A few weeks ago, Scott and I took a field trip into NYC to see Avenue Q (the show that brings us insightful wisdom like “the internet is for porn”), and stopped by the Kid Robot store in SoHo.  For those not already obsessed with their adorable designer toys, Kid Robot makes such excellent products as this vinyl “labbit” whose tiny, but extremely receptive mouth can hold anything from a pipe to a popsickle to a gas mask.  They also make a plush ninja.  Therefore I love them.

While there, I picked up a deliciously happy doughnut mousepad, and a set of smoking salt and pepper shakers.  Scott purchased a miniature “smorkin’ labbit,” which now sits smoking proudly on his desk.  For a fellow vegetarian friend, I also bought a tofu cow, which somehow just seemed excellent and wrong. In general, I highly recommend drooling over their products. Gamers who don’t like toys? Bah humbug.  Plus we just got Elebits, which makes me crave cute, purchasable fandom even more…

The world is truly full of cakes.

Today at Joystiq, fellow cake-lovers will be happy to find “Good Enough to Eat,” a Playing Dirty column about the game community’s recent crush on video-game cakes, as it relates to gender (kind of) and consuming our fandom (definitely). Though I have to admit, I’m still largely baffled on the subject.  Fan art is fan art, but you don’t usually eat it.  And the idea of taking a bite out of a beloved video-game character…

For my bat mitzah a million years ago, my cake was covered with an enormous icing rendition of me in a kayak (yes, strange).  I was personally too busy being awkward to recall tasting it at the time, but I know no one could bear to eat my three-dimensional icing face, which has been living in our freezer ever since. I do, however, own a Hello Kitty toaster, which goes out of its way to burn her adorable visage onto my bread products (mostly unsuccessfully), which I have no qualms about ingesting.  Confusing.

Anyways, what I want to know, is where are all the hardcore game cakes?  Katamari?  Mario?  Blah!  Give me the Halo 2 cake.  Give me a cake that embodies the experience of pumping round after round of ammunition into my enemies.  Can you say red icing?  Delicious!