Do-It-Yourself Make-Up Handbook (link roundup)

Cover to the Famous Monsters Do-It-Yourself Make-Up Handbook. You can see interior pages here, and there are (expensive) copies on sale at eBay and at Amazon.

And a few more links:

1. Despite the economy tanking, the homeless population in Los Angeles has plummeted.

2. Monster elephant jack-o-lantern.

3. Chihuahua in a lobster costume.

*Previously: How to apply horror manga makeup.

*Buy pet costumes at Amazon.

Cereal Taxonomy (link roundup)

Here's a fun craft project - - create a cereal taxonomy. Closeup at the link. Via these sites.

And a few more links:

1. #oneletteroffmovies. For example: Ghostbuskers, Dr. Yo.

2. Life form specimen from Howard Hughes' Underground Genetic Research. Via.

3. Going to the Santa Monica Promenade was already unpleasant enough, and now they're going to jack up parking prices because they think it'll encourage people to use public transportation. Or maybe I'll just go to a mall that doesn't smell of urine.

*Previously: The most thorough taxonomy of sexual motivation ever compiled.

*Buy vintage cereal toys at eBay.

Los Angeles as the Emerald City (link roundup)

Dorothy stares off at Los Angeles/Emerald City in this illustration by Jody Hewgill for an article about L. Frank Baum. You can see more work and buy various prints by Hewgill here.

And a few more links:

1. Scariest piano teacher ever.

2. Drawing of a buffalo god.

3. Received in the mail: Larry Marder's Beanworld Volume 2: A Gift Comes!:

"A Gift Comes!" is jam-packed with new characters and monumental developments in the evolving Bean world culture. It kicks off with the birth of the next generation of Beans: the baby Pod'l'pool Cuties. It chronicles the discombobulation of Mr. Spook's fork by greedy Goofy Service Jerks. Meet Mr. Teach'm, who raised Mr. Spook on a cloud. See the crazy breakout origin of Heyoka, Bean world's upside down and backwards Bean. Read how Professor Garbanzo first discovered the Four Realities and much, much more! The Bean world is a self-contained, weird fantasy dimension that operates under its own rules and laws, but it also echoes deep truths about our own world at the same time. All the characters, whether they are friends or adversaries, understand that ultimately they depend on each other bean world's survival.

25% off at Amazon.

*Previously: Tinman soapbox derby racer.

*Buy Wizard of Oz toys at eBay.

Oni facemask bandana (link roundup)

Costumes don't get much easier than this - - $10 Oni mask bandana on sale at Etsy. Via.

And a few more links:

1. A new law in Los Angeles requires that all new single family homes built in the city have some type of finish that is resistant to graffiti spray paint.

2. New free antivirus software from Microsoft.

3. The girls in the Sweet Valley High novels used to be described as "a perfect size 6," but are now described as "a perfect size 4." Random House was apparently proud to emphasize the change. Via.

*Previously: Tentacle bandana.

*Buy Japanese mythology collections at Amazon.

Last year, the City of Los Angeles removed more than 27 million square feet of graffiti

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