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You also want to make sure the DTs are over.
"Triangle Man, Triangle Man,
Doing the things a triangle can..."
- Related Wreckage: Back to Basics
When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong.
Well at least they didn't draw Particle Man!
The first cake looks like something my kids would put together and the last one looks like the decorator stuck all of the plastic "toys" that no kids wanted on their cakes. What a mess!
This is just... wow. I don't even have anything witty to say. My brain hurts looking at the first one.
The landscape alone in that last one is cause for worry. Love those bucks just chillin under the palm trees. You know... like they do.
I think that if Tim Burton was to use those cakes as the basis of his next movie that those sets would easily win the Oscar for "Best Set Design That Makes You Want to Gouge Out Your Eyes While You Listen to Pink Floyd."
woah. do my eyes decieve me, or is there writing on that green cake?
*cleans glasses; leans towards computer screen*
why, yes! there is writing. Happy 4th Birthday Nate.
Ahh, triangle man. My hero.
OMG! I was totally singing "Particle Man" in my head when I first saw that cookie. Maybe it's supposed to be that flounder guy on Spongebob Squarepants!
Oh, poor, poor Nate. His cake looks like silly string gone horribly wrong.
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com)
OH OH I got it....the first one is a butterfly with graffi, and triangle man is a space rocket, do i get a prize for guessing right please please .......with sprinkles and sugar??????
Hahah the green cake...it's a spastic nightmare. I just imagine the decorator screaming as they were decorating it.
TMBG reference? Jen, your geekdom knows no bounds!!
I think "Triangle Man" is supposed to be a rocket.....but...its terrible.
clowns are creepy as hell and should be out-lawed. period.
Not to mention that the other clown is sinking in quicksand!
#1: "Can't get this" -- *click-click* -- "dang red airbrush tool" -- *click-click* -- "to wooooork -- YAAAAAAA!! Jane! Stop this crazy thiiiiiiiiing!!!"
#2: "Lettuce and worms! Why, Nate is going to so love this!"
#3: "Dang it, Jane, I told you, don't put the black frosting next to the white frosting on the KKK cake!"
#4: "Oh, give me a home, where the clowns and cars roam, and the deeeer and the antelope run away…"
WV: imiscup. Imiscup cake cakes...NOT!!!
Okie Dokie.....
Ummm.. Since when are kitchen scrubbies and silly string appropriate as cake decorations for a four year old?
Can we work on a new anti-drug campaign? These cakes are real good examples of "this is your brain on drugs".
OK, the second one looks like some bad B-movie, "attack of the lettuce patch!".
And yay for the TMBG reference :)
Jen, your comments are so much more cohesive than mine were when my friend Jen sent me this picture -- my comments were more along the lines of "Bucks. and Clowns. and a ... white horse?" Hilarious, thanks for sharing. :D
The words I'm thinking of for the bakeries are "Child Labor Laws." Seriously, these look more like they were done by children, for the most part, as opposed to an acutal drunk or dugged adult.
I think "Triangle Man" is actually a rocket blasting off into space.
Yeah man, that butterfly is totally rad!!
You do not see the avant-garde, Fellini-esque quality of that last cake?? It is a masterpiece!
Those deer seem to longingly looking at me for help. They're lost in a crazy clown world. Too bad that horse isn't a unicorn. Chaaarliee!
My children think I've lost my mind, I'm laughing so hard. The clown cake owns me. Seriously.
I thought maybe the tort was the after effects of a child who'd been given epicac syrup because they swallowed an iPod. And they threw up on roadkill. Maybe.
Lol :P Triangle man :)
The second one is either Magic Eye or made by Georg Baselitz (but in that case it is upside down).
Your blog as been recommended to me by several of my friends, and I have to say I get a real kick out of it. But as a cake decorator how does this stuff happen?
Like the cake that looks like silly string was put all over it. Is that what they ordered by the customer? [I've received some odd orders before, but nothing like that ^_~]
Wrecker Man, Wrecker Man. Someone please hit him with a frying pan. Lives his life, thinking he can. Wrecker Man.
Ha! I often wonder looking at your blog if the wreckerators are on drugs. Now there is an entire post about that exact thing. Awesome.
Do you ever think about how horrible it would be to work in the factory that makes those (horrifyingly) ubiquitous plastic clown picks? Not only are the workers unlikely to be making a living wage and are probably exposed to all kinds of health-threatening chemicals, but the nightmares that such work must induce! Now there's a job for OSHA (of China?)
OMG, all I could think on the DT cake was "Poor Nate. He's only 4, and this is his cake???"
The murderous clown cake reminds me of your post from the 1960s book with cakes of pirates murdering comely ladies.
Perhaps we should be grateful that these troubled individuals are taking their aggression out in the form of cakes, vs. actually *doing* something murderous in reality.
Freaking hilarious! I am going to *sing* the "triangle song" all day now! :) And I think the last cake is the one of the top depictions of a "wreck" on my list of faves! I LOVE THIS BLOG!!
I took the photo of the clown cake (you can see my dress pattern reflected in the glass). The bakery is actually a Chinese restaurant... that just happens to also make cakes.
I've never commented before, but I've got to give you kudos for the They Might Be Giants reference!
That song is going to be stuck in my head all day...
What, exactly, is that green on chocolate mess supposed to be? Seems like maybe someone let their 2 year old play with the piping bag.
WV: Ungissei Wreckorator to boss "Ungissei..uuumm...no, I haven't been drinking again."
I think triangle man is supossed to be a rocket ship - those are the blaster things at the bottom, not webbed feet. Ok so it's still stretching the imagination but I'm just saying....
Actually, I think the clown cake is hysterical. I don't get it, but it's hysterical.
Poor Nate.
My eyes! My eyes! What is wrong with the person that thinks that all that GREEN frosting is appetizing? UGH!
i'm going to have nightmares from the green one...
I must now add a ton of TMBG songs to my Grooveshark playlist! "They have a fight, Triangle wins..."
