Avatar of the Week: sharkgrrrl!

From Dictionary.com:

av a tar - noun

1. Hindu Mythology. the descent of a deity to the earth in an incarnate form or some manifest shape; the incarnation of a god.

2. an embodiment or personification, as of a principle, attitude, or view of life.

3. Computers. a graphical image that represents a person, as on the Internet.

While we're technically dealing with #3 here, why not aspire to #1? Why can't those funny little pictures at the right of your comments be harbingers of the arrival of gods? Or if not actual gods, at least people with really good Photoshopping skills? These days it's hard to tell which are in greater demand.

Every week we reward one of our registered deities for having such a delightful manifest shape -- be it cute, funny, scary, touching, or just plain weird. And today's Avatar of the Week designation goes to...

sharkgrrrl!

sharkgrrrl is apparently a domestic goldfish with aspirations of wild abandon -- or at least delusions of grandeur. Or maybe a thing for prosthetic fins? No matter -- we dig her and her on-screen incarnation.

Thanks for joining, sharkgrrrl! We bet you've been holding your breath just waiting for this day to come.

Or whatever it is that goldfish hold.