Today’s Music: Dr John – Iko Iko
I have nothing to say about my week. Except that work is hard. Sleep is fleeting. And blogs are fun! Here’s some of what I saw…
Alex Autin took a hilarious road trip. Sharp Little Pencil wrote a powerful poem about child abuse that, even if you don’t know the story she shares, still packs a punch. The Epically Awesome Sights N Bytes gave me an epically awesome award of epic awesomeness award, which still isn’t near as cool as getting to read SnB’s stuff. And Natalie Elizabeth Beech nominated me for a Best Moment award. Check out their sites. Definitely good moments, all around.
Oh, and if you didn’t hear, DJ Matticus had a baby! Well, his wife did the birthing stuff, but still…
Thanks to them and everyone else for making my limited time in the sphere this week time well spent.
But last week, the question was cupcakes!!!. And from the answers, y’all are some very…creative…bakers! Here’s what you said. (As always, my comments are frosted in italics.)
Icing, real icing-not that whipped creamy stuff, real icing and maybe caramel…
(Wait – so you don’t like real icing???)
I’m having a difficult time getting my mind out of the gutter. (Frank)
(That’s why we get along so well!)
Love and a bit of spit from the baker… “so there’s a little bit of YOU in it!”
(Are you sure that’s spit in the creamy frosting?)
(No, I didn’t just say that.)
(Move along…)
Anything but SNOW and ICICLES 🙂 Yay… Andro
(How about slush and mud? Fresh! Mmm…)
“Dung.” Joe said this. – NicoleMarie
(Is Joe on the Food Network?)
“Poopysnot.” – Also Joe. (NicoleMarie)
(Ah, no. Apparently he’s on Ren & Stimpy.)
Love, MBT
(WE HAVE A WINNER!!!)
Hair balls-Don’t go there-I’m talking about my kid’s kitty Cupcake! (Stacy)
(It’s very important to shave the cat before putting it in a cupcake.)
ducken. B_T
(Thank you for leaving out the Turd.)
Love, love, love, do de doo . . . Benzeknees
(Nono, the hash goes in the brownie recipe.)
it’s broccoli, dude. 2 Cs, 1 L. WG
(Actually, it’s Brocolli Man! My superpowers come from the typ- Oops. I’ve said too much.)
Cupcake juice. – Hotspur
(It it were anyone else, I’d think that was an innuendo…)
Cupcakes are just a vector getting icing in my mouth. (rollergiraffe)
(I believe the formula you need is √(x², y²)(sugar)/(awesome²))
crack and crank, so we can stay up for days and eat more cupcakes PMAO
(That won’t be enough for the munchies. I mean, so I’ve heard…)
They are full of guilt because that’s all I feel after eating ’em. (UndercoverL)
(I buy my cupcakes at Penance Bakery too!)
Sit ups. The more you eat the flatter your stomach gets! Linda Vernon Humor
(I’ve always found situps to be gristly.And a bit sinewy.)
can i substitute gin for the vodka to go with the crushed dream filling?
(Next you’ll want to substitute hope and joy too…)
flour, egg, vanilla, sugar… thematticuskingdom
(well sure, if you just want something tasty.)
chocolate cake topped with peanut butter frosting. sandylikeabeach
(That’s going to be one full cupcake!)
Mayonnaise! Mwahaha! Surprise, that’s not cream cheese! Becca 25toFly
(The truth about Junior’s downfall revealed…)
Pie – calahan
(There’s an awful lot of math here this week…)
Blood, then no one would eat them. Just solved our obesity problem. –Lily In Canada
(Or created a new “fat vampire” problem…)
I like my cupcakes filled with little cupcakes…PMAO
(Then wrapped in cupcakes and served on a bed on cupcakes?)
Weight-loss pills. And chocolate. Carrie Rubin
(Or chocolate flavored weight loss pills! (Anyone remember AYDS? Anyone?))
BACON…….zannyro
(Sorry, I thought that went without saying. In everything.)
They are a terrific way to dispose of the bodies…with a grin. Red.
(How do you dispose of bodies with frowns? Because I have a lot more of those…)
Bacon! Twindaddy
(That’s just the lard frosting talking…)
LSD, Guap brains, and girl scouts – Rutabaga
(Sounds like a delicious recipe. For a long prison sentence…)
Chocolate (I’m saying it anyway), wine and crushed Doritos…yum. Rogue
(Are “crushed Doritos” the new “crushed dreams”? Because if they are, despair never tasted so good!)