I think "triangle man" is a rocket taking off and his "feet" is the fire that ocomes out the end.
I think I'm about to have a green frosting induced seizure. You have a little warning like they have on video games. I think Nate's cake is dangerous to synapses.
Love the TMBG reference, though.
WV: reecol- the green cake made me reecol in horror.
Major points for the They Might Be Giants reference.
The green cake....thing looks like, what will happen when the baker let his/her three year old daughter alone playing around in the kitchen. "I'll be back soon, honey. Don't touch anything! Especially not this cake there!!"
And the clowns... I understand people who suffer from a phobia of clowns better and better. Maybe they got a birthday cake like this at their third birthday.
How do you get a 4 year old to eat his veggies, like lettuce and broccoli?? Make them out of green icing, of course!!! And is that Triangle Man or Triangle Penguin? "I got so carried away with the buttons and wings, that I forgot to leave room for the head!" explained the wreckorator....
There HAS to be a story behind the road-trip frolicking clowns headed into the wild west----where the deer and the horseys play.
I think Triangle Man is meant to be a Penguin....
I must echo Wild Cakes: you are a geek, refreshing though that is... You should give a shout out to the Giants, though. Taking credit for their funnies...
I think that the last cake is an attempt to help the recipient get over his/her fears. I mean, who isn't afraid of clowns? Or of falling off of a bucking bronco and being trampled? Or bucks...um, maybe they saw that video of a hunter getting attacked by one and got freaked out? And palm trees...*ahem* Well, okay, you have to admit that brown swirly things in the sky would be, at the least, alarming. Of course, now this poor person will also be afraid of birthday cakes.
The butterfly looks like a 3 year old decorated it, and it would be really cute for a 3 year old... but not so much for a professional.
Triangle man isn't a triangle man, it's supposed to be a rocket ship.
Am I the only one who thought the clown cake featured reindeer and palm trees along with everything else?
My birthday is next week, and now I know what I want!
Ok, so I get that they were trying to do a butterfly cake, and I get the rocket cake too. But I really need to know what they intended with the green mess on Nate's cake. I mean, really, I can't fathom what they were going for, it's a 4 year olds birthday cake for goodness sake. I have a Nate at home (an 8year old one) and he doesn't get it either.
Jen, it sounds like you're having a bit of a fight with Triangle Man. Not recommended. He tends to win.
*blink blink*
That last cake...it...um, well...speachless.
That is all.
Too funny!!! The commentary really enhances the experience...
What the hell are the green lumps supposed to be, broccoli?
And you forgot to say GIANT clowns (in relation to the size of the deer and horse)!
It makes me wonder who is in charge of 'quality control' and are there any managers at all?
Maybe the first cake IS Particle Man... I mean... not that what he looks like is important...
Got a question about that poor drowing/bestabbed clown -
"When he's underwater, does he get wet?"
Hooray for TMBG!
WV: biessl. As in, if you don't know how to decorate a cake, you can at least bluff and make it biesslicious.
Ooof, that was a stretch...I think I pulled a brain muscle...
Thanks for the TMBG references!!!! Now I kinda do want to have a Triangle Man cake for my birthday... I wonder if I ask for a "Birdhouse in your soul" cake what would I get...
Just doesn't get better than crazy squiggles with monochromatic writing, made up frosting characters and insane flotsam combos.
Save the clowns, Triangle man!
Poor, poor Nate. All he wanted for his birthday was a Cabbage Patch cake...
I saw that last cake as a window display but I didn't have anything to take a picture with.
Okay, that green thing is for a 4 year old?!?! What is the theme for that party?
Hey, the last cake's not weird, it's surreal. Where else could a clown bend in a way that the human body's not designed to go?
I think I had a dream like that once. Took me a week to get over it.
--Blue Jean
Word of the day; "unmen" as in "what that clown's doing is unmenly impossible."
I think I want to *hug* you for the Particle Man link. So many memories.
trying to win trying to win trying to win, he's triangle man
wv: dround I hate it when clowns dround
The first one--aww, it's a happy butterfly. On acid.
2nd one--Umm yeah, was that made on "take your preschooler to work day?" 0_o
Rocketman--well, it's sorta cute...it's a chibi rocket! =D
Clowns--BWAHAHAAHAHA Revenge for everyone who is freaked out by clowns! THEY TURN ON EACH OTHER! mwhahahaha...
Seriously. People PAID for these. *shakes head* Ooookay.
WV: stict--If I ordered a cake and got one of these wrecks, I'd stict the bakery with the bill.
The green one reminds me of two year olds painting on t-shirts with puff paint. I think the third one is supposed to be a space shuttle, but with buttons.
Your TMBG reference made my day. I remember seeing the "Tiny Toons" music video for that song... I was six years old and fell in LOVE with They Might Be Giants. Not in love so much with the triangle cake, though.
(By the way, I'm a longtime reader, but have stayed silent in the shadows for the most part. Love the blog!)
You have to give the clown cake decorator props for actually putting fingers on the clowns. Usually those horrible blobby clowns have sausage-y arms that terminate in an oversized mitten, or a round squirt of frosting.
...never mind that the fingers are identical in design to the clumps of grass lining the riverbank.
am I the only one that likes that last cake? I mean, its just so funny and strange that I kinda love it.
ha ha ha! tee he tee he!
laughing my face off!
BTW I think "Particle Man" must be a knock-off of the original Spiderman theme.
I think the "triangle man" is a space rocket. If you look at the bottom, it looks like flames out of the exhaust.
What happens when Triangle Man meets Person Man?
Is there a W.A. out there, along the lines of A.A.? "My name is Joe, and I'm a wreckorater." "HI, JOE!" "Once, I had a slip for a happy birthday butterfly cake, and I fell asleep with the airbrush on! That was my lowest point. I came straight here after that. I haven't made a CCC (ptooui) since!"
WV anofl- Oh, look! Anofl cake wreck!
My 3yo just walked over to see while I was looking at the enlarged pic of the last cake.
