Pizza and Art...Can't Beat That Combination!

Today is National Pizza With Everything (Except Anchovies) Day, and Daria and Tom are miserable because they just found anchovies on their pizza. Poor kids.

Sculptor Auguste Rodin, who may or may not be the creator of Steve Taylor's lawn jockey statue, was born on this day in 1840. For extra fandom fun, read The Angst Guy's Forgotten But Not Gone to see how else Rodin may be connected with Lawndale.

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Pizza and Art...It's Jane Lane's Perfect Combination!

Today is National Pizza with Everything (except Anchovies) Day! Pull up a slice at the Pizza Prince, but watch out for that extra quart of grease they added to the recipe. The Fashion Club will probably have their usual Pizza with Nothing (except Cheese) special.

Happy birthday to the late sculptor Auguste Rodin, born on this day in 1840. Rodin is known for three things related to Daria fandom. First, Daria speculates to Jane whether or not Steve Taylor's Lawn Jockey with Lantern is the original Rodin or a forgery in the episode "Art Burn." Also, one of Rodin's most famous works, The Thinker, appears to be the figure on Daria's Dian Fossey Award for Dazzling Academic Achievement in the Face of Near-Total Misanthropy trophy. Finally, the sculptor's legacy plays an important role in The Angst Guy's fanfic Forgotten But Not Gone.

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A Pizza Holiday for Daria Fandom!

It's National Pizza with Everything (except Anchovies) Day! Trufen of Our Awesome Heroine, Jane Lane, you know what to do. Even Daria would approve.

One hundred sixty-nine years ago, the greatest sculptor of the modern age, Auguste Rodin, was born. One of his most famous works was parodied in the final Daria movie, Is It College Yet? (It was the gorilla statue Daria was given as an award, posed in the manner of The Thinker.) Rodin has something to do with a certain fanfic, too. Great role model for Jane. For art, I mean, not for his personal life, which was whacked out.

Princess Grace of Monaco was also born this day in history, 80 years ago, but she is mentioned here only because her birthday appears on the Sick Sad Life Planner DVD with a relevant quote from Brittany, who is clearly not well versed in royalty issues.

NuuuZ!

• Pinhead has posted two quite interesting views of Daria, if she had continued to wear the clothing she did while living in Highland (a la Beavis and Butt-head). Weird. Kinda makes you think. The black-and-red outfit works better than the yellow one, I must admit, but the green-and-black was better. Daria's an "Autumn" and pulls off the latter very well.
  
• The great and wonderful Anne D. Bernstein has more artwork to display.

Stay tooned 4 moar. Still early yet.

Yet Even More Stuff with Fanfic Potential!

Tonight will be the 154th anniversary of the appearance of the Devil's Footprints in Devon, England. This is tailor-made for Daria fanfic. I don't know how, but I know the potential is there. It reeks of potential. Sniff the air. Yeah, there it is. Devil's Footprints. Go to it!

Today is also the 181st birthday of Jules Verne, without whom our childhoods would have been a heck of a lot more boring. He made a certain Daria fanfic possible, too. Bless him. He's the guy on the right. A great fanfic could be made based on any of his adventure stories. Put Daria and Jane on a submarine or a lost balloon or an island full of monsters! That would rock!

Oh! A giant meteorite crashed into Mexico exactly 40 years ago today, too. Fanfic, fanfic, fanfic! Just make it an asteroid and hit Lawndale! Awesome!

Okay, enough from me. All this thinking has worn me out. Take it from there. Tux? Tux! Where the hell is he? brb

Brother Grimace has posted a second teaser to his next Legion of Lawndale Heroes story, due out soon. Check it out.

And Iron Chef: Beeeep!! has some really awful stories to tell. Treat yourself to a few of them. They are hysterical.