Sally’s comment on yesterday’s post said:
“If it was a big birthday–like a MILESTONE birthday, you may have just witnessed someone’s personal freak out being performed.
Sounds strange. Was there cake? Was it good?”
Yes, it was indeed a milestone birthday. A very big one. And indeed there was cake, and it was extremely good, although nobody ate it. The absolute highlight of the evening, for me at least, was a performance piece by three of his friends. In “real time” they assembled a giant cake, formed it into the shape of an alligator, slathered on icing and otherwise decorated their masterpiece, then stuck in candles, while a recording was played of Cookie Monster and The Count happily singing “If I knew you were coming I’d have baked a cake.”
It’s hard to describe what it’s like to watch three grown people doing something so insane while that particular music is playing. But I can tell you it was a deliriously joyful thing to behold. And I can also tell you, from first hand experience, that when three of someone’s friends decide to help him to get through a milestone birthday by frantically assembling a giant alligator cake in front of more than a hundred astonished witnesses, all to the tune of a song from Sesame Street, there is a lot of love in the room.
WoW!
Makes my milestone birthday desire pale by comparison.
(FWIW, I’d like an Ethel Merman drag queen to perform Abba songs..)
🙂
I like the idea of an aligator cake. CAKEIGATOR.
LOL, an alligator cake 🙂 It is some animal the birthday guy particularly likes ?
It reminds me of the bunny cake in Friends 😉 lol
To quote the folks unlucky enough to go through testing at Aperture Sciences testing centers, “The cake is a lie.”