Patti from Baked Ideas made this amazing edible gingerbread typewriter for benefit of City Harvest, and it is displayed at NYC’s Parker Meridien Hotel. So. typewriter came to mind a sort of gingerbread house for the letters that live inside!! Christmas unplugged, a letter to santa, grannys laptop it was fun to think about. First we made a model of the typewriter in cardboard, and then baked all the parts and crafted the roller, paper and metal keys out of sugar paste. The glue is royal icing, and cookies, stacked up, are the inner supports. The keyboard letters are cookies, iced in ivory and trimmed in silver. The iced gingerbread alphabet letters are frolicking in the sugar snow, sometimes spelling out words (fun, skip, eat, joy.) I am glad we chose to make a typewriter. It is an image that is a reminder of a simpler time wintery, happy and unexpected. I hope both kids and adults enjoy looking at it. Its 100% edible, down to the rice paper ribbon. Gingerbread Typewriter ( via Neatorama )

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Gingerbread typewriter is entirely edible

This is a series of videos from Christmas lights hanger/Youtuber lacycute20 (aka Bobby, aka nice Youtube handle brobro) of this year’s light shows choreographed to metal songs . Hit the jump for performances by Slayer, Machinehead, Kittie, as well as last year’s (including a Pantera number) in case you missed them. God, it really gets you in the holiday spirit, doesn’t it? No? Well maybe you just need a little Christmas cheer. “You mean the eggnog and brandy you’ve been drinking out of that coffee mug all morning?” I have a nog-mustache, don’t I? Hit the jump and get your holiday headbang on.

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Sleigh-er: Christmas Lights Set To Metal Music

Because LEGO and Christmas go together like stirring peas & corn into instant mashed potatoes (aka shitter’s pie), a 33-ft LEGO Christmas tree was erected in London’s St Pancras (the patron saint of internal organs) station. And this is it. It’s tall and plastic. Me? I’m short and fleshy . Kidding, I’m tall and as handsome as a penis wearing a bow-tie. “And tuxedo?” Okay now you’re just being ridiculous. Hit the jump for a ton more pictures, at least one of which features an annoyed looking girl on a cell phone. It’s like a really shitty Where’s Waldo!

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London’s 33-Foot Tall LEGO Christmas Tree

OMGWTF4THOFJULYBBQ! These are a couple videos to get your Canada Day/ 4th of July holiday weekend kicked off right. The first couple are slow-motion videos of fireworks going off shot with a Phantom at 2,000 frames-per-second. The last one is a guy shooting off firework s that have little video cameras attached to them. That one is really spinny and’ll probably make you puke. Also, the deviled eggs I made for my 4th of July party. Get it?! Because I made them in May . I can’t help it, I’m a planner! Hit the jump for the videos, then go have yourself a (relatively) safe Canada Day/4th of July holiday weekend. I’ll be thinking about you when I’m pointing fireworks at my friends. FRIENDS, LOL!

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Let’s Get This Canada Day/4th Of July Party Started!: Fireworks In Super Slow-Motion

Ambitious gingerbread -builders Melodie and Brenton went and created Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic ‘ Fallingwater ‘ in edible form as their entry in this year’s Gingerbread Festival in Orem, Utah. Good looking, guys. I’ve actually been to see Fallingwater before and I’ve got to admit, it does look like it was made out candy. Plus I got busted for skinny dipping. haha, crazy acid. FAX AND FIGURES!: It took over 12 hours to design It took Brenton and I around 40 hours to build and decorate There are around 164 different pieces of gingerbread It took roughly 12 square feet of gingerbread dough (that’s four large batches) to make all the walls, floors and roof Over 8 bags of powdered sugar were used to make all the frosting It took over 40 sleeves of large Smarties which are used to simulate dry stack stone on the building exterior The river and water fall are made up of three batches of hard candy Sadly, Fallingicing didn’t take first prize in the contest, as it was beat off by a stranger in the back of the bus out by ‘Candyland Carnival’ (picture after the jump), which may or may yes look like Santa vomited up part of his intestines. Mmmm, fat people guts. Don’t even act like the French don’t eat that shit as a delicacy! Hit the jump for a bunch more pics and a shot of the house that beat Fallingwater.

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Edible Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic ‘Fallingwater’ As Gingerbread House

Well folks, for those of you that don’t keep track of things, it’s March (and you probably can’t find your car keys ). Like mid-March. I know, I thought it was still January too. But it isn’t. It’s March 14th, which — 3.14 — Pi Day! And in five years it’ll be 3.14.15. What a special one that’ll be! And for everybody out there that’s all, “it’s actually 14.3.10 today”, you know what — YOU CAN’T RAIN ON THIS PIE PARADE! YOU HEAR ME?! You couldn’t even hail on a cake walk! Pi Day’s Wikipedia Thanks to they’re real and they’re spectacular, Leslie, and whoever else reminded me that today was Pi Day and not just the day I try driving 800 miles without dying.

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Reasons To Celebrate: Happy Pi Day

This is an old-ass clip from 1978 of a Star Wars themed holiday special (Wookie family at 5:00!). But, since there’s no Jesus in the Star Wars universe, they celebrate ‘Life Day’, which, at least from what I could tell, is a present -less holiday that makes children sad. Here is a segment from the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special featuring Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia singing an ode to “Life Day” - the Star Wars Universe’s answer to Christmas. Wow Leia, that was pretty awful. And, correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t you supposed to be wearing a golden bikini on Life Day? Oh, hold on — The Force is talking to me. Topless, The Force says topless. The Star Wars Holiday Special - “Happy Life Day” (1978) [fuzzymemories] Thanks to b00geyman, who doesn’t so much deliver presents as hide under your bed and try to cut your Achilles tendon if you ever get up to pee.

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Happy Life Day From The Star Wars Universe

This is a screenshot of some kid playing ‘Christmas Light Hero’ on the front of his (parents’) house. And I thought I was a crazy Christmas decorator (I am, I wander around the front yard in my bathrobe cackling)! According to the Daily What, Ric Turner, a former Disney ‘imagineer’ and special effects specialist, turned his yard into a game of Guitar Hero, built out of 21,268 lights and LEDs, that plays Eric Johnson’s “Cliffs of Dover.” To program the show a video recording was made of a perfect round of Guitar Hero playing Eric Johnson’s Cliffs of Dover. The timing of all the dots and the light show choreography follow that video. When you play, you watch only the Christmas lights, but the audio you hear is from the Wii, so your flubs are broadcast for all to hear (people in cars can tune 99.1 and crank it up as loud as they want.) Wow, that’s….impressive. Not as impressive as wiring up a homemade ‘Rock Band, Holiday Edition’ using EVERY HOUSE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, but it’s not bad for an amateur effort. It is sooooo on, Ric! (I have all the giant inflatables, just sayin’). Hit the jump for the video of the lights in action.

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Guitar Hero Inspired ‘Christmas Light Hero’ Actually Playable On The Side Of A House