Schu-Review : Sweetbites Cookies N Creme Cupcake

Interests, Life


If Wade thinks that DC is behind in ‘Food Trends’ then he wouldn’t believe how behind I am! I have never had a ‘High End Cupcake’. This will only be shocking to him and his ilk. So today when everybody was out waiting in line at the Fojol Brothers Indian food truck I decided the time was right to taste one of these bad boys. So I wandered over to the pink SweetBites Truck. They had about 6 kinds to choose from, I chose Cookies and Creme.

Visual
The little white bag with a pink sticker was nice, it made it feel OK that you just paid $3 for a cupcake…
The cupcake itself was well made. No burnt bits, No frostingless patches, and No muffin topping, which is a good thing for both deserts and women.

Taste
I smelled it first, it smelled like you had added creme to the inside of an Oreo. Then I tasted a little bit of the frosting… awesomenessocity. It was flantabulous, Gargatuantastic, Monumentitude. I have to make up new words to describe how awesome it was. So smooth, so rich, but with a light texture. I mean… it tastes like real ice cream. But no gritty sugar texture, (just fat probably). Then the first bite… the cupcake was chocolate, honestly nothing to make up new words about, but it was a solid chocolate cupcake. It does win points for moistness and for being the right amount of chewy. But the combination of the frosting and the cake was really really… great. No need to make up words for this one. It was seriously, great.

Overall
Do I feel like I got my $3 worth out of this cupcake, yes. Do I need to run back out and buy another one? I’ll see when I wake up out of my sugar coma. I was going to rate this a little down because the cupcake part didn’t raise itself up to the $3 level. But the frosting will give me special dreams for the rest of my life. So… Cake 3.5 out of 5… Frosting 10 out of 5.

SweetBites Cookies and Creme Cupcake
4.9 out of 5 Schus

Schu-Review : Cage the Elephant

Entertainment, music

Cage The Elephant.

I just became aware of this band a few months ago. I had heard the single “Back Against the Wall” on DC101 a few times and I’d always missed who it was by. Finally I was able to pull out the old Shazam app and figure out who it was. I got the album… It is awesome.

It’s full of driving bass lines and strong drums. Mixed with whining guitars and a distinctive vocal style. It’s a throwback sound to , and I can’t believe I’m saying this… The 90s. It remind me of STP mixed with The Strokes. The singles are a mix of almost nonsensical artsy lyrics with shoutable choruses over energetic guitar driven rock music.

In this age of Itunes singles if an CD has more than 3 listenable songs then it’s considered good. This one has at least 4, which takes it into classic territory.

I love it!

Best song – Three way tie!

4.8 out of 5 Schus

Just Bunches and the downfall of society

Life, Rants

I saw this on the shelf at the grocery store the other day and it really got me thinking.  This is what we’ve come to, we only want the sugary good parts. This is no different than seeing a “Lucky Charms” box with “Just Marshmallows”. except that you would know that Lucky Charms didn’t have anything good for you in there in the first place. This cereal is theoretically made of oats.  Which are theoretically good for you.

This could be true all over the world, but I live in America, so I’m going to speak about Americans.  We want all of the fun with none of the consequences.  We want to eat a cereal that has 7 times more fat than one with an almost identical name.  I know people have free will and freedom of choice in America.  But you know my problem with that?  People are idiots and we make bad decisions.  I would like to know the nutrition benefits of this cereal?  over what?  Just spooning refined sugar into your mouth??

At least you’re not booting black tar heroin, have another scoop of Bunches!

I guess they didn’t expect anyone to actually remember their past commercials beyond that sugar induced coma. Take them at their own word

Video after the break…

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Wade Mixer Mockup

Randomness


Wade Mixer Mockup, originally uploaded by mark5four0.

I’m hoping to get some use out of that airbrush I got a while back. I think I’ll need to practice on a lamp or something before taking on a project with this many details. I really just need to put more time into the prep work because I’m pretty solid with the taping and details.

I’ll post the results when I get some!

Wade’s post about the mixer with sketches.

Society for the Standardization of Blog Navigation Links

Projects, websites

Society for the Standardization of Blog Navigation Links

Mission Statement:

Previous and Next are confusing when reading a blog. Does that link mean back to the “previous” page I was on or to the “posts that are previous to these”.  It’s the same as using “Right” and “Left” on a ship, it can have multiple meanings. We are presenting the new “Starboard” and “Port” of the Internet. Older for older posts. Newer for newer posts. Simple.

Everybody wants stickers! Right!? Had a little free time and I whipped up this sticker design for my new fake movement. After the break there’s another design, plus smaller versions for blog sidebars.  I might fine tune the design a little, but these seem to get the point across.

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