First we brought you the Bacontini. Now we teach you how to make it…or at least, make the main ingredient in it: Bacon Vodka!

You’ll be surprised though, this isn’t actually very tough. The BrowniePointsBlog lays it out in 8 easy steps:

1. Fry up three strips of bacon.
2. Add cooked bacon to a clean pint sized mason jar.
3. Trim the ends of the bacon if they are too tall to fit in the jar (or you can just throw a bunch of fried up bacon scraps in the mason jar).
4. Optional: Add crushed black peppercorns.
5. Fill the remainder of the bacon/peppercorn mason jar with vodka.
6. Cap and place in a dark cupboard for at least three weeks. That’s right– don’t refrigerate it.
7. After the three week resting period, place the bacon vodka in the freezer to solidify the fats. Strain out the fats through a coffee filter to yield a clear filtered pale yellow bacon vodka.
8. Decant into decorative bottles and enjoy.

Click here for a list of various bacon-infused cocktails you can make.

(via Katya and Laura)

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Last month, Timbotron brought you a cool example of what a microwave will do to a Peep (as well as to multiple Peeps as well as an easter egg, but I digress). Now Peeps are back on The Dilla, but this time in a more glamorous role: The Washington Post’s “Peep Show” diorama contest. Click here for the article, or click the photo below for the slideshow of the 22 finalists!

(Art/Photo by Renee Comet for the Washington Post; thanks for the story, Laura!)

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Check out “Eliphante,” a sculptural home-turned arts museum in Cornville, Arizona that is the product of 28 years of hard work by artist Michael Kahn and his wife, Leda Livant. The New York Times online has a great slideshow, showing parts of the house, as well as some of the creative/constructive processes. Included in the house are an outdoor summer kitchen, extensive stained glass artwork (seen below), a piano built into a wall of driftwood, and more.  Not to mention that the home resides on small river that the couple uses to canoe. All very cool; check it out:

Eliphante

(thanks Katya!)

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Allen, Texas: at their wedding reception, Chidi Ogbuta and her groom served-up a lifesized/lifelike Chidi Ogbuta cake.
CNN link

(photo credits: Uche Ogbonna/CNN)

Things heard at the wedding reception:
•”Dude, I ate your wife!”

•”I call dibs on her head!”

•”Dark meat, please.”

•”I just caught one of the caterers feeling-up the cake.”

•”Lucky bastard, you got an eyeball and part of a nose.”

•”Actually, the baker started with an Oprah cake and just made some changes to the hair.”

•”Can I have a piece with a flower breast?”

•”Gross! They used real hair!”

•”Man . . . your wife doesn’t taste like this.”

(via Susan, via John)

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When Japanese Schoolgirl and American Gun Collector collide at high speed: a custom made “Hello Kitty” AR-15.

(via Aardvark)

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Be separated from Kevin Bacon by only one degree with this nifty t-shirt from NoStar Clothing:

$24 is kind of pricey though. Alternative solution: Buy bacon, fry bacon, tape bacon to grey t-shirt. Remember to eat bacon before washing.

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My friend Jodi recently confessed that she went through an irrational and shameful ‘crafty’ phase a couple of years ago.

After seeing the photos, I agree.
She was right to consider it “shameful.”

Jodi, you are going to hell.

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Hey Americans . . . (and non-Americans subjected to this holiday) . . . HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

To honor this great holiday we’re offering you, the reader, a fine downloadable “Hand Turkey” to print out and hang in your home . . .

If you’re more discriminating with your holiday art (because “Hand Turkeys” are pretty cliché): the “Foot Turkey”

And if you want cutting edge state-of-the-art Thanksgiving decorations . . .
Behold the patented Blogadilla “Ass Turkey”*

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Last night, friends of mine had to go home early. They confessed that they were going home to make a blanket and couch cushion fort in their livingroom, watch TV in it, and fall asleep in it.

Yes . . . a “fort.”

They also confessed that at a business conference last weekend, they made a fort in their hotelroom. They were kind enough to let me post photos of their hotel fort. Awesome. Inspiring.

Love: having someone you can make forts with.

Blogadilla Readers: If you send us a picture of your fort, we will post it.

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This halloween, my mom sent me some photos of pumpkins she carved. Pretty cool, I say!

Come to think of it, we should have done a Blogadilla pumpkin! I guess I’ll have to wait for Halloween ‘08…

If you’re feeling inspired, check out PumpkinMasters.com- they started the pumpkin stencil craze. Or, if you’re cheap like me, do a google image search for “pumpkin patterns” and see what you get back. Lots of cool stuff you can paste onto your leftover pumpkins and make cool pumpkin art– much better than I could ever do on my own!

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The Flickr photoalbum of handmade “Dawn of the Dead” dolls, by CakeyVoice. Awesome. Truly awesome.