DAVID BECKHAM! G
(He’s starting to look like he’s been stuffed with a few too many cupcakes…)
Peeps. Yellow Marshmallow ones not humans (Elyse 54.5)
(Are the yellow ones ripe? Humans, not the Marshmallow ones…)
angry birds (SnB)
(Nono, the smartphone poll was two weeks ago.)
Congratulations to MBT for this week’s winning answer! (Yes, I can be that sentimental.) And from the offered choices, the most popular was Crushed dreams. And vodka. Because it really is all about the flavor.
Recently, Michelle at Motley News posted a bunch of pictures of anti-protesters at Westboro Baptist Church protests. And it’s good to know that silliness and social responsibility can go hand in hand. It also go me thinking – what gets you mad enough to hold up as sign on a street corner?
So that’s this week’s poll. Get your answers in by 2359 EST on 4 April, because that’s when this one ends.
(And if you leave a way to recognize you in your “other” answer, I’ll link back to you next week.)
So the last few week(end)s were a bit more work-filled than I usually like. To keep my sanity, I’ve been listening to a lot of music. And some videos are very entertaining.
Here are two that always get a smile out of me.
First, I’m pretty sure we’ve seen the last of this band, but this is a fun tune and fun video they left behind.
And this is one of my girl’s favorites. Flamingos! With yoyos! What’s not to love?
Smile a lot, y’all, and hopefully I’ll be able to drag my ass out to see you a bit more next week…
The poll answers and your responses – tooo funny! (I may be staying away from cupcakes for awhile! hehe) Have a great weekend!
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Thanks whitelady!
This was a good (and slightly disturbing!) topic.
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The Voodoo doenut looks seriously nasty. Do they really sell them over there? Have a great Easter, Guap. My your Easter eggs be filled with love or would that be BRAINSSSSSS?!?
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The Voodoo donut is delicious, Raiser.
And nothing says love like an egg filled with brains!
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A Voodoo Maple Bacon Doughnut?! Are you shitting me? I want that RIGHT now! I’m much to lazy to go out though, I’m pretty sure I can make one using the pineapple empanadas I picked up yesterday.
Loved the zombie protestors! How funny! I doubt they’ll be finding any brains around Westboro though….Enjoy your Zombie Jesus weekend Guapo! And remember to be Christ-like and turn the other cheek ….so I can eat the other side of your brain.
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Get thee to Portland, Alex. The only place for a bacon donut.
Though the pineapple empanadas sound pretty god too.
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Ah, Friday morning coffee with some Guapo humor for flavor….it doesn’t get better than that!! 🙂 Happy Easter to you and TMWGITU!
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Thanks Susan, and right back atcha!
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In this week’s poll, I answered the question above it (what gets you angry enough to hold a sign), not the question about spring. Just so we’re clear. haha ❤
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Can’t wait to see what you wrote, Stacy!
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‘Poopysnot’—Hahaha. Probably not much more gross than bacon on a doughnut…
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I’m with you on that — that donut looked vile.
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One bite and you’ll be converted, Elyse.
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I doubt it. I hate maple. Me AndAHalf refuses to believe I’m a New Englander.
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Bacon on a donut is gross in theory only, Carrie.
In reality, it’s too good for words. Probably because it should taste awful but most definitely does not.
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Guess I’ll have to take your word for it…
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Prison? For eating Girl Scouts? I think not.
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There’s a “brownies” joke somewhere in there that I’m too classy to make, Rutabaga.
hehehe
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Oh you bettcha….classy?? Ok – I’ll take that
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I was going to say how much I loved the Choreography in the first video…back when people really knew how to move….then I saw the Flamingo with the yoyo…I….am….blown….away……..incredible minds to come up with that…just incredible.
Have a better week next week…..fingers crossed…I’m hoping for one also.
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I like that towards the end, Genesis had a great sense of humor with their videos, zannyro. But the yoyo one is hilarious, and a great piece of music.
I wanted to use Rhapsody in Blue from Fantasia but couldn’t find an embeddable link. Here it is if you want to check it out. Long, but brilliant.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xetg19_fantasia-2000-rhapsody-in-blue_music#.UVYInGcl9Wc
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All the exclamation marks that I could get out of this keyboard wouldn’t be enough to express how much I loved this. Rhapsody in Blue is possibly my all time favorite piece of music…..I would have loved to have met the mind that could write something so amazing and beautiful….and the animation and story in this is just wonderful….Thanks Guapo…we’ve had to say goodbye to two beloved pets in the last two weeks…and this just made me feel…….better. Thank you.
