Sweet, funny Valentine

For those of you who like to celebrate Valentine’s Day as an alternative or even an addition to Sant Jordi, a couple of resources.

First, the sweet. Fancy Cakes BCN make cakes, cookies and other pastries for special occasions such as this and also to order. You can check out many of their designs at their website, including a very beautiful (but gloomy) wedding cake based on Tim Burton’s  Corpse Bride!

Secondly, the funny. Admittedly, there aren’t many funny and romantic jokes around, most of the funny ones have to do with an anti-Valentine feeling. Such as this one from Reader’s Digest:

A Little Nuts About Love

Driving through Southern California, I stopped at a roadside stand that sold fruit, vegetables and crafts. As I went to pay, I noticed the young woman behind the counter was painting a sign. “Why the new sign?” I asked. “My boyfriend didn’t approve of the old one,” she said. When I glanced at what hung above the counter, I understood. It declared: “Local Honey Dates Nuts” – Contributed by Theodore Bologna

and how about this true story from the pages of a Valentine’s Cynic:

A Russian man divorced his wife of 18 years after finding she had been feeding him cheap pumpkins instead of courgettes. Ivan Dimitrov, 47, was devastated to find the pies he had been eating for six months were made of pumpkins and not courgettes. Mr Dimitrov, from Voronezh, said when he realised the truth, after finding pumpkin rinds in the bin, he immediately hired a lawyer to organise a quick divorce from wife Irena, 38. He said, “She knows I absolutely hate pumpkins and she lied to me for months about it just because the pumpkins were cheap. What else has she been lying about? What man could trust a woman who fed him pumpkins for half a year?“

If you do celebrate Valentine’s Day, have a great time!

Strange Random Love Quote:

“Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein

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Don’t play with your food – sculpt it!

Carl Warner is an English photographer whose work in advertising led him to branch out into the creation of “Foodscapes” or edible landscapes. You can see an example here but be sure to visit his online portfolio to really appreciate the work involved -  http://www.carlwarner.com/

Rachel Mount is a self-proclaimed “Cake Artist” whose creations have also been the subject of recent art exhibitions. Despite the fact that some of her work has a particularly solid appearance, as you can see from the retro handbags to the left here, they are still cakes and are there to be eaten!

http://www.rachelmount.com/

Strange Random Cake Quote:

Let them eat cake - Marie Antoinette

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A William Carlos Williams poem

William Carlos Williams via last.fm

Tribute to William Carlos Williams poem template – ETTC website – Our previous efforts are here – here -  and here

This is just to say
I have eaten the chocolate cake
that was on
the kitchen table

and which
you were probably saving
for the party

Forgive me
it was delicious
so dark
and so filling

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What we learned today:

Image via Wikipedia

“This Is Just To Say” (1934) is a famous imagist poem by William Carlos Williams.

Williams was apparently a well-respected GP (family doctor) before becoming a writer and was friend of artists such as Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp – his work was later quoted as an inspiration for Allen Ginsberg and other poets and writers of the Beat Generation. Interesting stuff!

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I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

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Strange Random Christmas Quote:
Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it. Richard Lamm