ELVIS WEEK!

ELVIS WEEK! IT'S ELVIS WEEK!

No, really, it is. Trent helps out with the alter ego.

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• Brian Taylor brings us a new Iron Chef: Modern Day Daria. "Daria's first day of school at Lawndale High occurs during the 2009 - 2010 school year. And... go!" Much discussion there.
  
• Ms. Kinnikufan offers up Iron Chef: Mr. DeMartino the Motivational Speaker. "After the events in Is It Fall Yet? Mr. DeMartino is approached by a publisher to write book about "If someone is doing something to irritate you, tell them about it in detail" way of dealing with low self-esteem. Apparently one of the publisher's children went to the "It's okay to cry corral" and benefited greatly from Mr. DeMartino's method. The very large advance is all it takes to get Mr. DeMartino to agree."
• TOTALLY NEWEST OF ALL! Roentgen has created Iron Chef: The Misery Chip, with the challenge being a Daria/Star Trek TNG scenario.
  
• Wanna make your own Daria T-shirt? Then do so. Thank you, Chris Tucker!
• Wouter brings us another great artwork, this time of Daria relaxing in the sun. Excellent.
  

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• EVEN MORE NEWEST! Broken, by Albatrocity (Parts 1 and 2): Daria sighed, deciding her need for coffee outweighed her want to continue lying in bed to reminisce. She sat up and stretched, her arms arcing over her head gracefully before standing and placing her glasses on her nose. A quick assessment of the apartment told that Jane had gone for her morning run, leaving Daria alone until she returned. That was... good, she could work on her article now. No fiend, er... friend to distract her. Smirking in spite of herself, she turned on the coffee maker and leaned on the counter, resting her chin in her hand to wait for the coffee to finish.

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• 2 Girls, 1 Camera, by rglovejoy (COMPLETE!): Sandi folded her arms and glared into the camera lens. "Stacy, I still don't understand why you need to record this." Stacy set the focus on the video camera. "It's for a project, Sandi," she said cheerfully. "Now, all you have to do is watch this Internet video and I'll be able to get your reactions, okay?" "Fine." Sandi turned her nose up. "What do I do now?" "Just press the mouse on the 'Start' button, That's right." Stacy hit the record button on the camera.
• NEWEST! Bittersweet, by thatLONERchick (COMPLETE!): It had been coming on for some time now. They had both known, seen the signals both obvious and subtle, but some things, as we all know, are difficult to let go. Like so many things, it started with a misunderstanding...
  
• Finn Morgendorffer 55: Dreamer Without a Cause, by HolyGrail2007 (Part 6): “So, Daria, all ready to go tomorrow?” Henry asked as the two sat in her room. “Ready to have my work torn apart by critics?” Daria returned. “Since that’s not gonna happen, I get to say you’re worried for nothing!” Henry remarked cheerfully. Too cheerfully. “No, Henry, that’s their job. Maybe they won’t be at a newspaper or anything, but people watch movies to have opinions of them. They’re just gonna hate it.” “God, you’re so depressing sometimes.” “I’m being realistic.” “Realistic how? What, you’re expecting cinema or something?”
• I Was A Teenage Sex Kitten..., by Erin M. (Part 2): The invasion itself was much like a gang of belligerent drunken dwarves with dubious personal hygiene: nasty, brutish and short. The Zippotronian saucers effectively decimated the military forces of the world, turning every last vehicle, weapon, and nuke into a vast buffet which was, under Jane's order's, delivered to the poorest counties in the third world so they could have SOMETHING to eat for once. Otherwise, things really didn't change that much. Jane was very much a hands-off benevolent dictator. She let the conquered get on with governing themselves, while enjoying her authority from the new global capital of Lawndale.
• MORE NEWEST! Jane Lane: Ace Attorney--Turnabout Teacher's Pet, by LSauchelli (Part 10): Jane took a deep breath and a look around the room. This is it, this is the day. No one could blame her for feeling nervous. She spent a good deal of the evening trying to talk to O’Neill, but the man was nowhere to be found. He didn’t answer his home phone and his cellphone was dead. That in itself was suspicious, but that aside, it meant Jane couldn’t corroborate Barch’s alibi. She had to call Charles during the night to ask him to search for O’Neill, even if she thought the boss wasn’t going to be happy once the P.I. sent him his fees. “Would you stop fidgeting like you need to pee? You look like an idiot,” Sandi said, barely turning to look at her over her shoulder.
  