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Gah! Glad it helped a bit, zannyro.
Hope the spring brings plenty to smile about.
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Me too…..our son brought home the cat from hell for the weekend…so at least he’s keeping me busy……I think he’s may be part Ninja…he just did a flying attack against my legs…..send me a card in the hospital will you…after he knocks me down and breaks my legs.
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I’ve always wanted to try that donut. It looks so decadent and weird and awesome.
Love the Fantasia clip. True Story: when I was little my dad took me to a screening of the original Fantasia at a movie theater, and the dancing mushrooms scared me so bad I started crying and we had to leave. haha
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That donut is worth trying just for the weird factor, Ashley.
The phoenix bit at the end of Fantasia always gets me. Fortunately,I was an adult when I saw it. (Which means I could defend myself against anyone who mocked my tears.)
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I would hold up a sign complaining about all the other people who hold up signs, but it would also advertise a donut shop and I would spin it around… oh, and I would be dressed as a donut. It is called multitasking.
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Would people still be able to read the spinning sign, PMAO?
Plus I don’t know how being a donut would go over. It’s professional-stereotyping, but there are lots of police at protests. Would they try and eat you if it were a long day?
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Once again I have shown how I don’t really think my plans through very well.
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Loved the 2d Fantasia as much as the first. Really wish they would keep up with it and put out ones closer together than 40 years. I would like to see another one before I die.
Have fun with my entries… Combine them all in one… They will make better sense. 😉 Have a fab weekend and try not to work too much.
And I will have a tray of the Voodoo donuts. No, I will eat them here.
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I hope you’re eating that tray from Voodoo behind a locked door, Red. Otherwise we will find you!
Michael Eisner got ripped for trying to update Fantasia, but I think it was one of his better ideas at Disney.
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I do, too. It is one of the movies that for use is the White Album.
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Lard? Pfft. Not if it’s turkey bacon.
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I’m not yet convinced that turkey bacon isn’t proof that there’s a devil, Twin.
Though in a kosher supermarket the other day, I was amused and appalled to see Facon.
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Facon? Bwahahahahaha
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Great music! I’m listening to it while wondering why that donut picture looks like a kidney draped in its own seared flesh. Hm. dunno. But it makes me hungry for chocolate covered pretzels! Hope the easter bunny is kind to you this year, Guap, and brings you lots of chocolate to hoard! 😉
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I don’t care what mental images you put in my head, Laura. I’d still eat that donut. 😉
Have a great holiday!
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I love spending lunch with you on Fridays, Guap.
And I loved the flamingos. Silly and perfect!
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Thanks so much, Elyse!
Any time with you is well spent.
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God hates signs that say what God hates!! LOL!! What’s not to love about today’s Friday Foolishness? Bacon! Maple Bars, Good Music! You really know how to throw a blog, Guap!
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Thanks Linda.
Music, bacon and donuts? I don’t think it could get better than that!
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“More skin on Loveboat?” What about interracial dating on “Cosby?” Oop Ack!
I loved Alex’s post(s) on the Texas Hill Country. Good writing always makes me want to go places.
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I love that you get the Bloom County references, Smak.
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Good choice on Fantasia, Guap.
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Thanks Calahan. The Rhapsody In Blue piece is brilliant too.
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That’s my favorite one, actually. 🙂
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haha! I love that Disney clip. If this blogging community ever decides to have a big ‘get together,’ I vote we have it at Disney World so we can run around like a bunch of kids. Go ahead and organize it, Guapo, I dare you.
Linda’s right, Friday Foolishness is always great and the best way to cap off the week – especially when it’s been crappy. The maple bacon bars look Yum!
Have a peaceful weekend, Guapo. You deserve it.
Grippy
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The only nice thing about having bad weeks is that we can commiserate with each other, Grippy.
Thanks!
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Guap, were you in Portland? I’d know that bacon maple bar anywhere!
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Our stop at Voodoo once of the high points of the trip, Maggie!
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Wait…There’s cupcakes without bacon? When did that start?
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I think it’s a plot by Big Vegetable to throw us all off, Revis…
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Damn them. Damn them all.
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Sounds like you had a week like mine. Which means, that this Good Friday is feeling pretty much like a great thing. As for that maple bacon donut? Dude, you’re killing me. That would be my last meal if I was sentenced to the electric chair. That, and a bottomless cup of coffee. Hey…a boy can try. As far as the WBC is concerned, I’m thinking that if there is a God? He ain’t guest listing these primates.
