No, It's Not Good At All

You know I love Banksy, and Simon Cowell does now, too, thanks to a million-dollar gift from Santa. Cowell got the above artwork by Banksy, a poorly photoshopped version of Degas' Dance Class At The Opera, with the bitchy American Idol judge included, ready to release a deluge of insulting cruelty on the Victorian ballerina before him. Maybe she can come back next year, after getting some professional training first.

Construction Monster On Patrol

A student was arrested for constructing the safety-reflective giant monster seen below. Before I saw the photo, I was ready for some stupid, sloppily-stacked heap, but his structure is excellent. Hopefully the N.C. DOT will keep it intact and use it to draw attention to construction zone laws; he'd be far better than the talking orange we have around here. More in his Flickr set.

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Homer Simpson Euro

A shopkeeper in Spain was surprised to see a famous cartoon character peering back from the obverse of a Euro:

It is, in fact, a real Euro altered to look like Homer Simpson (not sure if that affects its ability to be used as currency, though). Anyhow, it's internationally famous, which makes it worth a bit more than one Euro.