• The Lane That Wasn't, by LadieT (Part 16): Jane closed her eyes for a moment as she thought about the old man's words. Just five minutes..300 seconds..I will need to make them count. She began to think out what she was going to say or do. She gazed back at the old man's face. He stared out straight into the distance. His emotions were unchanging. For the first time since she arrived at this place, she felt afraid. How can he just make me appear out of thin air? What is he? Is he an angel, a devil, or some other kind of worldly being out to destroy my sanity? There is just so much I don't understand. Jane started to speak, but the old man stopped her.
• Legacy, by Getrealordie187 (Interlude 3): "I'm sorry. I didn't know you were in here." She stands up, wobbly on her feet. "Hmm. From what I just heard, you weren't very concerned about being anywhere else but where Rita wasn't. I'm sorry I haven't been around to watch Aunt Rita throw herself at you; watching her embarrass herself is like an episode of Dallas. Let me look at you." She staggers over to him and to his incredulity, the girl appears to be as drunk as the day is long. He frowns even as he moves to shake her hand. "I thought Rita was your mother too." He leans forward to sniff at her and confirm his suspicions and becomes even more alarmed at the way she backpedals from him to land on her ass. "Is that vodka I smell? Are you drunk?"
• EXTREME NEWEST! Legacy, by Getrealordie187 (Part 4): "Hey, we're Mystic Spiral and we'll be back for our next set in half an hour. Oh and we're thinking about changing our name." Another day, another gig at the Zon. Sometimes he thinks that this is all he'll ever do with his life and most days he's okay with that. But sometimes when the fights with Nick and Max got a little too vicious and Jesse's a little too blank, he thinks about getting as far away from Lawndale as his feet can carry him. But leaving Janey to the tender mercy of his forgetful parents and the hounds of the IRS will never be his style so he pushes on like he always does.
  
• MORE NEWEST! Li Don't Like Mondays, by Charles RB (COMPLETE!): While DeMartino tried "patiently" to explain to Kevin that the Vietcong were neither related to King Kong nor Al Qaeda, the school intercom sputtered to life: "ALERT! ALERT! A SHOOTER IS RAIDING THE SCHOOL !" Tinny recorded sounds of a gun came over. "EVERYONE TO FALLBACK POSITIONS NOW!" "Dreams do come true," said Daria. "You wish," replied Jane. "Li does these things once a week, just in case a real shooter or a terrorist attacks us." "So she's annoying potential shooters to death?"
  
• MST version of TAG's "Can't Touch That!" by Jim North (COMPLETE!): [Won't spoil it for you!]
• MST version of TAG's "Daria 2007: The Girl from Hope" by Charles RB (Part 2): [Won't spoil it for you!]
• Unnamed story (Iron Chef: ATTACK WARNING RED), by Chris Tucker (COMPLETE!): The school intercom screeched to life. "Attention: we are under attack." Jane rose from her desk and ambled to one of the classroom windows. "Hey, Daria, check it out!" Her friend joined her at the window....
• Unnamed story (Iron Chef: Modern Day Daria), by Brother Grimace (COMPLETE!): "In five, four, three, two..." "Hi! I'm two liters of cool, refreshing Quinn!" "And I'm a double 'on-the-go' pack of tasty, sugar-free Stacy!" "Mix liberally and add a healthy splash of our tech-guy Ted—"
• Unnamed story (Iron Chef: Modern Day Daria), by Roentgen (COMPLETE!): "Now I realize that it's very difficult being at a new school," Jake said. "As difficult as it is to be pardoned as a American journalist trapped in North Korea. I'm just asking you to use a little diplomacy, like ex-President Bill Clinton used earlier this month." The car pulled up to the school. A girl walked up to Quinn, who had gotten out of the car first. "Hi! What's your name?" she asked. "Quinn Morgendorffer," Quinn replied. "Wait a second?" the girl in pigtails asked. "Did you say Quinn Morakot, after that typhoon that hit Taiwan three weeks ago?"
• Unnamed story (Iron Chef: Mr. DeMartino the motivational speaker), by Getrealordie187 (COMPLETE!): "And now for our next guest, who wrote a controversial book on self-esteem entitled, I'm Mad As Hell and Here's Why I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore, which quickly rose to the New York Times Bestseller list. Ladies and gentlemen, a round of applause for Anthony DeMartino."
• A Very Special Edition of At the Fics with Daria and Jane, by Chris Tucker (COMPLETE!): "Jesus, it stinks in here! The carpets are ruined, we'll never get them clean. OK, girls, marks. In 5... 4... 3... 2...and we're on!" The two girls stood stiffly. They were wearing cheap plastic ponchos from Sears. The backdrop, chairs and set floor were stained with wet, brown lumps of something. From the look on the smaller girl's face, they smelled very bad. Both ponchos appeared to have hastily wiped off, as evidenced by the smears of a similar brownish matter. "Hello, I'm Jane Lane." "And I'm Daria Morgendorffer. We're the hosts of 'At The Fics with Daria and Jane." "I thought it was 'Jane and Daria' this week?" "No, remember last week it was just Tom hosting the show."