This is Tina the Troubled Teen. I got her at Brunching Shuttlecocks. Go bask in their brilliance. Anyway. Since Evergreen doesn't have a locker system, I'm using this page as my bookmark file. Kinda. Below are links to the pages that are too long to be on this page; next are the smaller categories that fit... Not all of them work yet, and that's because I'm a lazy good for nothing. Live with it.
tv links Not really up.
movie links Kind of up, but still needs lots of work.
magazine links Not up in any way.
music links Sort of up.
Featured Links of This Whatever
http://www.i-resign.com/uk/home/default.asp
http://www.emode.com/
Finally I found some more nifty pages.
Check out Restoration Hardware for neat, absurdly expensive stuff from times past.
Girlshop has some pretty cool jewelry and purses (including one awesome purse made out of recycled seatbelts!) for the girly among you.
The Gilbert and Sullivan Parody Archive!!! This is so great. Read the Xena one, it's awesome.
The American Folklore Institute Urban Legends Archive is a bevy of fun. If you're Heather Rayl, do not hesitate to take this link.
The Straight Dope is a huge site full of answers to the questions you've always wanted answers to. Trust me on this one.
The Useless Pages is a compendium of all sorts of fun crap. Dave Barry is a fan.
Joe Bob Briggs is the scintillating host of TNT's Monster Vision and a drive-in movie review columnist. He's awesome.
I've removed last month's, Smile and Act Nice, because they aren't doing the Cute Du Jour column anymore, and that was the good thing. However, we've still got:
Past Featured links
One of my very favorite people, writer/illustrator/editor Terri Windling, now has this wonderful, huge website at www.endicott-studio.com. It's got interviews, recommendation lists, a gallery of artists (including some of my very favorites like Thomas Canty, Charles Vess, and Brian Froud), and, in short, enough to keep me happily busy for a very long time.
One of my three favorite comic books, Strangers In Paradise, now has a terrific website, including a posting board where you can talk to Terry Moore!
Now that I've finished Book 8 of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, I'm (still) reading all the web pages:
Bill's Repository of Robert Jordan Fandom is where I'm starting.
Need help with your web page?
I do. And this is where I go.
Technical Stuff:
ZSPC Super Color Chart
HotWired's WebMonkey Site has articles, HTML and design tips, etc.
Graphics:
Moyra's Web Jewels: inspiration. Definitely THE starting place; also linkware and links to other sites. If Moyra likes it, it's probably pretty great.
DizzyDog Graphics, home of my beloved set "The Tearoom."
Angel's Web Graphics
Full Moon Graphics
Web Design by Frog Frau. There's some really great stuff here, and new sets fairly often.
7 Rings is one of my favorites. Most of them have an Art Nouveau slant and are very elegant.
Deco-rations
Quest Graphics Design has a spare entry page but some lovely sets.
Suburban Designs has a small selection of linkware, but I love the Bubbles one quite a lot. The art deco one is lovely too.
Silver Star Designs has a nice site design and some nice sets.
Do you like catalogs as much as I do?
Then go sign up for these:
BeneFit Cosmetics sent me a really entertaining catalog the other day. The best part was cutting out all the lipsticked lips and taping them to my face; even Brock agreed it was a great way to spend an evening.
IKEA, great stuff for your house at semi-reasonable prices. I love them. And their commercials. But all the new stuff this year sucks.
Levenger, stuff for people who like to read. Or write. Basically, I want one of everything. Someday when I'm incrediby rich I'll buy furniture from them. Until that day comes, fountain pens.
Lush, Fresh Handmade Cosmetics. Even Terence recommends them.
General Internet Rocking Fun: Toys
The Alanis Morissette Lyric Generator will thrill and delight you for at least ten minutes.
Go to the Love Calculator and see if you and your beloved, or you and Big Bird, or Bill Clinton and James Joyce, or whoever, are destined for romance.
The pompatus of Love Personality Test. Find out if you're a smoker, a joker, or a midnight toker.
The Ten-Question Purity Test. Heh.
Porn Star or My Little Pony? A Quiz. You make the call. my mother tried it and got 8 out of ten wrong!
Ad Parody Dementia amuses me.
Mark'S Apology Note Generator is prety fun.
Mark's Bitch Letter Generator for Women, well, I don't really agree with the principle behind it, but it's pretty fun too.
More Internet Fun
A Fringe-Watcher's Guide to High WWWeirdness
Late Night Links: Wonders of the Web. Enough weird links to keep even me busy.
Places to Buy Cool Stuff
Unamerican.com is your one-stop shop for cool shirts, stickers, buttons, mugs and greeting cards, as well as your place for meeting other freaks like yourself who'd like to change the world- though cool shirts, stickers, buttons, mugs and greeting cards. Which I personally agree with, although they never did send me my free stickers, the jerks.
Film
Looking for laughs? Like parodies? Go to The Editing Room, Rod Hilton's page of hysterical parodies of current box office hits. I don't know him, but I think he's way cool.
In the same vein, check out Mr Cranky. Movie reviews even I think are harsh. And hysterical.
Movie Critic has terrific personalized movie recommendations. It's awesome. I've been procrastinating (this is a KEY procrastinating tool, lemme tell ya), so I've reviewed like 5*0 movies. I could spend HOURS on it, except that I've actually managed to RUN OUT of movies to rate!!! It's telling me to go rent something called The God of Gamblers, and Sling Blade. Amazon.com has one for each of these: books, music, and videos. Trythe Book Matcher. None of them are as good as Movie Critic, but they are fun anyway, and the Book Matcher is the best.
Music
Need the lyrics to that song you can't get out of your head? Want to know what that one word that you can't understand in Concrete Blond's "Joey" is? Go to The International Lyrics Server. They've got it, whatever it is. Or, they would, but were mostly shut down by the powers that be. There are some lyrics up now though, finally, but oh for the days of old.
Want to read about Tori Amos' latest ANYTHING? Check out A Dent in the Tori Amos Net Universe, which gives new meaning to the words Obsessive Fan.