here’s my present to you. A picture of the birthday cake that my ever-lovin’ wife and kids made for me on Sunday.
You may not be able to tell, but this cake depicts a beach scene with a bunch of little Teddy Grahams running around. The Beach is the brown crumbly area on the left, and the water is on the right. The teddies are playing with tubes and such, and up in the right hand corner, the orange thing that looks like an arrow is actually a boat pulling two teddies on tubes. (The long bumpy things are some candy called Crunchy Gummi Worms. Go get a big tubful of them, even if you’re not decorating an elegant dessert like this one.)
At the right end of the cake, my son spelled out my age in Roman numerals, in Crunchy Gummi Worms. That eases the pain of getting older–the more years you chalk up, the more worms it takes to make your cake.
this cake is true art because i saw NONE of that from my perspective. “all” i saw was a Picasso cake. wow. deep. and i’m not talking about the water. your ever lovin’ wife and kinder are way cool!
Love the chocolate beach chairs. They are beach chairs right? And that is chocolate? Right?
Actually, they’re small pieces of carved mahogany. They only LOOK like KitKat bars.
Happy (belated) Birthday Jim! The roman numerals are a nice touch. Cheers!
I think I detect “XL” but the other Roman digits are a little hard to make out.
I missed Wednesday night so I’ll ask here: Any news on Rex Koko?
Rex Koko is in hiatus right now, which means it’s sitting on my shelf until I sell some other projects, at which time maybe we can interest someone in it.
Right now, the big news is, I have a book deal now. The idea is a bunch of scenes from famous movies, reedited and recut so that the viewer can be protected from opposting political views. The title is still up in the air, but I’m still leaning toward “Red Flick, Blue Flick.” The pub wants it out in time for the Oscars in March, So I’ll be cranking up the snark in the next few weeks.