accomplished
Like a Fiji Mermaid, only more dashing:
Complete with faithful on-the shoulder cephalopodic clam-eating side-kick, Poly (not Polly).
My google reader claims this was available on Cute Overload earlier today, but it’s gone now. That’s a cryin’ shame, because I think it’s the coolest thing they’ve posted in a long time (maybe ever?).
Looks like it originally came from BMEzine, which is way cooler than Cute Overload could ever hope to be.
I love surreal youtube animations. This one is no exception. Certainly, the fact that the children involved appear to be murderous little mutants doesn’t hurt :)
A surreal short film by Run Wrake presenting an allegory about human greed. Artistically, the film is modeled after early 20th Century children’s early readers. 8 minutes, 20 seconds long.
Via Neatorama
Via Consumerist, an example of fun advertising:
I assume that ‘ghost’ is a bit of a mistranslation- these seem more like the Japanese idea of spirits (a la Spirited Away.
No matter, I still think this is great fun. If American TV was this much fun, I might actually watch it sometime!
…are cute? Well, hamsters at least, are cute, so I suppose this won’t fit into my doubleplusuncute bucket.
I don’t know HOW you managed to capture your hamster’s ‘tocks so perfectly. I mean look at this specimen!
Should I tell them that those are not, in fact, “‘tocks”, but are rather testicles? It seems that other people saying as much in the comments are for the most part being ignored, so there’s really no point, I guess.
Besides, when I told them that one of their previous darlings likely had terrible birth defects they accused me of “Nuffing”. Do a browser find in the comments for ‘hydrocephaly’ and/or ’nuff’, if for some reason you are interested.
On the bright side, I guess any accidental hamster births (”But the pet store said they were both female!”) couldn’t happen to nicer people.
Via Neatorama, I normally hate monkeys and apes (too much like people) but I love this. Maybe it’s the old timey music, and maybe it’s the super surreal and cute subject matter. More likely, it’s because there’s a cat. I’m a sucker for cats.
That cat puts up with scrubbing really well. He and the chimp must be good friends! There must be something about felines and primates conducive to this sort of thing.
Further evidence:
Exhibit A, monkey and kitten:
Exhibit B, Koko and her kitten:
I think I might be onto something, here.
Yesterday, Andrea informed me that one of our local dollar stores is selling gas masks.
Last night, I bought three. I could only find one left in adult sizes (it fits, and is very stylish), but one of the child sized ones fits on a stuffed Mario I have rather well (making him look much like a cross between a Snifit and an elephant), and I am now in the market (more than before, anyway) for mannequin bits so that I may proudly display the third.
Tonight while I was playing WoW, Dexter chased something flying and flappy into my room. At first I thought is was a large moth (it was dark, and all I saw was a blur), but then I realized it was way too large for that… It was a bat!
It was completely awesome, but also a bit scary because it was flapping all over to get away from the cat, and I didn’t want to have to go get rabies shots in case I got cut. So, after yelling for Andrea to come and see, and then hiding behind her like a little girl as she tried to catch it with gardening gloves for protection (we both screamed like little girls a few times here), we let it go in the backyard.
I hope it doesn’t die. It was cute, despite being mildly virally threatening.
We don’t know how it got in, but I imagine it lives in our attic with friends, and Andrea theorized that it crawled into the house proper via the crack under the cubbyhole door in happicow’s room.