robyn hitchcock/my last day on earth as a cupcake

Hello! After a long work day, my friend Mark and I decided to have cupcake night, so we stopped by Joan's on Third last night for a little treat. We picked-up a bunch of goodies for dinner, then headed over to the cupcake counter for two cupcakes... two pink cupcakes. If you've talked to me at any time in the last few months, you already know about the pink cupcakes. I wouldn't exactly count myself in on the recent cupcake craze, but this really is an amazing cupcake... whoever invented it is a genius. The top is sprinkled with shaved chocolate, and there's a surprise filling inside... it tastes like what you would imagine if a pop tart and the best cupcake on earth had a baby. Anyway, we went back to Mark's and had a great dinner and watched the Robyn Hitchcock documentary. And when it was cupcake time, we, having just listened to Mr. Hitchcock for an hour, decided that the cupcakes needed to have a little fun before their demise. So... the cupcakes took a ride on a ferris wheel... rested in the hands of the great Buddha(s).... and last but not least, were displayed, as art, atop a pinball machine face, between two cat heads and under a lovely little painting of a dinosaur and a fish on a swimming expedition...

...and then they were eaten! Well, actually we split one... so alas, one pink cupcake survived.

You probably noticed that there's an extra cupcake in the photograph with the ferris wheel... a very tall chocolate-y one. We actually picked-up a third cupcake on our little trip to Joan's, one we'd never had before. It's the "marshmallow cloud cupcake dipped in chocolate" ...so crazy! ...and pretty darn good too. We cut it open just to take a peek... wow... we each took a nibble then put it back together and placed it back in its little box for another day....

There was a time when I wouldn't let myself enjoy a cupcake... a time that's now only a very faint memory. Last night was full of many good things... friendship, delicious food, the world of documentary film... and silliness! It's a blessing to enjoy such sweetness...