His first response: "That's my *favorite* birthday cake! I LOVE IT!"
Then (to his brothers): "Guys, come here! Wait, Mom, I gotta show that weird cake to the boys!"
I can see the rocket on the triangle man cake, but what is the green squiggle mess *supposed* to be???
Rocket? Triangle Man? I thought it was a faceless isosceles penguin. Or is that equilateral? Gah! Geometry before coffee? I have lost my mind.
I think bakeries probably draw a lot of drug-test-dodgers. They have munchies fodder, they talk about stuff getting "baked", and they use vibrant (edible!) colors. If I were high, I'd definitely want to work at a bakery.
Saddest part about it is the shell and ruffle border on that clown cake is PERFECT....i do think it is appropreate that all the clowns have "x's" for eyes though.
I thought this site was awesome before, but you've just stepped it up a level with a TMBG reference!
Just a note to say that Particle Man is one of my kids all time favourite songs. Nice touch!
Those were seriously disturbing.
People, Triangle man is not a rocket! He's Baby Morris Day's butt crack at Epcot!
Actually I think Triangle Man would make a fab mascot. You can put a little logo on the more popular wrecks that says: "Triangle Man Approved!" with Mr. Triangle Man giving a thumbs up.
And he needs to be on a T-shirt, of course!
Pity - the scary clown cake actually has very nice sides.
Geez. My eyes hurt.
Just FYI: hardly anyone around rodeo says "broncos" anymore. Just "bronc" or "broncs". LOL
~Amy B.
Maybe it's because I'm not familiar with the TMBG oevre, but I, too, came up with the Spidey theme for the Triangle Man. Am I dating myself? Sigh...
I also thought that Triangle Man was a rocket, until I saw the pom-pom on top of the triangle. Sooo, maybe it's supposed to be a black & white clown whose hat is covering his face? Just guessing.
The Fellini reference for the last one made me laugh. Clowns and ponies don't mix, otherwise.
Great post! See you in Austin!
TMBG!!!! My two favorite things have coincided today: TMBG and Cake Wrecks.
Maybe I should get an awful cake tattooed next to my TMBG tattoo.
Delirium tremens and silly string! Yay!
LMAO @ Triangle Man. Good stuff
Delerium Tremens is a mighty delicious brew though...
I can imagine that a 4-year-old would like a silly string cake. Maybe not all in green, though. Love this blog. Thanks for the daily laughs!
Universe man, universe man. Size of the entire universe man..
Wow - once again I am speechless. The ccc butterfly (ptooie), the green on black icing blobs, the horse/deer/clown/car/palm tree cake - priceless!
PS: Am I the only one here who doesn't know that TMBG is??
WV: mindstop - the sight of the last cake made my mind stop working this morning - HAHAHA
AAAHHHHH! AAAHHHHH! My brain is exploding and my optic nerve is incinerated!
I'm not against most drug usage, but I *am* against being intoxicated while at work. They need to save that for home in the evenings! That butterfly is just insane! And the...cabbages? with the scribbles? There is no excuse for that. None. I want to march in there and scream YOU'RE FIRED!
I'm probably not the first to suggest this but...I am starting to think Wreckorators are doing this on purpose in order to see their handiwork on your website. I mean, seriously - these can NOT be on purpose. Can they?
I always laugh at your posts. But "triangle man" seriously made my eyes water as I laughed. Seriously.
Triangle Man reminds me a bit of a penguin. Feet sans happy.
Long time lurker, just wanted to say thank you for keeping me laughing through the duldrums of an office job.
I'm Nate's mom. Just wanted to clear up we did NOT order a silly string cake. It was supposed to be an "Indiana Jones" inspired delight. My husband and I thought it hilarious nonetheless, and 4 year olds really don't care what a cake looks like....right?
Jen - that's a rocket.
Not that that excuses the cake. I'm just saying.
That reminds me, I have to take a picture for you, if the cake's still at the grocery store.
That Green Tree Cake could have been okay, if they didn't scribble with the fine point tip all over!!
I agree....drug screening should be mandatory!!
"Hi, we want a cake for our little Nate's birthday. Could you model it off of this early masterpiece from our budding little artist?
Oh, and also, his favorite color is green. Thanks!"
after squinting for a while, i think that brown poo in the sky on the clown cake...is supposed to be the dessert sun O.o
Well, at least it isn't the Triangle Man from Silent Hill...
The clown cake...holy cannoli! Clowns are frightening enough by themselves, but when they're bent in half the wrong way...hmmmm. Bucks and palm trees? Round red blobs? I think we're starting to drift into David Lynch territory with this one.
@ Nate's Mom... Indiana Jones inspired, hmm...
Well I guess I can stretch a little ways and say from above it could pass for tree tops and jungle vines.
They still missed whatever they were going for though.
Aack! Triangle man! I love him. What is that??
The clowns...of the clowns. Why? That's just wrong.
Nice TMBG reference! :)
Triangle Man is definitely a rocket. That apparently does up with buttons.
Love the TMBG reference!!!!! Too cool!
Well, I do know that deer hang around palmetto trees on occasion ...
Re the first and second cakes: whatever those people were on at the time, I want some.
Word verification: waite. I can't waite to read Cake Wrecks every day.
The They Might be Giants reference almost made me spit tea all over my laptop. XD ROFL
This blog makes me laugh till I cry almost daily! Thanks :)
Those clown decorations should've been chucked out during the McCarthy era, because they are freaky as hell.
I like the first one, though, but Katamari Damacy may have trained me to be amused by bright colors with gentle insanity.
wv: dupes. Yeah, the baker dupes people into buying these Wrecks!
Mira8: You know, I was kinda thinking the same thing until I went to a large chain store bakery today. I kid you not, they had this thing that I think was supposed to be a shih-tzu. The cake must have been a rolled cake of some type...with all the frosting "hair" draping off of it. It had the most insane face you've ever seen and these chocolate...things...trailing behind it. When I realized the things were supposed to be muddy footprints, I started laughing so hard I caused a bit of a scene!
