Happy Friday! Posts are going to be light and/or non-existent through Tuesday (LSATs / GREs!!!!)! This post is long. Save half of it for Monday? xo

I blame Tricia & Bobby Solomon for the messiness of this post.

First of all, Tricia’s study-supply-heavy currently obsessed post prompted me to write my own study-supply heavy currently obsessed post. (Hopefully, between the two of us, your next study session will be super-productive (and you will gain five pounds).)

Bobby Solomon doesn’t know who I am, but I read his blog & am really obsessed with his desktop wallpaper project. He has twitter (so does Stickers & Donuts!) and commented on Ben Fold’s new album with a song featuring Regina Spektor, which I also love, and in usual internet-fashion I now feel really connected and really creepy.

ANYWAY, right after laying out the images for this post, I discovered this week’s desktop wallpaper featuring Billy Murray on Bobby’s blog, and (instant obsession!) had to squeeze it into my post. Due to a layer error and time constraints, I had only so many choices in reorganization. Alas. Messy.

Anyway, after the jump, long descriptions (procrastination) of the things in the picture. Also, links.

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As you can see from my recent (semi-recent) Currently Obsessed, I’ve been reading (slash looking at with love and devotion) my nine recently-acquired back-issues of McSweeney’s. The beautifully designed literary magazine is edited by Dave Eggers himself (the whole shebang was created by him, in fact).

Dave Eggers also wrote a ton of books. And edited tons of other things. And runs fabulously funny writing centers for kids (that are adjacent to fabulously funny stores, which I plan to post about more in-depth), and — apparently this is old news — Eggers is now working in the film industry!

After a little wikipediaing and googling, I found some interesting connections between Dave Eggers and other awesome people:

1. Eggers is the co-screenwriter for the upcoming (2009) movie Where the Wild Things Are (based on the children’s book). (Wikipedia says Eggers is also writing a novel based on the children’s book?!)
2. He also wrote a screenplay with his wife, This Must Be The Place, which is currently in production with director Sam Mendes (American Beauty). (This is super-exciting because I love American Beauty!)
3. Sufjan Stevens, a singer-songwriter I love, wrote the introduction for the 2007 Best American Non-Required Reading, which was edited by Eggers. Stevens also appeared in the Revenge of the Book–Eaters tour to help raise money for the student writing centers.
4. Eggers wrote the autobiography (is it still called that when someone else writes it for you? it’s in the first-person), What is the What, of the Sudanese Valentino Achak Deng. The money from the sales of this book go to help Sudan.
5. Dave Eggers apparently whistled in the background of Aimee Mann’s song “Little Tornado”.
6. Eggers’ wikipedia page offers a few more examples of star-connections: Nick Hornby, Joyce Carol Oates, Zadie Smith, Beck, and more!

I don’t know how the man does it! He writes novels, edits books, runs his literary magazine, and works on movies all at the same time? Then he raises money for tons of causes and throws in some whistling to-boot?! Sigh. Love.

Above: A visual composite of this week’s posts. And the reason I’m not a poster artist.

Happy Friday! (YESSSSSS finally! My to-do list this weekend is hugely long, but that is not going to deter me from my excitement over the day of the week.)

This week was pretty much filled with more fabulousness than I can easily manage in one week. First, check out our interviews with awesome poster artists (here’s the intro page, which will link you to all of the artist interviews posted thus-far).

Then, as a little in-between treat, there’s a review of ANORAK: The Happy Magazine for Kids (and possibly adults who wish they were kids). There were also some posts on Monday, but that seems so far away now, I won’t even bother to mention them (although that rice was spectacular).

Have a great weekend!

First of all, NEXT WEEK you are in for a treat because our favorite contributer (okay, fine, only contributer besides me, but favorite nonetheless), Tricia, is back with more than a week of interviews with fabulous poster artists at the top of their game. (Remember her wildly successful school supply posts? Yeah, we couldn’t forget either.)

Tricia gave me a sneak peek of some of these artists’ posters, and I was floored. I can’t wait to read the interviews and see more pictures!

Anyway, as not to get ahead of ourselves (to get behind ourselves, in fact), a recap of this week’s Stickers & Donuts highlights:

• an interview with graphic artist Luke Williams
• kitchenware that’s too fun for words (hence all the pictures)
• Things I’m currently obsessed with
• Wes Anderson’s new DVD with cool artwork by Ian Digman
• Annual Reports & Datyum

And, as you can see from above, I got the Daytum invite I was hoping for (yay!) and promptly recorded the  titles of books (and their accompanying page counts) I’ve read this past year. Doesn’t the layout look cool? And it was really easy to enter the data!

