Per aspera

So that our top post is not one full of partisan sheep’s venom and blogofascism, I give you a video of a Japanese show wherein successively heavier fish are put out for cats to carry away. Who is strongest kitty? The scientific method will tell us.

(via Cute Overload, natch.)

So I was farting around on YouTube again, watching some Ramones videos, which goddamn. The debt we all owe to the Ramones is tremendous.
And then for whatever reason, YouTube threw me a link to some Stevie. It must have known.

Besides the fact that holy balls is Stevie Wonder a national treasure, I’d like […]

When I were a lad, my mom had a boxed set of the Boston Pops doing — wait for it — popular songs. Among them was one of her favorites (a family favorite, really), “Mah-Nah-Mah-Nah.” Family consensus regarded the Boston Pops version as a cover tune, though. Everyone knows that if “Mah-Nah-Mah-Nah” […]

This makes me happy, though it falls apart under the slightest scrutiny (Hobbes was always more reasonable than Calvin - he was the one who would’ve sold out G.R.O.S.S. in a heartbeat, if it meant smooches).
Also, I take vehement exception to the idea that Calvin’s father was some sort of repressive force in his life.  […]

We turn once again to Oliver Willis‘ blog for a sound clip that made me cackle so loud I snorted at the end.
I do not claim that I’m not a child.

It’s been a few days, but if you haven’t seen Stephen Colbert’s speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, it’s very important that you do so.  Colbert was invited to speak at the annual wank-fest where the Washington press and the people they’re supposed to be covering get together to celebrate their chummy conflict of […]

This is the funny that Steve demands.
(via Kung Fu Monkey)

“Gay cowboys are the thing you say?
“Get me my ice skates.
“I’ll show you a motherfucking gay cowboy.”
(via Making Light’s Particles)

I only listen to one podcast, and that’s Escape Pod. Haven’t come across anything else that makes me want to listen to it (which says more about how hard I’ve looked than what’s available, I’m obligated to add). So, since we, and be “we” I mean “I,” love the short SF on our […]