If only I had had my camera with me!!!!
(Oh, and yay for the TMBG reference! My favorite screen name since my MUD days (now that really makes me a geek) has been blu_canary! Yes, as in "in the outlet by the light switch".)
Oh Geesh. It just keeps getting worse..
holy smokes, these are weird! What's the deal with the green one? I don't get it. Nor do I understand the "triangle man"...very strange.
I think the decorator of #4 was inspired by David Lynch. Only he could combine a clown car accident with wildlife and palm trees.
That clown cake points to a problem with many of these cakes; namely dimension. You have a three dimensional scene on a two dimensional cake with the X axis of the scene corresponding to the Y axis of the cake causing the whole cake to be wrong both aesthetically AND mathematically. If I have lost everyone, I apologize but for those geeks out there (you know who you are, you LOVED the Doctor Who cakes just as I did), you get what I mean.
Once upon a time my family moved me from my happy life on the east coast to a desolate air force base out west. Along the way I turned 7 and they bought me a Smurf cake. This was in 1987...but I can vividly remember the Happy Birthday and the bridge that the little hiker Smurf was walking over...and it's the same ones as the last cake. When the Smurfs go missing, you must have to go with clowns...
I'm pretty sure that the triangle man is a rocket ship.
This is why kids hate clowns >_<
While I worked as a cake decorator, my boss had this great idea to let the kids decorate their own cakes on mothers days, I must say, that looks alot like what was going on then.
I love your site, I visit it every day and I always enjoy it. I just took a job at Food Lion in the deli/bakery and I'm going to be decorating cakes... I'm a little bit terrified that I'll suck and end up on Cake Wrecks but I am going to do my best to avoid it!
I find it hysterical that you referenced partical man today, since I JUST saw the tiny toons episode that uses that song!
They Might Be Giants just doesn't get quoted enough. And my monitor must be bad, because on the last cake with the clowns, I read that as Slappy, not Happy Birthday.
Thank You for the They Might Be Giants reference.
I already thought you were awesome, but now I am head over heels for you--all because you referenced old school TMBG. *swoon*
They Might Be Giants! SO my era!
"Triangle Man, Triangle Man, Triangle Man hates Person Man. They have a fight, Triangle wins. Degraded man, Person Man...." Accordion Solo!
Max here!
I love Triangle Man! Hes only like the best super hero since Toast Man!
I chuckle at the majority of the entries, but the commentary on the clown cake made me crack up. WOW. The wrecks are enough on their own, but your commentary just takes the hilariousness to another level.
I find clowns to be kind of creepy, but this is just downright disturbing.
I was nauseated by the green squiggly things, it looked too much like thin, moldy worms on the get-away. *shudder*
The clowns. Oh, dear heavens above what does someone say about THOSE?! Um... I'm glad they weren't on a surprise cake for me?
However, I have to admit to liking the triangle-in-a-tux. He reminded me of the townspeople from The Point and brought up warm, fuzzy childhood memories. The Skeksis can do that for me as well, any cakes of them?
triangle man may just be my favorite superhero now...
The third cake gives me a serious case of border envy. So, what did they do? Have the borders done by their best decorator and then call in an unhinged person to "decorate" the top? Weird. Totally weird.
Wait, lemme get this straight...
So far, I've seen multiple references to Doctor Who, They Might be Giants, Star Trek, Stargate...and all of this wrapped up in cake?
I...I think I love you.
bahahahaha! And this is what cake on acid looks like. The happy, hallucinogenic butterfly attacks!
My husband would LOVE a Triangle Man cake! What a great idea!
I'd like to defend the 'triangle man'...well, defend the decorator.
Unfortunately, this is one of the 100 or so designs approved by GAC. Even the 'professional' one in the brochure looks like this cake!!!
In my 7yrs working at GAC, I've done this cake exactly twice, probably because no one could figure it out what its suppose to be. For the record, its suppose to be a rocket ship and there's suppose to be stars all around the ship.
That clown cake is a work of art. If I am ever allowed to marry, that is going to be my wedding cake.
But... they spelled "happy Briday" wrong.
I'm sort of wondering if/hoping that the first cake was based on the child's drawing. (Except it doesn't look like it was custom made, so who knows. That and as a social worker I have some concerns about the child who created it.)
The first one would be a jubilant success had it been made at home by mom and a two year old. Too bad it's masquerading as a professional effort.
I've seen, and own, all the Indiana Jones movies and I just don't see the source of inspiration. It's a little like the exploded alien brains in Mars Attacks, though.
If the clown cake was made by a Chinese restaurant, maybe it's sort of a rebus or a pun or something in Chinese...
Hooray for the They Might be Giants reference!
Dead clowns to boot! 'Cause that's what those little X's in their eyes are. Can't stand dead clowns.
Oh my gosh, nothing makes me happier than a They Might Be Giants reference! =]=]
Actually, I want that first cake. Rainbow psychedelia on a butterfly? I'm down. :)
You know, Triangle man HATES Particle Man. You should also try singing the Spiderman theme song to the Particle Man tune and vice versa. It totally works.
The second cake is actually a high class thing. See most people don't know is that "Nate" invented Silly String. And he, ahhhh, really likes cabbage.
A TMBG reference? On Cake Wrecks?
Jen, I think I love you.
Yay! a TMBG reference! <3
Yay for TMBG! It's amazing how so many things I like and/or find funny come together on this blog. Thanks for keeping me amused and my 11 y.o. in hysterics
I LOVE They Might Be Giants!
Poor Nate.. he's only 4. He so doesn't deserve that.
My son had to inform me that the cookie cake is supposed to be a rocket ship, not a Picasso penguin. I still like my interpretation of the picture better, even though his is probably more accurate.
