High 5
The year was 2013. I’d just come back from my #1 superstar tour of London, big scarf wrapped around my neck, speaking like I had a mouth full of plums. The development department of TMP had this wonderful idea to encourage supporters to sign up for a monthly recurring donation of $5 and they had…
Read MoreThe Big Tiny Food Face-Off
from TubeFilter: The latest YouTube Original series is also the most adorable cooking competition I’ve ever seen. BuzzFeed‘s Tasty channel has released the first episode of The Big Tiny Food Face-Off, in which tiny chefs prepare tiny dishes to serve to tiny eaters (i.e. hamsters). When I say the chefs in The Big Tiny Food Face-Off are themselves tiny, I’m referring…
Read MoreMad Fold-In
from The Marginalian: Al Jaffee’s magnificent anti-authoritarian fold-ins, gracing the inside covers of every MAD magazine since 1964, have been a longtime favorite around here. For the past half-century, Jaffeee, just as brilliant today at 90, has been poking fun at the established political order with his clever satirical cartoons that made no topic, ideology, regime, politician or pop…
Read MoreWaffles + Mochi
While we’re on the subject of cuteness, this puppet-filled oddesy of food learning led by grocery store owner Michelle Obama will cheer me out of anything rough. You can watch the whole 1st episode right here! From The New Yorker: “The very sound of meep is cheering,” the lexicographer Erin McKean wrote, in 2009, in…
Read MoreClown Service
I can’t remember where I first saw this. I think it was at a Tig Notaro concert and she showed it before she did her stand up. Tig is one of my favorites. She finds so much humor in both the mundane and the terrible…in this case, home alone, depressed, she orders a party clown…
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