So have a wonderful Friday, a great weekend (rain here in New York!). We’ll meet here on Monday, okay? Okay!

This week’s issue of currently obsessed features more fabulous things that I can’t get enough of this week… but will possibly be tired of next week (or not).

• Simple Harvest Oatmeal. I like the “maple brown sugar with pecans” flavor. This oatmeal is healthier, more filling, and tastier than their other stuff, or at least I think so!
• Since I’m really obsessed with graphs this week (see post about annual reports coming today or tomorrow), I am also really obsessed with list-making. This isn’t really new. But I re-discovered Listography, a super-fabulous list-prompt book with hysterical watercolor doodles.
• Perhaps I love my new Stovetop Espresso maker simply because it’s better than my French Press, the only other coffee maker I have, but I do love it. I got mine for $10 at The Christmas Tree Shop, but you can order a whole variety from here.
• Matilda! I recently re-watched the movie starring Mara Wilson, but the book is also super-fabulous (like my doodle? It’s a Roald Dahl rip-off!).
• Wacom tablets make writing over my “currently obsessed” posts so much easier!
• Yes, when there was a brief McSweeney’s sale ($5 PER ISSUE!!!) I bought nine issues. Now, they sleep in a box next to my bed and I take them out and look at them and read the copyright section (which is really the editor’s note, kind of, but hysterical). I love them. I wish I had purchased more. (By the way, that fabulous image featuring McSweeney’s books in all of their openable glory is from The Sydney Morning Herald.)

Some blog favorites from last week!

1. Rachel Papo’s photographs of eighteen year old women serving their mandatory two years in the Israeli army. (via NotCot.org)
2. The hysterical 1920s version of GPS. (from Mail Online as found on NotCot.org)
3. Print-a-Day is a great blog to subscribe to! So many fun prints every week. You just wish you could get them on to your T-shirt or into a frame! (Dolls print from Print-A-Day)
4. Sony headphones creating a NYC subway map. (from Saatchi & Saatchi ad agency, via Cool Hunter)
5. Smashing Magazine created a really fun collection of creative time-telling devices.
6. Castle graffiti, need I say more to entice your interest? (via KitsuneNoir)
7. Mini-books made out of tags. So cute and Etsy-ish. (via Happy Cavalier as found on SwissMiss and sold-out on Etsy — that’s a mouthful!)
8. That house is made of TOWELS and everything at this neon-colored event is similarly not quite what it seems (for The Robin Hood Foundation via Design*Sponge)
9. These little crayon carvings (WHAT?! How cute!) are all over the blogs because they are so cool! (most recently found on Veer: The Fat)
10. These Be Baroque stockings are so cool because they look like tattoos! Can I have a pair please? (via Nylon which also explains how to make a tattoo-tight DIY)
11. A spoon created specially so you can WRITE with your coffee! (via Serious Eats, available at Vincon)

Want past weeks’ blog favorites? They’re still fun to look at!

I think this was a good week in Stickers & Donuts land, with lots of fun posts (well, I had fun at least) and sets. How about a round of applause for Tricia who did two spectacular posts this week? I thought her posts were awesome and from the looks of things, so did you! Anyway, here is another small edition of “Currently Obsessed” for your Friday. Have a spectacular weekend!

I’m currently obsessed with the Olympics, among other things:

• This “League of Cliche Evil Supervillans” graphic from threadless now comes in a large print version in addition to the T-shirt version.
• Pizza. Yes, just plain old pizza. It’s so good. I had forgotten.
• The Christmas Tree Shop (especially the stores on Cape Cod). Cute home goods (and more) for ridiculously cheap. A super-bargain shoppers dreamland!
• Olympics gymnastics. So dramatic. So much flipping! Aren’t you sad it’s over?
• I watched all of the Michael Phelps’ Olympic races. EIGHT golds in ONE Olympics?! Close, nail biting races — some of the best Olympic moments I’ve ever seen. (See the now famous “miracle finish” in Phelps’ second to last race.)
• Yesterday, I bought a five pack of really BRIGHT colored socks for $10. I also bought delightfully opaque, and actually comfortable, tights in purple and in green. They have so much footwear this season (at least at the NYC H&M near Penn Station). If you need to re-wardrobe your feet, this is the place to go.