Actually, that clown is not stabbing at all! He's trying to rescue that clown from drowning the in white water creek running through the middle of the cake. And his body position on the bridge makes total sense. Thats exactly how I'd brace myself if I were saving a drowing friend :)
Okay, along with Jen and John for giving me my daily dose of awesomeness and LOL-lery, I also now *heart* Christina for this:
People, Triangle man is not a rocket! He's Baby Morris Day's butt crack at Epcot!
(Although by this point in the comments, I'm thinking we need to add something about a TMBG reference--but that's just me.)
Now, in re: the cakes--
People, I used to DO drugs. SERIOUS drugs. For, like, YEARS. And neither I, nor any self-respecting junkie* I ever knew, would have permitted indignities such as these to be perpetrated on innocent food items. For one thing, the David-Lynch-meets-Rob-Zombie-ness of that clown-murder cake comes a wee bit TOO close to some kind of cold-turkey-Day-Three nightmare.
So, in short: even chronic substance-abusers generally have better taste, a less-horrifying sense of color, and steadier hands than those who created today's exhibits. And remember: Friends don't let friends wreck cakes.
I LOVE the reference to "They Might be Giants!" in your commentary! Perhaps you could work Istanbul in some other time!
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
Jen, I think the worst cake ever is in this very post; cake #2...that busy green mess. What. The. Aych?!
Oh Wow! Helllllooooooo?? Anyone home!?? The clown cake is killin' me! LMBO!! Love the commentaries and y'all's comments too!
First time commenting as I have been reading a long time!! Could not let the clown/buck/???? cake go by with no critique!
Holy Cr@pol@!
and poor Nate . . . the only way that would be appropriate is if he had decorated it himself!! Poor Baby!
I'm pretty sure some bakery type places DO use drug screening, a girl I know in Michigan didn't get a decorating job as a result, which seemed a little harsh!
Thanks Gladys! And I agree about the TMBG so I will oblige. For those who do not know what this means, it's "officially" a band called "They Might Be Giants."
However it "could" be:
"Teenage Mutant Billy Goats"
"Try Mom's Baked Gouda"
And my personal favorite to say to TMBG fans:
"They Must Be Geeks"
WV: teribbra-yes, I know my jokes are teribbra
Your blog is beyond funny!!! Thanks for making my Monday much better!!! Love the comments too. The Under neat that" cake is mu favorite. :o)
I think that's a rocket....
Today I walked past a Chinese restaurant in downtown Chicago with my husband. It was closed but there were wedding/birthday/anniversary cakes in the window. For some odd reason.
Here's what happened:
Me: I like that one. And that one. And do you think the silver balls on that one are edible? And OH MY GOD THAT'S THE CAKE WRECKS CLOWN CAKE.
Husband: What?
Me: I'm serious. You didn't see it?! I'll show you when I get home.
Man walking past: Hey, that's from Cake Wrecks.
Me: See, it wasn't only me who saw it.
I showed him when we got home and he said yes, I see, it is the same cake. And I said I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE CAKEWRECKS PEOPLE WHEN THEY ARE IN TOWN!
HAHA! I thought it was Triangle Man too. It didn't even occur to me that it could be a rocket until I read all these comments. Might have to look again, lol!
The "Triangle Man" is a rocket... doesn't take a genius to notice that one lol.
That rocket ship cake didn't say, "D-day"?
I couldn't stop laughing about #4, "Clown Wars," and all those unrelated animals! Those clowns must be trying to kill each other off for the single prized opening at the circus; after all, it's a recession, and even the Big Top's downsizing!
And that triangle cake, yes, the first thing I thought of was that They Might Be Giants Song, but I didn't think rocket, because what spaceship has *webbed feet*? People, it's a deformed penguin. After all, it IS black and white -- and has webbed feet!
I just discovered your site, and I am HOOKED - and this clown get up takes the cake... I am sitting at my desk crying with laughter! Thank you!
"butterfly" looks like all of the second graders on the playground at my school did.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
The Best Toy I Bought this Summer
38 comments:
- Ali said...
Did you go to Sausalito Ferry Company? I love that store so much, they have the craziest inventory. Glad you enjoyed Marin as much as I enjoy living there!
- July 14, 2009 at 12:39 AM
- TheJungleman said...
That's awesome! 2009 version of Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots.
- July 14, 2009 at 12:44 AM
- Unknown said...
Looks Realy FUN!!!
I should try it some time :) - July 14, 2009 at 1:09 AM
- Eugen Caitaz said...
This is a realy awesome!
- July 14, 2009 at 1:22 AM
- Avinash said...
I wish I could live like you.
If only I had enough money to get a frontal lobotomy too... a man can dream though, a man can dream.
:P - July 14, 2009 at 3:12 AM
- Hurleyrules said...
The balloon helicopter almost looks like the white orb from that show the prisoner only with wings.
- July 14, 2009 at 3:58 AM
- Topanga said...
I bet Nunu loves that toy! It turns her living room into an LA freeway! LMAO!
- July 14, 2009 at 4:26 AM
- Petra said...
You need to let the "Bump and Chuck RC Bumper Cars" folks know that you are endorsing their product, because I immediately want to get them and you should at least be rewarded for your good review!
: ) P - July 14, 2009 at 5:30 AM
Those look super cool! I know my hubby would love them. I wonder if you could order online?
- July 14, 2009 at 5:48 AM
- MissBeaHaven said...
I agree with Petra let the company know, and if they send you mass quanitys of the toy start a league of Bump n Chuck Smackdown. I envision a portable track, with built in hazzards well you get the idea. I going online to look for my own floor Warriors. Thanks for the spark of fun this morning with my coffee.
- July 14, 2009 at 5:56 AM
- Miztification said...
I'm the same way about toy stores, Jorge. :)
Poseable action figures (with really good likenesses) are my weakness, not so much into cars and planes.
My dad used to collect Matchbox cars, etc. for a time...I guess I get my penchant for collecting from him. - July 14, 2009 at 6:05 AM
- Tammy said...
That's how my husband is!
