Saturday, May 1, 2010

Mint Juleps

 Mint Julep recipe from The Kitchn
http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/ingredients-herbs/mint-juleps-for-kentucky-derby-day-083439

The Kentucky Derby reminds me of mint juleps (obviously).  And mint juleps remind me of the scene in The Great Gatsby where on a stiflingly hot day they rent out a room at the Plaza Hotel so they have a place to drink mint juleps.  If I won the lottery, that's the first thing I'd do.




Great American Writers & Their Cocktails
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6624971

Mint Julep Cupcakes (not sure how I feel about these)
http://www.erinsfoodfiles.com/2009/04/mint-julep-cupcakes.html

8 hyper-realist sculptors

Wacky stuff.  Saw Ron Mueck (pictured) at Brooklyn Museum.  Amazing and disturbing
http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2010/04/the-8-worlds-most-prominent-hyper-realist-sculptors/

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Creepy Baby plus Weird Cake

I've found a beautiful intersection of the creepy baby theme and the weird cake theme.

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2010/04/dolly-wants-to-play.html

Biscuit Pillow

Fancy a biscuit...pillow.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Gigantic Robot Baby

21 foot tall robot baby created for Shanghai Expo
http://gizmodo.com/5526393/chinas-21+foot+tall-baby-is-here-to-creep-out-the-world


Zoo Prudes, a rant


Just wanted to share the following gchat between me and my husband...

me: so, the coney island aquarium had a walrus that is notorious for masturbating

me: it's a documented fact and i saw this little blurb about it the other day and a woman in the comments was going on and on about how inappropriate it is and how she's lucky her children were distracted by something in the other direction and all that

me: i think it's silly though. it's just an animal

Husband: whatever
I hate zoo prudes


me: ha ha ha, that is a great way to put it

Husband: so your kids see a animal touch its dick

Husband: I vow to never walk around freaking out over what my kids sees. They are in coney island, see sex workers and homeless people, a dirty beach etc, but god forbid they see an animal touching itself or fucking. Kids were born through fucking. they aint jesus christ. Not to mention, little kids likely wouldn't know what was happening anyway. And what should they do? put the walrus on medication, send it to sex therapy, kill it?

Husband: rant over

me: nice rant

Husband: merci beaucoup

If anyone is interested, there are numerous youtube clips of Ayveq the masturbating walrus on youtube. Sadly, he passed away in 2008 at the age of 14.

Food and Craft Market in BK

This weekend:
Brooklyn Lyceum's Spring Food and Craft Market
Saturday and Sunday,
May 1 and 2, 2010 11am - 7pm
http://www.bkcraftcentral.com/

Mama's hungry

Momofuku cereal milk panna cotta, pork buns and more:
http://trissalicious.com/2010/04/27/new-york-city-my-best-meal/

Donut Robot Cake

Featuring Wax Lips...

Wee tiny horse

Little horse, little horse, why are you so wee tiny? And why is your owners head so very big and round?


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/apr/28/smallest-horse-in-the-world-einstein

Speaking of Birthdays...


I will definitely be celebrating my next one with a cookie monster themed party.



http://www.hostessblog.com/2009/12/real-parties-cookie-monster-birthday/

Happy Birthday Jon R.

In honor of your birthday, a birthday monkey: