What better way to revive kevmo.net than with Marcel the Shell part two! If you haven’t seen it, this is one of the best videos you’ll ever see. No really. It is. And if it isn’t, you have no joy in your life.
(Apparently we’re coming back a little sassier than we left.)
This is one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time. Jenny Slate, the best thing to happen to SNL since Kristen Wiig, wrote and voiced the short. It’s just about as funny as her “fantasy car horn of your dreams” skit on SNL. Enjoy.
MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON from Dean Fleischer-Camp on Vimeo.
There’s a major flaw in the English language – there’s no genderless pronoun. The only solution is a genderless pronoun, or rather a hermaphroditic pronoun (depending on how much fun you are at parties) that can finally replace the dreaded he/she.
As your 5th grade teacher no doubt taught you and you promptly forgot, it’s grammatically incorrect to say they when referring to a single person. For example, “Someone should throw away their Crocs immediately,” is perhaps the best advice you’ll ever get, but it’s grammatically incorrect. Someone refers to a single person while their obviously refers to more than one person. You could fix this nugget of wisdom by replacing their with his/her, but then you just end up with tons of slashes. And who wants that? Slashes are the switch blades of grammar. Do you really want to go around pulling them on him, her and your reader? No. Continue reading
“Our bottled water is better than Perrier. And so we don’t think that we need a Perrier-like budget to advertise. It will become a market leader simply because it’s better.”
(from clientsfromhell)
When I started this blog I thought it would probably be read by a couple people: me, my mom and maybe a creepy internet stalker if I got really lucky. But now, according to Quantcast, it’s the 45,000th most trafficked website on the internet, narrowly edging out lesbian-home-movies.com. And all I can say is, my site definitely landed in the right area to pick up a few creepy internet stalkers. Hello there.
Honestly this blog has been a lot of fun. I try to keep posting, but I’ve been super busy this month.
If you have any tips, thoughts, stories, etc., please comment below or contact me directly with the handy dandy contact form on the About page.
The Chamomile Tea Party has introduced a set of WWII-style posters urging the Tea Party to relax already. In their own words:
Tired of the rancor between the political left and right I’ve formed the Chamomile Tea Party, a calming force in American political discourse. When party politics, character assassination, and rhetoric take precedence over the good of the country it’s time to say enough is enough.
These are the first of our posters calling for change in our country. They are based on old propaganda posters from World War II, appropriated for the present political climate. Feel free to download the larger copies and pass them around.
It’s Friday. Somewhere around 2PM you’re going to run out of steam and start poking around the Interwebs for something funny to waste your time on. Here’s a couple of my favorite Friday videos.
Back in the 80s and early 90s, there was a truly amazing cartoon called Tiny Toons. One of my favorite characters was Plucky Duck (a modern Daffy). Tiny Toons did a couple episodes that showed him as a child, getting into all kinds of trouble. In the process he discovered flushing things down the toilet and the joy of pressing buttons. (Disclosure: two of my favorite things when I was a kid. My parents deserve a medal.) Continue reading
I have mixed feelings about Twitter. On one hand it’s great for passing news and links quickly around the Interwebs. On the other hand it’s fracking annoying! I mean really, I don’t need to know where you are at all times. Pretty much since the age of 3 I figured out that people don’t cease to exist when they’re not in my eye sight. And how can you use Twitter for professional purposes and use the number 2 instead of to or too? Do you also print your resume on license plates? SMRT HIR?
Anyway, here’s a brilliant Twitter-themed parody of the upcoming Social Network movie. Continue reading
Letters of Note recently posted a series of letters from the owner of the Tiger Oil Company written in the seventies. If you thought your boss was bad, check out the gems this man writes:
It turns out that the woman that white boarded her “I quit” message to her boss was a big fake. But, that didn’t stop heaps of readers from sharing their stories of quitting their jobs. NY Mag has put together a rather fantastic list of the top stories, beginning with this gem:
The woman who actually pushed her grabby boss to the floor:
I knocked down my first boss. On my first day at a small art publisher in the mid-70s, I saw that he was openly pawing all the young female employees. He looked like a disgusting Rowlandson caricature, and he had one hanging in the office. I went down to the public phone, called Unemployment to find out how many weeks I needed to work to collect, and ducked him for that period. It was like running a football field. On the day I could get Unemployment, I allowed him to touch me for the first time, pushed him hard so he fell over backwards, was fired, and finished my BA on the Unemployment money. To all young women I say, “Be Tactical.”
Check out the rest of the stories at NY Mag.
