His Name’s Not Ace- It’s Duff

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This is Chef Duff.

He owns a bakery called Charm City Cakes ( they’ve got a show on the Food Network called “Ace of Cakes”), he’s a rock musician, a sculptor and for his birthday his staff made him a cake in the shape of a giant meatball.

It had a fork sticking out of the top.

If you haven’t seen Ace of Cakes- ,  I feel sorry for you. Do you know in one episode the Charm City Cakes staff made a cake in the shape of a Shark Ray?

Sweet Pea the Shark Ray's 3rd Birthday
Sweet Pea the Shark Ray’s 3rd Birthday

Oh …any baker could do that you say.

And I’d say- well maybe- but how many Bakers would deliver the cake to the aquarium and then get into the tank and swim with the real shark?

In fact…a tank full of sharks?

Yeah.

That’s what I thought.

Now, check it out ACE OF CAKES (tv site)

Until you see this show it’s possible your life will lack meaning.

So for heavens sake watch it!

!WATCH IT NOW! ( link to video clips from the show )

CHARM CITY CAKES (bakery site)

HERE

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Hey Baby, I’m Famous Now

 

I can’t sing a note, but thanks to my tagging Friends at Facebook ( and I thought all Facebook was good for was to make you feel like a social-tard )

 I’ve got a record, well an album- cover out.

YAY!

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CREATE YOUR DEBUT ALBUM COVERrandom
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. (alternatively, if the first article you hit is short, hit Random Article two more times.)
Random quotations

1 – Go to Wikipedia. Hit

2 – Go to

The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.explore the last seven days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
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3 – Go to flickr and click on

4 – Use photoshop or similar to put it all together. ( I don’t have photoshop I used the “I Can Has Cheesburger” Photo Caption program

Teen Girl Rat War

Seriously.

Did you know Teenage Goth Girls are into having Pet Rats?

There’s a market for it.

Oh.

I learned about it from Chris:

Friday Is Funday

Here’s a little fun little story to take into the weekend with you

I’ve been TOLD it’s true.

All I can say is…please God…let it be so..

Photograph By: Joelle Ligon

Photograph By: Joelle Ligon

Once I heard a story about Seattle-

It was all about toilets-

of course the minute I heard that I was all ears.

::So here is the story:::

Once Upon A Time

in Seattle

everyday

when the tide would come in

all of the toilets along the waterfront would back up and then explode.

The End.

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I love Seattle.

Do you hear me?

LOVE IT

So There

Have you ever invited people to go to Hell?

Me?

I’ve probably sent half of the Earth’s population there by now-

twice.

And then one day I thought –

what if you really did have the power to send people you hated to Hell.

Can imagine what would happen if the Devil woke up one day down there in Hell and there were all these people just standing around, bringing down the value of Real Estate and probably depleting Hell’s natural resources?

He stand there with all of his friends from Hell’s Exclusive Country Club who expect their Dark Lord to have more control of their Domain so he’d have to get all huffy and self rightous and yell  ” Where the HELL did you people come from?”

And then all of these people would say, ” Oh. Anita sent us here”

Now there’s a picture I’d rather not dwell on.

Instead I’m going to take a cue from Natile Dee and say this- plus if I’m really upset I can send them this picture:::

no-muffins

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Who could have thought cursing could be so much fun?

And Yummy Too.

Do You Know What Today Is?

:::: A Twelve Day Journey To Christmas Day-

OR

Will Anita Marie Get Her Fiji Mermaid THIS Year?:::

Today

On Day Six

Anita Marie Asks…

Do you know what today is?

Before I tell you let me tell you about my day.

Today it snowed.

I baked.

I played with my cats and wondered if

I was stranded in my car on the side of the road in this snow storm

would I care about what I wanted for Christmas?

If the power went out like it did last year, and it went back on across the street two days before the power was restored on my side of the street and I had to sit in my dark house and watch the Christmas Lights on my neighbors house go on in the evening and cast little rays of  happy  lights on their  plastic Christmas yard ornaments would getting a Monkey Fish seem like something I would be thinking about?

