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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Vanishing Anniversary
I'd never had a blog before, nor considered it. I'd been writing fiction and essays about the city for years, but never managed to publish. Last summer, I was writing a novel—about an East Villager named Jeremiah who grapples with grief and rage for his vanishing city. Giving voice to my inner Jeremiah provided me with an outlet to express my own anger, powerlessness, and longing. As my first draft was coming to an end in July, I didn't want to give up that outlet. So, without much of a plan and inspired by blogs like Neither More Nor Less and Lost City, I launched VNY.
i kinda need this shirt
As an unpublished novelist, writing mostly in the vacuum of solitude, it has been gratifying to have readers. The blog has connected me to new people, both in person and electronically. It also reacquainted me with New York. For awhile, I'd been turning away from the city, a place where I no longer feel at home. But writing the blog forced me to turn outward again. It sent me out walking and got me to travel around Manhattan and the outer boroughs to seek and find what remains.
Along the way, there have been moments of hopefulness, instances when it seems the soul of New York is still alive and well. I've tried to record those moments here, together with the vanishings. The compulsion to preserve, even if it's only with a few words and snapshots, spurs me on.
Thanks, everyone, for reading. For a taste of my novel, check out the old post Jeremiah's Lamentations. And here are a few of my favorites from last summer:
58 comments:
- Nick said...
Congrats! I look forward to a day where this blog isn't needed and tried-and-true cultural institutions are cherished (yeah, like THAT will ever happen...) Until then, keep up the good work!
- July 15, 2008 at 8:28 AM
I kind of need the t shirt that says... "N-Y-Fuck-U!"
- July 15, 2008 at 8:29 AM
Jeremiah I love your column and I hope to encourage you to move forward with your novel and even self publish if you have to. I promise to buy a copy.
- July 15, 2008 at 8:34 AM
The loss of Howard Johnson's was a tough one. On my last visit there, a friend ordered something that came with sour cream. The waiter placed the side of sour cream on our table. There was a large, still buzzing fly right in the middle, as if it was supposed to be there as the garnish. My friend said something. The waiter quickly apologized. He picked up the sour cream, grabbed the fly, threw it aside, and placed the dish back on the table. He walked away without saying a word. My friend shrugged and dumped the sour cream on his potato.
Anyway! Cheers to your anniversary. Thank you for all your reporting and insights on what's happening to our city. - July 15, 2008 at 8:45 AM
Happy Anniversary--I love your blog--and enjoy reading your's and others' insights into the happening which is ev ny
- July 15, 2008 at 9:09 AM
Hojo fried clams, that was a treat when I was a kid. Thank you for preserving the memory of Kurowycky, Sucelt, Fontana, and many others. I live in Europe now and know that every year there is less to come home to.
- July 15, 2008 at 9:57 AM
self-publishing is the way to go. the future is open-source, anarchy, self-sufficient. the radical spirit of NY lives (the new Nas album!?), even if it is currently more isolated. all things move in cycles.
- July 15, 2008 at 10:09 AM
I also need another t shirt that says... "Midwestern White Girls Are Annoying"
- July 15, 2008 at 10:23 AM
I had my first date at HoJo in 1992, when I was 16. I didn't have that much money and Times Square was affordable and a place where I can be comfortable. We were both young naive. After our lunch at HoJo, we strolled around Times Square. We passed by a person handing out flyers/passes for a "movie" screening. We took the passes and went to the screening. It turned out to be a Dianetics movie -- a Scientology recruiting movie (we didn't know back then that what Scientology was)in a basement of one of the buildings on 43rd street. We didn't stay 'til the end, of course, but we still had a good time. We then went back to HoJo to get Ice Cream.
I made a pilgrimage at HoJo until it closed, at least once a year, after graduating from college, to have the fried clams and and a margarita.
"Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance." ~ Edgar Allan Poe - July 15, 2008 at 10:38 AM
Congrats! Love the blog and good luck with your novel.
- July 15, 2008 at 10:44 AM
- Colonnade Row said...
Happy Anniversary!
You've done more than you realize to inspire others (me) to join the cause and open our eyes to what's going on - or coming down - in the city we love. You've done more on your own than most city preservation agencies do with a staff and a budget. Please move forward with your novel, you've already got a good base of fans who want to read it.
Tim - July 15, 2008 at 10:56 AM
Wondered how your special blog began. As I've commented before, the mainstream media have ignored NYC's murder; one day people will ask: what happened? Historians will have one source for answers: JVNY. J, you are more than a blogger; you are a diarist, the Samuel Pepys for a New World. I left NYC; it seemed to be disappearing. JVNY tells me the sad truth: it is. Keep going, not only for your readers but for history!
- July 15, 2008 at 11:43 AM
- JamesChanceOfficial said...
Keep on keepin' on...happy birthday! I kinda heart NY too.
- Tim - July 15, 2008 at 11:49 AM
I just read Lamentations; am typing through tears. It is the obituary for Theodore White's city.
- July 15, 2008 at 11:53 AM
- Cari said...
That's a novel I'd love to read. Are you still in revisions, or is it making the rounds?
Happy Blogiversary, and thanks for what you do here. - July 15, 2008 at 12:05 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
thanks everyone for all the supportive comments. it's been a fun year doing the blog and connecting with people in this way.
the novel has not made the rounds yet, probably by end of summer. - July 15, 2008 at 1:25 PM
- Ken Mac said...
I found your blog only recently, but I love it! Its spirit accompanies me as I walk the west village, photographing its quickly vanishing remains...And seeing how today is my birthday (!) I wish us both many happy returns!
- July 15, 2008 at 1:26 PM
ken mac: let Jeremiah be your inspiration! lived for years in West Village; wish I'd taken more pictures but thought neighborhood was immune. ha! did take photos of mepa pre-MePa and of friendly merchants. with MePa, Bleecker St. Mall, designer condos along the river, West Village must be an unholy cauldron of hubris! once it was a warm, civilized enclave so comforting one never wanted leaving it. heartbreaking now.
- July 15, 2008 at 5:07 PM
- Unknown said...
I wouldn't necessarily say "Happy Anniversary", since this is after all a blog of lamentations, but thank you congrats.
- July 15, 2008 at 5:19 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
ken mac, love your blogs, too. you're a busy guy these days.
