Where is spring?

My my, I am a lazy blogger.

Spring break came and went with little. I went to see The Honorary Title open for Mae last Friday, which was absolutely beautiful, but I'm too lazy to write a review. Also too lazy to write about politics, but I am very tired of them and I wish Hillary would throw in the towel already. She's kind of like this:



Also, I laughed at this until I realized it was not a joke.

10,000 B.S.

Folks, THIS is why archaeology is important. Unfortunately, it is also why archaeology will never make a difference. The public does not give a flying monkey about what actually happened in prehistory. The fact that this so-called film, 10,000 B.C., includes pyramids and (obligatorily evil) empires in the same temporal space as mammoths would not even be justifiable if the film itself weren't abysmal, but apparently it is. It is an even more egregious collapse of time than Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, which had Spanish ships poised to invade the Classic Maya civilization. By comparison, one might argu that this is so wrong it's not even trying to be right. It's fantasy. It's Lord of the Rings. Oh, EXCEPT SHITTY.

SIX PERCENT. Even the worst Star Wars prequels got 60%. SIX PERCENT. And ironically, my department got free passes to a special preview screening of this movie. Too bad it conflicted with our Wednesday night theory class. And by "too bad," I mean THANK GOD. Great ad for a movie: Not Quite As Good As Three Hours Of Arguing About Post-Processualism. Why do we even bother learning about the past if this is what people are going to do with it? Waste of time.

PHILIP! AAAAAAAHHHHHH!

WHOOT.

Saturday, my friends and I threw a surprise birthday party for Philip. In England, they have caterpillar cakes, and on pimpthatsnack.com, which transforms ordinary desserts into giant centerpieces, we found a giant caterpillar cake. This was obviously what we had to make for Philip. We also had to make it vegan, for Lindsey.

So Friday was an epic day of ingredients-acquisition, and Saturday was an epic day of baking, baking, and baking.






We made two test cakes with the vegan recipe. The first one came out too much like banana bread and nothing like cake. After asking Emma's kitchen wizard mom for advice, our second test cake was AMAZING. We knew we had hit the mark. (See photo, above: we ate it during the baking)

Lindsey approved:


Now we had to make ten of them.





The frosting was my ninja skills.

Once we had the ten cakes, it was time for the jelly filling:



And the stacking:


We cut a piece off to make a flat bottom and flipped the stack over:


Then we iced it. This is what we call the turd stage:


Then we added the features!



THE FINAL PRODUCT:


Unfortunately, since we had promised Philip we would also bake pizza that night (unrelated, he presumed, to his birthday), he came upstairs to find us in search of pizza, and saw the back end of the cake, whereupon Emma smacked him very, very hard and yelled him out of the room. Poor guy. I don't think he saw much, but he certainly knew something was up.

Then we got all piled into the kitchen to wait for Lindsey to bring Philip in. This was the result:








You can see me flitting around with the bright red and black armwarmers,going up to hug Philip after he hugged Emma. I look like the dork that I am. And that's Atanu behind the camera, with his great line about the knife.

Random blathering:







And then the cake cutting:







'Twas a grand time.