Come on. This is cheating. It's like these shirts were built for me. Michael Cianfrani of Tiny Run has just posted a limited edition shirt featuring embroidered TOAST with sparkly cinnamon swirl and glow in the dark butter.
Let me say that again.
Toast with glow in the dark butter.
On a shirt.
I find this magically, ridiculously cool. Now I have appropriate clothing to wear when I visit the toast restaurant across the street (complete with toast buffet, and toasters on every table.)
In what we hope will become a regular feature, we offer up to you Link Love Roundup, a place to put all those little bits of magic and fluff we really want you to see, in yummy bite size form. Here's all the art, music, fashionista and culture candy goodness you can shake a pretty stick at. (And if you're lucky, there might be some toast links thrown in for good measure!)
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Craig Thompson has a blog (The writer of Blankets has just posted some panels from his upcoming graphic novel, Habibi)
In the category of both awesome and ridiculous, the Inflatable Toast Mattress is a gem. This baby is for all of you who have always wanted to feel like butter. Or possibly jam.(Thanks, Chris!)
We are giant fans of toast. I, specifically, am madly in love with toast and all it's forms, so it comes as no surprise that I love Dogboneart's Toasty Bread and Toaster. One day I will buy a glass case and fill it with toast memorabilia, right in the breakfast nook, so I can sup on toast and jam while marveling at my toast plushies.
The thing I love most about this toaster is that when turned on, it has this glowing red quality about it that makes it look like an infernal tape deck, devilishly converted into a toaster and released from the very jaws of Hell to infiltrate our kitchens with its coolness. And to frustrate us with the fact that it apparently only makes one piece of toast at a time. But that's okay, because it's so, so neat.
This toaster simulates the effect of the sun rising. If the sun was hanging on your wall. And somehow not burning a hole in it, or destroying all of humankind with its powerful solar rays, or sucking us all in with its massive gravitational pull. So really, it doesn't simulate the sun rising on your wall at all. It's just vaguely sun-shaped and gets brighter as it gets closer to toast-eating time. Which is good enough for me.
When the standard two pieces of toast just isn't enough (and when is it?), here comes the answer to all your prayers: The new six-slotted toast maker. And so stylish, too!
It's good to know that when people hold contests with a "Ceramics for Breakfast" theme, they have the right priorities. As is only fitting, a new device for making the delicious, delicious toast won first prize. This is huge in toast news! As the designer observes, "This toaster is designed to engage the user, re-invigorating the social context of toasting by questioning everything about what we toast with today." It's about damn time.
In the long line of wonderful toast related items comes the Hello Kitty toaster, which lavishes an adornment of Hello Kittyness to every slice of yummy toast to sate your toasty palate. And, which gives me a good segue to introduce Hello Cthulu, a webcomic about Hello Kitty, Cthulu, and well, toast:
It's been a good long while since I made a toast post. And while this is technically not about toast, but about a toaster-- and well, not even technically about a toaster, but about a guitar amp-- well, it's close enough.
Hottie Amps has gone and somehow combined the magic of music and toast in one fell swoop. They make guitar amps and fit them into vintage toasters. And they're sparkly.
If you're like me, you can't wait for the new album to come out. I found all the tracks off the new album streaming on VolumeOne website. Click here for a happy listening!
Mindy on 
