Send In the Clowns

• In honor of National Clown Week (and nobody told me?!), here’s a slideshow of historic clown photos courtesy of Slate.
• Check out the smashing new Dr. Sketchy’s site, complete with branch profiles and full search capability.
• Support budding young writers, support the Desert Island Supply Co. in Birmingham, Alabama.
• The Uniform Project is in its second year with a new “Pilots” series. Funds raised for this month’s project will benefit Blair Grocery, a school in New Orleans’s Lower 9th Ward.
• Jenny of Fashion for Writers rants about the blatant Orientalism in Dior’s new ad campaign, “Shanghai Dreamers.”
• Beth Hommel, personal assistant to Amanda Palmer and all around superstar, has written about her battle with depression. For anyone who’s been there or feels they’re on the brink, read the comments. They’re inspiring.
• The Cassini probe captures Alpha Centauri, the sun’s nearest star system, while photographing Saturn. From 80 million x 330,000 miles away!
• These tiny sculptures carved into pencil tips by Dalton Ghetti are astounding.
• Prop 8 overturned!
• Etsy recs: Ugly Art Dolls by Ugly Shyla, Rustic Goth, tracemyface design, and Midnight Zodiac Leather Works.

Guess who’s back?

Once upon a time, there was a very lazy girl. But I’m back now! There are still some things that need toying with and I won’t be able to make a proper update for a few more days, but sit tight. And if you have an account, why not follow my blog with bloglovin? I also have a shiny new RSS feed in place. I think the site deserves the professional treatment after all the unwarranted neglect.

Gotta run! You won’t even know I’ve been gone.

All’s sleepy in the hollow

Happy Halloween! I hope everyone is enjoying themselves. I’m curled up, rather uncomfortably, at my desk with a cup of cocoa and a book. Because I’m boring. If you’re still riding the waves of a sugar high and looking for some quick reads, have “Teaching Bigfoot to Read” by Geoffrey W. Cole and “A Stone Woman” by A.S. Byatt. And if you want a cackle, check this out. You may find yourself simultaneously raging. Proceed to the nearest scarecrow and punch its lights out. Then laugh about it.

Inside Out

Dusting off the cobwebs and applying a new coat of paint. I’m still not happy with it, but a four month absence is three months and three weeks too long and I needed to do something, anything, to take my mind off things.

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Life, News & Updates, Photos

Never fails to make me smile

• Scientologists banned from editing Wikipedia entries. The funniest part? Wikicourt.
• Tweet the Meat is my new favorite twitterzine.
• Ten of the greatest moments from Leno’s run on the Tonight Show.

The Kevin Bacon Movie Club from Kevin Bacon

Old news, new post.

The shot above was taken on our trip down Three-Legged Lady Road in Columbus, Mississippi. Locals claim to have seen a tractor cruising through the woods in the dead of night and a disheveled woman with three legs who runs alongside your car until you reach a set of train tracks. I saw none of these things, tracks included, but I did see a lot of standing water and graffiti. Oh, and one squirrel.

Entertaining links from the past couple of weeks:

• Rain in Spain shows traces of cocaine.
• The Icarus Project is an organization of 8,000 individuals living with and embracing mental illness. I love the accompanying artwork.
• Burglars flee from woman wielding a bowl of chili and a broom.
• American Idol finale reaction videos: 1, 2, 3, 4. ‘Course, nothing will ever beat last year’s.

New Layout!

Well, that didn’t last long, did it?