egypt, the boat we were on would sometimes have them displayed with dinner, and they were actually very nice and creative looking.
- September 23, 2008 at 12:21 PM
- Red Wolf said...
Woah, what is with the neon pink cake? It looks like it's vomiting flowers.
- September 28, 2008 at 2:51 AM
Love the chocolate dipped balls, haha, and the large cake that look as though the side of it exploded with your "bummer" comment underneath.
- October 17, 2008 at 6:04 PM
The Barbie cake is not only made by the professionals! My sister (who could be a professional)allowed my then four year old niece to choose which cake to make my dad for his birthday. The winner? A pink Barbie cake.
- October 19, 2008 at 11:24 PM
- Alicia said...
Seriously? i mean, SERIOUSLY?!
WTF is wrong with whoever thought of the "Brilliant" idea of selling cake penises for gay pride?! - October 26, 2008 at 10:49 PM
- Unknown said...
Ive seen a lot of Barbie cakes before, but usually her skirt is a half circle with more of a dress design, rather than. . . Whatever that was supposed to be.
And I didn't read the Gay Pride sign first, so I totally thought they were cute little mushrooms. - November 6, 2008 at 2:40 PM
- missELAINEeous said...
I had a Barbie cake when I was a kid. It was most disturbing when I pulled her out of the cake and she had NO LEGS. Scary and traumatizing for a wee tot
- November 20, 2008 at 12:12 PM
- Lampy said...
There was a bride that actually wore a dress that looked an awful lot like the barbie cake you have here. Check it out:
LOVE THIS SITE! - November 28, 2008 at 7:09 PM
My God...chocolate dipped testicles. Just...my God. Seriously, I'm just a kid but I'm pretty sure gay pride is not all about chocolate...d-dipped...I have to go...someplace.
*HURRRRRKK* - May 23, 2009 at 3:03 PM
I'm sure if anyone has mentioned this yet but i recognize the crumbly bread thing in the corner of the photo of the willy cakes.
it looks like a broken bread gator's tail.
Which is exactly what it sounds like. A loaf of bread baked in the shape of an alligator.
They also make other animals like hedgehogs and lobsters.
Often, raisins are used for eyes. Pretty creepy in my opinion. - August 26, 2009 at 3:59 AM
- Morgen The Amazing said...
About the BARBIE one? Am i REALLY expected to pay $60 for it? SERIOUSLY?
'Cuz it's probably only worth about $2. - November 3, 2010 at 4:36 PM
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Late summer is high season for delicious, juicy fruits, from Georgia peaches to Maine blueberries. Naturally, that gets many bakers thinking pie. But taking a big, drippy pie on a picnic can be a pretty sloppy prospect.
Kim Boyce, a baker in Portland, Ore., has solved this problem. For picnics, she bakes up hand pies: Sturdy little fruit-filled turnovers that don't require a knife and fork. Boyce makes 60 or 70 a day at her bakery.
"The fruit has this beautiful tartness, and ... 'jam-iness' from its natural sugars and juices coming together and caramelizing in the oven," Boyce explains. "It's a little bit crunchy, tender, sweet. It has everything!"
To make a good hand pie, you need to start with a good crust. Boyce makes a great crust, but when she first pulls the dough from her refrigerator, it doesn't actually look that promising.
"It's this really dry, crumbly dough," she says. "It's definitely not smooth."
The dough is full of chunks of butter that vary in size from a walnut to a pea. When Boyce starts rolling out this mess of a dough, things don't improve — at first. It's coming apart, it's shaggy on the edges and even starting to tear in places. But don't give up, she says.
"We're just gonna go with it. Don't stress, don't think about it too much. Just keep going."
There's a reason Boyce isn't worried. She's turning this messy dough, with its big blobs of butter, into something called a "rough puff pastry." She rolls it, folds it and chills it, over and over again, until it comes together. The butter bits start to become streaks through the dough.
In the oven, those buttery streaks translate into crisp, flaky layers. And once you've built a nice, flaky dough, you can move on to the filling — which can be hard to choose, especially during the summer harvest. Boyce loves marionberries and plums like the Santa Rosa, with its tart skin and soft, juicy middle.
Today, Boyce has fresh Oregon apricots from the farmer's market. She tosses them with a handful of marionberries (a type of blackberry), a little bit of sugar and a big dollop of apricot jam. But don't go overboard, she warns.
"The hardest thing when filling the hand pies is the tendency is to fill them really full," she explains. "We want a big, bountiful hand pie."
But too much fruit can make the hand pies sort of explode, Boyce says, or just make them hard to work with.
Also, you want to work fast, because as soon as the sugar touches the fruit, Boyce says, the juices start to activate. "We want that to happen in the oven, not right now. Otherwise you end up with a big saucy mess."
The hand pies are something of a mess to eat, anyway. They open a bit in the oven and juice oozes everywhere. But that's the point. The exposed fruit concentrates into a more intense, almost caramelized flavor and the crust's open edges show off all those flaky layers.
While hand pies are sturdy enough to take on a picnic, they are still surprisingly delicate. "It just gives you this great crackly crust," Boyce says. "And you bite into it and it shatters all over the place and makes a mess."
But what's a few crumbs when you're out on a picnic — especially with your own hand-held pie?
Recipe: Apricot Blackberry Hand Pies
This recipe is adapted from Kim Boyce, owner of the Portland, Ore., bakery Bakeshop. Making this rough puff pastry is quite involved, with several turns and cold rests. It must be started at least a day in advance and the filled pastries must also be frozen prior to baking. To make things easier, you can pause at any stage and allow the dough to rest for several hours, or even overnight, to work the dough around your schedule. And the finished product is well worth the fuss.
Yields approximately 15 hand pies.
Pie Dough
About 5 cups (600 grams) all-purpose flour
6 tablespoons (60 grams) sugar
1 tablespoon (10 grams) kosher salt
500 grams (about 1 pound) unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
3/4 to 1 1/4 cups ice-cold water
2 pounds ripe apricots
3/4 cup apricot jam
2 to 4 tablespoons sugar, depending on the sweetness of the fruit
1 1/2 cups blackberries
1 egg, whisked well
1/2 cup sugar stirred with 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
To make the dough, place dry ingredients in a stand mixer or food processor. Add butter and mix or pulse until broken down to sizes varying from peas to almonds to walnuts. Pour mixture into a large bowl and add the smaller amount of water recommended. Toss together and squeeze the dough to determine if more water is needed. The dough should just hold together, with shaggy dry areas as well as areas that are moister. If the dough is too dry, add the remaining water and toss. Transfer dough to a shallow container or wrap into a rough square in plastic wrap. Chill overnight.
