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Blog Will Hunting celebrates one year on the web, with cake wrecks

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Ah yes, it was just a year ago when we first began blogging about Good Will Hunting here on Blog Will Hunting.

And as a part of our ongoing series THEY GOT A BOOK DEAL; WHY NOT ME, please enjoy a piece of birthday cake with us.

If a blog about ill-constructed cakes can get a book deal, why not a blog with brilliantly-constructed Good Will Hunting-themed cakes?


"How Do You Like Them Apples?" apple cake with brown sugar frosting and mini-cupcakes with red frosting

Many thanks to cake auteur Molly, who writes:

Well, it was supposed to be a “How Do You Like Them Apples?” Apple Cake, with Brown Sugar Frosting, with mini-cupcakes made to look like apples.  The cake recipe is from King Arthur Flour.  On the cake was a hand, holding a piece of paper with Skylar’s phone number. The background was decorated with cinnamon, and the paper made white with confectioner’s sugar, and the hand’s sleeve was green and black plaid. It was lovely.

But by the time it got to your house, it was a “Do you like apples? Well, I destroyed your cake on the 72 bus on the way over. How do you like THEM apples?” Apple Cake, with frosting mash. It was a literal cake wreck. I cried a little, just like I did the first time I saw Good Will Hunting.  Still tasted good, though.

Happy Birthday, Blog Will Hunting!


"Marky, Ricky, Danny, Terry, Mikey, Davey, Timmy, Tommy, Joey, Robby, Johnny, and Brian" Chocolate Cake

"Marky, Ricky, Danny, Terry, Mikey, Davey, Timmy, Tommy, Joey, Robby, Johnny, and Brian" yellow birthday cake with chocolate frosting and cupcakes

Marky, Ricky, Danny, Terry, Mikey, Davey, Timmy, Tommy, Joey, Robby, Johnny, and Brian Cake

Thanks to cake creator Katherine, who ran into some cake-making issues, primarily fitting all Will’s fictional brothers onto one cake, explaining “I had to resort to cupcakes. Also, there was a giant sinkhole in ‘Danny’ that I could not, for the life of me, fix… no matter how much frosting i filled it with, it kept sinking in.”


And finally, to all you cake-makers and blog-readers…

It's not your  fault!

It's not your fault (the cake)

"It's Not Your Fault" yellow cake with vanilla frosting and red roses icing

Happy Birthday, Blog Will Hunting!

A Call for Cake Wrecks

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Blogs that became books

As a part of our occasional series THEY GOT A BOOK DEAL WHY NOT ME, Blog Will Hunting is putting out our first call for work.

To celebrate our upcoming first birthday, we want your best/worst Good Will Hunting themed cake or dessert item, à la Cake Wrecks.

Irish Cakewreck

Send photos to contact@blogwillhunting.com by June 13.

Introducing They Got a Book Deal; Why Not Me? — LOLMatts

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Hello! Today Blog Will Hunting is pleased to introduce a new series we’re calling “They got a book deal; why not me??”

Blogs that became books

Perhaps the publishing deluge has slowed down in recent months, but for a while there it seemed that every blog that tipped into the pop cultural consciousness would proceed to fall into a big bucket of book deals.

These days, blogging advice sites are full of tips on how to get your own book deal (discover yourself! get an agent!), and the excellent blog Look At This Fucking Idea For a Blog-to-Book Deal is thriving.

Kevin P. Casey for The New York Times

Ben Huh wrote the book “I Can Has Cheezburger?” based on a blog of the same name. It has sold more than 100,000 copies. | Photo by Kevin P. Casey for The New York Times

Not to be left behind, this particular blog, which happens to be about the 1997 film Good Will Hunting, is embarking on an exploration of some of these interweb memes that have made the transition from Twitter tiny url’s to your local bookstore’s new paperback section.  After all, if they got a book deal, WHY NOT ME??

Blog Will Hunting proudly presents LOLMatts

MAH BOIS WICKD SMAHT!!

LOOK INTO MAH EYEZ I DOAN NED THERAPY

LETZ JUS EAT CARAMELS!

CHUCK, I CAN HAS A DUBBLEBURGER?

IZ MY FAULT?

Check back soon for MORE LOLMatts!! (In the mean time, there’s always more LOLCats at the original I Can Has Cheezburger.)

Just as arbitrary as drinking coffee

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

A bunch of caramels

Blog Will Hunting wishes you a good day, Valentine’s, or otherwise.  Have a bunch of caramels or something.

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