Featured on Cake Wrecks today: A Darth Vader baby shower cake. Awesome? Awful? You tell me:
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The fandom minute: Star Wars yoda; Return of the Jedi Obama references; cakes and parties
Matthew Latkiewicz explores the comedy potential of Star Wars branded yoga in a series of correspondence between faux Lucasfilm executive Steve Jones and George Lucas.
- Politics: It’s pretty impossible to miss that we here in the U.S. inaugurated our 44th President yesterday, and just like with the campaign, Star Wars references have been popping up. TFN has collected some news reports, while StarWars.com found an Obama action figure battling Darth Vader and Barack Obacca.
- Food: Another day, another Star Wars cake at Great White Snark… But this one does bring a new level of absurdity by incorporating mini-golf.
- Kids: It takes more than a Star Wars cake to make a kid-pleasing Star Wars party, so here are some ideas from Make and Takes. (via)
Wacky merchandise: An X-Wing weenie roaster?
The (unauthorized?) Weenie Wing Commander (!!) will hold your hot dogs up off the grill. And for bigger cookouts, there’s a Cthulhu version.
The great gallery of geek gingerbread
You Bent My Wookie’s collection of gingerbread… things… is not all geeky, but it is mostly geeky, and isn’t that the most important thing? Some of these have been around a while, but others – like the Star Destroyer above – are new to me. (via)
And just for the hell of it, here’s a Dalek Christmas tree. CELEBRATE!
Thankful for Vader and other scifi staples
I’m a total grinch about the holiday season, but John Scalzi isn’t. He’s included Darth Vader in his SciFi Thanksgiving:
I’m thankful for Darth Vader. In the last 30-some years, has there been a better villain in all of film — not just science fiction film, but film in general? I tell you, there is not (Hannibal Lecter comes close, but dude. Vader could use his Force powers to feed him his own liver with a nice Chianti). Vader is so badass that he survived George Lucas turning him into a whiny loser in the prequel trilogy. Think about that.
Heartwarming no? Hey, at least we’re not in space. UPDATE: Underwired puts The Clone Wars on their list.
But there’s something out there to cure even me: puppies. (LFL has a shiba connection?) Though no word if the puppycam will be up and running today.
The fandom minute: Falcon dreams, lists, cakes…
- Quite a project: Chris Lee of Tennessee is on an “insane quest” to build a Full-Scale Millennium Falcon.
- Lists: A New Hope is a Geeky Movie That Should’ve Been Terrible; Han’s blaster on 6 Baddest-Ass Sci Fi Sidearms Ever; Han and Chewie, Artoo and Threepio make 30 Burning Sci-Fi Bromances
- Cakes The Millennium Falcon and Death Star, again.
- Sightings: Red and Jonny in Fray’s Geek Issue.
Wacky merchandise of the day: Vader toaster
The Darth Vader toaster is surely the first wave of a new line of borderline-inappropriate kitchen accessories. Think I’ll hold out for the Mustafar-themed immersion fryer. (Via Gizmodo, where all the expected comments have already been made.)
The fandom minute: Collector’s marriage still a go; Luke the idiot; Sithcake; Yes, you can haz force
Whatever happened to the collector from Dr. Phil whose wife tried to shame him into ditching his Star Wars stuff? The Springfield News-Sun follows up. They’re still married, he still has his collection, but he did go on a diet. Score?
- Lists: Topless Robot has five reasons Luke Skywalker is a complete idiot. Way harsh, Tai.
- Cake: Great White Snark found a great Darth Maul.
- Blog: ICANHASFORCE. Yes, it’s exactly what you’d expect.
Rerun: Millennium Falcon on Ace of Cakes tonight!
We got a look at a Millennium Falcon from Charm City Cakes back in July, and it seems that the Ace of Cakes episode featuring it has finally aired! Alas, none of us got word of it beforehand, but Food Network isn’t exactly skimping on the reruns: Look for it tonight at 10pm. (via)
Play with your food: Death Star cantaloupe
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has a few hints on how to make your own. I’m not sure if you can even get cantaloupes in the northern climes right now, but then, it doesn’t need to taste good, does it?