- July 15, 2008 at 5:21 PM
Thanks for pounding the pavement, Jeremiah, and keep it up -you've got the soul of a native.
- July 15, 2008 at 6:46 PM
May you have no more years of blogging Vanishing NY to come.
- July 15, 2008 at 6:46 PM
- L'Emmerdeur said...
Oh, Jeremiah, you know what you have to do.
You have to write a post about New York City. The whole freaking city.
And then it will get torn down and replaced by something else. Probably some Russian mobster's megamansion or a Saudi prince's harem.
And then, like all foreign speculators who dared to enter New York real estate waters, they will drown in the inevitable crash, and we can tear their monstrosity down and build something, you know, good.
Do it. You have the power. - July 15, 2008 at 8:58 PM
Congrats! So happy that I recently discovered your blog - love it. Keep up the fantastic work, and best of luck with your novel.
- July 15, 2008 at 10:10 PM
- Brooks of Sheffield said...
Happy Anniversary, Mr. Moss!
- July 16, 2008 at 12:29 PM
Ditto. Happy anniversary Jerry, and endless thanks!
- July 16, 2008 at 7:38 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
thanks back at ya--to all for your regular comments, it's always appreciated.
- July 16, 2008 at 7:43 PM
- Jill said...
Happy anniversary. I didn't realize it started with Ho Jo's.
When I was a kid there was an old fashioned orange roofed Howard Johnson's on Queens Blvd. My grandparents would sometimes take me there as a special treat for ice cream. When it was torn down it was the first time I understood that some special things don't last and they would only exist in my memory. It was torn down in 1969. I can't even believe I can remember it; I was 6. I hadn't thought about that place in years until I read this post.
A google search reveals that Jaques Pepin worked there! http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/28/opinion/28pepin.html
Thanks for the memories! - July 17, 2008 at 12:52 AM
Congratulations, although don't we all wish there was no need for your blog? I never thought I would end up living in what can only be described as Dallas North. Because that is what it's starting to look like here in NYC.
Keep up the good work! - July 18, 2008 at 3:59 PM
Jeremiah: Thank you for curating NYC! I love your blog and it helps me process what's happening.
Hojo's was a favourite of mine for people watching. Several of my friends would grab a streetside booth and not leave until we'd seen a celebrity, someone we knew, and a 'transaction'. All 3 would usually happen in one meal. All sorts of people would pass by and it helped having the Gaiety nearby. I also loved going to Hojo's after some high culture, say the Russian Nobility Ball or the Rainbow Room. Luckily I arrived her in '96 in time to enjoy old NY. Keep the faith! Andy - July 19, 2008 at 9:12 AM
Happy belated anniversary. I have been here all my 50 years, and I very much appreciate that someone shares my ongoing sense of loss.
- July 21, 2008 at 1:54 PM
I just discovered this blog. Thank you. I love you. I grew up in Manhattan and have lived in the EV for 24 years. I am beyond mortified by the decimation of my city... I am shell-shocked. I feel like the ground has been pulled out from under my feet. I've always only felt comfortable in NYC and now I don't feel comfortable here anymore. I am totally lost. I feel like my best friend died. Again, thank you for this. It makes me feel like at least there are other boats lost at sea with me.
- July 30, 2008 at 6:25 AM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
from one lost boat to another, welcome aboard. and thanks for reading.
- July 30, 2008 at 9:48 AM
- Palms said...
I moved to LA ten years ago, after 15 years in NYC. A good part of the reason, to be frank, was that I saw all this shit coming and couldn't stand the prospect of watching the coolest city in the world turned into a lifestyle destination.
When I first came to NYC, in '81, you could buy handguns in Times Square and, heroin on Clinto St. and if you hustled, you could find a trainwreck apartment on Avenue C that you can rent on two nights per week of bartending. Which left considerable time for reading, working on your novel and pursuing adventure.
Now of course, the handguns are safely in the African American and hispanic neighborhoods of the boroughs, heroin is sold out of briefcases. And the only people writing novels are trustfunders.
And I don't need to suggest the obvious correlation between the cost of living in NY and the quality of the novels that this great city once turned out.
LA is big sky country - gentrifying fast I suppose, but it's big and there's lots of neighborhoods.
Why mourn a dying city when you can participate in the building of a great global city - practically speaking less than 60 years old -- at just the beginning of its creative wave? - August 19, 2008 at 1:24 PM
Just found your site. NYer by birth, grew up in the 1960s and 1970s on the upper west side. Prostitutes on 94-96 and B'way, Louis the Shoeman, bakeries, Hispanic and black gangs (Zulu Nation); last lived in town 82-83 (Ave. A - 13th) and 86-7 (Greenpoint).
To Jeremiah: Interesting grieving service, a public good. Thanks
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- mikehavenar.blogspot.com said...
Nice blog. I drove a yellow taxi in NYC six years at night and was fascinated by the many statues all over the boroughs. I always wondered where the City stored old statues, and wanted to inspect them and take photos. Have they destroyed the nice little terracotta factory beneath the Queensboro Bride on the Queens side yet?
- January 4, 2009 at 5:48 PM
- Ian Buchan said...
Thanks for the most interesting comments, from the southern tip of Africa. Nearest I've been to NY was Harpers Ferry: a worthwhile visit, too plus a stroll along a bit of the Appalachian Trail. Otherwise, USA for me was Pennsylvania, NY State, and Washington state -- I made excursions from Canada.
- January 10, 2009 at 2:27 PM
- exModia Staff said...
We were linked to this blog by a friend. We have to say that the bulldozing of the Christopher Street piers, a place one of our bloggers called "the center of his Gay soul", was the shocking realization that brought us to our knees back in the 90s. It was then that what had been a mere inkling became an emotional breakdown for us.
Like you, we have turned away from the city. Several of us have turned away from the things we loved most, like clubbing in our case, because so many of our favorite places were brutalized during the Giuliani decade. We also saw most of our friends die from HIV/AIDS. For the longest time, we have felt like war orphans in our own city.
It's not a pleasant feeling. - March 13, 2009 at 6:58 AM
thank you very much for your blog. I lived in NYC during the mid nineties, before the internet emerged, when I still had to use a daisywheel printer. I wanted to keep a journal of NY/Manhattan, but the cost of living, and the sheer time factor prevented me from realizing what you have realized here. I'm afraid to go visit NYC now; seeing how it's being decimated by "hizzoner". A bronx raspberry for him.