After the dough has chilled, unwrap it onto a floured surface. Pat the dough into a square, then use a rolling pin to roll it into a rectangle about 8 1/2 x 14 inches. The dough will crumble and be rough around the edges, but don't add more flour or water — it will come together during rolling.
For the first "turn," fold the dough into thirds, like a letter. The seam should be on the left side. Chill 30 minutes.
For the second turn, take the dough out, this time with the seam at the bottom. Again roll the dough into an 8 1/2 x 14 inch rectangle and repeat the previous step. Chill 30 minutes.
For the third turn, repeat the previous step, then wrap the dough in plastic and chill for at least 2 hours and preferably overnight.
After the dough has chilled for the final time, roll it to a thickness of approximately 1/8 inch. Cut into 7-inch circles (if you don't have a cutter, you can draw a knife around the edge of a plate). Take any scraps and knead them together, then chill, covered, for an hour before re-rolling. Repeat until all of the dough is cut into circles. Keep dough circles cold while you prepare the filling.
To make the filling and finish the pies, cut the apricots in half and discard the pits, then slice them into slim wedges (maybe sixths or eighths, depending upon the size of the fruit). Place in a large bowl and add jam and sugar. Stir lightly to coat, then gently stir in the berries (being mindful not to mush them). The fruit should be glistening with a light coating of jam.
Take your prepared pastry circles and brush with the beaten egg. Fill the circles with the filling (just a handful of apricot pieces and a few berries), then fold into a half-moon shape and press a half-inch from the edge to seal (Boyce suggests not crimping the very edges themselves, to avoid compressing the layers). Place on a pan in a single layer, brush with the egg and sprinkle generously with the cinnamon sugar. Freeze for a minimum of one hour.
While the tarts are freezing, preheat the oven to 375°F. When the hand pies are frozen, line a few baking sheets with parchment and place the hand pies on the sheet (with ample space between them).
Bake for 45 minutes to an hour, rotating the pans halfway through. The tarts are ready when the crusts are dark golden-brown and blistering, the fruit is bubbling and perhaps some juice has run from the hand pies and caramelized on the parchment paper.
(Boyce stresses that color equals flavor. And with such a high crust-to-filling ratio, she says, you don't want it doughy — so try to let the pies get a bit darker than you might be inclined). Remove pies from the oven, and immediately transfer the hand pies to a cooling rack, before the caramelized juices cement them down.
Serve the hand pies warm from the oven or later that same day. The unbaked hand pies will keep, well wrapped and frozen, for up to one month.
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As long as there are cat-size holes leading to cat-size jars, cats will get stuck in jars.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A cellphone game for kids about U.S. geography, "Stack the States," gets rave reviews from parents. Its creator, Dan Russell-Pinson, considered making the 99-cent app better by adding a feature to allow children to play online against one another. But with the Federal Trade Commission issuing more stringent online child privacy rules, he's not even pursuing the idea.
"It would require all kinds of data sharing," said Russell-Pinson, the founder and sole employee of Freecloud Design in Charlotte, N.C. "I would be kind of afraid to do that."
The software industry is bracing for new regulations that it says will stifle creativity and saddle small businesses with legal and technical costs to ensure their cellphone apps don't run afoul of the rules. The changes, which the FTC is expected to approve this week, would update a 14-year-old law prohibiting the collection of personal information from preteens. It raises these questions: What is the value of a child's privacy on the Internet, and who should pay for it?
Businesses said they fear that under the trade commission's proposal, routine transfers of data that pose no threat to a child's safety will be treated the same as the improper gathering of information that can be used to create detailed user profiles that are highly valued by advertisers. Responsible software developers will err on the side of caution and the result will be less kid-friendly content available on the Internet, they said.
The FTC's chairman, Jon Leibowitz, defended the government's approach. "When you are talking about children, you have to give the benefit of the doubt to privacy," he said last week on Capitol Hill.
The cost of the changes to developers just selling educational apps for kids on Apple's iTunes store could be as high as $271 million — nearly 100 times what the FTC has projected for all the businesses it expects to be newly covered, according to the Association for Competitive Technology, a Washington-based trade group that represents small and midsize software development companies. The FTC's estimate is "laughable," said Morgan Reed, the association's executive director.
An outlay of several thousand dollars to design the required privacy policy for an app is small change for larger, established companies. But for the bulk of developers, that's a lot of money. Most have only a few employees and operate on tight profit margins, Reed said.
Russell-Pinson said he can afford the expense now. But two years ago, when he was starting his business, he would have been in a real bind. "I didn't even make $10,000 on my first three apps," he said.
The FTC has imposed steep fines on companies that have violated the current law, the 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. In a 2011 case, a mobile apps developer, W3 Innovations, paid $50,000 to settle charges it illegally collected and stored the email addresses of preteens that downloaded apps called "Emily's Girl World" and "Emily's Dress Up."
The technological shift from desk-bound personal computers to wireless devices is driving the FTC's push for major revisions to the law, known as COPPA. It was written before an era of cellphones and tablets loaded with apps that can be designed to siphon up a person's precise location and other personal data highly valued by advertisers and data brokers.
The push for tougher online safeguards is supported by parents concerned about the abundance of apps and the easy access kids have to them. But parents can be a first line of defense, said Leticia Barr, a former schoolteacher who runs the website Tech Savvy Mama. Barr also works as a social media consultant to Location Labs, a provider of mobile safety apps to wireless carriers, and she is occasionally paid by other app developers to review their products.
Before Barr allows her two young children to use an app, she tests it thoroughly so she knows whether it can collect data or contains advertising that might be inappropriate for kids. "That's just my personal policy, just as I wouldn't send them over to a stranger's house to play," Barr said.