My mom got my kids these toys that are on a lawnmower type mechanism and they are just a platsic cirle with "spokes/blades" in the middle, you put the circle (with an led light on it) on the handle menchanism, pull the lawnmower string and it flies extremely high. It was alot of fun, best part they were like $1.50 each. I got everyone of the kids stuck on a 3 story high roof-too fun-the kids werent happy-I did it 3 times.
You should try and find them, you would really like them! - July 14, 2009 at 6:22 AM
- MissBeaHaven said...
Jorge, I just googled the toy and your blog showed up, here it is: Dispatches from the Island Jul 10, 2009 ... However one toy that for me delivered exactly as I thought it would is Kid Galaxy's "Bump and Chuck RC Bumper Cars." ...
I hope the Galaxy people see it. - July 14, 2009 at 6:33 AM
- Tales of Whimsy said...
I'm the same way! Love it!
- July 14, 2009 at 6:56 AM
- Gilsner said...
Mr. Jorge... you must visit thinkgeek.com! Seriously. If you're a child of the 80's, a geek (not that I'm implying...) or just like plain old fun you have to check it out. They even have shirts that interact with each other, a hot potato game that shocks people (kick-a#$!), and- a company after my own little-girl heart- a cute, fuzzy, singing gizmo! Seriously? Seriously! http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/b89a/
- July 14, 2009 at 7:26 AM
- ReNaTo UêGa said...
Oh funny! I wanna try it someday. Hehehe
Sucess Jorgeman! - July 14, 2009 at 8:10 AM
- Mommycosm said...
Those robots look perfect for my son's birthday gift this year, thanks :)
BTW, he's turning 4. Boys never really grow up, do they?! - July 14, 2009 at 8:19 AM
- Christy O said...
Since it looks like you've been hanging out in Sonoma and Marin--if you're still in the area you need to check out Heebe Jeebe in Petaluma. Fun unique toy store =)
- July 14, 2009 at 8:39 AM
- Christy O said...
oh - here's a few comments on it =) http://www.heebejeebe.com/
- July 14, 2009 at 8:41 AM
- James Hernandez said...
Knock their blocks off! - July 14, 2009 at 9:03 AM
- Poorpooland said...
You american people are SO BORED.
- July 14, 2009 at 9:27 AM
- Topanga said...
Actually I would think "Bump and Chuck Bumper Cars" would be anything BUT boring. I'm Canadian and I find myself envious of the well entertained Americans who have this toy.
:-p - July 14, 2009 at 10:28 AM
- AlYaGotADo said...
Thanks for making me laugh a little this morning Hugo! You're the best! I mean Jorge! You'll always be Hugo to me!
- July 14, 2009 at 10:32 AM
- Staci said...
The RC cars look cool! My 9yo son approves. He'd like to come play, but HI is an awfully long commute from SC.
- July 14, 2009 at 11:24 AM
- MsYvone said...
Thanks Jorge! Now I know EXACTLY what to get my brother in law for christmas! SCORE!
- July 14, 2009 at 11:33 AM
- Maya99 said...
Never feel silly about buying toys! My office is a shrine to my youth, and whenever I see childhood faves at antique malls, on eBay, etc. I scoop them (back) up.
- July 14, 2009 at 2:41 PM
- Movie Star Wife said...
Those bumper car toys sound fun. I just might have to investigate those for myself. I mean for my kids.
- July 14, 2009 at 5:43 PM
- Erin said...
I'm always a fan of the bumper cars! These look super-fun! :D And I'm 28 but I can't walk by a toy store without stopping by either...
- July 14, 2009 at 6:23 PM
- BeckyW said...
I think you have inspired my son's b'day present. I think he will love the Bump and Chuck RC Bumper Cars.
BTW, I enjoy your blog. You seem like a really cool person. I enjoy getting a little bit of Hawaii through your blog. We visited there last summer. I miss it. I also am a total LOST fan. - July 14, 2009 at 7:01 PM
- Lacy said...
That is sad.
Just think of some kid purchasing the balloon toy and having the problems you had.
Pooh on the manufacturer!
Also, your post yesterday on cucumbers.
They need to be harvested before they grow too big.
One, they will taste better.
Two, they're not as scary.
Love your blog, it's a hoot! - July 14, 2009 at 7:29 PM
- tarddersauce said...
Gotta stop by my toy store in Lake Placid, NY then. Totally out of the way, I know. But what the hell. We need some gimic to get people up here other than the Olympics from years ago.
- July 14, 2009 at 10:54 PM
- Kathi said...
I just checked out the Bump and Chuck Bumper Cars on Amazon and they have a short video of the toy in action, for those interested!
Jorge-If you like fun and addicting toys, you HAVE to check out the Hasbro Electronic Hyper Slide. You'd love it! - July 15, 2009 at 12:17 AM
I think you should buy a set of the RC bumper cars for the 33 poster on this thread ;)
- July 15, 2009 at 1:46 AM
- Kiraa said...
I just want to see a video of Jorge & someone in action using them LOL
- July 15, 2009 at 6:25 AM
- Updates about Hanna said...
CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR MY NEPHEW, DECLAN! Thanks, Jorge!
- July 16, 2009 at 5:50 AM
- Judy in Indiana said...
have to ut this on the list for my kids' Christmas this year, I think they will love it!
- July 16, 2009 at 10:29 AM
- kerenl said...
niiiiiiiiiiiice :)
- July 17, 2009 at 3:07 AM
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- Bundled registration for both ALA's 2011 Midwinter Meeting & Annual Conference will be available from September 1, 2010 through September 30, 2010 at www.ala.org/midwinter. Registering for both at once saves YALSA members $75.
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You can add ticketed events if you've already registered! You can contact Nichole Gilbert at firstname.lastname@example.com or 1-800-545-2433, ext. 4387, to reserve a ticket for the institute. You can also add events through ALA registration: (1) By phone: Call ALA Registration at 1-800-974-3084 and ask to add a workshop or special event to your existing registration; (2) Online: Add an event to your existing registration by clicking this Midwinter Registration link. Use your log in and password to access your existing Midwinter registration and add events in the "Your Events" section (screen 6). Then simply check out and pay for the events you've added.
