Woo-ha, that’s a pretty good one. It’s already been a good year for Мишка cakes, let’s keep this gravy (err, icing) train on a rollin’. This one comes from a strange, mystical continent known as Europe. Weird! Where’s that? Our new friend Sjoerd Krijnen, who lives in The Netherlands in the city of Haarlem (namesake for our own borough. The more you know!) just had his birthday and he celebrated with this bitchin’ ocular desert.

Special shouts to the bakery responsible for it, Patisserie Elhorst. Keep doing what your doing, you beautiful Dutch bastards! And a very happy belated birthday to you Sjoerd. The fact that you started your e-mail to us with “Hey people at the Мишка Brotherhood of Blood” made my week. You sir, are a true mopster.

I apologize in advance for being a total fanboy, but I’m gonna post two Double Fine/Tim Schafer things this week and that’s just gonna be something that happens. I already talked about how Markus “Notch” Persson, creator of Minecraft, was considering funding a sequel to Psychonauts. But what about the stuff Tim Schafer is really known for: my (and a lot of other people’s) beloved adventure games? Well well, it seems he hasn’t left those behind either.

Because he knows no major game studio will fund the new adventure game he wants to make, Schafer turned to his fans, recently starting a Kickstarter to fund a brand new game! Yay! They wanted $400,000, but with over a month left to go they’re already above $1,000,000, shattering Kickstarter records. Looks like this game will be even more awesome than they thought. Anyone who loves adventure games or having fun should donate. If you pledge $15 or more, you get a copy of the game anyway. SIDENOTE: notice how Tim points out that the doc crew filming him in above video is affiliated with Notch. Further evidence!!

Whether it be on tumblr, dump.fm, in The Whitney, or MoMA PS1, internet art has really made it to the big time now. Which is why, obviously, it has to be commoditized. Who’s ready for some tee shirts with exorbitant price tags? You are, you little #seapunk you. Aww c’mon, don’t hate me internet, I was just kidding. I love you and your ever-repeating geocities style of artistic expression. Never leave me.

What’s that? Oh right, the shirts. Yeah, so internet artist Sterling Crispin commissioned some of his favorite frendz including Pictureplane, Ryder Ripps, and Laura Brothers to create these krazy kewl all over print shirts. They’re on sale now here, but act fast and furious because they’re limited to ten each! Oh yeah, and they’re $147. Buy yourself a place in internet art history! Hack the planet!

A while back my compatriot Casper posted about a wonderful short film called Roid Rage, directed by one Ryan Lightbourn. Concerning a gentlemen with a certain mutated butthole malady. His hemorrhoid is sentient, angry, and hungry for human brains. Now, thank goodness, there’s a holiday themed sequel, Roid Rage: The Christmas Special. It is, in a word, fantastic.

Featuring the ‘roid killer as a contracted assassin with a dark past and a bloody future, Christmas Special casts Santa Claus as a perverted meth manufacturer with a propensity for bald midgets, and an all around bad dude who needs to be stopeed. Enter ‘roid, and arrows the eye, skulls cleaved in twain, intestinal nooses, and oh so much more. Can we get a full length?

Few things are more romantically American than a good ol’ fashioned diner. Much like Southern high school football teams, automobile factories, and surf communes, you need only shoot them with an HD camera and throw on some moody music to make it look profound as fuck. There’s this video series done by  NY Based production crew Lost & Found called This Must Be The Place. I guess it’s about “home” or something, but I just like the one about Prime Burger, a NY sammich joint that’s been cooking patties since 1938.

Whether it’s production trickery or not, this place really looks like a time capsule. Especially since there’s an employee who’s interviewed that, if his dates are correct, is about 90 years old and doesn’t look at day over 70. Guess that’s what you get for eating greasy spoon food everyday for 59 years. I wish they would do one of these about the Cup & Saucer on Canal Street. I’ve lived down the street from that octogenarian luncheonette for some years now, and it’s rife with nostalgic wonder. Feel free to steal that idea, internet.

Via Grub Street

Hmmm, guess a certain Fox animation domination program was feeling a little dominated by South Park‘s relatively recent announcement of their foray with Obsidian into the RPG game, and has just announced it’s own MMO. I haven’t watched Family Guy in years, so what really interested me about this was the fact that it’s a free-to-play browser based title. As much as I would like South Park to win this battle (and they probably will in game quality) I can’t help but think this is a really smart idea.

The quicker people learn to embrace these emergent gaming platforms, the better. For them. Not for us probably. Us being “hardcore” gamers. As much as I have issues with that term. But I do know I’m not one for playing things like Farmville. Though, to be fair, I have had fun with free-to-play rpg’s before (Lineage anyone?). I guess I’m curious to see how much this is a real gaming experience and how much is a thinly veiled advertisement delivery service. Either way, they’ll prolly make beaucoup bucks, free or not.

Well maybe a little. But manly beer tears only. This is a Budweiser ad. This is a great Budweiser ad. This ad is airing during the Superbowl. But only in Canada! Monkey paw! Seriously though, this is great. Anyone: if this is fake or staged, please do not tell me. I’d rather remain in my fantasy land.

What’s better than the NHL? The answer: rec, or “beer”, league hockey. That’s gotta be one of the more profoundly manly pursuits out there. My Canadian uncle has played goalie for rec league teams in Vancouver for decades and he’s one of the coolest dudes I’ve ever met in my life. I’ve been to a game or two and they’re awesome. I can’t imagine what it would’ve been like with a crowd like this. Thanks Budweiser!

Huh. So these are the things that will eventually kill us right? Researchers at U Penn (Sidenote: that means at least one beer-chuggin’ Family Guy aficionado was involved) have been doing experiments/spying on the sororities with these nifty little quad rotors. Aren’t they cute? Look at how they group into little – yeah, never mind, that’s terrifying. It’s like something out of MInority Report.

Imagine those, now attach a little gun or blades or bomb bay or BFG or laser or railgun or proton cannon or… at least we’ll get murked off by something awesome. You’ll notice at then end they form a smiley face. Think that’s the work of the scientists? Fat chance! That’s these little fuckers achieving sentience. The singularity is an emoticon.

This is Tim Heidecker, and when he’s not spooking he likes to peer into the future and record the results. His powers were strong after the collective energies of everyone who watched Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie this weekend poured into him, and he saw all the way to the halftime show of this week’s Superbowl between the New York Ginormous and the New Ingmar Paddleboats.

Everyone and all their bros know that this year, the halftime show performer lady is none other than Madonna! Madonna! Tim thought her performance was so good, that he had to come back to the present to spoil it for everyone by posting it on his tumblr. Go check it out here, right now! It’s like a cool can of cigarette juice right in your ear! Mmm-doodly.

A very nonplussed sounding Nic Cage made an appearance on UK radio show Capital Breakfast earlier this week, and was successfully beseeched by a listener to sing an a capella cover of LMFAO’s musical abomination “Sexy And I Know It.” At first I assumed this was probably a impersonator, but shame on me for doubting anything that this man does. Yes, it is very, very real. Of course it is.

I’m quite partial to the “wig-yeah, wig-yeah” section. If those two big haired assholes don’t attempt to recruit this demigod on a track then they’re more idiotic than I thought. Though Cage would probably be too busy with the never ending stream of movies he’s working on (4 or more in 2012!). Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance hits theaters February 17th. Can’t wait. <3 U Nic Cage!