That I should be thinking about?

You bet I would-and I DID- because I think it’s those wild dreams that give us the strength to deal with the world when things get absolutely unbearable.

I’ve made it my mission in life to see those dreams of mine come true…

and sometimes they do

and when they do it is always so worth the effort it took to keep them alive.

Now here’s the answer to the question.

Today

::It’s Christmas In Heaven That’s What Today Is:::

That’s Right, It’s Snowing

Here in Washington State we just don’t have regular old snow-  HELL NO

We have Thundersnow

Trap us on the Freeway here in Washington?

Oh.

I think not.

In this image from a Department of Transportation traffic camera, a driver who apparently abandoned their vehicle walks down State Route 520 Thursday morning.

In this image from a Department of Transportation traffic camera, a driver who apparently abandoned their vehicle walks down State Route 520 Thursday morning.

What you don’t see here is that a few minutes after this picture was taken cars started to turn around and drive the wrong way down the Shoulder ( behind this pedestrian ) so that they could get off of the freeway.

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you can click the pictures to get to the orginal news stories.

And if you think that here in Snohomish County we just build snowmen or ride sleds down one of our many hills or drive to the Malls and spend all day there eating Salted Pretzels and drinking Coffee with fancy French and Italian names because school was cancelled and we couldn’t get to work so we stayed home

HA HA ON YOU!

We do stuff like this:::

Jayden trying to sit in the snow filled chair as long as he can.

Snow Dare: Jayden trying to sit in the snow filled chair as long as he can.

Now for the best part of Snow Days

The Comics!

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Stay Warm Everybody and if you ARE warm remember- to much Sun is bad for your skin.

Ha.

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Meet Cooper

COOPER!
COOPER!

Today in the Seattle P.I. I read a story about the one of the most interesting cats – so what made Cooper- you may be thinking- so interesting to a woman who has cats-one of whom got into a fight witha Pitbull and won?

Cooper is a photographer – the humans that keep his food bowl restocked are filmakers Michael and Deidre Cross. And given that Cooper has taken some very interesting  pictures I’m willing to guess that Michael and Diedre have learned a lot from him:::

Cooper Cam
Cooper Cam

 

Cooper Cam
Cooper Cam

One of the comments I’ve run across asks if Coopers pictures are art- he doesn’t control the camera after all.

Look, this is what Cooper sees and not only is there art in that, there is poetry and there are stories too.

So you go Cooper, if anything it will drive home the point that the world is more interesting when we’re able to see it through something other then then our own mind’s eye.

::: More On Cooper’s Pictures At:::

The Seattle P.I.

The Seattle Weekly

Cooper Will Be Featured On Animal Planet Cats 101 Episode 1

December 6, 2008

 

Ode To My Hippy- Baby Friends

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I have a half dozen friends

who all share the same name

and

who to this day

all go by nickname based on their real name.

Why?

Because their parents were total hippies and named them after a song about a floozy named

Cecilia.

CECILIA- Simon and Garfunkel

CHORUS:
F                Bb          F
Cecilia, you’re breaking my heart
          Bb         F         C
You’re shaking my confidence daily
      Bb F        Bb         F
Oh Cecilia, I’m down on my knees
       Bb         F             C
I’m begging you please to come home
         F
Come on home

CHORUS

F                   Bb   F
Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia
Bb    C     F
Up in my bedroom
             Bb       F
I got up to wash my face
                     Bb
When I come back to bed
           C         F
Someone’s taken my place …CHORUS

F               Bb F Bb F C
Bo po bo bo …

     Bb  F       Bb        F
Jubilation, she loves me again
   Bb          F             C
I fall on the floor and I laughing
     Bb  F       Bb        F
Jubilation, she loves me again
   Bb          F             C
I fall on the floor and I laughing
       Bb F  Bb F  Bb F C
Wo ho oooh …