Journey of a Cheese Head

[gordonzola]

Journey of a Cheese Head

One of the most striking things at this year's Festival of Cheese were the cheese sculptures. Mock away, but they were totally awesome. They were done by a cheese artist who calls herself, as do many other women in cheese, The Cheese Lady.

We were welcomed with the American Cheese Society logo carved out of cheese


The Cheese Lady even did the conference art out of many different types of cheese. Here's nunofthat posing with it.




You can make great animal heads out of cheese


But how appropriate to carve a pained-looking woman out of cheese in order to symbolize not only the body issues that our society creates, but the pain of having to eat low fat cheese? This sculpture welcomed eaters to the segregated low fat/low salt table. Those cheeses are in the competition but thankfully the organizers had them in a well-defined, far-side-of-the-hall location


But then when I walked into the cheese auction when the conference was done, I knew what I had to purchase. There it was staring me right in the face. $5 for most of a blue ribbon-winning 40lb. block of Farmers cheese. How could I resist?

Something about stuffing a head of anything in the trunk of a car makes one look thuggy, don't you think? (Thanks for the pic Jessamyn)



Isn't my rental car shiny?


Finally, a few hundred miles away, I arrive at the small town Pennsylvanian home of some of my oldest friends. No one expects 30 lbs. of cheese head as a present!

But Kyle loves it!


And so does one of his daughters


The End.

Comments

[albatrossity.livejournal.com]

Wow! I love #2. I wish I could hang it on my wall [sans the inevitable melting and stenchifying].

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it could be spray-varnished or something.

[jessicaem.livejournal.com]

I love the cheese sculptures! I hope they were all eaten with much enthusiasm.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

well I can only speak for the head, but I saw pics of it getting smaller and smaller.

[rockgeisha.livejournal.com]

I can't mock that--it's awesome. I love that gator on her site.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

she's got talent!

[trixiefirecat.livejournal.com]

that's so great, you got the cheese head--and for only $5!!!!!!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

yeah and it was like 30lbs of cheese!

[whimsicalpops.livejournal.com]

I dare you to wear it to a Greenbay packers game sitting on your shoulder and a bit moldy....

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

you know, whenver I go sleeveless around jocks they ask me if my cheese tattoo means I'm a Packers fan.

[slantedtruth.livejournal.com]

i heart jules.
also, did you notice that i RSVPed maybe for the shindig??!!?!? if bee goes, i go.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

yeah, I didn't really expect you but I figured you travel a lot!

[nunofthat.livejournal.com]

Jules hearts you!

[grapesoda.livejournal.com]

nunofthat is cute as a button!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

it's true!

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

"cute" is a bit of an understatement...

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

yes. they are awesome!

[chitinous.livejournal.com]

Wait, what picture of you with cheese for brains? How did I miss that?

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

http://gordonzola.livejournal.com/348311.html

[chitinous.livejournal.com]

Totally aesthetic.

[nunofthat.livejournal.com]

I was trying to figure out what made the low fat, low salt cheese head look so disturbing, and finally figured that it's because it looks like it clawed its own eye out.

I love that you went back for it, bought it, and stuffed it in your trunk.

What, pray tell, became of the stinky cheese from the ice bucket?

Also, all day long I have been channeling Fiddy and singing to myself "She looks good, but I know she's after my cheddar." I thought you would want to know.