Carnivals first: The mad, mad, Carnival of the Insanities and fine, furry Friday Ark.

Oh Bill. Don’t be so hard on yourself.

If you somehow missed the brilliant first installment of the Sarah Connor McLeod Chronicles, you can still read the script. On a related note, you may be interested in the Frogster’s explanation of how manly brains work. And you wouldn’t think knitting would be manly, but it can be funny.

And what could be more manly than bacon, the food of the gods? But it’s not just a man-thing, women like it too!

What could be more manly than bacon? Beards. Don’t get more manly than beards, as Rickey well knows. Did you know there is an international group of loons that run a competition for the best beard and mustache? I’m working on my goatee (pictured above, photo courtesy of Luciano Joaquim).

And now, a short history of beards:

And for more hirsute humor (bearded and not), may we suggest humor-blogs.com? No? Bugger.

Godlessness here and Insanity here! Go join in the atheistic madness!

As usual, you should start of your Sunday with some Insanity.

Excellent fuzziness at The Friday Ark

If you’ve never checked out The Carnival of Healing, you may want to — some good stuff there, including this Zen-like article about the value of loneliness.

And pour yourself a cup of coffee so that you can sit back and really dig into this excellent Carnival of History

When you’ve filled up with coffee, a little snack may be in order at the Carnival of Short Stories.

A brilliant Carnival of the Godless over here at Sexy Secularist. And some sensual insanity over here at The Carnival of the Insanities.

A brilliant Haunted House Carnival of the Godless is up at Greta Christina’s blog, and another crazy Carnival of the Insanities at Dr. Sanity’s blog. If you’re still trying to figure out the whole man-woman thing, then Archer at Lawyerworld Land has advice for the lovelorn: Men are from Proxima Centauri, Women are from Sector B.