The FTC's proposed changes prohibit the use of behavioral marketing techniques that target children. The revisions also would expand the definition of personal information to include the location data that comes from a cellphone or tablet, the device's unique identification number and data-tracking files known as "cookies."
As evidence for what it said was the need for updated rules, the FTC announced last week it was investigating an unspecified number of app developers which may have violated the law by gathering information from kids without their parent's consent. The agency examined 400 apps directed at kids that it purchased from Apple's iTunes store and Google's apps store, Google Play. The majority failed to inform parents about the types of data the app could gather and who could access it, the FTC said. The agency did not name the companies or say how many it was investigating.
The co-founder of Launchpad Toys in San Francisco, Andy Russell, said he adheres to the current law and supports more stringent privacy protections for preteens. Russell has eight employees, but his apps business is financed with venture capital and isn't yet profitable. Spending money to ensure he meets the new privacy requirements means it will take him that much longer to get into the black.
"I can't speak for other developers, but I think there are a lot of people out there who would say: 'You know what, that's OK. I'm just going to fold up shop,'" Russell said.
Under the proposed changes, permission from the parent of a preteen must be verifiable. Russell said that requirement alone could pose a major hurdle. What will qualify as proof that the consent is legitimate? A driver's license number? A form that is signed and faxed by a parent?
"Nobody uses a fax machine anymore," Russell said. "Verification is a wonderful thing. But to date there just hasn't been a good way to do so."
The need to balance the impact of regulations against their value to the public has long caused conflict between the private sector and policymakers in Washington. The topic of this debate, kids' privacy, has forced app developers and industry representatives to walk a fine line to avoid being seen as insensitive to an issue parents care deeply about.
The FTC has estimated that 500 existing operators of websites and online services and 125 newly formed businesses would be covered by the rule changes. The overall expense for legal and technical fees to meet the new requirements will be $2.7 million, the agency said. That works out to $9,420 for a new business, and just over $3,000 for an existing one, according to the agency's figures.
But costs for new and existing operators will probably be the same, said the Association for Competitive Technology's Reed. Building the required privacy standards into an app already in the market is usually more expensive that adding those features from the start, he said.


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It has been almost a year since I picked up an ice cream maker and I have been enjoying home made frozen treats since. So far I've made a few ice creams and a sorbet and I now wanted to try something different. I realized that I have not tried making one of my favorite frozen dishes, a frozen yogurt. I had to fix that immediately. Strawberries were the obvious choice since they are in season and looking so good. One of the things that I like most about making my own ice cream is the simplicity of the recipes. There are only a few ingredients and you can pronounce all of them. This recipe is a perfect example with only four simple ingredients. One thing that you may want to watch out for in this recipe is the sweetness. Plain yogurt can be a bit tart so you will want to test the mixture for sweetness before freezing it. The strawberry frozen yogurt was good! I really enjoyed the texture of the frozen yogurt and the strawberry flavour. Next time I think I will leave some bigger chunks of strawberries in.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
the things in life that matter...
(and yes...I had to re-upoad this again..One of the "country" songs got flagged on youtube...so I re-edited it...I like it better this way, anyway! ha ha ha)
Beauty is all around us...and sometimes the most beautiful things, moments...and even people don't get appreciated and celebrated like they should!
I love this: "don't be anxious and troubled about anything about your life, about what you will eat, about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, the body, and clothes."
It is the moments in life...when you feel a flood of joy,happiness, and peace in your heart...like when I saw this huge creamy yellow moon, slowly peeking above the purpley desert...my eyes wanted to slow down time...and my heart felt the beauty...
My life is not anything near perfect....bad things happen...i feel overwhelmed...situations in my life scare me...i cry....i get sad...but one thing I do know is....
them more you dwell on your problems...the more you allow them to rule you and your emotions.
If you have a spiritual life that is filled...peace will dance around your heart, and joy will shine like the rays of the sun into your heart....and it won't make sense to others that don't have it. But you will know that "happy" is something that there because of some circumstance ( i am happy I got a new pair of shoes......that's an example)...joy is when your heart feels happy for no outside reason...it's just there...
If we meditated on spiritual nourishment...instead of meditating on our problems...talking about our problems and letting them rule our thoughts...we would be much better off.
I just had something happen that made me so upset, I was crying, I felt like throwing up...and I had my airbrush class to go to the next day...I could've either thought about the "bad" stuff all day and let it rule and run my day...right into the ground. But instead I thought, "God knows the outcome....I am going to trust in Him, and hand all my worried over to Him", "my problems are going to be there, whether I think about them or not...so I might as well enjoy each little moment...and cast all my cares on God...that's what he's there for....
And when you do this, your heart will be free to enjoy simple pleasures in life...like moonrises and sunsets...seeing a balloon flying through air...smelling beautiful flowers...the list goes on..and on....
today i will look for beauty...and as always...I hope I can film it and share it with you!!!
let's go be beauty hunters....and trouble-forgetters...and in the process, you just might discover the solution to your problem....
typed with love.....kandee
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I am so excited to see your hair!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!! You are my new idol!
- November 11, 2009 at 1:25 AM
- Kitsune said...
Wow... you just have NO luck with this video! :)
- November 11, 2009 at 1:29 AM
- Unknown said...
Wow that guy was a bit of a pain! I look forward to watching the video when I get home xx
- November 11, 2009 at 1:57 AM
- Geeky Mac Boy said...
A lot of musicians who offer royalty free music want links posted to their sites. However, all that guy could've done was send an email making the request. He didn't have to flag you. What a jerk
Good video hun - November 11, 2009 at 1:58 AM
- Kyndal said...
Yea. I agree with Geeky Mac Boy. The guy coulda just emailed you. Owell. It's still a great video.
I can't wait to see your new hairstyle! - November 11, 2009 at 2:16 AM
- Princess of many sorts. said...
you really are the sweetest girl ever:)
Ha ha, have a great day Kandee:)
From Norway, have a great day, sp - November 11, 2009 at 4:11 AM
- *Ariadna said...
That was grate !!!! Now I wanna go there ! Thank you for sharing and YES I love the music !
- November 11, 2009 at 5:58 AM
- mikimua said...
I'm so curious about your new hair!!!! Can't wait!!! love ya!!!