Yours PS - April 1, 2009 at 2:00 PM
- JosephSteele said...
I live in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. I booked tickets to come to NY in March, believing it to be the heart of edgy art and culture.
I've been smashing up Newcastle with art involving diggers, car wrecking and a film I got national press coverage for:
Anyway, the same is happening here, too many 'creative spaces' and government funding to make things 'nice' but it just compromises the art! - November 22, 2009 at 6:35 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
well, there's still some edge here--but you'd better look for it in Brooklyn.
- November 22, 2009 at 10:12 PM
well, I love what your block man. and as I foreigner who visited the city a few times finally moving here this June I have to say the phenomenon you are recording is intensely felt.
but you are not suggesting what we should do or try and do to reverse the process. you should. I find there is still a lot of New York out there (and not just in Brooklyn) worth fighting for - November 23, 2009 at 1:26 AM
- Melanie said...
Edge--there has always been "EDGE" in Brooklyn--fuggetaboutit-sadly--I love the Brooklyn Nobody loved--maybe a new song Jer--I Loved The Brooklyn Nobody loved--immigrants on the street--not so much to eat--putting food on the table--look Ma--I am able--just a random Ditty.
Brooklyn-- - November 23, 2009 at 8:57 AM
- Melanie said...
Happy Birthday Baby!!!
- November 23, 2009 at 8:58 AM
- Joseph Steele said...
Brooklyn here I come. happy Bloganiversary.
Is NY the kind of place an artist can come to without knowing anyone and get involved with something? - November 23, 2009 at 3:09 PM
Does anyone have any recollection of Tent City, Life Squat,3bc,c squat or the riots?
- January 1, 2010 at 9:58 AM
- Pier Angelo said...
Does anyone recall Peter Missing and the foundation?
- January 1, 2010 at 10:00 AM
Thanks for your tireless efforts, "Jeremiah." Your blog is such an indispensable resource for those of us amazed and disgusted by what has happened/is happening to the last liveable redoubts of
Manhattan (and beyond). I tend to think of myself as someone who has become hardened to the uber-gentrification and neo-suburbanization of Manhattan (and beyond), but I suppose it is testament to my ongoing moral sensitivity that I am still amazed by just how unapologetically social Darwinist many (not all) yunnies are. (Some of them are merely clueless.) On this theme, I posted a rather long blog entry at http://fortgreenebk.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/avalon-fort-greene-growing-like-a-weed/#comment-1646
Please keep on doing what you do so well, if for other reason than our collective existential relief!
Gluelicker - January 11, 2010 at 11:52 AM
- Roberta said...
Wow, just read The Voice and found your blog. I am hunkered down in the West Village in my old law tenement, fighting the LL for essential services, watching the succubus NYU rip down historic buildings (have you seen what they have done to the Provincetown Playhouse?) and wondering if there is anyone else who could possibly be as horrified as I that this City I love so dearly is being homogenized so quickly and ruthlessly. Thank you for your blog. I feel less alone now. BTW, the recent demise of Jeollado, my favorite cheap sushi restaurant, is a loss from which I won't soon recover.
- January 29, 2010 at 6:54 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
thanks Roberta and welcome. i have seen what they did to the playhouse. they're just full steam ahead...
- January 29, 2010 at 7:33 PM
Have you written about Pete's leaving us last week--on 68th Street and Columbus. Some found is smelly and rude; others had their fun times there. Would be interesting to know the full story of its demise, though it clearly belongs to a grittier Columbus Ave era :)
Charlie - July 5, 2010 at 5:32 PM
- Jeremiah Moss said...
charlie, i don't know Pete's. can you tell us more? i'll check it out.
- July 5, 2010 at 8:40 PM
- 3FingersBrown said...
A not so happy anniversary Jer. Fortunately there's still a whole city out there Uptown and in the boros that the yunnies fear to tread.
- July 19, 2010 at 11:15 AM
- Unknown said...
About the disappearing "red sauce" places: I am from the south and have been here about 8 years. There is an authentic Italian trattoria in mid-town East called Pizza Rustica. I only eat the pasta and the eggplant - they have a steam table of Italian food every day at lunch. It's around 44th and Second ave. Also Roberto's in the Bronx is still open. That place is unbelievable.
- November 30, 2012 at 10:28 PM
Jeremiah--The thing is, there used to be a Howard Johnsons on Sixth Avenue (before it became Avenue of the Americas) near 8th street. My father took me there sometimes on Friday nights, when I was 8 years old and attended PS 41---and without a word between us--I already knew it was a corporate invader on the neighborhood and part of the destruction of 8th street which soon followed.
So, the existence of HJ's on Times Sq. was already part of how the place became primed for Middle America, and Disney-ready. I can't quite find this lament....
More than love your work. It's actual food. Thnx. - January 16, 2013 at 11:10 AM
I'm traveling to NYC for the week of Christmas and I'm looking for some interesting sights to see & photograph in the early morning hours.
Any recommendations?
Sarah - November 20, 2013 at 5:08 PM
- Veronica Lawlor said...
Hello Jeremiah, I love this blog. This feeling of nostalgia for the city I've lost, even though I still live here, is very strong, and it's nice to read the words and see the pictures of someone who shares those feelings. Keep posting!!
- December 15, 2013 at 2:03 PM
Dear Jeremiah,
happy belated anniversary. I find your blog very therapeutic, as I am still in the grieving process.
I was evicted from my East Village home last year. As painful and exhausting and expensive as that was--the destruction of what I felt was historic, comforting, intrinsically NYC hurts me even more. I feel the NYC I knew morphed at hyper-greedy speed into something alien. I no longer feel at ease in my former neighborhood of almost 25 years, until I see the few neighbors and businesses that are still around. And in my conversations with them, those people are counting the days as well.
I just wanted to share this: the vanishing that broke my heart was when Carl Fischer, where I used to browse through and find and buy sheet music, became a gym. This is compounded further because the opera house that was my artistic home, where I sang for seven seasons, the Amato Opera Theater... the lovely mural is hidden under an NYU dorm building and the actual opera house is in a state of disrepair. Perhaps, though, I should be glad it has not become something like a Walgreens, but be allowed to decay in relative peace.
