If it's Friday, it must be Silly Cake News!!! Hey everyone, Husband Mic here with some more ramblings from the world of baked deliciousness known as cake. We start with a real literal stretch in that this first slice is about the band Cake!
I'm from the North Bay area in Northern California and I played in bands all through high school and college. I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time with a lot ot future successful bands (mine not so successful) and Sacramento had a handful of them. I've been down with Cake from the beginning, even owning their first album in its pre-record deal indie release form. And no, you can't buy it from me;) One of my all time favorite shows I ever went to was at the Cattle Club in Sacto where, no lie, the lineup was Korn, Cake, and The Deftones! Figure that one out, but it was amazing.
Well, the boys are coming back this January with an all new album, "Showroom of Compassion." Finally! Their last effort came out in 2004! And this time they return to their indie roots, releasing it on their own label, and get this, the whole thing is green. They have a solar powered studio in Sacramento where they recorded the tracks. As a drummer, I'm proud to say I've been making "green" music since 1988! No plugs here! So keep your ears open and maybe you'll hear us rockin' out to some new Cake at Merci Beaucoup in a couple months.
Our second slice comes from a trip to the comic book store this week. As I was checking out, they had all the new releases for the week by the counter and something caught my eye. More precisely, this:
Now, we've covered how disappointed I was that we couldn't do a steampunk cake this season on Amazing Wedding Cakes but that doesn't change the fact that I am a huge nerd and involved in the steampunk genre! Naturally I snapped this up because A) the cover is amazing and B) I'm a fan of the artist Joe Benitez. But what brings "Lady Mechanika" to Silly Cake News is not just the connection to Garren's cake from the show, but rather the back pages where I found this:
The Steampunk Kitchen!! There were sweet treat recipes at the back of the comic book! Finally, some bonus features I can get behind. Now, I don't think there's anything especially new or steampunk in the recipes outside of the cookie shapes, but still, it was a fun surprise and I wanted to share it with you. Let's see if they continue this in future issues, which I will be buying because the book is pretty good. Check out Joe's site for more info on the title.
If all this wasn't enough for you, check out Cakes and Comics and Cartwheels, a new blog I stumbled upon that talks about, well... cakes and comics and cartwheels!! It has some fun pics of silly cakes, so stop over there and take a gander. I really liked the Cobra Kai cake with "sweep the leg" written on the side.
Well, that's my Silly Cake News for this week. I'm gonna go pour throw the old comics boxes and see if I can find any more examples of cake! Well, besides my Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding Album that is. Have a great weekend everyone!!
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Love this post. I find nothing wrong with it at all! Green Arrow/Black Canary and Cake? Interesting.
Posted by: Tifferooooooo | 08 October 2010 at 04:40 PM