Teeny Manolo

from The Guardian: by Rick Nederstigt/AFP

Our subject matter:

Our winner:

Jennie Says:
July 5th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

OMG! Tulle! TULLE! with blue leggings and Wellies!
I specified starched muslin! And what is this zig zag stuff?!?
I drew loops! I know I drew loops!
By Tarzan’s leather undies! No one listens to genuis any more!

Congratulations and virtual fabulousness to Jennie for her heart-rending portrait of creative genius, blocked.

And here is some fabulousness that just works, for the virtual award ceremony: the Giuseppe Zanotti Baby Nero in metallic leather. Much better than Wellies!

Attention Bloggers:
Click here to enter our Stylin’ Stila giveaway #2!

Looks like somebody has issues with that whole “interspecies cooperation” thang. Captions in the comments as always.

From Floridapfae’s Flickr stream

(due to technical difficulties, we have to borrow from Flickr right now,
so please go over to the photographer’s page and say hi)

Click HERE to enter our stylin’ Stila giveaway!

Oh noes!

Click HERE to enter our stylin’ Stila giveaway!

Trust three bored Aussies in the middle of a war zone to come up with this: an outreach program in Afghanistan consisting of co-ed skateboarding lessons. That pic is of Haroon, teaching his two-year-old sister Baher to pop an ollie while a crowd of sk8er boiz wait their turn.

From the Guardian:

Afghanistan… has the world’s highest percentage of school-age children but some of the toughest conditions. Despite progress since 2001, illiteracy is rife, beggars swarm the streets of Kabul and there are 600,000 child drug addicts. Just 1% of students make it to university.

Skateistan, as the project is called, started 18 months ago with 10 secondhand skateboards that Percovich, 34, scrounged from friends in Melbourne. It is a departure from the macho image of sport in a country where the national pastime, Buzkashi, features two teams of horsemen fighting over a calf carcass. Dog fighting and cock fighting are also popular.

Skating is non-competitive, creative and urban. The organisers hope the sport will come to define fun in the post-9/11 era, just as the bestseller The Kite Runner symbolised childhood in 1970s Kabul…

Skateistan tried to be different. It started small, offering free skateboarding classes in public spaces, with virtually no budget.

The strategy took the Australians to some unusual venues, including the Russian pool, an empty pool overlooking the city frequented by hash smokers and used for Friday night dog fights. Under Taliban rule it was used for public executions.

Sounds like the skate park near my house, actually, but that is neither here nor there. After deciding that building a skate park would be a step up from trying to take back the dogfighting arenas from the hash smokers, and rejecting working with the nonprofits in Afghanistan on competence-based grounds, they’re looking to raise the money from scratch. And we all know how well-funded the ground level of skateboarding is, don’t we?

In tangentially-related news, does anyone know why skateboarding in North America is almost exclusively male? I see plenty of girls at the skate park, sure, but they’re sitting, they’re smoking, and their waiting for their boyfriends to go so they can applaud wildly. Was I the last girl on the continent to feel welcome on a longboard?

Click HERE to enter our stylin’ Stila giveaway!

From the mysterious depths of the email vortisphere, via Flickr and Funnr.

Click HERE to enter our stylin’ Stila giveaway!

Can I just say that I love Wonderboy? No, not the Boy Wonder, but the clothing line Wonderboy. If I could take Wonderboy home and make them some nice homemade chicken soup, I would do it.

I have stated before that as a mother to a boy, I am sick of the same old same old. Same old stripes. Same old checks. Same old graphics of trucks and bugs and various amphibians. I want something different, something with personality.

Well, Wonderboy certainly delivers.

Sea Scroll

I’m like Homer Simpson eyeing a donut on this one. Let the drool commence…

Santorini

Me likey. Me likey lots.

Pool Shark

Love it!

Now, if I could just get them to lower their prices, all would be perfect!

Here is some charming video of beautful little baby girl, laughing and having fun. Creeeeeeeeeeepy.

73,000 views! She’s a star! I’d put her in the same wholesomely twisted category as Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams, Winona Ryder as Lydia, the freaky Goth in Beetlejuice, and every female character in an Edward Gorey story.

Especially when you haven’t got forty or fifty dollars to take everyone out to a movie.

Like … uh … a certain someone who lives in my apartment.

So stay in with me, pour yourself a vat of that no-name cola from the gas station, make a swimming pool’s worth of that cheap-ass popcorn you bought at the bulk food store, tell the family it’s bonding time so they better get in here OR ELSE and enjoy this 100% free presentation of that cinematic classic, Raiders of the Lost Ark, in Lego. Like you’ll even notice a difference in the acting.

Part One:

Part Two:

This debonair young man belongs to the blog PrettyFlyForABabyGuy, where he shows off several of his finest food-based looks. Is that Blueberry Steel?