I got special pencils for my birthday!

This is a screen shot of my recent blog traffic.  It looks like that stupid show is back for another season.  I’m sure it is really, really disappointing to Google “The Amber Show” and come here to find out I’m not two blond, fake-boobied bimbos.  Sorry, yall.  But I do have big boobs!  I just grew them myself.

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I’m off to SxSW!  Come find me and say hello if you’ll be there.  I’ll be the one CELEBRATING MY BIRTHDAY!  Woo!

It’s a shame “bust out of a paper wall” was never on my life list.  May I suggest you add it to yours?  It is way fun.

Thanks, Dennis, for the photo.

2 horses by Mrs. French

This week all my links are about pictures!

This Flickr set called Corporate Headshots made me laugh!

I was inspired this week by Chookooloonks. Karen has a brand-spanking-new life list and added a project to it called 1000 faces in which, obvs, she is going to take 1000 portraits.  “Brilliant!” I thought, so I started one, too. I’m hoping to finish before I’m 30, but no pressure. You can see my progress at 1000Clicks.tumblr.com

Gothamist rounded up some of the city’s finest snow people.

Sometimes artistic backgrounds for desktops can be over-busy, but here are some super minimal ones from SimpleDesktops.com. It is wonderfully curated.

17 images you won’t believe aren’t photoshopped.

Happy weekend!

Star Wars vintage-style travel posters by Justin Van Genderen, $17 each, from ImageKind.com

A History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things from New York Magazine made me giggle.

I know this is dorky, but it’s so fun to change my Twitter background each month. I’m picking one of these for March, from Totally Severe.

Twenty funny ice skating faces.

Edited to add: Yao, don’t. Just… don’t.
The birth story of Nella Cordelia had me breathless and weeping. It is one of the most beautiful and difficult things I’ve ever read. Love me. Love me. I’m not what you expected, but oh, please love me.

GeekDad talks about racism and kids.

Japanese girls who don’t have a suitable boyfriend are renting them for the holiday to shut up their worried parents.

Cheers to your weekend!

Praia Piquinia 27/08/09 15h17 by Christian Chaize, print for sale in two sizes at 20×200.com

Bad-ass of the week goes to this Australian grandma. She fended off a shark attack with her fists, despite massive blood loss. Get well soon, Ms. Trumbull!

It’s about time those Teabaggers Googled “teabagger“!

Excellent advice for new bloggers.

The cutest farts ever, by way of a very small human.

Kim Pye never stops wowing me with her creativity. She made her own Lara bars.

30 little kitchen tips that will make you feel all levels of brilliant.

May your weekend be full of hugs (as mine surely will be).

water color from I Wish Everything Had Pockets, in honor of all the snow we’ve gotten this week.

I was fascinated reading this list of people who disappeared mysteriously on Wikipedia.

This lace tealight project is one of those craft projects I want to do but never quite get around to doing. Maybe you will? Here’s another take on it.

An article by Mark Morford in the SFGate summed up why it might be a good idea for all of us to STFU.

What to do with all the paint chips you stole from Home Depot.

I’ve been changing my Twitter background each month using wallpaper from different artists around the web that make designs you can use for free. These are good Valentines Day ish ones from Ollibird.

This satirical list of 43 Ways to Simplify Your Life had me laughing!

Happy weekend!

I sat in front of the television for the entire game and I still don’t know the names of the teams that were playing. As far as I’m concerned, the Superbowl is for commercials – it is the one day a year I question every choice I’ve made in life that didn’t land me a job working in advertising.

Here are my favorites.

I am creaking out a post to mention my first ever Hey Brooklyn giveaway going on for the next two weeks.  It’s two tickets to Troop Beverly Hills: The Experience.  I’m drawing the winner on February 14, so if you want to go, email amber at heybrooklyn dot com with “I want to win!” in the subject line, and you’re entered!

Heart-shaped bubbles from a white whale!

Holly has some great thoughts on turning 30.  Happy birthday, lady!

This one time I was so tangled in my headphones I missed my stop on the R and had to walk a mile home. (This may or may not have been yesterday.) These zippered headphones negate that problem. Universe, what took you so long?!

There’s finally a term for posting cryptic, navel-gazing posts (usually of the miserable, woe-is-me variety) on Facebook.  It’s called “vaguebooking.”  Examples: “George wonders if it’s all worth it in the end.”  “Mary is going to stop being the one to care more than everyone else.”  *shudder*  Don’t be a vaugebooker.

Speaking of Facebook, the Hey Brooklyn page reached 100 fans!  This means we now have a custom URL.  In other words, it’s “facebook dot com/HeyBrooklyn” instead of “facebook dot com/a buncha numbers”.  Awesome!

Happy weekend!