If you are getting tired of hearing from me (that’s me, Maria, who is always babbling away over here), today is your lucky day: we have a brand new columnist (her socks and feet, pictured above)! Not only is her first Stickers & Donuts post today (pencil cases!), but she has tons more coming up (more school supplies! interviews! etc!). I admit to being jealous of her very cute and well-thought-out posts, which feature the same kind of humor she presents on her personal blog, Marmalade Skies and Marshmallow Pies.

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Some of my favorites from last week! (Links in the list below; right click to open in new window.)

• A book of a guy comparing his silhouettes to famous silhouettes (via SwissMiss).
• A hysterical inscription on The Book Inscriptions Project blog from a book entitled “Doktor Bey’s Suicide Guidebook.”
• I really just want to put my feet into these rugs from the Dolder Grand Hotel in Zurich (via Cool Hunter).
• I love, love, love Chris Benz’s colorful clothing lines, and his web-site is pretty cool, too! (via Oh Joy!)
• A pretty awesome chair, good for seat crunchers, via Smashing Magazine. (I’m not sure that you can buy this; it has made its way around the blogs, but I think it was originally part of a show.)
• An awesome flea market guide from Design*Sponge, listing all of the flea markets in a variety of my very favorite states (Connecticut, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine, and Massachussetts)!
• Cool photographs of naked Olympians! (via Crap We Like)
• Another cool Smashing Magazine find — a retro phone that you talk into instead of your cell phone.
• I love this ASL (American Sign Language) pattern (and the tank top, which isn’t availible for sale, unfortunately!) in a book which includes designs from Julia Rothman (from Julia’s book design blog, Book By Its Cover).

I’ll be gone for a long(ish) weekend in lovely Cape Cod, Mass, but I will get a few little things up for you to read early next week. Next week will also be the debut of a guest blogger — I’ve gotten a sneak peak at her post, and I’m pretty excited!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Just had to let everyone know about researchers’ progress on that invisibility cloak. Really. It’s made of really, really small metal fishnet or wires, and it bends light to produce negative refraction — or, something like that — it’s probably best you read the article yourself!

“We are not actually cloaking anything,” Valentine said in a telephone interview. “I don’t think we have to worry about invisible people walking around any time soon. To be honest, we are just at the beginning of doing anything like that” (Reuters).

I hope to get one of these as a gift with in the next five years… what do you think?!

I’ll be doing a short series of posts on Flushing this week, from food to the World’s Fair, and they will all be tagged with the label Flushing, reachable by clicking here!

I just love these pretty glasses from wrapables.com. Not only do these non-sweating glasses obviate the need for coasters, but they hold both hot and cold liquids and look pretty while doing it! I’ll take that coffee on the left with all of the foam, thank you.

(Set of 2 $17-33, depending on size)

1. Beets are making a comeback — this week at least, since the NY Times is posting a new beet recipe every day this week. I managed to concoct a beet salad and beet omelet (from beets in jars) and am feeling rather healthy & pink.
2. Books from Boxes is an amazing song by Maximo Park. On repeat all this week in my cubicle/car/ipod.
3. The new Dole Pina Colada juice is SPECTACULAR, and usually I’m not even a big juice fan. It’s 100% juice and 8oz is 120 calories and counts for two servings of fruits (though you are still supposed to get most of your fruit servings from whole fruits). I like to mix 1/3 juice with 2/3 plain seltzer. Yum!
4. Everyone is obsessed with Mad Men (availible on DVD) because it was nominated for, like, a billion Emmy’s. Now I’m obsessed, too. I wasn’t won over right away, but eventually became intrigued by the early 1960s ad world (mAD men, get it!), and especially love that they also have a female character who is trying to make her way in a man’s world (although almost all of the other females are secretaries or housewives). Anyway, I netflixed the entire first season this week.
5. Now that I have a brand-y new prescription from my eye doctor, I’m super-excited about the blog Glassy Eyes, which explains how to purchase prescription glasses online for about $10-$50. I love these particularly ugly glasses from eyebuydirect.com. They’re so ugly they’re fashionable! (There are a lot of not-ugly glasses at these sites, too, by the way. And you can even print out glasses or “try them on” online by uploading your picture!)
6. Fredflare.com was recently featured in an NY Times article about band-aids (they happen to have sausage and egg band-aids, by the way). Anyway, after even seeing the web-site’s name listed in the NY Times article I got all nostalgic about my fashion-forward, bright-colored friend. I now want everything on the web-site! Someone want to lend me a few bucks?

Since it’s book week and since this blog prides itself on finding creative things, I had to share the latest release from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Hamlet (Facebook Newsfeed Edition). This just gets funnier and funnier as it goes. Read the whole thing here.