Let them Eat CAKE, she said

German chocolate cake just came out of the oven...finally firm and even, warm and moist still. Letting it cool before I put on the coconut icing. I turned it over and it was a beautiful thing. I remember the heartbreak last time when it broke off in pieces here and there and I had to do patchwork with icing. For Chinese New Year's dinner my contribution is so un-Chinesey yet appropriately me. While the cake cools....

Now I don't watch too much TV as in at all but when I do almost everything seems strange to me. In the time it took my cake to cool alone I've observed the following...

Icebreakers Gum:
So I just caught the new tvc (tele-vision commercial) with Hillary Duff and her lesser known, lesser blonde sister Haley. And with a cameo if that be possible for a 30seconder commercial of Joey from Blossom doing his signature, "Whoa!" as their product tagline. Wasn't the previous commercial of theirs with Ashley and Jessica Simpson? Are they doing a Doublemint Sister thing? Hershey's the manufacturer is clearly doing a rip off of Wrigleys' Doublemint. Double your pleasure, double your fun. Trivia did you know Wrigley's has a patent on a formula with one of the main ingredients of Viagra. Viagra Gum? Oh! Double my pleasure alright! Now that's something I can Whoa! to =p teehee

So next time a girl gives you a stick either
A. She's saying you have bad breath or
B. She wants to have sex with you.

And this one will have a warning that no other will have. Keep away from children!!! A gum that you won't find over the counter. Will men have to slyly whisper to the cashier psssst... a pack of Wrigley's Virile gum please. Or an offshoot of Doublemint but like a new and improved formula just for men "NOW with Viagra". What's next? Viagra Cologne...Sexy Beast! RAWRrrr!

I noticed alot of beautiful black women in several commercials. I'd never seen so many before or consecutively so I mention it to my roommate and she informs me yeah this is a black channel. So I'm watching channel 13 or as she calls it the black channel and it's some show with Bernie Mac. I don't know is it just me or is his fro just constantly in an awkward growing out stage? Then I noticed he calls other men Baby. Men calling men baby...as in, What's up Baby? I can't get used to it. And this is hetersexual salutations. This is too much TV for me.

Then another commercial, but I have to stop and watch this one. Really! It's David Boreanaz for goodness sakey. It's Angel being an angel. Awww. It's National Mentoring Month. The message is clear and Yes, teachers are my hero. Which got me to thinking about my 7th grade english teacher Mrs. McCaig, the sweetest, kindest, most supportive teacher I've ever had. She sent me to the principle's office one day for a short story I'd written; it was a psychotic thriller called Sweet Jane. I guess they thought I had the makings of a psychopath. The following year I didn't try so hard; I got a really mean teacher named Miss (as in I'll forever remain single because I'm old and a bitch beyond belief, with more wrinkles than a manatee) Michaels. I paid the price for it though because she sent my ass to remedial English freshman year of high school. I was with ESL students, a handful of the popular but dumb kids and then the just plain average ordinary tards.

TV...has taken me from Icebreaker commercials, viagra gum, the black channel, strange manly yet covertly sexual greetings of the same sex and orientation, Angel! doing a commercial about teachers being our mentors and heroes, my 7th grade English teacher Mrs. McCaig (good), my 8th grade English tormentor Ms. Michaels (evil) and it all boils down to that ey...Click. Time to ice my cake.