--Former East Villager - August 2, 2014 at 10:52 AM


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The man known around the world as the Blade Runner goes on trial next week for murder. Oscar Pistorius, who became a track star running on carbon fiber prosthetic limbs, and the first double leg amputee to run in the Olympic Games goes on trial for shooting his girlfriend, Reeva Steencamp, on Valentine's Day last year. He said it was an accident. The trial is expected to be followed all over the world and much of it will be broadcast live.
David Smith is Africa correspondent for The Guardian newspaper. He joins us now from Johannesburg where he's been following the story. Thanks very much for being with us.
DAVID SMITH: Thank you.
SIMON: Remind us what happened that night that Reeva Steencamp died.
SMITH: It was Valentine's night, the 14th of February 2013. She went to his house for what would be typically romantic evening. And the next thing we know that's happened is that around 3 a.m., she was dead. And Pistorius had shot through a toilet cubicle door. Pistorius, in quite a detailed affidavit at the bail hearing, gave a whole version of events claiming that he mistook his girlfriend for an intruder, and thought she was a burglar - which is not an unknown phenomenon in South Africa.
SIMON: At Mr. Pistorius was not wearing his limbs and, I gather, felt that he could be in danger.
SMITH: Yes, there's been some debate through the court hearings on the media. The latest report suggests that, you know, he may be right about that. And that ballistic evidence that will come out during the trial will support his suggestion that he was walking on his stumps and did not take the time to put on his limbs, as the prosecution argues would make it more likely the murder was, as they say, it was premeditated.
SIMON: Tell us what we have to understand about the South African judicial system. For example, I gather there are no juries.
SMITH: South Africa purely has a judge who will be assisted by two assessors in this case. And part of the explanation for that now is still the legacy of racial apartheid in South Africa where it's just thought it would be too charged and too much bias to have a white jury for a black suspect, or vice versa. A judge who was a former social worker and crime reporter will basically decide whether Pistorius is guilty, and potentially going to prison for 25 years, or innocent and walking free.
SIMON: And she is a well-known judge, I gather.
SMITH: Relatively well known; she's made a couple of triumphant judgments precisely on cases involving violence against women. She twice gave men maximum sentences; one, indeed, for 252 years. So, really taking a strong stand on the issue of gender violence which is another big one in South Africa.
SIMON: David, do I have this right? This is such a huge story not just in South Africa, but specifically in South Africa they have established a new 24-hour cable channel to follow the trial?
SMITH: That is correct. Yeah, this is, you know, really a story that transcends South Africa, that has fascinated many people around the world. Because Pistorius, you know, really was unique - is a unique international sporting star and was a big hit of the London Olympics, only a few months before this tragedy happened.
SIMON: And I guess we should remind ourselves that this case begins with the death of Reeva Steencamp, a real tragedy.
SMITH: Yes, and a few weeks ago I went to see her family. Reeva Steencamp's parents speaking of the media attention, really felt hounded. So they've moved house, a remote little hamlet, really. And, you know, journalists who go there, including me, were given fairly short shrift.
What we apparently will see on Monday is Reeva Steencamp's mother attend court for the first time in this process and, you know, come face-to-face with Oscar Pistorius for the first time since her daughter's death.
SIMON: David Smith, of The Guardian newspaper in Johannesburg, thanks so much.
SMITH: Thank you.
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WASHINGTON – One of the nation's oldest museums, known for its daring contemporary art exhibitions next to the White House and for its financial troubles, is being taken over by two larger institutions and will soon close for renovations.
Under an agreement signed Thursday, the long-struggling Corcoran Gallery of Art and its College of Art and Design will merge with George Washington University and the federally funded National Gallery of Art.
The three sides agreed the Corcoran will close around Oct. 1 for an undetermined amount of time and undergo renovations. When it reopens, it will offer free admission like the National Gallery's other buildings on the National Mall.
The takeover agreement brings an end to years of uncertainty for the Corcoran. At one point its board considered selling the historic Beaux-Arts building that needs at least $100 million in renovations. Last year, the museum pursued a partnership with the University of Maryland that fell apart.
Peggy Loar, the Corcoran's interim director and president, said the new arrangement saves the collection and the museum-based college.
"I think there's a euphoria that we have a wonderful solution here," she said. "The one thing we need to work at is to maintain that synergy between the collections and curators along with the faculty and the students."
The bulk of the Corcoran's 17,000 artworks will be brought into the National Gallery's collection, keeping them available to the public.
National Gallery Director Earl A. Powell III said the Corcoran's American and modern art collections complement and enhance the museum's existing holdings.
"You put the two together and you get one of the greatest, if not the greatest, collection of that art in this country," he said.
While the Corcoran name will be preserved, the museum will have less than half its current gallery space. More space will be devoted to the art school.
"Face it: the Corcoran isn't going to be the old Corcoran. It is going to be the new National Gallery," Powell said. "I think we will hope to kind of push edges here."
Artworks that may duplicate current holdings will be distributed to other museums with a preference to those in Washington. But all sides agreed no artworks will be sold as part of the merger.
"The reason it is such a no-no to sell collections is where do you stop?" Loar said. "We wouldn't have a collection left."
The deal is subject to approval by the D.C. Superior Court.
George Washington University will take on the bulk of the financial obligations for renovating the building, and the National Gallery will pay for all exhibition programs and museum operations.
A first phase of renovations is expected to cost $25 million. Initial costs will be covered by $35 million transferred from the Corcoran to the university and the sale of a separate Corcoran building. The university will raise funds for further renovations, said George Washington President Steven Knapp.
The Corcoran College will be gradually integrated into the university. Some programs could be merged with existing arts programs or brought under the Corcoran College umbrella, Knapp said.
"It will make our university more of a hub for the arts," he said.
The Corcoran was founded in 1869 with a mission dedicated to art and "encouraging American genius." At one time, William Wilson Corcoran also sat on George Washington University's board. Now the school will help protect his legacy.
"I think it's an opportunity for our nation's capital frankly," Knapp said, "because it enables us to maintain the Corcoran legacy and the Corcoran collections that might otherwise have been dispersed."
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On the drive to keep the Kings, Sacramento had a bad news/good news day Thursday.
The bad news was the arena portion of the project was set back when City Manager John Shirey failed to meet a self-imposed deadline of Thursday for public disclosure of a term sheet that would have details of the private and public financing.