- November 11, 2009 at 6:18 AM
- mikimua said...
I meant to say new haircut lol ...anyway can't wait!
- November 11, 2009 at 6:18 AM
ahhh can't wait to see your new-do :D
- November 11, 2009 at 6:46 AM
I also agree with Geeky Mac Boy...but the scenery in that video is AMAZING! I wish my daily commute looked like that!
- November 11, 2009 at 6:51 AM
- Just Jen said...
Hi Kandee! I love your videos! I used your Michael Jackson one to do my son's make up for Halloween, and it turned out really well! Check - Check - Check it out!! http://justjen68.blogspot.com/2009/11/dylan-was-mj-for-halloween.html
On another note, what site do you use for your copyright free music for videos? - November 11, 2009 at 6:52 AM
- RuiEn said...
I love the music! It's 11pm in singapore and I am watching your video~ Love you for your personality!
- November 11, 2009 at 6:59 AM
- Dannygirl said...
How long is your drive from LA to home??
- November 11, 2009 at 7:20 AM
- WinterBlossom said...
Wow Kandee! Beautiful video! I love the music and you filming the moonrise! Gorgeous. :) xxx
- November 11, 2009 at 8:35 AM
- guitarrasara said...
Hi Kandee. I found out earlier this year while writing a paper for a Media class that Youtube has software that automatically detects copyright infringement. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.org) has articles on this. So you have to be really careful about that! Sometimes it even detects audio not protected by DMCA- so it is always good to note all resources just in case! They have removed videos of little girls singing popular songs because of that...
- November 11, 2009 at 9:41 AM
I love the scenery in your vid...and I can't wait to see your new haircut!! Have an awesome week!
- November 11, 2009 at 10:22 AM
I couldn't watch the original video because it froze every time at about 0:50, but it works now! ^^ You are such a darling! xoxo
- November 11, 2009 at 10:44 AM
- Julie Lockwood said...
can't wait to see the new hair cut!!
- November 11, 2009 at 11:45 AM
That is such a pretty song, and Kandee you are too cute! I love watching your videos!
- November 11, 2009 at 11:54 AM
- Monica said...
Hey Kandee!! I think you are so adorable!! I blogged about you on my blog because I think both you and your work are amazing!! You're such an ispiration!! check it out when you have some free time:
Monica - November 11, 2009 at 12:23 PM
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- November 11, 2009 at 12:42 PM
- Kiska said...
You are so inspiring, thank you!
- November 11, 2009 at 12:50 PM
- ~*geena*~ said...
Super inspirational! you motivate me to be a better person every day! (8
- November 11, 2009 at 1:30 PM
- Unknown said...
You are a wonderful person Kandee. Thank You!
I saw your Go Get your dreams & my story vid... I was crying all day and I was thinkin "Why I'm not really happy? I still dont know...but now I have two dreams in wich I really want to acomplish...one is meeting you one day...if you allow me of course:) - November 11, 2009 at 1:55 PM
- I Blow Kisses said...
Love to see how you are walking things out through an act of your will.. the will to maintain joy no mater the circumstance. You Inspire me! I Love You!
- November 11, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- Anna said...
My hubby used to live in the desert at Edwards AFB. He's always telling me he wants to go back and visit. Now I see why, it's gorgeous. :) Thanks for posting.
- November 11, 2009 at 2:29 PM
- Victoria said...
Great words. You are such an inspiration! Hope you checked out what I wrote about you on my norwegian blog (www.victoriadesiree.com)
:) - November 11, 2009 at 2:33 PM
- Stephanie said...
thank you for sharing your wonderful thoughts about worry and thinking positive. i have a problem with worrying too much and dwelling on all the bad things and forget to ask God for help. since i've started reading your blogs i've been just trying to put those things that worry me out of my mind cuz i know God will take care of me and everything will work out. it doesnt do me any good to worry about it anyway. i thank for helping me remember that God is alway there for us cuz sometimes we forget....
Stephanie ☮&♥ - November 11, 2009 at 2:34 PM
- Kala said...
Kandee- I feel like a dork writing on your blog because I've never met you before I just obsessively check your blog and youtube videos. I just wanted to say that I think that cooler than all your make up tips, cooler than all your hair dos, cooler than all your incredible talents, is how you are unafraid to share your faith. It's really amazing to know that there is someone else out there who has made mistakes but is still trying to live with/for God. Is that quote at the top from Luke chapter 12?? I love when God reminds us not to worry. Thank you for this Kandee. I hope your day is blessed.
Love, Kala - November 11, 2009 at 2:48 PM
- L.C said...
oh kandee...i've been praying for you the last few days. know that what you do is not in vain. you touch more people that i even think you realize. The Christ in you shine's so bright even on paper. Keep pressing in tword the mark... you can do it.
I was searching Etsy the today and ran accross this ring...it looks like your yellow flower ring...i am not sure if you found it yet. anyway. Hope you have a blessed day.
http://daretodreamagain.blogspot.com - November 11, 2009 at 2:57 PM
- L.C said...
oops i forgot to add the like to the yellow flower ring... here it is
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=28355324&ref=sr_gallery_7&&ga_search_query=yellow+rose+rings&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_page=20&order=date_desc&includes[]=tags&includes[]=title - November 11, 2009 at 2:58 PM
You are so stinkin' awesome! Your words are uplifting and encouraging. The Reward is Far Greater than the Sacrifice. You are blessed and Destined for Greatness! Thank you for being that daily encouragment. God Bless you!
Andrea Delsandro
Are you able to do a Penelope Cruz Make-up look? Please :-D - November 11, 2009 at 5:58 PM
- katie said...
kandee, you have no idea how much this post helped me. im going through such a hard time right now and this has totally helped me in so many ways. i just want to thank you so very much. you are an angel from god and you are so blessed by all he has given you to share with the world! you are truly beautiful for giving love and encouragement to everyone, thank you
love your biggest fan in the world, katie - November 11, 2009 at 5:58 PM
- Shannon said...
oh Kandee maybe you be blessed a million times over for all the blessings you give others! my heart is always so warmed when i read your posts--sometimes i even go get my sister and show her or tell her all about your day haha :) i just love you! and will be praying for you! Mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance, Kandee! (Jude 1:2)
- November 11, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Thanks Kandee, I really needed to hear what you had to say today. I need to lose 10 lbs that I have been fighting with since my last baby, and it has been an uphill battle. You are totally right. God can heal me and help me love myself and the little things. Thanks for the reminder.
