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It's like going up to someone who doesn't know about conservation of energy, and telling them you have a wheel that never stops spinning, and expecting them to be blown away.
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cakewrecks_feed) wrote2025-10-26 01:22 pmSunday TREATS: Halloween
You know when you go to a haunted house, how there's the usual super scary corpse-undertaker-chasing-you-with-a-blood-covered-chainsaw section? And across the parking lot there's the happy-hayride-pumpkin-patch-and-face-painting-with-the-kids section? That's where you'll find today's Halloween Sweets. Today there's nothing to be scared about, except overdosing on cuteness!
Not to mention sweetness.
By Rebecca of Sugar Creations
A cake covered in candy? I can handle that.
How luscious is this caramel apple cake? It looks so real I'm tempted to take a bite just for authenticity's sake.
I'm trying to be scared by this spooky graveyard cake, but ... nope! Too cute! See the wee little jack-o-lantern?
Hmmm, speaking of jack-o-lanterns maybe I'll try to carve all of mine out of cake this year, because a) smaller odds of accidentally stabbing myself again, and b) tastier leftovers!
Now this is a happy cake!
Made by Cake Central member preciouspjs
These monsters don't want to eat your entrails, they just want to see you smile! Love the different textures of 'fur.'
Ok, this next cake is by far the absolute cutest thing I've seen all day:
By Jen's Cakery
And that includes those newborn hedgehog pictures that are going around the internet and also my own children.
If some awesome person delivered these amazing cookies to my house, I would ban everyone from eating them, and display them as decorations instead. All year long.
It's never too soon to introduce the kids to Halloween, and not just because that means more free candy for you! (No, actually that's a good enough reason.)
SO CUTE! Look at the tiny droplets of blood on the vampire's fangs!
Now, if you are not delighted by this cake and its vivid colors, bats silhouetted by the moon and baby grand piano, you might be a Halloween Scrooge.
(Coincidentally, if you are looking for a great Halloween movie, rent A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey, because that was the scariest shiz I've ever seen.)
The more I look at this cake, the more I'm floored by the details:
Tiny bones and fallen leaves. Itty bitty bats with fangs! Haphazardly hanging shutters! And so well-done too. I've never seen skeletons and gravestones looks so gosh darn adorable.
And finally, can you make it past the fearful fondling tentacles and eerie eyeballs of this cake? Beyond the ghostly guardian, over the circular sentinels, through the clingy cobwebs and up the slimy staircase to the haunted mansion?
Go on, try it. I double dare you.
Yeah, you go on ahead...
I'll uh, just be over here getting my face painted.
Happy Sunday!
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P.S. Are you making Halloween Treat bags this year? Because I found the cutest set:
Halloween Goody Bag Set: 40 Bags & Stickers
I love the designs, especially the cat & the skull!
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snopes_feed) wrote2025-10-26 01:00 pmUnmasking the history of why we wear costumes on Halloween
joshreadscomics_feed) wrote2025-10-26 11:26 amI can’t imagine Ed Crankshaft watching a movie made in the last ten years. Seems very wrong
Crankshaft, 10/26/25
Mr. Crankshaft, I know Dagwood Bumstead. Dagwood Bumstead is a friend of mine. He puts together comically large foodstuffs that no ordinary human could even get their mouth around, let alone chew. Those are just normal-ass pastries you bought at a gas station. Mr. Crankshaft, you’re no Dagwood Bumstead.
Pardon My Planet, 10/26/25
I love the contrast between the blond guy at the bar and the bartender as this strip’s beloved (?) Bitter Late-Middle-Aged Man unloads a monologue that’s dark even by Pardon My Planet standards. The young man sees how grim this is and is genuinely disturbed; the bartender, who spends his existence serving up brain-numbing hooch to the hateful drunks who populate the PMPiverse, has long ago become numb to this sort of thing.
Marvin, 10/26/25
“Hello neighbors! I want to offer you nothing but love and compassion. Anyway, it’s come to my attention that some of you are leaving the hallways smeared with feces.” Perfect Marvin strip, no notes.
Rex Morgan, M.D., 10/26/25
Writing a syndicated newspaper comic strip is of course a great way to write off the cost of a cruise on your taxes as “research,” but remember, you don’t always have to aim so high. Do you want to draw an almost perfectly realistic plate of delicious pad thai? Well then, you’d have to order some delicious pad thai, wouldn’t you? You know, for professional reasons! It sure does look great, doesn’t it, Augie? Just like the real thing!
snopes_feed) wrote2025-10-26 02:00 amDid 13 truck drivers block highway under Detroit bridge to help prevent suicide attempt?
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Later he is caught and forced to not have all the money he moneyed.
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dw_maintenance2025-10-25 08:42 amDatabase maintenance
Good morning, afternoon, and evening!
We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)
I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.
Ta for now!
snopes_feed) wrote2025-10-25 01:00 pmInspecting claim dapper French man is Louvre heist case detective
joshreadscomics_feed) wrote2025-10-25 11:29 amForgetful Saturday
Pluggers, 10/25/25
Pluggers are exhibiting signs of senile dementia, and it’s beginning to have a negative impact on their day-to-day life. Look at this guy, he’s staring at the side of his watch as if that’ll tell him what’s going on. It’s very sad!
Judge Parker, 10/25/25
Speaking of forgetting things, I breezily posted “Pet squirrel? Before my time” in response to Neddy telling Charlotte that she and Sophie once had a pet squirrel, sort of, only to have many faithful readers point out to me that, in fact, this storyline was from late 2014 and early 2015, which was very much during my time, as it happens! The short version is that the Spencer-Drivers got an RV but squirrels attacked the engine, and Sophie adopted one that she called “the Dude,” and it got lost but then later found. Now, none of that is very likely to happen in real life, but I have to say it’s infinitely less likely that a child Charlotte’s age would only pretend to go into paroxysms of glee over getting a pet squirrel, then later say with an eerily calm demeanor that her little meltdown had simply been a test to see if the adult caring for her was honest and forthright. I don’t think that’s the sort of thing that happens at all, if I’m being honest.
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snopes_feed) wrote2025-10-24 10:56 pmKenny Loggins filed $900M lawsuit against Trump?
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