The good news was that a third major investor was identified that would improve the cash backing for the team purchase. Vivek Ranadive, 55, the India-born chairman and CEO of a $1 billion-a-year Silicon Valley software company. He is also a minority partner and vice chairman of the Golden State Warriors, the team that Mark Mastrov, the Sacramento businessman who would be the lead owner of the Kings, tried to buy in 2010.
The Sacramento Bee first reported both developments.
Shirey said negotiations on the arena deal are continuing with representatives of billionaire Ron Burkle and remains optimistic a deal will be struck. But the disclosure won't happen in time for a scheduled meeting of the city council Tuesday, because the members would need more time to study the deal.
"I'm still optimistic that we're going to get the (sticking) points resolved," Shirey said. "I do not have that feeling that we're not going to come together.
"The City Council needs to be able to read and study the term sheet (before voting)."
But the NBA has asked for a meeting April 3 with the Sacramento bidders as well as Seattle native Chris Hansen, who already has in hand a sale agreement with the Kings owners to buy 65 percent of the franchise for $341 million, including a $30 million nonrefundable deposit. Hansen has plans for a $490 million arena in SoDo, and has asked the franchise be relocated to KeyArena while the new building goes up.
Partly because Hansen is backed by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, NBA Commissioner David Stern warned Sacramento two weeks ago that its effort was well behind the Seattle bid.
If there is no vote Tuesday, the next meeting is April 2, which Shirey said "is not preferable" because it is so close to the NBA meeting in New York.
The Bee reported that a source sold the newspaper that Ranadive had been talking with Mastrov for several months about joining the bid. His company, TIBCO Software, makes programs used in automation, data analysis and e-commerce. Its customers have included Yahoo, Sun Microsystems and CBS Sportsline. He owns eight percent, valued at $318 million.
Ranadive is a Harvard and MIT grad who has written three books on business in the past 14 years, including a New York Times bestseller. His 2011 book, "The Two-Second Advantage," released in 2011, has a publicity blurb by Stern, who wrote that the book "artfully explores how having the right information . . . can place you ahead of the game."


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Mr. President, in 1991, then-Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel brought together his counterparts from Poland and Hungary. Taking inspiration from a 14th century meeting of Central European kings, these 20th century leaders returned to the same Danube town of Visegrad with a view to eliminating the remnants of the communist bloc in Central Europe; overcoming historic animosities between Central European countries; and promoting European integration.
Today, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia are together known as the Visegrad Group, and all four have successfully joined NATO and the European Union. They are anchors in the Trans-Atlantic alliance, and I am pleased to have had the opportunity to travel to all four of these countries where I have met with public officials, non-governmental representatives and ethnic and religious community leaders.
Unfortunately, it appears that some additional work is necessary to address one of the principal goals of the Visegrad Group; namely, overcoming historic animosities. In recent months, relations between Hungary and Slovakia have been strained. Having traveled in the region and having met with leaders from both countries during their recent visits to Washington, I would like to share a few observations.
First, an amendment to the Slovak language law, which was adopted in June and will enter into force in January, has caused a great deal of concern that the use of the Hungarian language by the Hungarian minority in Slovakia will be unduly or unfairly restricted. Unfortunately, that anxiety has been whipped up, in part, by a number of inaccurate and exaggerated statements about the law.
The amendment to the state language law only governs the use of the state language by official public bodies. These state entities may be fined if they fail to ensure that Slovak–the state language–is used in addition to the minority languages permitted by law. The amendment does not allow fines to be imposed on individuals, and certainly not for speaking Hungarian or any other minority language in private, contrary to what is sometimes implied.
The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities has been meeting with officials from both countries and summarized the Slovak law in his most recent report to the OSCE Permanent Council:
"The adopted amendments to the State Language Law pursue a legitimate aim, namely, to strengthen the position of the State language, and, overall, are in line with international standards. Some parts of the law, however, are ambiguous and may be misinterpreted, leading to a negative impact on the rights of persons belonging to national minorities."
Since the law has not yet come into effect, there is particular concern that even if the law itself is consistent with international norms, the implementation of the law may not be.
I am heartened that Slovakia and Hungary have continued to engage with one of the OSCE's most respected institutions–the High Commissioner on National Minorities–on this sensitive issue, and I am confident that their continued discussions will be constructive.
At the same time, I would flag a number of factors or developments that have created the impression that the Slovak Government has some hostility toward the Hungarian minority.
Those factors include but are not limited to the participation of the extremist Slovak National Party, SNS, in the government itself; the SNS control of the Ministry of Education, one of the most sensitive ministries for ethnic minorities; the Ministry of Education's previous position that it would require Slovak-language place names in Hungarian language textbooks; the handling of the investigation into the 2006 Hedvig Malinova case in a manner that makes it impossible to have confidence in the results of the investigation, and subsequent threats to charge Ms. Malinova with perjury; and the adoption of a resolution by the parliament honoring Andrei Hlinka, notwithstanding his notorious and noxious anti-Hungarian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Roma positions.
All that said, developments in Hungary have done little to calm the waters. Hungary itself has been gripped by a frightening rise in extremism, manifested by statements and actions of the Hungarian Guard, the "64 Counties" movement, and the extremist party Jobbik, all of which are known for their irredentist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Roma postures. Murders and other violent attacks against Roma, repeated attacks by vandals on the Slovak Institute in Budapest, attacks on property in Budapest's Jewish quarter in September, and demonstrations which have blocked the border with Slovakia and where the Slovak flag is burned illustrate the extent to which the Hungarian social fabric is being tested.
Not coincidentally, both Hungary and Slovakia have parliamentary elections next year, in April and June respectively, and, under those circumstances, it may suit extremist elements in both countries just fine to have these sorts of developments: nationalists in Slovakia can pretend to be protecting Slovakia's language and culture–indeed, the very state–from the dangerous overreach of Hungarians. Hungarian nationalists–on both sides of the border–can pretend that Hungarian minorities require their singular protection–best achieved by remembering them come election day. Meanwhile, the vast majority of good-natured Slovaks and Hungarians, who have gotten along rather well for most of the last decade, may find their better natures overshadowed by the words and deeds of a vocal few.
