Not Just Scraps of Paper  is a local blog that's summed up in its tag line: because what you use to mark your place is as important as what you're reading. It features photos of books lying next to the bookmarks that were chosen to mark their spots. 

There's no storefront for what used to house locally crafted comic books, leather bracers and chain maille, Steampunk sculptures, corsets, T-shirts and accessories in downtown Mesa. Instead, the Leepers are storing their support for the geek community and occasional merchandise sales online.

"Our new webpage is our first step towards continuing our support of the Arizona alternative art community," the two write. "Utilizing our accumulated network of web and social media resources, Evermore Nevermore lives on as Arizona's Pop Culture & Alternative Art Network!"

The collection, which she writes was "created break assumptions and stereotypes that everyone makes about various cultures, genders, sexualities, etc.," takes submissions from readers around the country in a "yes -- but no" format. She simply puts the words into a template and distributes. 

Websites including Pinterest and Tumblr -- even Facebook albums -- allow users to curate and categorize inspirations by subject matter, sentiment, and color. Pantonism (not officially associated with the Pantone empire) is our current favorite.

The physicist-turned web comic illustrator created xkcd in 2005, and has since expressed daily scenarios and dilemmas in doodles. 

 On Monday, in celebration of mathematician and creator of the Waterman "Butterfly" World Map Projection creator Steve Waterman, Munroe proposed and drew a guide to: What Your Favorite Map Projection Says About You. 

​The online catalog is maintained and narrated by two librarians from Michigan, whose only criteria is that the books, found in actual library holdings, are amusing and/or contain questionable content (not for bad taste so much as not being current or containing relevant information).

The haunted house in Ontario keeps a steady stream of thrill seekers happy (and scared out of their minds) during the Halloween season, and documents even the bravest of visitors shriek and scream in its picture collection. 

It's also keeping us pretty entertained as we anxiously await the haunted house season in Phoenix.

If you're ever an obnoxious douche bag to a local bartender, beware: Your story could become fodder for a new, Valley-based blog called storiesfrombartenders.com.

Several local barflies have already made cameos: the woman who walked up to a bartender and asked if it was spa day because she "could really go for a facial," the rude dude who kept yelling "Broooooo!" at a bartender and then asked if they were hiring, the person who walked in on a busy night with 16 friends and didn't know what they want to drink after waiting ten minutes.

But storiesfrombartenders.com is more than just a bitch fest about drunken patrons. There are also some really handy drink recipes, like this one for a "Fireball Mind Eraser":