Cake and guitar

I'm not sure if you have ever seen someone air guitar a cake while lighting it but I can safely say I have never seen this in my life. I am sure it would be funny and you could make all those guitar noises you practiced while playing Guitar Hero. You might end up with burnt fingers, cake on your trousers and a bunch of people looking at your like you're a bit of an oddbod but at least you will be doing something nobody does very often. I was going to say nobody has ever done this, but the world is big and full of lots of oddbods so I'm sure somewhere at some stage of the world spinning around this may have happened. If you have done this and have pictures please email them to us.

The card is available on Etsy for all you oddbods who like cake and guitar.

Dishes and dancing

Here is another of our new tea towel designs. This one is based on a few of our choreographed range of cards. I had fun coming up with some dance moves for our five dishwashers but I think the Peter Allen style dancer in the top left is my favourite.

The towel comes in a lovely happy shade of orange to cheer you up when you do a job that often causes the most arguments between housemates. Did you ever have that dishwashing standoff where it didn't matter if the dishes where turning weird shades, if it wasn't your turn you were not doing them. Only to discover it was actually your turn all along?

The tea towel is available in our Etsy shop and could be perfect as a gift for your old housemates to say sorry for all the times you made them wash up instead of you.

Oh Pete

Image Credit: Mr Porter

Did you see the pictures Vincent Kartheiser did for Mr. Porter? I love seeing people from television look a bit different to the characters they play and there is no way Trudy would let Pete Campbell get a moustache like that. Not at least until 1980 when she is formally introduced to one Magnum PI.

Pete has been one of my favourite characters on Mad Men from the very start. I know most people don't like him very much, but that unashamed ambition is something that is always interesting to watch. One of my favourite Pete lines (and I won't give too much away) is when he quickly jumps in to correct someone for saying congratulations to an engagement announcement, telling them you say best wishes not congratulations. I am certain that in 2012 Pete would be an internet troll, leaving contentious comments on news websites.

You can view the rest of the very stylish pictures over at the Mr Porter journal here.

Linkies

Turn your wall into an Atlas.

We got a into the new HBO show Veep. If you can watch it you should.

This weekend I think I'm going to make a mandarin cake. I found a few recipes but I think I might experiment.

Yellow handbag.

My friend Kirsteene sent me this. These cartoons are very good, this is a particular favourite. It is also littered with cat cartoons.

The Finders Keepers blog has a new Five Favourite feature.

Melbourne food blogs are getting more prevalent. This one is a favourite.

What are you thoughts on Pinterest? Are you addicted? We have one but I don't really get it and often get sensory overload where all the pretty stuff starts to look the same and my brain hurts. I also have a few frustrations with nothing being correctly sourced and the trip down the Tumblr hole you end up going on to find out who create whatever it is you're looking at. This interesting article talks about how it is the worst social networking site on the internet. I don't think it is the worst but I still don't quite get it.


The image above was taken on our recent trip. I think Moreland Council should do one for Brunswick.

Dadtastic

How awesome is this dude? I don't know if I love his mullet or his moustache more, it's a hard one to decide. A few people have said that man reminds them of Napoleon Dynamite's brother, but I always had that guy from Ghost World in mind after I drew him (beware swears in that vid!). Also, on the subject of mullets, have you seen the mullet on Ivan Maric, who plays in the AFL for Richmond. That thing is amazing.

Our new Dadtastic cards is up in the Etsy shop and Father's Day in Australia is less than a month away so time to start thinking about things to get your Dad. If he goes for the Richmond Tigers, then a signed poster of Ivan Maric might be a good idea.

Things I almost got you just for being my Dad

Things about this card:

1. The Poopy Putter is a REAL THING. We have one in our office, my brother got it for a gag Christmas present and left without taking it, so I took it to give back to him.

2. My Dad used to get real agro if anyone took his GOOD PEN FROM THE OFFICE. He didn't like anyone taking them. We, as a family took them often.

3. There are a lot of comedians called Bill. I could have also gone for Bill Hicks, Bill Maher or Billy Crystal.

4. My father would not want the 1979 football annual because the VFL Grand Final was between Collingwood and Carlton and Carlton won by 5 points. According to wikipedia, the film director Kevin Smith was one of the umpires

5. This card is available on Etsy.

Daredevil

Were you a bit of a daredevil as a kid? I was a bit of a thrill seeker and made some bike jumps around the winter of 1990. They consisted of a thin plank of wood and as many bricks as I felt necessary to get three feet of air time. I think I rode over one very high one and the plank of wood just snapped in half resulting in some serious pain.

The jump in our new tea towel looks a lot more sophisticated and the dude is getting way clear of those goon boxes. His friends are suitably unimpressed, as they should be. The new towel is up on Etsy and comes in a very nice shade of blue.