Teen Services & the Whole Library Experience Institute
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Convention Center room 11A
As a YA librarian, you offer great services and resources you offer the teens in your community. But what about the rest of your library? Teens don't limit themselves to the YA collection or the teen space. Attend this workshop to learn how to strengthen your library's overall service to teens through collaborating with all parts of the library to create a teen-friendly evironment. Presenters include: Linda Braun, Penny Johnson, Teri Lesesne and Sara Ryan. Participants will explore:
- Recent research on teens and library services
- Ideas for cross-departmental programming
- Successful tactics for gaining funding and administrative support for strengthening teen services and fully integrating it into the overall library program
- Tips for building partnerships across library departments to strengthen teen services
Ticketed event. $195 for YALSA members, students and retirees; $235 for ALA members; $285 for nonmembers. Lunch included. You do not need to register for ALA's Midwinter Meeting to attend this YALSA institute.
4 to 5 PM, convention center room 10
Are you a YALSA member who's familiar with the basic programs, services and opportunities that the organization has to offer? Are you interested in becoming more involved in the association or are you ready to step up to a leadership position? If so, this event is designed for you! Come chat with: 1) members of YALSA's Nominating Committee, which identifies candidates for YALSA's Board of Directors and certain awards committees; 2) members of YALSA's Publishing Committee, who help oversee YALSA's book publishing program; 3 ) various committee chairs & conveners and learn what it's like to lead a YALSA committee, jury, taskforce, discussion group or interest group; 4) and more!
YALSA Happy Hour
5 to 6:30 PM, at The Old Spaghetti Factory, 275 Fifth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101, www.osf.com/. Kickoff Midwinter at this informal networking event!
It's a Not so Silent Auction!
from 8 to 10PM, convention center room 7
Hosted by YALSA's Financial Advancement Committee, everyone is welcome to attend this free, informal event which includes refreshments and a cash bar. Be the first person to try the YALSAtini! All proceeds will go to support the Friends of YALSA. To see what items are available for bidding, or to donate something yourself, access the 2011 Silent Auction Sign-up Sheet. Bidding takes place between 8:00 and 9:15. Winning bidders may pay for their item via cash, check or credit card. Must be present to win.
See photos of items we'll have for bid at YALSA's Flickr page
Also, if you have a family member or friend who works at a company that could donate an item or gift card, please let us know. Many thanks…if you have any questions, please contact the committee chair, Pam Spencer Holley.
YALSA collected dessert recipes until Sept. 30 for a cookbook to be auctioned off. Download the Cookbook Submission Template and contact Amy Alessio with any questions!
YALSA Events at the Midwinter Meeting
Saturday, January 8
- Leadership Development Saturday 8AM to 10AM, Manchester Grand Hyatt room E/F. This is a leadership training session for YALSA's Selection & Award Committee Chairs. All current and out-going Selection & Award Committee Chairs are expected to attend. In-coming Selection & Award Committee Chairs are welcome to attend, but are not required to do so. Directors on YALSA's Board are also expected to attend. Never been a Selection or Award Committee Chair, but thinking about being one? Come to this event to learn the leadership basics for these particular types of committees. A continental breakfast will be served from 8:00 to 8:30.
- All Committee meeting Saturday 10AM - 12:00 PM, Manchester Grand Hyatt room E/F. This is a working meeting for all of YALSA's Process Committees, Juries and Taskforces. Not on a commmittee or other member group? Stop on by and learn what it's all about. Individuals who are not serving on a member group, but who want to learn about them are welcome to choose a member group and sit in on their meeting. A continental breakfast will be served from 10:00 to 10:30.
- YALSA Past Presidents' Lecture: CANCELLED. Speaker Mary K. Chelton has had to cancel her appearance at the Midwinter Meeting. Chelton's lecture, "Roots and Branches: YA Beginnings and Horizons," will be posted as a video on the YALSA website in the future. Looking toward both the past and the future, she will discuss why this specialty started, current trends of note, and directions for the future. Where are we going (or should be going)? Chelton is eminently qualified to speak on this topic. Always a thought-provoking and passionate advocate for young adults, she served as President of YALSA (then known as YASD) in 1976-1977 and continues today as researcher, teacher, thinker, and writer in the areas of young adult services, public libraries, intellectual freedom and more.
Sunday, January 9
- Coffee with the Candidates: 10:30 - noon, convention center room 9 - Meet and mingle with the candidates who are on the ballot for the 2011 election, including President-Elect, Fiscal Officer, Secretary and Board of Directors at Large. Candidates will have the opportunity to talk about why they want to serve on YALSA's Board of Directors and attendees will have the chance to mingle with the candidates and ask questions. Light refreshments and door prizes.
- Discussion Forum: Answering the Young Adult Reference Question - What is the Question? 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon, convention center room 8- Join former YALSA president Mary K. Chelton and RUSA's Reference Services Section Chair Joe Thompson to participate in a discussion about the dynamics of negotiating reference questions with Young Adults face-to-face and via various technologies. Open to all ALA attendees. The forum will conclude with a discussion of the future of YA services in the Reference Services Section of RUSA. Co-sponsored by the RSS User Education and Information Literacy Committee and YALSA.
- Best Fiction for Young Adults Teen Session: 1:30 - 3:30, convention center room 14 - Come hear local San Diego area teens talk about their favorite picks for the 2011 BFYA list.
Monday, January 10
The year's best books & media for teens are announced at the ALA Youth Media Awards Press Conference, from 7:45-9:15 AM (pacific) Monday morning, convention center ballroom A-D. The award announcement will be broadcast live online. Or you can be there in person to find out who wins YALSA's:
- twelfth annual Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature
- twenty third Edwards Award for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature
- fourteenth Alex Awards, honoring the top ten adult books with teen appeal
- fourth annual Odyssey Award for excellence in audiobook production for youth
- third annual Morris Award for the best book by a first time YA author
- second annual YA Nonfiction Award
Can't make it? Watch the event live via a webcast from the ALA home page or sign up to receive the list of winners via text messaging. Please check back here in December for details about how to receive the text message.
