Tish Black is the author of the fairy tale-inspired short story collection Ebony, Blood, and Snow and a film programmer at IFFO where she hosts the screening series The Gaze.
I'm not a Spongebob fan, but these are so cute! I really need 4 new controllers for my PS2 so we can all play The Bible Game together. So, now, I'm officially on the hunt not just for PS2 controllers but for colorful & cute ones.
6. Mark Ryden's Art
Strange and beautiful.
There's so much symbolism and detail in each piece.
Love the soft textures he creates.
This is his first piece I ever saw and loved it for a long time before I found out anything about him and his art.
No, I don't just mean that picture. ;)
Read more funniness from Jackson in the full interview with Nylon magazine here.
Check out the DIY on Promise Tangeman's blog. I really want to make something like this. I'm really into natural, nature-inspired and feather accessories. I just wish I had money to buy the stuff to make this.
The Butterfly Effect is one of my favorite movies. It’s absolutely fascinating and a very good quality film. [Click here to see my review of the DVD I wrote a long time ago.] So, when I found out that there were not one, but two, sequels made I knew I would want to see them. I could tell that they weren’t going to be very good movies before I even saw them. I don’t know why they even tried to make sequels to The Butterfly Effect. As far as I know it wasn’t exactly a blockbuster, it was more of a cult film, like Donnie Darko (whose sequel S. Darko I happen to love.) From the descriptions of the movies on IMDb.com, I saw that both movies weren’t exactly sequels to The Butterfly Effect, but movies that used the same time traveling concept as the original. There’s a 20-something guy who keeps going back in time to save a girlfriend but he keeps changing something he didn’t mean to. He comes back to his present with no memory of what happened between and his world is very different.
A year after all of his friends die in a car crash, which he was in as well, he time travels back and avoids the accident. He jumps back to a year after with no memory in between. Same basic premise as The Butterfly Effect. At first everything seems great, but he screws something up and goes back to another time to try and fix it. And so on, and so on. The basic “careful what you wish for” moral. Things in the new reality seem great at first, but then he discovers he’s sacrificed something to get what he wanted; ie. his girlfriend for his job.
After watching the sad excuse for a movie that was the first sequel, this movie was a relief that it wasn’t nearly as bad. This one lies somewhere between the original and the second. Again, it doesn’t have enough back story of his time traveling. It is apparent that he has been doing it for a long time, but they don’t share much history of it. I felt that I got to know the characters in this movie, and therefor was more engaged in the story. It turned into a bit of a murder mystery with him jumping back to track a serial killer. In the end, the mystery is revealed. It’s such a strange ending, that it just seems a little unnecessary. It’s just a little too ridiculous. It’s interesting and unexpected for sure, but just little “Aw, geez, that is just too weird.” Overall, it’s not nearly as terrible as the first sequel. It’s actually worth a watch.
Before I saw the message, I only saw the subject line and I was worried it was another religious freak telling me I was going to hell for making videos like this. And then I thought it was going to be someone ugly because he said "i'm so sorry." But I went ahead and watched the video anyway, and was pleasantly surprised.
This time was especially bad because I happened to be bringing my comforters & pillows to wash (the machine here is too small), baking supplies (to bake more for the church bake sale), cupcakes & cookies (for bake sale), several bags of stuff for the Salvation Army. I swear, I usually just need my backpack. Or two.
My father is a very strange man.
Letting the shirt dry.
Note the little tiny boy helping. It was so cute to watch him try to wash the cars with a giant broom. Yup, church is all about child labor.
Okay, I was on my tip-toes, but I am like 5 inches taller than them.
We could tell that it was a fake Indiana because he didn't have a whip and he was just standing there with his hands up surrounded by bad guys. The real Indiana wouldn't just stand there helpless.
Taking a picture of Monica...
Taking a picture of us!
Kim is sweet and wanted to hold Parker's hand.
I, however, prefer a nice slap on the ass.
I think the bee butts look like a fat kid in black clothes squished into something and then a kind in yellow clothes squished into that kid.
He kept giving me more free throws!
Action shots!
High five!
Mike getting me my prize...
My purple pony! It's a My Little Pony wannabe.
Mike said he had to be in the picture, too.
I was just so impressed that strips of plastic in front of your eyes creates UV 400 protection!
I would have bought these if there wasn't that circle in the middle. I love the half-circle shape.
Spinning hubcap belt buckles = gangsta!
Groovy holographic pictures.
Ya. I actually bought the cowboy hat.
Amazingly tacky.
'Cause Monica knows how much I love Dora.
"I'M IN A GLASS CASE OF EMOTION!"
That little girl came in just behind us in the maze and kept getting stuck.
Crazy mirrors.
Trying to be sexy.
I like big butts and I cannot lie...
The crazy mirror house ended in a slide.
Slides scare me when I can't see where they end...
We were concerned Monica might not fit.
I don't do upside down rides, so I had to hold everyone's toys and purses.
We named our ponies after songs that were playing as we stood in line. Mine (purple) is X after a DMX song (she was DMX but later I decided just X was better). Kim's (blue) is Aqua (Dr. Jones was playing.) Monica's (orange) is Gold Digger (Kanyé song.) And then there's Colonel Cluck.
Scary ride.
When we got on the ferris wheel the carnie said "Nothing goes outside the glass." And then I saw the pole in the middle holding up the roof so, of course, I asked "But, can we pole dance?"
I tried to get a nice shot of the whole fair, but of course my timing is impeccable.
I'm also craving Batman movies. Going to download them all and have a Batman day soon.
I'm a hippie on the inside.
I wish I lived in the 60's.
Is it weird that I think she's pretty?
She actually looks pretty. Which means she doesn't look like herself. I barely recognized her. She almost has an expression.
Cactus hedgehog.
Chocolate hedgehog.
Silly hedgehog.
Backwards hedgehog.
Albino hedgehog.
So-cute-it-doesn't-look-real hedgehog.
Angry hedgehog.
Stuck hedgehog.
Fuck, I love trees.
You know I love my label maker. I label everything. 
But, a DOG label maker?! I'm in love!
I want to make one this Summer.
And spend the night in it.
If you don't know what a horcrux is, you suck.
8. Willa Holland
Unisus?
Pegacorn?
Unicornus?
Pegacornus?
Must. Have. Oh. My. God.
I've decided I need to start collecting.
Because I look good in all kinds of frames.
And I love adding a bit of strangeness to every outfit.
It'll be my new thing.
The girl in glasses.
Who doesn't actually need glasses.
I have yet to master the technique, but my hair isn't long enough to look good in a messy fishtail braid like these anyway.
I've always liked her more than Ashley.
She has better style.
And she's a good actress.
They're both amazing business women.
I love their look and I also love that they are super cheap and you see them in stores like this.
Religion is cheap, baby.
It is its own entity.
Her two most well known characters both have "the hair." She played Bridget in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. In the books, Bridget's hair is described as being hypnotizing to boys and so yellow that people think it's dyed. In the Gossip Girl books, Serena's hair is also known to hypnotize boys and get her noticed, although it's described as very pale blonde.
Damn, I want my hair to be so long that it is like its own entity. Someday...
That outfit isn't really much crazier than I wore everyday.
