The Siege of Fern's Castle

Up to day, the best of my Google Reader shared bits.

• Dina, who's my little ball of sunshine, tells me how to buy my own ball of sunshine
  
• Also, Dina's friend Mike makes, like, the best Hot Dog Woman ever
  
• Blogger Play is the best thing ever
  
• Katie Nice makes with googly eyes
  
• The evolution of the Sugar Crisp bear, on A Sampler of Things
  
• "Pope Joan in Popular Culture" gets dumped from the Wikipedia
  
• Richard Kelly's Southland Tales gets a poster — and a release date
  
• Paul Dini postulates that Ralph Lauren has been reading Madame Mirage.
  
• Ted the Murderous Stepdad Robot rears his ugly head, on Slowly Going Bald
  
• Ironic Sans close reads the logos of various terrorist organizations
  
• Sixth-grade pizza party dreams are fulfilled — Neo-Geo greats come to the Wii
  
• So too does Cho Aniki squirt its way onto the Wii.
  
• Honda and Hyundai attempt to occupy the same niche, on Mother Tongue Annoyances
  
• The Onion's A.V. Club lists ten good songs ruined by saxophones
  
• Dina praised chicken clothes, on the MyThings Blog
  
• Game Life's Chris Kohler recognizes the dedication of Earthbound fans
  
• Aly nails the Wanda Jackson concert at Velvet Jones, on Independent.com
  
• McSweeney's contributors rate food, noting that "The Don Post werewolf mask I played with in childhood tastes better" than sweetened Papaya spears
• "Bated breath" explained, on Mother Tongue Annoyances
  
• The headline of the day, from A Special Way of Being Afraid
  
• Ain't It Cool News's Harry Knowles reviews The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, reminding me of what Elton John's "I Feel Like a Bullet" is about.
  
• Pickle juice smoothies, pondered on Random Press
  
• Pajiba's Stacey Nosek takes on Tod Browning's Freaks — and notes that it's the source of the Kids in the Hall's Chicken Lady character
• Hardcore Gaming traces the history of Samurai Shodown, my childhood love