Brittany Rocks!

Brittany Taylor appears here as she might look if famed sculptor Henry Moore had used her as a model for one of his abstract works. Today is Henry Moore's 112th birthday anniversary (as was noted last year). Not sure if this qualifies as "fan art," as Mr. Moore died over a decade before Daria went on the air.

Penguin Books celebrates its 75th birthday today. The appearance of Penguin sparked the paperback book revolution, making inexpensive copies of great works available to everyone, at least until today when the price difference between a large trade paperback and a hardbound is almost nothing, given that they cost about $20 each.

NO0OZ!

• The Daria Fan Club has 1,800 fans and a lot of new stuff uploaded there. You might wish to check it out.
• By contrast, MTV's official Daria site on Facebook has over 390,000 fans, with loads of images for you to download.
• The Daria message board at Television Without Pity is now 55 pages long.
• DariaWiki has 3,392 entries. More on this soon.
• The Daria TV show entry at Wikipedia has been constantly updated in recent weeks. Lookin' good.

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• College Wry, by LibertyBellJar (Part 5): Working the graveyard shift of the local twenty-four-hour convenience store could not be said to be the most favorable job in the word. But, the way the young clerk saw it, you had your perks. Witnessing the craziest of the crazies, for example, as he was now. One of the two soaking wet girls before him merely glared ferociously when he smirked, "Having a fun night, ladies?"

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• Am working on the list. A bit behind here. LATER: Sorry, will have to put the list in the next blog post. Just one of those weeks, folks.
  

I'm Shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

Benjamin Franklin, the man who did about everything there was to do for his time, celebrates his 304th birthday today. Thanks to Pinhead and UU for the little-known alter ego at right with Mr. DeMartino!

Also in the realm of birthdays, Popeye turns 81. Daria and Jane got to meet Popeye in one fanfic-in-progress. Popeye also gets mentioned in "Antisocial Climbers," in which it becomes clear that Mr. DeMartino (hey!) is a fan of his. I wonder why...

N0oOZ!

• IRC is working again now that a trojan has been removed from Lawndale Online. Lawndale Online is safe again.
• Why so much hate for Tom? Why indeed. Look here for the arguments.
• The Jane Lane Fan Club has been created by the awesome Jim North! Make your artistic contributions now!
• Like Small Jokes? There's plenty more where the first ones came from.
• Looking for some fun Beavis and Butt-head WAV files, a few of which might relate to Daria? Check this out.
• Pinhead does more artwork for "The Omega Jane"! Is there no end to the Awesome and Win?
• Facebook's Daria fan site is still going strong. Some of the comments are pretty funny. And it has 264,475 fans. Wait, what? 264,475??? Good Lord!
  
• The Daria Fan Club is also doing well, up to 1,558 members with some new materials added. This blog has had 139,000 hits, too. We must be on a roll!
• DariaWiki now has 3,034 articles. Yes! Thank you, all!
  

Welcome to the Inferno

Nine years ago this very day, the computer game Daria's Inferno was released. And there was much rejoicing. This game had some of the most bizarre images you could imagine. At left is Mr. DeMartino wearing a Jar-Jar Binks costume. At right is Ms. Li with a photo of her World's Greatest Disciplinarian Award. Below is an image of the fearsome road-rage trikers on Sick, Sad World. What more could you ask for? Well, there was Helen as the Bride of Frankenstein, Trike Girl, Mystic Spiral playing awful songs, Jane appearing in famous works of art and photography, some very nice shots of Daria's room, Lawndale High, and Shakespeare at a rock concert ("Mosh Ado About Nothing"). Ouch.

Bizarre actor/actress Divine was born 64 years ago today. Some of the MTV animation artists were fond of one of Divine's movies, Pink Flamingos, and created at least two alter egos based on that movie.

No0z

• The Daria Fan Club has 1,449 members now.
• DariaWiki has been great aided by the heroic efforts of Rglovejoy, Vlademir1, Brother Grimace, Dennis, Disco316, Doggieboy, JPAGC, and Richard Lobinske. Thank you!
• This blog has 18 followers (Yay! Go, team!) and 121,000 hits. More followers! Daria must have more minions to do her will!
• NEW! Angelinhel has discovered that Daria scored an Epic Win!
  

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• Anti-Trope, by Pinkminx (Part 3): Dean wordlessly held out a folded piece of white paper and waited for the teacher to take it. Mr. DeMartino took the offering, opened the paper, then turned to address the class. “Class, it seems our new student, Dean Morgendorffer, has finally decided to grace us with his presence. Find a seat and sit down.”
• Size Does Matter, by Blackhole (Part 42): “No, Trent. We both have to take some responsibility here. Four-eyes principle, you know?” Sometimes it defies description how much of a lazy bum you are. (FF.net) (SFMB)
  
• Stacy Rowe, Seeker (Part III), by jtranser (continued): Shaking her head at Brooke's obtuseness, Sandi gave instructions to Lucinda concerning Brooke's hair and makeup procedure: "Set the makeup applicator to Hooker, then shove her head into the bucket with the styling grenade. After that,when she comes back, we'll discuss clothing options."

Sunday afternoon, watching the snow melt

Just for the heck of it, I joined the Daria Fan Club and added some websites to its list. Interruptions prevented me from adding more, but it will get done eventually. Hope we get some new fans in PPMB & elsewhere.

Brother Grimace, Roentgen, and Richard Lobinske continue to forge the mighty DariaWiki into the ultimate Internet encyclopedia on Our Heroine. They totally rule, though it must be confessed that I agree with Quiverwing that the entry on "sweet potato pie" was, um, just a little off topic, if well intended. Nonetheless, thank you for all your great work.


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• John Lane 33: Tiptoe Through the Ivy, by Richard Lobinske (Part 2): This alternate reworking of "Psycho Therapy" is going to be quite interesting, I can tell. 8)
  
• A nameless ficlet by thatLONERchick (COMPLETE!): This minific is so depraved and wicked it should be bronzed as high art. Dead solid perfect. I salute you, tLc!

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• Alter Ego: Quinn as Emilie Autumn, by JennaUsername (direct link here): I'm not familiar with Emilie Autumn, but the pic is startling, I'll give you that.

More later, not sure when. Enjoy.