The best thing about this week?  It’s Octopus Friday.  Which means nothing more than the fact that I drew a very anatomically incorrect and possibly hideous octopus for Friday.

And the insane abundance of great links I’ve come across.

From the blogs:

1. Petya is all about the Bulgarian idioms this week
2. Roba posts Arab pop star Haifa Wehbe’s new video
3. A way too personal post that I think most people can identify with from time to time from Jamie
4. A great post from Rima, who I just found, on why her kids speak both Lithuanian and English
5. And I just realized I don’t read nearly enough blogs by men.  Suggestions?

From the internets:

1. An alpaca show. You’ll love it.
2. Different takes on Shabbat
3. Gaza’s economy
4. Is geek culture female friendly?
5. Gorgeous pictures of Middle Eastern cooking from the 1960s
6. Russians are rude
7. The statistics of chatroulette
8. Economics of stainthood