Sweet Enough to Give You a Toothache

come on now: this is a baby that loves obama something fierce. i promise this is "real": this kid is my close friend's niece.

You Stressin?

Are you stressed?
Do you need some relaxation?
Do you like bubble wrap?

If so, click HERE.

Yes We Can

Okay, I like Obama enough to phone bank and canvas and vote and all that jazz. I'm not going to preach about it, but I like the guy, especially his Domestic business.

Anywayz. This video/dance was made by members of The Hollins University Dance Company. Yeah, it's my alma mater. Yeah, I think it's amazing. You should watch even if you dig a different candidate.

ING Direct

I want to share the love about ING Direct.

I recently opened an ING Direct Savings Account (and one of their CDs,) and loved the experience. It's super easy, and the site's interest rates are competitive (even with the Feds. playing Zorro with interest rates). Right now, the Savings account is at 3% interest and the 12 month CD is at 3.3% (they were higher before the interest slaying).

In fact, when I opened my Savings Account, I received a free $25 because 1. my pal Jessica sent me a referral and 2. I deposited an initial $250. Free money for saving? Come on now. That's awesome.

The whole thing is super legit (check out the dozens of forums and financial blogs that rah rah rah about ING Direct).

Click here for more information.

Also, if you'd like me to send you a referral, email me at sil454@yahoo.com.

The following project makes sense if you think about poets and their obsessions with light. Props to Craft Magazine for posting about the poetry pavilion (!!!).


"This park pavilion designed by Jiyeon Song uses a complex arrangement of perforations to display different lines of a poem in its own shadow throughout the year. From the site:

Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion's surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which-during specific times of the year-transform into the legible text of a poem. The specific arrangements of the perforations reveal different shadow-poems according to the solar calendar: a theme of new-life during the summer solstice, a reflection on the passing of time at the period of the winter solstice."

There's also a time-lapse video! Ah!

Remember Your Old Yearbook?

The yearbooks my from my elementary days have NY-style mullets (don't let people tell you southern folk are the only ones who had a party in the back). Me? I look pissed even when I smile. Seriously. Well, except in 5th grade: I saw my teacher stumble and gave a real grin. See? Rebel with a cause.

Anyway. This is amazing:

"In his project "Excelsior 1968", John Martz of Robot Johnny turned the photographs of every single person in his mother’s 1968 Toronto High School yearbook into cartoons:


'Last year I redrew my mother’s entire high school yearbook from 1968—over a thousand heads. Good cartooning, to me, is all about simplification, and this was a fun experiment in distilling each person’s likeness down to a simple cartoon version and learning to draw efficiently, with both speed and as few details as possible.'"

Source

Kanye West's Blog

He has one. It's as over-the-top as his persona (that's right ladies and gents: he's playing a role because he's brilliant and knows hip hop's roots are based in bravado and color and intensity. if you hate on the cat because he puffs like a peacock, you're missing the point).

you should visit it (he talks about his upcoming tour, some amazing art, and things he hears about). i find it really interesting (and i rarely read the celebrity blogs: to be frank, most of them boring). then again, i hear john mayer digs ron paul, and that's a rant i'd read.

"fire works on lake michigan...": go to mr. west's blog!

An Alternative to PayPal

It's pretty sweet, and the $25 is legit (I've got mine!). Even if you don't decide to sign up, it's nice to know there's an alternative.

A New Take on Recycling

I won't even talk about the pyramid my friend once made from a get-together's "trash."


Want one?

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Wolverineeeee

This cat who runs The Wolverine Daily doodles a drawing of the X-Men character each day, and, as he states on the blog, he's not exactly sure why he does it. I love this site because the drawings are sweet and hilarious. I like to think of the work on this blog as found comics: taking an established character and making it new while winking at the old. Oooh: do you hear the literary buzzer ringing? Yeah: I just upped my dork factor by combining comics with blogging and poetry. Yeah. If only I could make a Trekkie connection....My true blue geek friends say I fail because I've never seen Labyrinth. I'm sure it'll happen one day. Until then, here are some sample drawings from The Wolverine Daily: