linktastic

So much blog goodness today! Here are some links for now, and I'll write about my excellent trip (and consider doing some work...oh and my taxes...shit) after lunch.

*Play with the Subservient Chicken. He'll do whatever you tell him to, except anything naughty or involving bending too much at the waist.

*After winning an Ebay auction for rocks from the hometown of Avril Lavigne, Stereogum created a shrine to the punk heroine in his office. I'd love to do something similar here, but for some reason I don't think the irony would be fully appreciated.

*This story about a child prodigy is kind of disturbing. Is taking chemistry and abstract algebra at UPenn as a 12-year-old really such a good thing? And doesn't the last sentence ("a collection of four chicken pieces. In the classical style.") sound more like a KFC entree description?

*By some cruel twist of fate, the one weekend I leave NYC, America's Next Top Model herself invades my neighborhood. Yoanna House was a mere half a block from MY house!!! [many many thanks, Midwestgrrl]

Woah, I just noticed that three of these four links in some way involve chicken. And I plan on having chicken tacos for dinner tonight. Coincidence? Evidence of an impending chicken apocalypse??