This made me laugh:
Make The Girl Dance “Baby Baby Baby” ( official video )by placeblancherec

Great stop-motion music video that really achieves a sense of intimacy.

This is from here.

all was bright and shiny and innocent and unsullied by the manipulations and mindfuckery of our goods-shilling craplords

Sometimes it’s the really simple things that can really fix up your day.  This morning Abotz left for 10 days for some business travel, and I’ve been in a bad mood about it all morning. Then I discovered that the little deli downstairs at work has goulash.
I love goulash. It totally made my day.

This is the beginning of an actual email from the private highschool that I attended briefly before getting kicked firmly out at the beginning of grade 11.“Dear Dirt Merchant:Please click on the link below to receive your formal invitation to the portrait unveilings of:Mrs. Kathleen Bruce, Headmistress 1962-1968 Mrs. Audrey Southam, Headmistress 1968-1971…”etcetera.

Botz and I drove down to Seattle this weekend to indulge in a bit of Mastodon action at the Fenix, where they were playing with Cursive and Against Me.  The high points of the weekend were
 stiff drinks and, well, Mastodon.  The low points?  Running full tilt down a hotel hallway naked from the waist down, [...]

Zonks, it’s been yonks. A lot’s been going down - 3months of settling into a new job, learning to snowboard, totally loving the perpetual raininess of the coastal fringe,
supporting Ariella’s eternal job search (which has now terminated with her securing a veritable dream-job which she starts in a few weeks), and generally coming to [...]

Sharkey Mark is coming in June. I fear for my life. Seriously. I’m totally stoked.