cake wrecks, a great blog about absolutely awful cakes, is the best thing that’s happened to me all day. if you need a pick-me-up, just click that link.

if you only have time to look at one post, make it the “inspiration vs. perspiration” post:

apparently a couple who was getting married wanted this cake:

this is what they got instead:

there is absolutely nothing good about this cake.

i didn’t realize washington dc was turning into soviet russia.

so hungry …

he/she looks demonic. def not kosher.

Originally uploaded by ramparts54 via flickr.

a trip with maggie and her mom to the very hip taste of arlington in (gasp) northern virginia today inspired an epic scarfdown that included, in various serving sizes ranging from bite to bowl, in approximate chronological order of consumption:

1. chili with cheese, onions, jalepenos, and hot sauce
2. smoked pork sandwich with hot sauce
3. pork over saffron rice
4. chicken shwarma sandwich
5. pasta
6. massive plate of anonymous indian food (right)
7. wine
8. lettuce wrap
9. ice cream sandwich
10. crab cake sandwich
11. paella
12. chocolate-covered strawberries (more than one)

the food plus torrential downpour made me think i might just get a cramp and drown on the bike ride home. luckily i made it — just in time for me to lay around and not eat dinner the rest of the afternoon.
and for the record, if any of you have ever found me attractive in the past and that’s no longer the case — i completely understand.