New Raiders of the Lost Ark t-shirt

Last Exit to Nowhere's latest t-shirt honors the Bantu Wind - - the fictional tramp steamer featured in the film Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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Ark of the Covenant cake; Ray Lewis battling a stallion cake

Two cakes by Charm City Cakes:



Ark of the Covenant cake. You can see a great photo gallery of the wedding here.




Ray Lewis battling a stallion cake by Mary Lewis.

She also created a Ray Lewis jack-o'-lantern:



And finally, the best of the Old Spice commercials, where Ray Lewis equates using Old Spice Swagger to getting to fly on a rocket-powered raven into space:






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Artisanal Chewing Gum Factory (and so much more)

Alas, it's too late to participate in Bompas & Parr's Artisanal Chewing Gum Factory:

Each visitor will be able to choose and combine 200 familiar and unusual flavours including iris, Hendricks Gin and tonic, curry and beer yeast. In total 40,000 flavour combinations are possible.

Truly outlandish combinations were possible. At least you can participate vicariously by watching the video below:









Coming next month is another event that sounds like great fun - - Taste O Rama at the Harley Gallery:

Coming soon to the Harley Gallery, Bompas & Parr will show Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in Welbeck Abbey's Titchfield Library. Guests will be taken on a trip through the secretive underground rooms at Welbeck before watching the film presented in Taste 'o' Rama - with spectators able to enjoy key moments of the movie with their mouths.

(Monkey brain's anyone?)



You can read about Bompas and Parr's previous culinary adventures at their site, including the Sugar Cave:



Emperor Vespasian's notorious Shield of Minerva dish:



The Ziggurat of Flavour, Occult Jam ("a small triumph over mortality"), Surreal House Dinner, and more. Via these sites.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark comic strip

Part of a Popeye-style comic strip print following the plot of Raiders of the Lost Ark. It's on sale for $20 here. Via.

(The first time I watched the movie with my five year old, he asked during the kissing scene, "Why is she doing that to him?")

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$10 sketch cards

Eric Merced is selling sketch cards for $10 a piece (plus shipping).

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