- November 11, 2009 at 6:30 PM
- wildhope said...
hey kandee...I´m not sure If you´ll understand what I´m saying but...If you´ve ever felt like literally crying out of the love you have for someone...of just thinkiing about how much you cherish them...but if you have then I hope you know that you really are loved and that every post you have well...posted haha..really does turn people´s lives around...the essence of your genuine care and concern for us simply leaps out of our computer desktops...I hope our love leaps out to yours too...you mean so much to all of the girls that need some soul-healing from time to time...huge love..
- November 11, 2009 at 7:51 PM
- Inspirational Wonders said...
Kandee, I love reading your blogs! They are very inspiring:) I hope you don't mind me quoting your inspirations and sharing it with others. You are a true inspiration effect that ripples and touches others. I'm keeping your quote of leaving all my worries to God. Thank you for reminding me of what simple pleasures in life like that moonrise.
- November 11, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Great post Kandee! I wrote about something similar today myself. Life is too short to dwell on things that make you feel bad but at the same time, a good cry can be very healing sometimes. :)
- November 11, 2009 at 9:30 PM
- Kitsune said...
Thank you.
The section about anxieties and worries consuming every thought is how I live my life every day. I always tell myself not to let these types of thought and worries consume me because all it does it feed on itself and I make myself ill, but I can never manage to stop doing it. Your words are very encouraging, and your ability to let go of those anxieties amazes me... one day, I hope to be able to do that, too. - November 11, 2009 at 9:47 PM
- Unknown said...
Kandee, I believe these posts of yours are sprinkling little drops of hope onto people and we are beginning to blossom in the sunshine. If that makes any sense at all. LOL. No really, you are getting us to think and want to seek something greater than what we are and what we know. I am finding it all very powerful. Thank you, and much love.<3
- November 11, 2009 at 10:24 PM
- TeamMcDonough said...
Beautiful post!
- November 11, 2009 at 10:58 PM
- Unknown said...
Amazing thoughts, amazing moments.
we get so busy that we forget to smell the roses esp. these days.
but you helped to slow down our 'busy-ness' to take a step back and see the beauty that surrounds us.
I love that you are so vivacious and full of life. I can sense that you are grounded by the creator of the universe. He has only good plans for you, plans to bless you.
Thank you for sharing His beauty thought you. YOu are a blessing.. you have no idea... - November 11, 2009 at 11:54 PM
- JanneCath said...
Hi Kandee!
I wounder if you could do some 1930`s makeup and hair? I have a party that im going to and i need some advice;)
Please help me!!!!!! - November 12, 2009 at 7:19 AM
- e manticoff said...
Hi Kandee,
You are the most sincere person i have seen on Youtube. I am an aspiring Beauty Editor and just started my own blog emanticoff.blogspot.com so i am a newbie. I have been obsessed with everything beauty since i was a little girl but people would always put me down for that. I love giving people beauty advice and tips. I have a passion that i want to shout to the world and you have released the hands that have been covering my mouth. Thank you again sweetheart! - November 12, 2009 at 7:31 AM
- Unknown said...
I am so excited to see your hair!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!! You are my new idol! [2]
You're very especial in my life huaihuiahuai :p ... thank's for the positives things you say!!! Wish you allll the best :)
LOVEEEE YAAAAA :P - November 12, 2009 at 8:00 AM
- sel said...
i agree with everything shannon said! i too had a person hurt me this week...i was in target with a new friend and i felt like crying and throwing up...but i just put all that aside and had a great day with my friend! thank you so much for your encouragement and God bless.
- November 12, 2009 at 9:02 AM
- cocobenz said...
Kandee!!!!! You're so loveable. Thanks for writing these beautiful words! God's word can be so uplifting:) I'm proud of you for rising above the negativity and Standing up for your rights to be free & joyful!! lots of hugs! muah!
- November 12, 2009 at 9:26 AM
- Jillykins said...
Hey Kandee, just wanted to say I'm a new big fan, came across your videos looking up makeup tips etc. Never really got into the whole makeup/girly stuff, always was a tom boy so never really learnt any of the tricks of the trade.. always had mom do my eyebrows haha. Just wanted to say thanks been doing my eyebrows now Myself! and trying new makeup ideas I would have never of thought to do. So thanks again and keep makin thos videos it really helps us!
peace - November 12, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- mikimua said...
It's been 2 days...still waiting on that new hair cut... do I sound crazy? lool hope not!
luv yah...
new hairdo new hairdo new hairdo new hairdo new hairdo new hairdo new hairdo new hairdo. I'll stop... have a brilliant day! - November 12, 2009 at 10:16 AM
- moomoo said...
Hi Kandee... love your videos!!
Can you show a video on eye makeup for girls with glasses?
Keep up the good work... cheers. - November 12, 2009 at 10:48 AM
- EducatingDonal said...
Love this video!
So, so great! - November 12, 2009 at 4:39 PM
- Unknown said...
- November 13, 2009 at 12:41 PM
- Becky said...
You are so right Kandee! That is my favorite verse because I have trouble, like alot of people, with worrying and getting upset about things I can not control. You are such an inspiration to me, and now to my friends I have shared you with! You are inspiring us to be more positive and to appreciate life to the fullest. Luvvv you!
- November 13, 2009 at 12:52 PM
- BDDI538 said...
That was awesome... I totally feel you on that one.. Reading your entry has made me realize how important it is to live and let go... thanks for sharing with us... : )
- November 13, 2009 at 1:28 PM
- Rachel said...
Hi sweetie,
Beautiful note... if you ever have any questions about God, Christianity, Catholicism, message me, I would love to help you deepen that wonderful relationship with God! I just recently became a Catholic and it has made my life so peaceful and joyful :) I know I sound crazy and like a Jehova's Witness, but I'm not and I really would love to share what I do know, books I've read, people I admire.
xoxo God bless,
Rachel - November 15, 2009 at 9:42 PM
- Lovely Leah said...
you are beautiful.
