[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-happy-birthday-king-cupcake":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"And it's a big one! You wouldn't know, to look at Stuart, all that cycling keeps him nice and trim. (Not like \u003Ca href=\"http://www.jabberworks.co.uk/princess.php\">King Cupcake\u003C/a>, who lives up to his name.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/kingcupcake-31f509accf.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's a lovely card he opened this morning from our friends Mags and Manoëlle in Brussels, by Italian artist \u003Ca href=\"http://lambiek.net/artists/g/giardino_v.htm\">Vittorio Giardino\u003C/a>. It would be funny if the ubiquitous yellow cycling jacket you see in London looked like this one instead.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/atomium_giardino-c7a75cf1a8.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe card's published by a Belgian company called \u003Ca href=\"http://www.champaka.be/archives/giardino/valse-sur-le-pont-de-prague\">Champaka\u003C/a>, and you can see lots of other lovely images by creators of \u003Ci>bande dessinée\u003C/i> on their website. Stuart and I visited the \u003Cb>Atomium\u003C/b> (the strange building pictured on the card) last year, \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/262093.html\">you can see my photos and general enthusing here\u003C/a>. And in 2009, \u003Cb>Woodrow Phoenix\u003C/b> and \u003Cb>Rian Hughes\u003C/b> got to exhibit there with \u003Cb>Serge Clerc\u003C/b> and others, and you can read \u003Ca href=\"http://supercomicsadventuresquad.blogspot.com/2009/07/twelve-feet-high-donny-digits.html\">Woodrow's post about it here\u003C/a>. You can see a few more \u003Ca href=\"http://www.catawiki.nl/catalogus/ansichtkaarten/uitgever-als-op-kaart/394763-champaka\">tribute drawings to the Atomium here\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\nWriter \u003Ca href=\"http://www.candygourlay.com/\">Candy Gourlay\u003C/a> just posted a link to \u003Cb>Irina Werning\u003C/b>'s website, \u003Ca href=\"http://irinawerning.com/back-to-the-fut/back-to-the-future/\">Back to the Future\u003C/a> with the comment, \u003Ci>Extraordinary photo project to recreate childhood photos. sometimes sweet, sometimes creepy.\u003C/i> ...Yikes!","2011-02-23T07:34:00.000Z","happy-birthday-king-cupcake",[],"happy birthday, king cupcake!",1776628719793]