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My older sister is gigantically pregnant with twins and is currently in the hospital (they are on their way in the next couple of days). Last week, Garry (a.k.a. “Dirty Taco”) and I did a bodypainting photoshoot with her and her unborn. Here are some of the results - painted by yours truly and photographed by Garry.



All our best to the parents to be, Heather and Adam.

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Need something cool to put on your wall, but low on cash like me? Well look no further than The Sect of Homokaasu’s free online ‘rasterbator.’ With this cool+free online app, you can create giant posters of your own images, in rasterized form. Just upload a photo (or grab one that already exists online), pick how many sheets of paper you’d like your image spread over, and tell The Sect the size of the paper on which you will be printing. Print out the PDF they generate for you, trim the sides of the paper, and tape it all together. Slap it on the wall, and voilà– you’ve got a badass, one-of-a-kind poster!

Here’s the one I made from a trip I took in Australia a few years back, versus the original image (keep in mind the rasterized version is about 24″ x 32″):

TSoH also has a gallery of very cool rasterized images..the ones in color are especially awesome!

(via Heeeeeeeech!)

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I may have to start a new sewing hobby. There have been some cool things going on in needlepoint, like from Sublime Stitching and Subversive Cross Stitch (above), but things are getting crazy. See below. Yes, that’s Hugh Grant’s mug shot and there’s lots more where that came from (Maria E. Pineres, Kate Westerholt).

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[NSFL - Not Safe For Lunch]
Everybody has that one friend who frequently falls victim to their own clumsiness - the person voted “Most Likely To Accidentally Die By Their Own Hands.” My friend Heather is this person - a master of accidental self-inflicted injury. She began photo-documenting her injuries this year and will soon release an online photogallery/journal (its upcoming release is a Blogadilla exclusive - stay tuned).

Here are samples of some of her more recent injuries (clockwise from top left):

•Fell out of a windowsill (luckily fell inside) and did a face-plant : carpet burn and one and a half black eyes.

•Her most recent injury: shaving her legs

•Infected hangnail

•Stubbed and broke her pinky toe (notice the purple)

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School Project…Ha!(via Break.com)

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Last year a friend of mine went to jail for 3 weeks (though he forgot about a traffic ticket, the County of San Mateo did not). What do you give someone who is going to jail? Hallmark doesn’t make cards for this sort of thing.

I baked him a cake with a hacksaw in it (baking a cake like this isn’t girly - it’s manly because you’re baking with tools).

You will need:
•Cheap cakemix (preferably one that doesn’t require a lot of ingredients)
•A hacksaw (any cake-sized kind will do)
•Frosting (pre-made canned ones are easiest)
•An oven
•A deep (non-stick) baking pan
•A friend going to jail
•A pathetic amount of free time on your hands

How to do it:
1 - Mix-up the cake mix, pour it into 1 or 2 deep baking pans (you want to make 2 rectangular cakes approx 2-3″ thick and big enough to cover-up a hacksaw), bake the cakes according to instructions.
2 - Drink a beer. Eat leftover cakebatter while the cake is baking.
3 - When the sheets of cake are cool, remove from pans, place one of the cake slabs on a platter or piece of cardboard (this one will be the bottom layer).
4 - Place hacksaw on top of the cake slab (the one on the platter), frost the top of this cake slab (frost with the hacksaw on it).
5 - Place the other “top” cake slab on top of the frosted hacksaw-cake mess, the frosting on the bottom cake slab will make the two slabs stick together with the hacksaw in the middle.
6 - Frost the outside of the cake-hacksaw-cake sandwich. Decorate as you see fit. Menthol cigarettes or sharpened toothbrushes are a nice touch.

Hacksaw cake detail.

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Okay . . . because “Transformers: The Movie” is coming out in less than a week and geeks everywhere are getting worked-up about it (myself included), I thought I’d post something of a confession: here are some sketches from my (delinquent + geek) graffiti/spraypainting days in the late 80’s. I did a Tranformers “Unicron” piece beneath a bridge, and here’s a sketch I did of the Transformers logo in Japanese. Remember: it was the late 80’s and I was young and both graffiti and geekdom were still oldskool.

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Over six months ago, Blogadilla’s very own Chris and I decided to send each other “Munnys” - they are vinyl “paint it yourself” figures that hipsters casually display around their stylish apartments (available through KidRobot). Chris (being a professional graphic artist) and I (having experience drawing on my binder in school) decided we’d each design and paint one and send it to the other - as an “art exchange project.” As most projects go, it took me six months to get around to doing something. I just finished it and it’s in the mail en route to Chris right now. I decided to go with a “Cursed Golden Idol” design - an evil golden monkey demon with an extra eye for peering in to the darkest reaches of one’s soul. When Chris sends me the one he’s working on, he’ll post it on Blogadilla also.

(The coolest Munny/Dunny ever made has to be the one by Venture Bros co-creator Jackson Publick)

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Slo-Mo-Mentos+DietSoda

(via TVweek.com; Via Metacafe)

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