I read everything you wrote from start to finish! I watched all your youtube videos, and thought you are one of the most inspiring people i have ever seen. it was like i could see you gain more wisdom, more joy and become the woman you are today with every new blog about you, that you post.
I know you get compliments out of the wazoo, but i want you to know that you really should take them to heart, because you are a very special soul. Its funny, your cute sillyness reminds me of me! too bad i didn't live closer! anyways, don't stop what you are doing! you are amazing! and maybe when i become a successful singer, you could be my personal makeup artist lol!
Take care kandee
Leah - November 16, 2009 at 1:32 PM
- MakeupYourMynd said...
Hi Kandee,
I LOVE your blog! I just came across it and am very interested in your school recommendations. I have currently been freelancing, but am looking to attend school in Phoenix Arizona area and was wondering if you have heard anything about Maxima Academy? Also, do you know what genre of the industry would be more methodical or precision work(aka not to rushed)? I had brain surgery and am looking for something that is not too too hectic ya know? lol ;) thanks for all of your help. You are a true inspiration and I cant believe we share so many similar interests! - November 16, 2009 at 6:24 PM
- Chubbi said...
Hi! I found your blog through Youtube by chance. And felt my heart was hugged when i read your recent blogs - thankyou! :) Since i started drawing my characters (i call them 'Chubbi's), I've had a dream to bring happiness and hope to people through them. And you are the first person i've come across with similar hopes! I would love if you checked out my blog sometime :) Love what you are doing, Chubbi.
- November 17, 2009 at 12:00 AM
- Unknown said...
The necklace is AMAZING, you seriously know how to rock a look. Watch out Rachel Zoe....when are you getting a TV show Kandee?
- November 17, 2009 at 6:26 PM
- g3bala said...
kandee i think wt uv written is very very touching and inspiring..thnk u sooo much for giving hope to ne1 whos sad or goin through a bad phase...thnks for all d vids ..much luv..xoxox
- November 18, 2009 at 12:08 PM


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The FACE Collection presents Investigations of a Dog. Using the analogy of a dog questioning the origins of food, the exhibition considers what sustains mankind in the 21st century.
Investigations of a Dog features work by 40 artists taken from five European art foundations that constitute the Foundation of Arts for a Contemporary Europe (FACE). An ambitious undertaking, the show premiered at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, in October, 2009, and travelled to the Ellipse Foundation, Portugal, La Maison Rouge – Fondation Antoine de Galbert, France, and Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden. The DESTE Foundation in Athens, Greece, is its final destination, and where the exhibition is re-interpreted with an emphasis on today's social reality, with a slight reshuffle to the artist and work list by local curator Nadja Argyropoulou.
Based on Franz Kafka's 1922 story of a dog tormented and emboldened by his questions on where food comes from, the canine finds himself marginalised for his curiosity. In the story, he explains: "I began my enquiries with the simplest things. There was no lack of material; it is the actual superabundance, unfortunately, that casts me into despair in my darker hours." Reflecting on the realities of post-WWI Europe, Kafka questions the purpose of creativity in a world built on consumption. The exhibition expands on this by searching for a political dimension to art-making that precedes the content of the work in the hope of linking individual artworks to collective contexts.
The show opened one week before the violent protests against the second wave of EU/IMF austerity measures that passed through Greek parliament this June. A physical manifestation of the face-off between reality and representation in the public sphere, the economic and political turmoil in Greece creates a backdrop for Bruce Nauman's upside down welded steel chair frame, Untitled (Suspended Chair, Vertical III) (1987), held by steel cables in midair, reflected onto the concave surface of Moon (1994-2000), Jeff Koons' oversized steel relief sculpture of a balloon in DESTE's entrance hall. Nauman's rigid use of material speaks to industrial production, contrasted by Koons' whimsical monumentalising of the infiltration of mechanical production into the everyday.
On a dividing wall, Sigalit Landau's naked torso hula hooping with barbed wire in the video Barbed Hula (2000) plays on the individual experiences within violent histories. As the repetitive motion plays out, skin reddens and swells, visually recalling the thorn crown, flagellation, the exhaustive, cyclical nature of time, and the pain and passion mankind has both inflicted and endured. Barbed Hula combines the material language of confinement and conflict with the added innocence of a childhood game, suggesting the trivialisation of personal experience in the machine that drives the global zeitgeist.
In the main hall, Nauman's suspended chair gives way to a greyscale image of a woman with her back to the viewer holding a chair frame around her hips in Annika von Hausswolff's Live from the Ocean (2005). The work refers to Philosophical Chair (2003), on which von Hausswolff commented: "It has stepped out of its existing role, as a chair that you sit in. Partly, it has no seat left, and partly, it floats, it has surpassed itself, you might say." This idea is visualised in Miri Segal's video Downcast Autumn Day (2004); city scenes projected on a screen. A pool of clear liquid seeps out from the bottom reflecting the video and communicating the relationship between mediated reality and common reality. Concurrently, Kimsooja's Bottari Truck (2005) packed with cloth bundles used to carry possessions during periods of migration, transfers the mediated image into an object, bringing the realities of political and economic refugees into the gallery space.
Reflecting on the possibility of today's terrorists becoming tomorrow's freedom fighters, the sound of military parades from Artur Żmijewski's video Democracies (2009) fills the room, where a large, black chunk of earth bursts out from the ceiling: the ground level view of Urs Fischer's apocalyptic Untitled (Hole) (2005). In Democracies, Polish protests, religious parades and military re-enactments are viewed alongside pro-Palestinian protests in Israel. Shouts of "Allah Akbar" and the sound of Polish actors kissing the cross in Warsaw Uprisings re-enactments cross into 9/11 Front Page (2001), Hans Peter Feldman's installation of newspaper front pages documenting the 9/11 attacks. Here, history has been objectified into images that symbolise single events isolated from the pluralistic contexts from which they occurred. There is a sense that 9/11 has not been fully contextualised within the history of geo-politics and global economics, underlined by David Hammons' macabre African-American Flag (1990) hanging insidiously nearby.
