Wednesday
Feb202013
What Happens in Vagueness
February 20, 2013 Reading a wreck can be like deciphering code. Except it's a code where the sender doesn't necessarily know what she's saying, either.
Some are easy:
;)
Yup.
Others take a little more work:
;)
No.
(Do we need to go over this again?)
And some are downright inscrutable:
;)
That settles it: No more caffeine for Mary.
Now, this clearly says "CoNgrat's Spr 2K9 Noo of the Theta Tall of Kappa Alpha Psi To be Kontrua."
;)
But it's all Greek to me.
(Well, half Greek. All inexplicable, half Greek.)
So in conclusion,
;)
My thoughts exactly.
Thanks to Missie S., Megan B., Tina H., Jessica R., and Jeremy N., for helping us clear that up.
Reader Comments (94)
I have read this site for years, and always chuckled at the comments of "Long time reader, first time commenting..." and wondered what cake would finally lead me to break my silence. Well, here it is. That Fun in the Sun cake is one of the greatest things I have ever seen. Every time I look I see something new, something that makes me smile and giggle. But I keep going back to that pegacorn next to the candy cane! Priceless.
I spotted 17 separate occasions fested (festered?) in Wreck # 3. My favorite is National Masked Pink Octopus Playing Football Day.
What? Obviously it can't be International, because who else plays football? What? Australia? Okay, then. Bi-national.
I'm sure that third cake is their demo. You can order any of the images you see there, because these are the ones they do well, and get it on its very own cake all by itself! And maybe with lettering, but that's your call.
The "Cake" Cake is so... post-modern, so brilliant in its simplicity. I love it. I think it's right up there with the "i want sprinkles" cake with no sprinkles for me.
Third cake is so very obviously a tribute to Holiday World and Surfin' Safari in Santa Claus, Indiana! Duh!
@DB: My favorite is Exploding Owl Day.
Did you find Wally?
He was right there, under the
barn owl explosion.
these cakes give new meaning to the term; "Gobblty-gook"
I tried to find Waldo in the Fun in the Sun cake, but couldn't spot him.
Cake number three is my very favorite cake ever! Well, it's now on the list of my very favorite cakes ever. It looks like a Barry Reigate painting. If you hung it in MoMA, people would bow down before it.
If you ever have another cupcake contest, I am going to cram all of this beauty onto a teeny, tiny cupcake using teeny, tiny piping bags and tinier tips. I might replace the football with a hacky sack, but I swear, I'll do it. I might just do it even if there's no cupcake contest!
Barbara Anne, look carefully at Caffienated Mary's cake, because I think I found your robot monkey in it.
With apologies to Haiku Joy, who does it much better:
King snowman in boat
Crossing Potomac River
Attacked by dolphin.
or
Marini in Grail
Gets together with beer stein
Attracts veiled football.
Actually this one cake looks like it deserves about seven verses of Sharyn's "My Favorite Things".
Haiku are big enough for everyone to play. Drgns, I loved them. :-)
#3's my favorite. A year in review. and a picture find to boot.
OK, I'm really, really curious about the story behind that third cake. I think every holiday is represented (Halloween, Easter, St. Patrick's Day, Valentine's Day...) sports, summer, graduation, new baby. Wow. I don't know whether to be impressed or afraid.
My favorite on cake #3 is the melancholy Santa penguin on top of the rainbow.
That cake is absolutely superb in its wreckiness.
I don't know what this may be a sign of, but... I kind of want that third cake. For my next birthday, I'm going to request a cookie cake covered in as many designs as the decorator can squeeze on, in bright tooth staining frosting, because it's kind of pretty in a very funny way. Cake that can also make me laugh is awesome.
I would LOVE to know what was ordered to create that cake. And I think someone was off their medication when they created it. That is absolutely STUNNING... like someone whacked me in the face with a board, stunning. wow
Cake three! It's so fantastic I am lost for words (and if a picture paints a thousand words this is the complete works of Shakespeare).
It reminds me a little of Toontown in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. My favourite is the football getting married on its way to jail. Sweet.
#3 cake.... I spy with my little eye... to little baby feet....
cake and entertainment all in one! Now that's a smart event planner!!
Maybe that third cake was kind of like a sampler... they can point to the various bits "sure we can do baby blocks, and witches, and candy canes!"
But yeah, it's kind of awesome in a post modern kind of way.
Even with Starbucks coursing through my veins, I could not come up with such a masterpiece as with "mary's" cake O_o
The design of the cake is simple, someone gave the baker (I use the term loosely) a copy of a Jackson Pollack picture (any JP picture) and a copy of "The Beachboys sing Christmas Carols/Easter/Football songs" and they went from there....
And I am very sorry but "Aussie Rules " football does not count as football- it counts as contained warfare.....
