Friday's Link-Ohlympianesque-Rama

You'd think after missing last Friday, this week's Link-Oh-Rama would be twice as long and doubly interesting. You'd be wrong.

** You should read this: The Brief, Wondrous Life of Zina Lahr. Interesting, sad story. Has me considering the “steampunk look” though. I think I could pull it off.

When 23-year-old Lahr went missing on a trail outside Ouray, Colorado, the world lost an amazing young talent After she died, a five-minute video surfaced of Zina standing in her bedroom in her grandmother’s house, which had shelves crammed with robots she’d built and other art projects. In the video, she explains that she has “creative compulsive disorder” and can’t stop making things—especially robots. The video was the first hint at what Zina was: an impossibly innocent and gifted eccentric on the verge of breaking out in the world of animatronics and stop motion.

** Waylon Jennings died 12 years ago yesterday. He was such a talented man and has an extremely talented family. I enjoy Jessi Colter's music. My favorite song of hers is I'm Not Lisa.
His son, Shooter, may be the most talented of them all. He hosts a show I like on Sirius XM's Outlaw Country station called the Electric Rodeo, and usually spins some of his dad's stuff in with hard rock and outlaw country.

Waylon's autobiography looks good:

It chronicles all the chapters of Jennings’s incredible life, including his beginnings as a dirt-poor son of a farm laborer; his role as Buddy Holly’s protégé; his influential friendships with such luminaries as Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and George Jones; the stunning success ushered in by his platinum 1976 anthology album, Wanted: The Outlaws; the drug habit that nearly destroyed him; and his three failed marriages and the journey that lead him to Jessi Colter, the woman who would become his wife for 25 years.

** This is kind of funny. Two math majors at Reed College lost control of a massive snowball that rolled into a dorm, knocking in part of a bedroom wall.

** Five really long books to get you to spring.

** Five North Dakota siblings who were separately adopted at infancy reconnect.

** Every Prince hairstyle from 1978-2013.