- Think Big Summit from 10:30 to noon, convention center room 10. YALSA wants your feedback! Please join YALSA for a discussion facilitated by Kathryn Deiss about what direction YALSA should take in the next 3-5 years. YALSA President Kim Patton, as part of her Think Big presidential initiative, wants to take the pulse of the membership and solicit some 'big' ideas before the next formal round of strategic planning that YALSA will do in fall 2011/spring 2012.
- Joint Youth Division Member Reception from 6:00PM to 7:30 PM, convention center room 2 - Come here to unwind, mingle with peers and enjoy light hors d'oevres as well as a cash bar.
- Morris & Nonfiction Award Program & Presentation from 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM, convention center room 24 A-C.
Come to this free event and help YALSA celebrate the 2011 honorees and winners for the Morris Award and YA Nonfiction Award! Cash bar and light hors d'oeuvres from 7:30 to 8:00. From 8:00 to 9:30 finalists are invited to speak about their honored titles. Mingle with the authors and enjoy more refreshments from 9:30 to 10:00. The Morris finalists and Nonfiction finalists were announced the first week of December. Authors confirmed to attend this event are:
- Nonfiction finalist Ann Angel, author of Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing
- Nonfiction finalist Susan Campbell Bartoletti, author of They Called Themselves the KKK: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
- Nonfiction finalist Peter Robertshaw, author of Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates
- Morris finalist Lish McBride, author of Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
- Morris finalist Barbara Stuber, author of Crossing the Tracks
- Morris finalist Blythe Woolston, author of The Freak Observer
Be sure to attend this free event and pick up signed copies of books!
Other Events of Interest
- 2011 Forum on Library Education from 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. on Friday, convention center room 32 A/B. The ALA Committee on Education and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) will present the forum on "LIS Faculty and Practitioners Surviving and Thriving Together"
- ALA/JobLIST Placement Center Saturday and Sunday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. in the convention center, lower level, Hall H. There will be an orientation on Saturday, January 8, 8:30 a.m. the Placement Center. Job seekers should register and search for jobs on the JobLIST website at http://joblist.ala.org. All services are free to job seekers. Registration is not required, but is recommended. Registration allows registered employers access to your resume information. It will also allow for direct communication between job seekers and employers.
- Meet the ALA Presidential Candidates' from 6:00 to 7:30 on Sunday, San Diego Marriott & Marina, room Marina F. Attend this session to meet the candidates running for ALA President-Elect.
- ALA Council/Executive Board/Membership Information Meeting from 9-10AM on Sunday. This meeting is a chance for ALA leaders to hear concerns and issues from any conference attendee who has something to share.
- Youth Council Caucus Meeting from 9-10AM on Monday, in the back of the ALA Council Chamber room (convention center ballroom A-D). This meeting is open to all registered conference attendees. Come and meet the ALA Councilors who are members of AASL, ALSC and YALSA and learn about how youth issues are brought forward in ALA Council.
- ALA Executive Board Candidates' Forum, from 12:30 to 1:30PM on Monday. Attend this session to learn about the candidates running for ALA's Executive Board.
YALSA Governance at Conference
YALSA's Board of Directors has three meetings at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. Board meetings are open meetings and any individual who is registered for the conference may sit in on the meetings. The first 10 minutes of each meeting are set aside for visitors and board members to use as an 'open forum' where anyone can share information, ask questions, etc. The meeting schedule is as follows:
- Board of Directors Meeting I, Saturday January 8th, 1:30 to 5:30, convention center room 12
- Board of Directors Meeting II, Sunday January 9th, 4:00 to 5:30, convention center room 12
- Board of Directors Meeting III, Monday January 10th, 1:30 to 3:30, convention center room 12
The Board agenda and documents are finalized two weeks prior to the conference and posted online. Anyone interested in viewing the agenda for the Board meeting, as well as the documents that accompany the agenda items, may view or download them from the Governance section of the YALSA web site. To learn about past Board meetings and actions, visit the Governance page on YALSA's web site to read the minutes from past meetings. If you have questions about governance matters or anything related to the Board of Directors, please feel free to contact YALSA'sPresident, or Beth Yoke. To stay up to date on the lastest governance and Board issues, check out YALSA's blog. The President will post regular updates during and after the Midwinter Meeting.


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Tennis. This sport requires strong and balanced lower and upper legs. Serving and hitting the ball from a sideways position also puts great torque on the midsection. So, it's important to condition your oblique muscles. These are the muscles on your side that twist your trunk. For power and injury prevention, strengthen your shoulders, arms, and elbows.
Swimming. Pulling yourself through the water demands a strong chest and midsection. The muscles controlling the front and sides of the chest become too strong for the muscles in the back and top of the shoulders. So you need to stretch the front and sides and strengthen the back and top muscles. Because swimmers are always kicking, the muscles that control your hips and knees also need to be strong.
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A native of Iowa and resident of Davenport, John Vincent Bloom (1906-2002) drew inspiration from his immediate surroundings and personal experiences. In so doing, he has left a lasting impression of the small rural communities scattered across the Iowa landscape and the lives sustained by the predominantly agrarian economy. Bloom's singular interest in depicting local, American subject matter reflects his life-long commitment to Regionalism. Popular during the years of the Great Depression, Regionalism eschewed the abstraction introduced by the Parisian school of art in favor of a more naturalistic and easily recognizable style and subject matter. Striving to create art that was uniquely American, Regionalist artists shunned the frenetic lifestyle of the metropolis and focused on depicting the American heartland. In this respect, Regionalism was very much a product of its times, reflecting and reacting to the unease and instability felt by the nation in the wake of the Great War. Reassuring images of rural America validated the worth and power of a nation struggling with economic hardship and political instability.
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