kate beaton makes my favorite thing

katebeaton.com

and of course, h/t to the lovely jen for finding this lollercoaster.

and that's how they became the brady bunch

surely the best youtube i've seen in months:



stick around for the whole thing, plz.

my new post story: small but significant!

"Silver Slaps FDIC"

haha, it was originally a good deal longer, but they only had room for the first two paragraphs. but hey—the point was that i now have my first SOLO byline in an ACTUAL major metropolitan newspaper! and the editors said they really liked it and want me to write more, as opposed to just getting information and phoning it into someone back at the offices! huzzah!

TUSK!

best daily show bit in a while

john oliver takes on CNN's magic election screen.

blunder-scale

thank god for jason sudeikis—he's all SNL's really got, now that mccain and palin are out of the picture. i mean i love fred armisen with all my heart, but even he knows that he can't do a good obama.



i look forward to bits like this, and to actual real-life joe biden mistakes!

if you watch one youtube video all year

make it this one:



sweet jesus this is statistically impossible.