Cue Thomas Hirschhorn's characteristic photocopies. Spin Off (1998) presents a giant Swiss Army knife crudely-rendered in cardboard and foil connected to tableaux of photocopied texts mostly from Georges Bataille's The Accursed Share, An Essay on General Economy, and commercial magazine images and news clippings. Hirschhorn ponders Bataille's words on sacrifice and consumption: "Sacrifice restores to the sacred world that which servile use has made a thing (an object) of that which, in a deep sense, is of the same nature as the subject." He continues: "Once the world of things was posited, man himself became one of the things of this world, at least for the time in which he laboured. It is this degradation that man has always tried to escape."
The Swiss Army knife poised against the installation frame somehow echoes the crucifixion, and recalls Barbed Hula's allusion to the thorn crown, touching on the body as a vessel, just as Kafka places a messianic figure in a dog's body, and newspaper images characterise the Twin Towers as a symbol of ambiguous martyrdom. It is with this realisation the exhibition expands. On the stairs, a child in a blue jumpsuit and beanie presses its face against a corner in Virginie Barré's Untitled «Les Hommes Venus d'Ailleurs» (2007). Above, banners with phrases such as "We are creating enemies faster than we can kill them" and "Don't believe everything you think" from Lara Schnitger's Gridlock (2005) address the trivialisation of political discourse condensed into slogans and one-liners, and the alienation that ensues. On the 1st floor, Urs Fischer's Untitled (Hole) is viewed as a massive hole built into the gallery, resembling a grave. But next to Maurizio Cattelan's Mother, photographic documentation of a performance where a fakir was buried in a mound of earth leaving only his hands exposed to the air, Fischer's work bears hope, suggesting resurrection as opposed to burial. Nevertheless, Mother's reference to Albrecht Durer's iconic print of praying hands again addresses repetition in collective histories.
In this sense, the pairing of Gardar Eide Einarsson's Burnt White Flag (2005) bearing the word LIBERTY (without the option of death) and Mircea Cantor's The Landscape is Changing (2003), a video of a group demonstration using placards made of mirrors, emphasises the inadequacies of traditional modes of protest. Is this why Jeff Koons' bronze life vest Aqualung (1985) is strategically placed at the end of this curatorial segment like an escape clause? As Kafka noted, art is both necessary and futile. If so, what is the point? Echoing this, the next room opens with Marepe's Rio Fundo (2004), a makeshift cachaça bar made of tables wrapped with inner tubes. DeAnna Maganias' miniature white room The View from My Bed (2007) offers another artificial retreat – the individual's refuge – something consumerism happily supports.
Next door, Martin Parr's Common Sense (1999), an installation of images representing kitsch Americana elaborates on the artificially-constructed, consumer realities according to consumer-manifested archetypes. The effect is anaesthetising. Not even Santiago Sierra's black and white surveillance-esque video documentation of PERSON OBSTRUCTING A LINE OF CONTAINERS, Kaj 3 Frihammen, Stockholm, Sweden (2009) can provide ample protest against the distraction of candy-coloured cupcakes and glazed cherries. In response, Mark Dion's The Evolution and Fixivity of a Rodent Species (1990) charts the evolution of Mickey Mouse as an animal reduced to an object that facilitates popular consumption, showing how man has followed the same pattern.
In the largest space on DESTE's 1st floor, Vasco Araújo's About Being Different (2007), contains interviews with five parishioners from Gateshead discussing the realities of being different in a small community. Nearby, Fischli and Weiss' hollow, polyurethane sculpture Animal (1986), with holes for its eyes, nostrils, mouth and anus, is positioned to face the video of a silent middle-aged woman in Philippe Bazin's Une heure de travail «Dufftown, n°9, Ecosse» (2002). When one looks through Animal from behind, the woman's silent mouth is framed by the animal's hollow mouth. As Kafka's dog exclaims: "How much my life has changed, and yet how unchanged it has remained at bottom!" The view from the animal's bottom shows a mouth that does not speak.
Meanwhile, Look at Me I Look at Water (1999), Boris Mikhailov's photographs of people living in the Soviet Union's decline, includes a harrowing image of a bewildered-looking man with blood smeared around his face and hands, having eaten something contained in his plastic bag. The image depicts the carnal nature of people reduced to animals in an orgiastic display of physical and political degeneration. Consumers are implicated with blood on their hands and mouths, or, in the case of David Hammons' museum-style exhibit of an oriental woman's robes, Untitled (1995 – 2002), blood on the groin. Meanwhile, Paul McCarthy's female Pig (2003) lies, as if to suckle, on its side, in front of Aurel Schmidt's So Damn Pure (2008), an abstract-inspired painting containing urine, spit, blood, coffee, beer, medicine and mouthwash, pushing the exhibition to a messy climax.
In the next room, Lorna Simpson's triptych of inverted masks in Myths (1992) recalls Fischli and Weiss' Animal. Of course it is easier to say that society is ultimately driven by an inherent, animal nature to consume, but it in no way enlightens what it means to be a political entity. William Kentridge's History of the Main Complaint (1996) acts as a moral to the story. In characteristic stop animation style, Kentridge depicts an entrepreneur on his death bed, recounting the excess and power that eventually consumed him, thus identifying what drives contemporary history and human behaviour. And it is not animalistic; money is what feeds humans.
Moving into the adjoining suite, Kara Walker's 19th century portrayal of slave men and women in the American south, Untitled (2000), depicts a scene where a bright light pierces through a dark, tempestuous sky over a crowd. It is paired with Sherrie Levine's bronze torso of a pregnant woman, Body Mask (2007), installed with a spotlight that creates symmetrical reflections on the surrounding walls like wings of light. The reprieve is fleeting. Moving into a confined, adjoining space, Esko Männikkö's suite of photographs depicts bachelors at home in a remote part of Northern Finland (1990-1995) as Gregor Schneider's architectural intervention, Das Große Wichsen (1997) plays on the artist's interest in threatening spaces disguised by ordinary appearances. Entering what looks like a white crate, the viewer comes face to face with a sculptural rendition of a decomposing bust staring out into the gallery from behind a two-way mirror.
