Well you must be a girl with links like that

Strap in for another link round up - the kitty peed on the bed and I am stuck inside waiting for the laundry to cycle, so I have treats for everyone from the world wide web...

I have Courtney Love going all the way in Fug Madness this year, but as it turns out there are many other March Madness tourneys going on. School Library Journal is hosting a Battle of the Kid's Books, Techland wants to know who's the baddest bad guy of all time (and boy I thought I was a geek but I done been served by some of the seeded contestants in those brackets), and over in the Whedonverse the question is not do you hate Gwendolyn Post but rather do you hate her worse than Rack? Dawn Summers has already been knocked out, and I cannot believe that.

The answer is no. And also - bite me.

Philip Pullman just can't leave well enough alone - he appears to be rescripting the story of Jesus Christ as some kind of Jekyll and Hyde item. Excerpt from The Guardian.

Artist Walton Ford is one of my favorites - flawless technique married with disturbing ideas. Here's a gallery tour in Germany.

Gratuitous Percy Jackson reference of the day: I finally have something in common with Cate Blanchett (besides porcelain skin and a longtime association with Hugo Weaving, except mine is less professional and more, um, theoretical). Here she is clutching her 8-year-old son, who is in turn clutching his copy of The Lightning Thief. If I'd had to drag my 8-year-old to whatever function this is, he'd have brought a Rick Riordan book too.

I've never reviewed Scott Pilgrim here on Pink Me: I assume we know all about it and recommend it to our teen readers with regularity. Anyway, the trailer for the movie is out. Do you think we could see a movie based on a teen book that does not star Michael Cera? So far: Nick & Norah, that book with all the boner jokes (Youth in Revolt), and now Scott Pilgrim. He's even encroached upon the Juvenile section - did voices for the animated Wayside School and Rolie Polie Olie! Me, I mostly like his work in Drunk History.

All this Michael Cera abuse started when, upon hearing that Cory Doctorow's teen civil cyberdisobedience thriller Little Brother is going to be a movie, my Psychic Friend Paula set her jaw and growled, "As long as they don't cast Michael Cera as Marcus."

Which prompted me to sojourn over to Tiger Beat looking for a teen actor who I thought had the right smart shifty look. Oh my word please don't follow my lead. I am still seizing slightly from all the pink and all the Justin Beiber. I don't know who Justin Beiber is and I think I can make it to my 45th birthday without finding out.

Oh and hey! Check out me and Psychic Friend Paula and our Young Friend Ryan in these little Reader Advisory videos! Paula does memoirs, Ryan does graphic novels (including Scott Pilgrim) and I do "If you like Percy Jackson" and "If you like Wimpy Kid".

And in today's "I thought I missed TV but it turns out I don't" news, I find that Buzz Aldrin is on Dancing With The Stars this round. That man was the second man on the moon. That man felled a heckler with one punch at the age of 79. We named our (incontinent) cat after that man! And now he has maneuvered himself into a position to be mentioned in the same sentence as a Pussycat Doll and a man who legally changed his surname without knowing that that's not how you say that in Spanish. Wonder if we changed the cat's name she'd stop peeing on our bed?