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Congratulations, again to Courtenay Bouvier for her winning moniker entry for the art project also known as 8*1*8. The creme filled golden sponge cake is Pammy, after Pamela Anderson, an equally synthetic pop culture phenom. As you can see, neither Patty nor Pammy has changed much. These pics were taken on Aug 21. Patty the cheeseburger was purchased on July 29, Pammy the creme filled golden sponge cake was purchased on August 1. They have been stored at room temperature in an organic granola bar box, Patty is wrapped in her original orange paper, Pammy is naked (shocker!).

It is nearing the end of the term and I am stitching and painting like a demon, which involves listening to endless podcasts–I think Ira Glass is going to send me a bill when I am done with my MFA. Sometimes Hurricane/ sometimes Tropical storm Flo is whirling around us right now with a powerful warm wind and a near biblical amount of rain. I can’t begin to describe my bliss at experiencing this weather  in a  brick house  on a continent as opposed to previous encounters with similar weather in the middle of the Atlantic, hundreds of miles from shore.

This is part of a new project I haven’t named yet. You’ll get to watch it unfold.

I am also looking for old cloth napkins, the ones too stained to use, or who lost their mates. If you have some to send me, please leave me a note in comments and I will email you my address. All donations will be reimbursed with Wacky Packages.

Thanks for stopping by and speaking with me at the Trustees Garden. I really really want to post pics of the experience. My camera battery died, but many of you took photos. If you have any, could you kindly email some to me–I will gladly give you photo credit–AND some Wacky packages. Please email me: rubistudios [at] earthlink.net.

Ingredients: Sugar, enriched bleached flour*, high fructose corn syrup, water, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, corn syrup, eggs.

This is the next “food” product in the series. 8*1*8 has an enormous amount of sugar (the very first ingredient on the box), and is far more moist than Patty, the Eterniburger. I am not sure what will happen, so stay tuned. I am a little afraid of ants.

Naturally, I am having another contest to name this cream filled golden sponge cake. Please submit your entries via comments. I will decide on Sunday night, the winner will receive two Wacky Packages, one with gum, the other with stickers.

Don’t delay! Enter today!

(spouses, relatives, employees, and previous winners may enter)

I am also taking suggestions for other products you would like to see in this project. Any suggestions I use will be rewarded with Wacky Packages. YAY!

*enriched bleached flour means they took all of the good stuff out of the flour when they processed and bleached it, then went and added a whole bunch of nutritional stuff to try to make it good for you again.