Do you remember how I got two cupcake carriers for Christmas? I have already had a few occasions to use them and, believe you me, they make it a heck of a lot easier to transport cupcakes.
The first time I got to use them was for my friend’s birthday a few days after Christmas. The cupcakes themselves were pretty uninspired–German chocolate cake from a mix with store-bought frosting. In fact, the cupcakes were positively gross (I thought).
The frosting was positively mucoid.
I felt bad about these cupcakes (my friends said they were good, for what it’s worth), but I felt great about my cupcake carriers! In fact, I kind of felt like a bit of a bad ass. It actually reminded me of the movie Desperado, which came out in 1995 and starred Antonio Banderas, who was a super bad ass. I believe I saw Desperado once, over ten years ago, so I don’t remember much about the plot.
See, Antonio Banderas is a bad ass. I suspect Salma Hayek might be one, too. (Photo credit: soundonsight.org)
(When I did a search for “Desperado pictures,” this one also came up. I’m pretty sure it has nothing to do with the movie…
Definitely NOT a bad ass.
Now, returning to our regularly scheduled crummy blog post…)
The main–if tenuous–reason the cupcake carriers reminded me of Desperado is that several of the bad asses in the movie carry guitar cases that actually hide some pretty impressive weaponry.
Here, one of the bad asses shoots a rocket from his guitar case. Pretty cool, huh? (Photo credit: annawebber.com)
Okay, so, as I write this, I’m realizing that the whole comparison between cupcake carriers and Desperado, with its guitar cases-cum-weaponry, doesn’t make any sense. All I can say is, I felt pretty cool toting the cupcakes around in something other than a shoebox or a huge Tupperware container.
Pretty cool, huh? The cupcake carriers, I mean. The cupcakes still look disgusting.
(Flaneur Vric’s Mom, if you’re reading this, sorry for using the a-word so frequently.)
It really cracks me up that cupcake carriers make you feel bad-ass. You are a woman after my own heart. In my office Secret Santa last year, I asked for a mandoline. Nobody else knew what it was. But it’s awesome.
This is so awesome. I kind of hope someone got you a mandolin instead. I can just see you saying something like: “Well, now I can play beautiful music, but how am I supposed to slice my potatoes?!”
I do tend to feel like a bad ass for pretty stupid reasons. I’m assuming this means I’m not actually all that bad-ass.
Thanks for that word—-mucoid. Now there’s a bad ass word. Such a vivid image! It really describes that frosting….