Hey, it’s Casual Friday! I’m posting without pants!

I’ve got nothing new in the paper today, so here are some links of varying degrees of interest. First, an optical illlloooosion!

Is this the unlikely sequel ever? If you don’t recognize the character names, here is a review of its predecessor I wrote for culturevulture a few years back.

And I’ve added some new links to the sidebar: former Here Be Monsters proprietor Phil Nugent is back in blogness with the modestly named Phil Nugent Experience. And a couple other pop culture blogs I’ve stolen ideas from: What’s Alan Watching (which has a tidbit today about the forthcoming season of The Wire) and The House Next Door.