I had my 30th birthday party on Saturday and it was glorious. Valerie's party theme was my "Favorite Things" and so everything from food to entertainment was favs. She had out fancy cheeses and bread because I love those. Cheddar and Sour Cream chips, spicy hummus, a heaping mound of cookie dough, sour worms and all kinds of stuff that I love and will someday die from.
She also had things like Empire Strikes Back playing in mute on the TV and my favorite music playing throughout the apartment. We had a raffle of my favorite novel and my favorite candy bars.
But...my friend Aaron brought an item inspired by my love of cheese and a dream I had. I dreamed once that I had saved Brad Pitt by employing an umbrella made of cheese. Aaron brought over a forty pound block of cheddar to carve into an umbrella. But when I saw this massive thing, I knew that within the confines of its structure was a glorious cheese boombox. Which Aaron not only provided the cheese for but also sculpting tools.The rest of the night was spent carving this glorious monster into a beautiful relic that tasted delicious on crackers. Here are some pictures.
Here we separate the speakers. We also carve out a D battery compartment in the back and a place for the cheese plug.
We decided this wasn't no CD playing cheese boombox. Double cassette tapes!
Here's the almost finished product with working tuner and volume knobs. And some treble and bass faders.
Do you wish you had one? Yes. And where is it now? In bags labeled "Right Speaker" "Left Speaker", "Left Tape Deck", "Right Tape Deck". And soon to be on nachos. And then there will be a cheese boombox in all of us.
Best Birthday Ever. That's so awesome!
ReplyDeleteas i read your blog, i could seriously smell the cheese. delish. i want some cheese boom box in my belly.
ReplyDeleteHappy 30th man!
ReplyDeleteThis is probably the best thing I've ever seen. Only slightly gross, and I would totally eat it on nachos, despite everyone's grubby hands and shoulders and cheeks having rubbed up on it.
ReplyDeletePlease tell me someone acted out the boombox scene from "Say Anything" with it...please tell me.
Lizzy,
ReplyDeleteOh, that's right. It was the best ever. Come next year and I promise a cheese carving contest.
Annie,
If you came up here in two months there'd still be cheese boombox in my fridge. Now worries on running out.
B-Ryce,
Thank you my friend. 30 rules so far.
Gillz,
Hey, I almost took this thing to the park and embedded some fake mini speakers and ipod into it so I could dance to the cheese boombox. Everyone is trying so hard to be so ironic here and I would blow them all out of the water.
Happy belated birthday! I'm glad it went well. That cheese sculpture was amazing and oddly inspiring. I hope the nachos it made were delicious!
ReplyDeleteI know I don't know you but happened upon this and it's the best thing I've seen in a long time. Love your humor!
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