Archive for April, 2009

I’m a lover of mushrooms. Those spore bearing fungi just make sense when it comes to pizza toppins, or salad accessories. I even eat them plain, or roasted over the grill.

The only other thing I like in a similar fashion to the mushroom, is the celebrity gossip web site. There’s nothing more satisying to the pallate than to see pictures of Amy Winehouse. Nothing quite as avory as reading about who Madonna is trying to adopt from what African country with which british accent. Wait, did I say celebrity gossip web sites? I meant CNN, The New York Times, and that one newspaper in Washington.

http://www.wisdomfortheday.com/

A Perfect World has been doing “fly in my soup” cartoons for the past week or so. Funny stuff. I think this is the funniest of them all.

http://www.aperfectworld.org

http://www.chainsawsuit.com/

http://www.dangersyndicate.com/

Prime time television drama is a funny topic. Possibly to easy to make into a satirical rendition of cartoon-esque proportions, but still funny. And some of them end up being watchable, even through the standard non-wavering plotlines. It’s the shows that try and buck the trend that end up flopping on their hind quarters.

Like anything else, this could be viewed as some over-arching theme of american entertainment, but I find it humorous. Mainly because they always have super serious teasers for new shows saying things like, “you’ve never seen anything like this before” “a show that will change your life” “you’ve never seen Luke Perry so vulnerable” “I have a deep voice” and the ever famous, “Tori Spelling is a cheap prostitue that no one understands”. Oh, and also shows about teenage angst and the lives they lead because of it are a definite hit amongst females 14-27 and males 45-46 who still live with their mother.

http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/ is a odd webcomic. It teeters between dry and drier, but sometimes you find a comic that just tickles the funny bone a bit more than the others.

This brings me to the topic of lazy kids… There is nothing wrong with making your kid do a lot of work. Sure they whine and complain and say things like “I can’t wait to move out!” but once they start paying their own bills and realize that “Wow! Life is expensive and work sucks.” Then they’ll appreciate your cleverness of your parenting skills. Compulsory labor is great.

I was an English major in college, and as such I had the utter joy of proof-reading/wading aimlessly through friends’ papers. It was very painful. I mean, it is not that hard to abide by a FEW grammatical conventions is it?

I’ll admit, I didn’t read all the way through any of the Jane Austen novels I was ‘required’ to in Victorian lit, but that’s because Victorian literature is insufferable. There’s a broader social criticism based in this comic, but since I don’t like being reprimanded by lower level office supplies, I’ll leave that up to you.

And remember those youtube videos that were a play on the microsoft word paperclip? I don’t have a link available, but they were funny.

http://www.rockpapercynic.com