Now Look Here

[shanmonster]

If you're in Fredericton, make sure you go to the Craft School over the next couple of weeks to see an amazing collection of rings! The ring competition pieces started going up today, and they should all be on display by tomorrow afternoon. Everything I've seen is really interesting, and extra impressive considering much of it has been made by first-year students. And as a bonus, when you go to see the rings, you can vote for your favourites. The winning artisans will get money. Money is good. And I need money, so vote for mine! I just won't tell you which ones they are....

And now for some linkydinkydoos:

Woman performs own caesarean to save baby: This takes some serious chutzpah!

The alleged three-headed frog: Remember the three-headed frog I mentioned a few weeks back? Well, my guess it was a froggy threesome wasn't necessarily all that far off base. Who says orgies are just for Romans? Check out this revolting image of a toad mating ball.

More Letters About Birds: "Whenever Little Buddy saw something that he thought was another bird, he would peck at it, chirp, and spit up seeds on it. One day, my dad was barefoot while I had the bird out on the floor. Little Buddy walked over to my dad's feet and started pecking at his big toenail. My dad has the gross, callused feet of a workingman, which in no way look anything like a small bird. Little Buddy started spitting up seeds and when he started humping away at my dad's big toe, I grabbed him and put him back in his cage. Anytime my dad's feet came into view of his cage, he would start chirping or he would bite if I put him away while my dad was barefoot. The moral here is that parakeets are sick, fucked-up animals and you should keep them away from the ones you love" (thanks, balthcat).

Big Little Books: I used to have a Big Little Book, but mine wasn't lampooned by James Lileks. Read this page. It's so funny, it almost made me incontinent.

Origami Kaiju: Since origami is a Japanese art, it only makes sense it should be used to create Mothra and friends (thanks, Neil).

Harem Interiors: What I think my apartment ought to resemble.

Flamenco Skirt: Quick and dirty directions for how to make your own.

Lastly, here's a close-up of a new sort of body modification: the Jewel Eye. This is Dutch woman Deborah Boer modelling her eye implant. Personally, I find it unattractive, and I'll betcha a doughnut that if this is for real, the procedure is really risky.