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This past weekend Amy and I finally got off our asses and decided to prepare our entry for the Knitty 2006 Calendar Contest. The idea is that you send in a photograph of yourself wearing an item from Knitty. We figured that the two of us in our matching Cheesylove vests in an iconic Sydney location like the Opera House would be a shoo-in to win. Right? Right. So having secured a photographer, we headed down to the Quay near sunset to best capture our amazing hotness. (My complaint that I don’t get off the couch for less than $10K a day fell on deaf ears.) We get to submit three for the contest…

Unleash your inner Jackson Pollack. How cool is that? Took me a few seconds to figure out what to do. (Link courtesy of Zesmerelda.)

Eileen’s blog has been around less than a week and she’s already created a signature meme for herself: the Awkward Friday Photo. She’s amassed a collection of bad teenage photos and she’s doling them out one per week. This week it’s the shuddering horror of a “braided frontal tail.” (The sad thing is, given the student body at my junior high school, that just as easily could’ve been a girl.) I’ve got a few of my own I should probably send to her…

In case you missed the announcement, my very own college Roomater Eileen has launched her very own weblog. I just wish she was still waitressing; the stories from that were comedy gold, people!

Whew. That was a much, much needed design update. I couldn’t stand looking at those snowflakes any longer. I think I’ve worked out all the big kinks… but let me know if you find any pages that look weird.

That sucks. The Valhalla theater is closing and the Chauvel is following not long after. I never even went there! The Snook and I have been thinking about making a standing date to go to the Dendy once a week. I suddenly feel compelled to support the local independent cinemas.

Remember Brian and Greg, the twins on The Amazing Race who flipped their jeep but still managed to beat the odious Ray and Deana in a footrace? (Remember how that was the greatest moment of that season EVER?) It appears that Brian is an aspiring actor, and on his website you can watch their audition video. It’s the FUNNIEST THING EVER. My favorite parts were the car-slide credits, the breakdancing, and the blooper reel at the end. If there’s an All-Star Race, these guys need to be on it.

Japan now has an iTunes Music Store. At this rate, the only places that don’t have one are going to be Australia, Outer Mongolia, and the International Space Station.

Just trying to decide if the expense of having this shirt shipped all the way to Australia will be worth the looks of recognition from the, like, seven Arrested Development fans in Sydney… (Link courtesy of Brigita.)

(Attention Sis: Minor HP Spoiler here, but not a biggie…)The San Francisco Chronicle takes a look at “shipping” in Harry Potter fandom. (Shipping refers to “relationshipping,” the championing of certain romantic pairings over others.) Apparently the Harry/Hermione shippers are majorly up in arms over the end of Half-Blood Prince. I just don’t get it. I mean, it’s been obvious from both the books and the movies that Ron and Hermione are going to get together, and it’s been especially overt since Goblet of Fire. (The article way overstates the status of their relationship, though. They didn’t “fall” into each other’s arms at all.) Harry and Ginny wasn’t as obvious, but it’s still not like it was a complete shock…