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I’d ask for the donut instead of the chair, Cayman. The effect would be the same.
But if I ever do end up on death row, I’m asking for my last meal to be the all you can eat buffet. And then go back for one grain of rice at a time.
Should take a while…
hehehe
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You’ll outlive the warden. Nicely played sir.
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Ah, it’s not Friday without Foolishness, unless you’re taking the weekend off, or you have to pee.
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A day-off pee can be the most foolish thing ever, Hotspur.
If you do it right…
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You just gotta go at 11:59, then at 12:01 on the third day.
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Guapo you got a lot of ‘splainin to do! I said love three times & you picked someone who said love one time as the winner? As soon as I read the question, immediately the lyrics of “All We Need” by the Beatles started going through my head, that’s why I sang the first line. 😉 Get some rest so your decision making will be up to your usually brilliant standards LOL
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But if you win, Benze, how do I know you’ll ever come back? 😉
And they only brilliance in my standards is in my choice of wife and the online company I keep.
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You can’t get rid of me that easily Guapster! If it weren’t for TMWGITU, I’d be stuck to you like glue LOL!
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Love and Cupcakes…I like that combo! Don’t know about bacon and cupcakes, but maple-frosted doughnuts and bacon is pretty good, Guapo! I forgot to vote! Have a wonderful weekend. Happy Easter!
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The bacon donut was almost too intimidating to eat, Bumble.
Almost…
Thanks, and Happy Easter to you!
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The VooDoo donut made me smile. My city thanks you for boasting of one of its pride and joys.
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I don’t think a trip to Portland could be complete without a lean against Voodoo’s sparkling bricks while waiting in line for a donut, Jen.
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That donut looks lethal.. as in so good if you take it from me I’ll kill you..
have a great weekend;-)
oh and i finally figured out how to do an “other’ vote..
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That donut is a brush with the secrets of the universe, FPP.
Can’t wait to see what you voted, and hope your weekend is fun!
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Great range of video treats. Bacon on a donut seems like a big YES too me. It would be interested be have a taste challenge with it and a grilled cheese donut! Enjoy your weekend and hope you time gets less consuming.
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Good lord, now I have to find the grilled cheese donut, Frank!
Thanks, and hope your weekend is fun too.
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hey … we have a place here that does them. They were featured on Man vs Food, too! So hey — visit Cincinnati and we will have Cincinnati chili spaghetti, great hamburger, the best ice cream, and now this … a grilled cheese donut.
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Did you get angry cos of Phil Collins mullet staring at you in the video – it did me – I’ve been to Macy’s in Houston too.
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I started to get angry, GfB. But then I figured, the mullet is all the hair he has, so I switched to pity instead.
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Becca’s answers to last week poll was great!
I really like the winner too.
Gotta love I can’t dance!
Have a nice weekend
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Thanks Doggy!
I get a kick out of all the write ins.
Glad you liked the video too, and I hope you have fun and relaxation on your weekend.
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Work IS hard, and sleep is fleeting. Hope next week is less hard and more sleepy. With more bacon donuts! I had a maple bacon beer recently… I found out where I draw the maple bacon line. It is perfection in everything else, including salad.
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The only way to get past that line is to explode through it, RG, much like the sound barrier.
FULL BACON AND MAPLE AHEAD!!!
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Is it just me or does Phil C look like PMAO? Or him Phil or summat???
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Now that you mention it, I’ve never seen them in teh same room at the same time…
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I get that all the time .. but re Batman NO WAIT Bat uh Wonder woman geez that was close..
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I can’t figure out why I can never identify myself when I leave an “other” comment. I will have to figure how this “poll” app works before answering anymore.
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Oh, just write your name at the end, or maybe SPP, so I know it’s you.
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That Genesis video always made me feel bad. I always felt like life was just hopeless for Pay Sajak… I mean Robin Williams…. I mean Phil Collins. (All those guys from the 80’s look the same.) It’s a good thing Phil Collins can sing. The rest of them are sh*t out of luck.
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Pat Boone, on teh other hand, put out an album of metal covers.
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I’m sending the bacon-donut picture over to my husband. I think he can rig that up around here.
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Oh my! I am quite overcome! What an honour to be your Winner! Just catching up after a week with the family here and delighted to find this!
I love the Flamingoes – must introduce J&T to the carnival of the Animals on their next visit. Thank you 🙂
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It was well deserved, MBT!
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It could be look like a cupcake when cut it in half 😀
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