In meetings with Slovak and Hungarian officials alike, I have urged my colleagues to be particularly mindful of the need for restraint in this pre-election season, and I have welcomed the efforts of those individuals who have chosen thoughtful engagement over mindless provocation. I hope both countries will continue their engagement with the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, whom I believe can play a constructive role in addressing minority and other bilateral concerns.


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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
The Painted Cake Cometh
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
This cake is absolutely stunning - kind of like a sharp blow to the head. I know that I was forced to stare in stunned silence for a moment when I first saw it: the thought of eating that much Pepto-colored paint put me in cerebral lock down.
Still, if ever a herd of curly teal amoebas were to migrate across a shockingly pink desert, I imagine it would look something like this. (They even sent the little ones on ahead, see?) And I'm sure it can't be easy to get something edible to look so glossily non-edible, so props where they're due and all that.
But the plastic grad caps - why? No, seriously, for the love of all things cakey, why?
And I'm not going to even mention the spacing, except to say that someone should be staying after class again.
Hey, while your retinas are still smarting, check this action out:
Now, I don't know if it's because orange is my favorite color, or because those giant pillow-y swirls look so softly smooshable, but all I can think about when I look at this is how much I'd like to attack this bad boy face-first, T-Rex style. RawrMmmmmmmm.
Yep, nothing brings out the carnivore in me quite like sugary baked goods. (Oh, wait...)
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- Libba said...
the teal "amoebas" struck me as looking as if their bodies were partially underwater. you know how you might draw some monster with portions of tail appearing? haha... very hilarious!
- September 9, 2008 at 7:52 AM
With the pink cake, it is amazing to me that someone with such lovely handwriting (with icing none the less!)couldn't make simple flowers or figure out spacing!
- September 9, 2008 at 8:16 AM
- Meg said...
Jamie Glass? Wasn't that Jan's imaginary boyfriend on the Brady Bunch?
- September 9, 2008 at 8:21 AM
- Laura ~Peach~ said...
now what could you possibly have agains pepto pink and green turds ... LOL ack. sorry the orange is not much better in my book~
- September 9, 2008 at 8:28 AM
- yokaye said...
Hmmm..pepto bismol and cheeto dust. Big yum. ;)
- September 9, 2008 at 8:28 AM
- Unknown said...
Perhaps you've got an unresolved childhood memory of Creamsicles, Jen... :)
What I love about that cake is the orange dusting over the word space (I dare not call it a ribbon) - to 'tie it in'. - September 9, 2008 at 8:33 AM
Is color blindness a prerequisite of being a "professional cake decorator"?
What the h*ll are these people thinking? - September 9, 2008 at 8:46 AM
- Sometimes Sophia said...
Hilarious!!! Love your blog!!
- September 9, 2008 at 8:48 AM
- Kerilou said...
That orange color reminds me of Tang! Looks like they sprinkled it all over the top!
Kerilou - September 9, 2008 at 8:48 AM
- skatej said...
The color on both of those cakes made me want to vomit. Pepto never sat well on me...
- September 9, 2008 at 8:49 AM
- CRUSTY MOM-E said...
suddenly Desperately Seeking Susan has found her mate with that lovely pink cake.
The orange cake looks like it has a creamy vanilla inside--like a misfit in the twinkie factory.
(I'd eat it too) - September 9, 2008 at 8:53 AM
- Andrea said...
Wait a minute, Kathryn and Jamie can't help that the school colors of their alma mater (von Rosenhof High - home of the fighting amoebas!) is pepto and teal. Very unfortunate.
- September 9, 2008 at 9:01 AM
- The Courteous Chihuahua said...
Are bright pink and teal the school colors? I guess Kathryn and Jamie were the 2006 valedictorian and salutorian at Hair Designs by Mr. H. Beauty College.
BTW, Jen...you weren't far off. That herd of curly, teal amoebas were actually migrating across a shockingly pink "dessert". - September 9, 2008 at 9:10 AM
The first cake was surprisingly not bad on the eyes...aside from the gross pink.
The second one actually hurt to look at. No lie. - September 9, 2008 at 9:11 AM
- jaxx79 said...
OMG! The orange cake hurts my eyes. Is that Kool-aid sprinkled on top?
- September 9, 2008 at 9:30 AM
- The Creeper said...
At least the first cake isn't all monochromatic.
- September 9, 2008 at 9:47 AM
Wow! Imagine what that cake might look like under black lights - it might just glow brighter! LOL!
It's so sad that the spacing is so bad because writing is pretty decent.
This cake, and your whole site for that matter, begs to have a new show developed, "Unsolved Cake Mysteries." - September 9, 2008 at 10:07 AM
- Unknown said...
I wonder if they took a bottle of Pepto in to the decorator and asked them to match the color kinda like they do with paint at HomeDepot...hmm.
That orange is blinding! (but it does look yummy!) - September 9, 2008 at 10:07 AM
- Jennifer Foster said...
Makes me wonder more about the actual decorators of these cakewrecks. Do they really think those are nice cakes? I mean, do they take pride in their work?
Because I would have to cover my face in shame if they were my cakes. You'd find me cowering in the corner! - September 9, 2008 at 10:09 AM
OMG! I can't stand pink and green together. But this cake reminds me of a line from Steel Magnolias where M'lynn says about Shelby's wedding decor, that it looks like someone threw up Pepto Bismol all over the church.
- September 9, 2008 at 10:12 AM
- kelli said...
First thing I thought upon seeing the pepto puke cake- "Blinded by the Light!"
The second one is actually pretty compared to the pepto one. - September 9, 2008 at 10:12 AM
- Megan said...
Glass of 2006?
- September 9, 2008 at 10:22 AM
The orange cake oddly reminds me of peeps LOL
- September 9, 2008 at 10:22 AM
I thought the first cake said "Glass of 2006." I think that the decorator could benefit from a remedial cursive-writing class.
- September 9, 2008 at 10:29 AM
- Moominmama said...
I want to poke my fingers in the swirly orange thingys. Mmmm.
- September 9, 2008 at 10:30 AM
- Juliet said...
The colours on that first cake... my retinas are still burning!
- September 9, 2008 at 10:31 AM
- Deborah Godin said...
