My love for LEGO has been documented in these pages before so I shall spare you a breathless ode to the plastic building blocks of the gods. Instead I will simply allow this marvelous guide speak for itself. It shows you how to make a mold in order to make your own Gummi-LEGO. Like Gummi Bears, but in the shape of LEGO blocks. I’ll let that sink in. I can easily imagine building a mighty, saccharine city in miniature which upon completion I can run riot through, a sugar-crazed Godzilla, leaving a sticky, half eaten trail of destruction in my wake.
Lifting the mask was about the worst thing we could have done, under the circumstances.
He shone. I mean, he was somehow confected…caramelian…slick, sticky, and powdery, with golden sugar dusting his lashes that shook loose into motes as he fluttered awake, fluttered and fixed us with a liquid look.
And we looked back, which was perhaps our second mistake. That shell-chocolate masklet, perched on heated brow, began to wilt, and so, for a moment, did our determination. But we remembered our hunger, and drew strength from it as we chose our knives, and the boy began to struggle.
Much as I’m apt to complain about the many faults I’ve found in my hometown of Seattle, one of the things this town has that isn’t anywhere else is the haven of irreverent and strange that is Archie McPhee’s. To be perfectly honest I’m not even mildly surprised that McPhee is selling Lenin lollipops that taste like cola.
That is their thing you see, and they do it oh so well. Within the hallowed halls of this magical place you can find old medical equipment, radio parts, mail carrier uniforms, plastic animals of varying shapes, sizes, and species, and of course, Lenin lollipops.
Listen child and heed my words: beware the Devil Pencil. Ignore its inviting rictal grin and resist the temptation to wrap its phallic body in your sweet, innocent embrace; for while the pleasures to be had are many, the price to be paid is high. The Devil Pencil loves you not. No! No, the Devil Pencil sees you as nothing more than delectable pabulum. Leering, its eyes glide over you, salivating at the thought of your delicious soul, its gaze leaving a glistening trail upon your lily-white, alabaster skin.
So flee, flee my darling from its perfidious promises, ignore its deceitful chicanery — for that is what it is, sorcery of the most vile sort; a false Elysium of cake and kites. Run fast and run far. Run until you can no longer see the Devil Pencil. Run until you forget.
Update: as jont vociferously points out in the comments a high quality version can be viewed here at the Savannah College of Art and Design’s website. Thanks!
The Japanese love bugs. If they’re not forcing them to engage in gladiatorial combat they are penning songs about them and the newest bug-themed craze is Larva Chocolates (Youchu Choco).
Produced by the Komatsuya confectionery, the bodies are made from milk chocolate and corn flakes, which are then covered in a layer of skin made from white chocolate. The legs are made from strips of dried squid, and the whole thing is topped off with a mouth made from orange peel. They can be purchased online for about two dollars. It goes without saying that they are flying out the door as fast as they can be made.
In sheer defiance of the World Wide Web Consortium's will, Ectomo was designed using a non-web-standard font. Luckily, it is included in the excellent font pack released by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, which can be freely downloaded in Mac and PC formats here. Ectomo should still look fine without it, though.