In many ways, Schneider's work sums up the show. Seemingly straightforward, the show becomes a sinister quagmire that infiltrates every level of reality. At the show's end, Cady Noland's Drag (1990), a stripped down version of Americana made of steel bars and trinkets, precedes Lorna Simpson's Water Bearer (1986), a black and white image of a woman in white, holding a metal water vessel in one arm, and a plastic water container in another. Water flows out from both vessels freely, as if it were in abundance, though in today's world, it is all too clear that it is not. Below, a phrase is stencilled onto the wall: SHE SAW HIM DISAPPEAR BY THE RIVER / THEY ASKED HER TO TELL WHAT HAPPENED / ONLY TO DISCOUNT HER MEMORY.
Leaving the space, Robert Cuoghi's portrait of DESTE Foundation president, super-collector Dakis Joannou, MEGAS DAKIS (2007), hangs indiscriminately at the foot of stairs leading to the exit. As Simpson had promised, the portrait threatens to erase the memory of the exhibition in that it is a reminder that art is also a form of consumption locked in a system that encourages the neutralisation of political and revolutionary discourse. Once you leave the gallery, it could be as if it never happened. In the end, it's an individual choice.
Running in parallel to Investigations of A Dog at the DESTE Foundation, three solo presentations were also on show: Kerstin Brätsch & DAS INSTITUT: Treat Your Own Neck (2011), Jakub Ziolkowski's History of the Eye (2010) and Paul Chan's My Birds … Trash … The Future (2004) until 30 October 2011. Doug Aitken's Black Mirror was on show at DESTE project space, The Slaughterhouse, on Hydra until 25 September 2011.
www.deste.gr or www.art-face.eu
Stephanie Bailey


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Boxer Joe Frazier, Who Beat Ali In The 'Fight Of The Century,' Has Died
NPR's Tom Goldman reporting for 'Morning Edition'
A "sledgehammer left hook" that put Muhammad Ali on the canvas in 1971 pretty much tells the story of Joe Frazier's career, NPR's Tom Goldman says.
"It was as crushing and symbolic" as any of Frazier's punches over his long career, Tom said on Morning Edition. "It put his bitter rival, Muhammad Ali, on his 'float like a butterfly, sting like a bee' keister at Madison Square Garden in what came to be known as the "Fight of the Century."
The punch, which clinched then-heavyweight champion Frazier's victory over Ali in that fight, "started around Joe Frazier's left hip," Tom said. But, he added, "its origins stretch back a couple of decades to segregated South Carolina, where a young boy from a sharecropping family — Frazier was about 8 — fashioned a punching bag out of a burlap sack stuffed with rags and corn cobs and Spanish moss. By Frazier's own estimation, he slugged that thing for the next six or seven years damn near every day."
Frazier, 67, died Monday night. As we reported yesterday, the former heavyweight champ had been in hospice care. Frazier had liver cancer.
NPR's Tom Goldman reporting for 'Morning Edition'
Sports Illustrated's Richard Hoffer writes this morning of the "heroic trilogy" — the three fights Ali and Frazier fought from 1971 to 1975. Hoffer says the first battle (that "Fight of the Century") and the third (the "Thrilla in Manila") were:
"Such violent affairs, such protracted examples of desperation, that any seasons lived beyond them have to be considered a kind of boxing gravy. They were not heavyweight title fights so much as near-death experiences, a brutally choreographed and lightly regulated self-destruction, their pride and ambition so inflamed that survival was no longer part of either fighter's plan."
Ali and Frazier were bitter rivals in those days. Today, The Associated Press reports, Ali issued a statement saying that "the world has lot a great champion. My sympathy goes out to his family and loved ones." Ali is 69.


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Please note: As we use couriers to deliver all parcels, products cannot be delivered to an unattended address. The courier will require a signature from an occupant at the specified delivery address at the time of delivery, if no one is available to sign for any parcel a card will be left and the parcel re-directed to the nearest Courier depot. You will then be responsible for collecting the parcel from that depot or paying an additional charge for re-delivery.
australianparkingbarriers.com.au recommends all deliveries be shipped to a location that is attended during business hours, whether that is a home, work or other address, to minimize any redelivery delays and/or fees.
You may incur additional delivery fees/freight charges within the checkout (in excess of the fees and charges specified above) for:
- Large quantity or bulk orders.
- Express or urgent deliveries; or
- Non-stock and/or bespoke items
Bulky Items
At checkout, you will be notified of shipping costs for your approval, these are calculated automatically by the site in accordance with our courier companies' freight charges via a courier aggregation application (supplied by Toll IPEC). Bulky items are those with either a high weight or large cubic volume. Products are allocated as bulky as determined by the shipping methods of our courier companies.
Please note if your cart contains non-bulky and bulky items your freight will be calculated accordingly.
Delivery Time Frames
We use a selection of courier services with delivery times of between 1 – 10 business days after dispatch for smaller items, and 3 – 10 business days for larger items, depending on your delivery location. Courier deliveries are made during business hours, Monday to Friday only. During the checkout process you will have the opportunity to select your courier service of choice based on the size and weight, delivery pick-up address and delivery location of your order.
P.O. Boxes and Authority to Leave (ATL)
We are unable to deliver goods to PO Box addresses as all delivery orders are sent via courier services.
We currently offer ATL in some areas across Australia. When selecting a delivery method during checkout you will be given the option to select an ATL carrier (if available), from the drop down list of carriers. If you only receive a 'Standard Delivery service' option we cannot offer ATL in your area.
International Shipping
Unfortunately australianparkingbarriers.com.au is currently unable to provide international shipping through the website. Contact us directly on 1300 535792 for further international shipping options.
Reasons for order delays
- Entry of an incorrect or incomplete address during checkout.
- The address had no-one to sign for the parcel, and "Authority to Leave" was not selected at checkout.
- Incorrect payment information was entered against the order. Please double check all details at time of checkout as your order will only be created upon receipt of payment.
- In the event an order is flagged for verification we may need to get in contact via phone before dispatching some orders. Personal details may need to be confirmed for fraud prevention if we are unable to verify the shipping destination to protect the card holder, and this may delay shipping.
- Occasionally if a particular product is in high demand we may need to supply product from outside of our standard delivery network. This can cause delays in dispatch if orders are directed to regional locations etc.
If your order is not received within the quoted delivery period please check your order progress by contacting our Customer Support Team on 1300 535792. We will generally respond to your enquiry as soon as possible.


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