Since recently discovering your blog, I have come to the opinion that whoever said "A little knoweledge is a dangerous thing" was ooh so right. Cake decorating equipment in the hands of the wrong people is the culinary equivalent of loose nukes. That top one, the pepto-teal thing...I'm torn between wanting to know and not wanting to...but what kind of cake (color) is underneath that?
- September 9, 2008 at 10:37 AM
What is sprinkled all over the orange cake?? Makes it hard to read! And they probably should of hand written the text to not only avoid Happy Birthday becoming one word, but make sure people know it's Dale's birthday, not Dall's.
The pink cake just makes me want to vomit. Just. . . *shudders* - September 9, 2008 at 10:42 AM
Ow. Ow ow ow!!
- September 9, 2008 at 10:55 AM
- k-bro said...
How very, umm, Miami Vice.
- September 9, 2008 at 10:56 AM
Congratulations Kathryn and Jamie Glass!
- September 9, 2008 at 11:11 AM
I already thought you were awesome because of this blog, but now I learn that your favorite color is orange? Mine is too, and I share you T-Rex-y inclinations towards that cake. You have surpassed all expectations.
- September 9, 2008 at 11:20 AM
- Mary Ellen said...
My Eyes! My Eyes! I think i'm blind now.
- September 9, 2008 at 11:27 AM
- Jessicalovescake said...
I just found this blog and I am LMAO in my office!
It is a shame that 2 obviously talented people are so frigging color blind.
Is Pepto the new black? - September 9, 2008 at 11:30 AM
- Kelly said...
I'm not saying these cakes are magnificent, but I don't think I'd called them "wrecks" exactly. Maybe just not up to par. I don't think the color choices are THAT deplorable - I mean, I kind of "get" them.
- September 9, 2008 at 11:35 AM
- Momma J said...
My eyes! My eyes!!!
- September 9, 2008 at 11:56 AM
Okay, the first cake is gawd-awful ugly, BUT...my actual Alma Mater (Sweet Briar College) is pink and green all the way. And probably most of us would not have a cake that was quite that...colorful, we might get a cake that is pink and green. Hopefully, white with pink and green accents.
- September 9, 2008 at 11:58 AM
My eyes...they burn!
Somehow though this reminded me of your technicolor poo discussion. I'm wondering if the pink or the green would win in the..er..end. - September 9, 2008 at 12:15 PM
Those teal things look like something I would make, in an attempt to fill the empty space in a reasonably decorative manner, if I was bored with traditional flowers and things, and wanted to try a different shape. And that is why I don't decorate cakes.
(The only cake I make routinely is angel food from a box, and it doesn't last long enough to get icing of any kind put on it.) - September 9, 2008 at 12:20 PM
- Becky said...
I don't think our bodies should ingest such bright colors.
- September 9, 2008 at 12:22 PM
- sues2u2 said...
lol & some more lol!!!! I started to cry from laughing so hard. Thanks for the laugh, I soooo needed it.
- September 9, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Jan's "boyfriend" (note correct use of quotations! I'm already a better decorator than some of the pros who created these lovely confections!) was George Glass. I'm kind of sad that I know that.
I would gobble all of that yucky colored orange frosting right up! Butter cream frosting is good! - September 9, 2008 at 12:38 PM
- sunshyne said...
I love your blog! :)
Orange is my favorite color, too, but it's a hot mess on that cake. If the cake was a different color, it would look yummier. - September 9, 2008 at 12:51 PM
It's the orange cake had an air brush explosion with all those freckly things on the top. How bizarre! But yet, the writing is also orange which leads me to think it was actual orange icing & not air brushing... perhaps a combination. Either way... so so frighteningly bright.
- September 9, 2008 at 1:02 PM
- Dessie said...
In fairness (to who? The cake maker? I don't know), my mother used to make luminous cakes much like these - not professionally, mind.
She was of the belief that more colours were a very good thing, and so cakes often had blue sponge, green icing and red piping... - September 9, 2008 at 1:45 PM
- whywouldyouknitthat said...
UGGGGHHH looking at those giant globs of icing make me nearly go in to a sugar enduced coma. Did they take the tip off of the bag on that one or what?!
- September 9, 2008 at 1:58 PM
- Dea said...
Wonder what color the poo shall be after these bad boys.....DOH!
- September 9, 2008 at 2:15 PM
- Susan said...
Before Hurricane Andrew in 1992, it was the law in Florida that all buildings had to be painted the colors of that first cake.
Maybe their school is PAINTED those colors. - September 9, 2008 at 2:27 PM
Cheetos flavored Cake...that is all I can say
- September 9, 2008 at 2:45 PM
- Unknown said...
Honestly, I don't think the first cake would look so bad if that pink color wasn't associated with Pepto Bismol. When I bit into it I would be expecting to taste Pepto, which is just gross. But if it weren't for that it would be cute.
The second one... GRAAH. - September 9, 2008 at 3:07 PM
- *~ Jane & Tricia ~* said...
The orange cake comment is toooo funny!!!
Thanks so much for providing me a good laugh everyday! - September 9, 2008 at 3:19 PM
Ok, so maybe Im just a pervert but am I the only one that right off the bat thought "why is there a weiner on that cake"? I had to look for a few seconds before it clicked that it actually class
- September 9, 2008 at 3:44 PM
- Bianca said...
Someone mentioned peeps for the second cake. That'what I thought, except I thought more of microwaved peeps! (Have you ever seem them fluff up in the microwave?) mmm...
- September 9, 2008 at 3:52 PM
Wow! A Tang cake! You shouldn't have. Especially those Tang sprinkles on top...
- September 9, 2008 at 3:52 PM
I shouldn't comment twice, but this suddenly reminded me of a birthday cake I had when I was maybe 4 or 5. One of the few things I remember about that party is the weird and kind of bitter taste some of the frosting had, and I think it was the darker-colored frosting (dark purple maybe?) that was bitter, as if they'd had to add so much color that it overwhelmed the frosting. I think that's one reason I don't go in for really vivid food colors like these. Even though food coloring is probably better tasting now than in 1971 or whenever that was.
One of the few cakes I've tried to "decorate" was a pro cake from an AWESOME bakery, and wasn't really the right kind for icing decoration. So I stuck little plastic graduation-cap-shaped picks in it and called it good. (And it WAS.) So I don't have a problem with the plastic hats on this cake. I think they're cute, but even if you hate them, they're the least of its problems, no? The cheesy gold paper stickers on them are worse than the caps themselves, actually. - September 9, 2008 at 3:58 PM
I wonder if the frosting on the first cake was also *flavored* like Pepto Bismol.
