I'm kind of conflicted that this picture of Dave Chappelle has 13,000 views

Dear Mr. Chappelle:

When you signed this autograph for my friend Rachel--who is a big fan of your show--I just took the picture because I thought that it might be nice for her to have a picture of it. I posted it with the rest of the set from the Cupcake Smackdown.

Was a little surprised this morning to find out that said picture had over 13,000 views on Flickr. 



I'm generally against asking famous people to pose for pictures, etc, when they aren't making an official public appearance. (I've seen what it's like not to be able to walk down a street in peace because of people saying hello to you. Frankly, it seems like that part of being famous totally sucks.)


So just to let you know Mr. Chappelle, I'm a little conflicted about this. I think you were also a little bit conflicted when you walked away from your popular television show. So I guess we can be conflicted together.

The Vaccines at Positivus 2012!

While I take a lot of pictures, I'll admit that I'm not great at sharing them. Here's a few of the perky group The Vaccines at Latvia's Positivus Music Festival that I'm really pleased with.







You can find more of that photo set here.

I miss the ocean

Austin, Texas has a lot of things. What it does not have is an ocean.

Given that I grew up fairly close to the Gulf of Mexico, near Galveston, Texas, I thought that I could never live as far inland as I do now.

Much to my surprise I can live inland, I just miss the ocean. Sometimes I think he misses me, too.

Giant fake cupcake, FTW!

Going through my iPhoto library, I found this picture of a giant fake cupcake. It's from the Louis Vuitton window display last spring.




It must be all the time playing "house" as a child, because there is nothing in life that I love so much as perfect fake food.

Is this a good time to confess that, in college (when I had zero interest in cooking) I really thought about buying myself some plastic play food to put in my empty kitchen?

I thought this would be better than leaving the kitchen totally empty!

Fantastic ALIENS baby cake!

 I'm still recovering from Fantastic Fest. But today I wanted to share this picture of the cake that my friends (known as "The Charlie's") made for their own baby shower cake. Because every single time I look at a picture of this cake, I think how awesome it is.



It was also tasty!

The alien was hand-sculpted, not some store-bought plastic prop.