Explosive Owl Diarrhea awareness month is February.
Didn't you all know that?
Well. Now you are aware.
Spread the word.
I want Mary's Caffeinated Mess for my next birthday! Seriously, it is so deliciously wrecky and over the top. While I know others are partial to the exploding owl, I personally prefer the anorexic Christmas tree and the deformed dolphin. Poor Flipper!
@Haiku Joy
"Haiku are big enough for everyone to play."
Thank you! My local PBS station is having a Downton Abbey haiku contest. So far, I've entered nine, thinking of you the whole time. I find myself counting syllables in everything I write. Does that happen to you?
If I win, I'll have you to thank!
I want to take a photo of Cake #3 to a bakery and say "Make me one just like this." Then take a photo of whatever they come up with to another bakery and ask them to make another just like it. And so on, and so on, until you just have a smear of gray icing on the cake. With sprinkles.
I think I've cracked it - for no.3 they were asked to make a celebration cake,so that's what they did, celebrating EVERYTHING! It's a masterpiece in its own way.
Personally,I think the Fatty Platter is the one for me.....
Cake Three is.....
''The Most Interesting Cake Wreck in the World.''
Good luck, SuBee!
"What Happens in Vagueness" is right up there with the top five titles of your site, Jen!
I think #1 and #3 are different approaches to the same problem: What if you want cake when it's not a special occasion? The first is plainly cake for cake's sake. The other combines ALL special occasions without regard for chronology.
"Ham?" is probably an in-joke.
Ok, cake three? ....that's a small peek inside an ADHD brain!!!!! Love it!! Had Mary drank a few shots of espresso like she should have, she would be calm enough to make a Sunday Sweet! (Ok, well that might be pushing it a little, but still ;)
I just made cake #3 my desktop background. Now I can play Where's Waldo every time i want to open something pinned to my desktop!
I see your I spy and raise your two little feet:
I spy...
Three balloons
A martini
A ghost playing golf
A unicorn Pegasus eating a cross
This may be a really stupid question, but I need it explained anyway! What does #2 say? I'm not getting it.
I'm seeing "How?"
I meant
"Hom?"
Harold, if you do that PLEASE send pics
#3 Looks like a Harlem Shake in cake form.
Cake #4 looks like the wreckerator confusion was just another layer added on top of the confusion of the person who made the order (assuming that person didn't submit the wreck). Maybe the order placer wasn't part of the fraternity or sorority being honored and had trouble remembering which one this cake was for, and/or maybe he/she wasn't in full control of his/her mental faculties.
"Congrats Fall 2009... Strike that, start over. Congrats SPRING 2009, not Fall... of Th... Theta... of Kappa Alpha Psi."
I'm not sure what that last part would be. Maybe "to be continued," signifying they will see each other next semester or they will keep in touch?
Enough of cake 3 for the moment. I'm trying to decode the Greek cake. I've got as far as Congratulations Spring 2009. The rest looks like Greek letters with various bits of pesky grammar thrown in. Any help?
Cake #3 really is the gift that keeps on giving. I just spotted an engagement ring and a frog (I think). My favourites though are the happy candy corn couple! I have two birthday cakes to make for this weekend and I am desperately tempted to try to recreate this......That wouldn't be scarring to a couple of eight-year old's would it?
If you would like to see the full size pic of the 3rd wreck, which I really, really hope was a sampler:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zamburak/8312066839/sizes/o/in/set-72157624118561264/
Thanks for posting it!!
My favorite? The top band of color in the rainbow. I love looking at rainbows after a spring shower and trying to spot the brown. And if it's an attempt at violet, it should be on the inside curve.
Wait, is the ghost playing golf?
Am I the only one who sees Cake #3 as the backstage treat after a taping of "This Is Your Life!" ? Every possible milestone, plus a few tripping hazards, all on a cake. And Waldo's gotta be in there somewhere...
Oh wow, the Fun in the Sun cake? A work of art! Maybe not a work of GOOD art but...I still want a cake like that for MY birthday!
Is that the Pillsbury Dough Boy (Mr. Pop-n-fresh) in a boat with a fishing line on the glorious Zen cake No. 3? (it's one with everything). Icing awesomeness!
I LOVE cake #3! Is it a coincidence that just before I opened up Cake Wrecks I was looking at an ad for DoodleArt? I was reminiscing about DoodleArting when I was kid, and how I never managed to finish one. So bravo to the decorator for finishing hers/his! At least, I think it’s finished.
Hmm. I've got to say the "Cake" cake really has me. I feel the need to start pointing at random objects and stating what is clearly visible to all using only monosyllables.(Is it funny to anyone else that "monosyllable" takes 3 but means 1?) Foot. Screen. Chair. Cup. SPOON!
Heh heh heh. It is fun ;)