- September 9, 2008 at 4:00 PM
- Dougster said...
Very funny blog!! I voted for you. I do a blog about traveling the USA in a truck and wondered what do I have to do to become a blog of note. I looked a several and kept saying "mines better than this one". Then I stumbled upon yours and Kudo's to you very funny and well done.
- September 9, 2008 at 4:49 PM
- Sarah said...
yummm cheeto cake!
- September 9, 2008 at 4:49 PM
- Laura/Notepad said...
The second one reminds me of a creamsicle....and now I really want one...thanks. :P
- September 9, 2008 at 5:48 PM
- sarah sundae said...
I kind of like the orange one...
- September 9, 2008 at 6:55 PM
- Etiquette Bitch said...
hey, where did my comment go? all i said was the orange hurt my eyes.
- September 9, 2008 at 7:23 PM
- AsTiMa said...
The pepto cake cracks me up! I love how they weren't sure how to spell Kathryn. The afterthought of the n looks more like... Congratulations Kathry...n?
- September 9, 2008 at 8:12 PM
- Brandy said...
See, now, I would T-Rex that orange cake to save others from having to look at it!
We're such givers!
Rawrmmmmph, indeed!! - September 9, 2008 at 8:31 PM
- Shannon said...
The 'amoebas' look like the mutant offspring of that green gloopy stuff with raisins that crawled off John Cusack's plate when he prodded it with a spoon in Better Off Dead.
- September 9, 2008 at 8:53 PM
- Valerie Phoenixfire said...
LOVE your blog.
That orange cake looks delicious! - September 9, 2008 at 9:27 PM
Vivid Cakes(tm)... now with twice your daily allowance of Pink, Green and Orange!!!
- September 9, 2008 at 9:34 PM
- Holly said...
Ha! The orange cake matches my living room!
No lie - my living room is retina-burning orange. I think that's what the paint can called it anyway ... - September 9, 2008 at 11:31 PM
- Cindy @ Creating at Home said...
The orange one is very hard "on" my eyes, but I would "still eat" it. ;-)
- September 10, 2008 at 1:13 AM
I think I figured out why this cake is so horrible to look out. The pink is the exact colour negative of the green! Use a photo editing program to "Negative Image" and the colour just swap around. How head wreaking is that?
- September 10, 2008 at 6:22 AM
I work at a Wal-Mart, and even before I discovered this blog (or worked there) I liked to cruise by the bakery on occasion and see if they'd whipped up anything interesting. Now that I check this blog every night when I get home from work at o'dark-hundred, I also check the bakery on an almost nightly basis. Nothing good so far, unless you count the small cupcake-cake with a bold green swirly mass of icing, decorated with... little plastic hot dogs and hamburgers. Like a Tiny Plastic Sword for drinks, but... hamburgers and hot dogs, on a green cupcake-cake. I took a shot with my phone but the quality sucks.
I don't get it, either, but it was funny.
Oh, and the orange cake looks DELICIOUS. Just be glad it's (probably) not a lemon cake, or your eyes WOULD be bleeding. God, can you imagine that cake in Eyeball-Vibrating Neon Yellow?
~JetpackAngel - September 10, 2008 at 6:39 AM
- Pink Sith said...
F.Y.I. Jamie Glass is the little brother of George Glass (Jan Brady's "Boyfriend") And for what it's worth the orange cake, however hard to look at, makes me hungry for fluffy frosting like that. yummmm.
- September 10, 2008 at 8:08 AM
(i got nothing) - September 10, 2008 at 9:24 AM
- janine said...
I think the first cake must be for members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority who are not known for their holding back. I recognized those colors immediately, because my senior year of college I moved into a recently vacated AKA house and EVERY room was in those colors. It had a pink toilet!!!
- September 10, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Orange is my favourite colour, too! But trying to read what's on that cake is so painful to me.
"Pepto pink and green turds" is a very apt description of the Glass of 2008 cake. That one is making my throat and stomach hurt.
P.S. I LOVE the blog. It's extremely hilarious! - September 10, 2008 at 4:00 PM
- Mavis said...
except for the plastic hats (mad crazy), this cake was just my style. very retro, it kind of bespeaks the golden age plastic and aqua teal.
i wish i would have got a shot of my brother's graduation cake. when he was little he would say, "i'm serious, i'm a near genius!" so we had, "reuben is a near genius" emblazoned across the top of his costco cake. only my mother ordered it and it came out "reuben is a near genisus." i had to smash it a little before it was served to make it look like a sad accident. - September 10, 2008 at 4:55 PM
The first one looks like one of the teletubbies had the runs...
- September 10, 2008 at 10:33 PM
- K2 said...
my first thought.....the little singing slugs from the movie "flushed away"......toooooo funny!! Jen you really make my day!!
- September 11, 2008 at 12:41 AM
- Ruth said...
I happen to love the orange cake as well, particularly as it is displayed against such a lovely complimentary shade of blue.
I'm serious, I kind of love it. - September 11, 2008 at 1:41 PM
I looks like the Sta-Puft Marshmallow peep!!!
- September 11, 2008 at 3:40 PM
Am I the only one who thinks the first one looks fine? Not a cake wreck at all in my book.
Pink = Strawberry, not Pepto, IMO. - September 12, 2008 at 2:20 AM
The orange monstrosity? It's a Kraft Mac N Cheese cake - lookit it. Betcha the curls on the top represent the macaronis, and the sprinkled stuff on the top is the cheese...
Alli - September 12, 2008 at 10:54 AM
Lately I've seen cupcakes that claim to be flavored like Hawaiian Punch, Sunkist and 7Up (I haven't gotten up the nerve to try any, though!) I wonder if that orange cake is a full-sized version of the Sunkist cupcakes?
- September 13, 2008 at 2:20 AM
... I meant, IT (the yellow cake at the end) looks like the Sta-Puft Marshmallow peep!!
- September 15, 2008 at 3:58 PM
Yuk! Pepto-bismol! the worst medicine ever, the orange cake however, is the most appetizing Cake I have ever seen on this site,
YumYum! - September 26, 2008 at 7:18 PM
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