In the order of things I love, puppets and food are probably, like, numbers two and four, respectively. Imagine my excitement, then, when I discovered Cakey! The Cake From Outer Space. A fucking cake puppet? Who is best friends with a boy with an accelerated aging disease? Who has a transvestite father (favorite thing number 8)? Man alive! I think I’ve found the best thing ever!

You can watch all seven episodes here. And you probably should.

As we all know, Wal-Mart is useful if, say, one wishes to buy a cheap cooler which one uses to house pig intestines for a film because the retail giant will take said cooler back as a return after you’re all through with it. However, Wal-Mart is not useful for about a million other reasons, the less obvious being that they will make your cakes unintentionally hilarious, or that they will karmically ruin your shoes with green Tabasco sauce just for shopping there.

My point is, watch this scary interactive map of the store’s disease-like growth since inception, then continue to shop only at thrift stores and/or dumpsters:
Watching the Growth of Wal-Mart Across America

The last place in the continental U.S. to get a Wal-Mart was Montana. Montana is my new favorite state. I like its chutzpah.