Comments on: Sad, homesick and whingey

By: Eric Luper

Eric Luper — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:25:58 +0000

In competition with the quokka for the cutest animal, the BABY SLOTH!!!

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1817251

By: caitlin

caitlin — Sun, 25 May 2008 22:19:24 +0000

A few months ago I was enduring yet another bad month in my suddenly windowless studio — construction next door blocked my windows and the building is so close I can touch it. Then, I was handed a manuscript by one of my favorite writers — I devourved the brilliant and very funny How To Ditch Your Fairy the next day. Thank You! I wished for a good apt. fairy — I move next week.

By: Jedi Ninja

Jedi Ninja — Sat, 24 May 2008 17:29:12 +0000

http://www.xkcd.org/

By: rebecca

rebecca — Sat, 24 May 2008 08:37:09 +0000

i am homesick too. family guy always cheers me up. cartoon network at 1:30 in the morning! and robot chicken right after. hurray for seth green. also, this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4

By: Katerate

Katerate — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:39:01 +0000

Also wonderful:

http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/

By: Lunamoth

Lunamoth — Sat, 24 May 2008 03:56:07 +0000

Have you read Savage Chickens?

http://www.savagechickens.com/

One-panel chicken cartoons drawn on sticky notes.

By: Meghann

Meghann — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:51:59 +0000

Here are a few of may favourite mood lifters: Star Trek does Camelot Legos do Camelot Ursula Martinez Stripper magic act. This woman is my new personal hero (has nudity). David Armand - Karaoke for the deaf He's fabulous!

By: Justine

Justine — Sat, 24 May 2008 01:53:16 +0000

Thanks everyone. Fabulous! I think I will be laughing about Skinhead Hamlet for months!

By: KT Horning

KT Horning — Sat, 24 May 2008 01:42:37 +0000

The Evolution of Dance video on YouTube always makes me laugh, no matter how many times I watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

By: robin

robin — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:32:00 +0000

read aloud from flowers in the attic and glory in the awesomeness.

By: emily beth

emily beth — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:34:30 +0000

*HUG!!!!* I’m sorry your homesick. I know! This might work:

1. Put on your new, adorable summer dress.

2. Take some really great friends. *
3. Drag them with you to Central Park! Go to the Shakespeare Garden, the Great Lawn, Strawberry Fields, the carrousel, and lots of other places. I was there with my friends today, and it was soooo fun!

And remember, no more winter!!!!! Summer clothes! Summer weather! Niceness!

* I suggest Maureen Johnson. She seems like she would be great to have with you in the park.

By: Haddy

Haddy — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:49:02 +0000

xkcd.com is the best most smart comic ever it rocks

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:41:29 +0000

Maybe this will help.

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:12:47 +0000

I FINALLY found a copy of Magic or Madness, here in Oz. Through an inter-library loan, sent up from the central coast. Pretty cool, eh?

And it is really COLD here at the moment. Remember how good warmness is.

By: Katerate

Katerate — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:53:03 +0000

Great blogs:

http://www.eatskeet.com

http://postsecret.blogspot.com

By: serafina zane

serafina zane — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:57:11 +0000

well…i doubt the fact that i’ve got off school is bringing anyone except me much joy, but it is making me happy.
but then again, how can one be sad when they are the owner of a BRAND NEW ARCTIC WHITE STRATOCASTER as of today in a total surprise?

hmmm…
well, there’s this song. been listening to it over and over for weeks.
http://www.fuse.tv/music/free-music.html?artist_id=20
especially when you consider the fact that, like all songs (really. all.) it’s about the zombie apocalypse. plus, it’s free.

and in other news about cheerful things related to songs about supernaturalness…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnWLVIQuctk
i mean, it’s about werewolves! and anyone who denys that is lying, even if they’re a member of the band. perhaps not the best sound quality ever, but the song completely owns.
hey, that just reminded me that i’m GOING TO SEE THIS BAND IN A WEEK! wow, i’m just full of joy today, eh?

a cool (if morbid) website?
http://skulladay.blogspot.com/

and that’s all i got.

By: capt. cockatiel

capt. cockatiel — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:36:50 +0000

This always makes me happy:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dxYNUu_2egM
(I mean, it’s nearly ten minutes of awesome.)

As for my anecdote (which is not so much amusing as… anecdote-y): I’m going to Oregon on Monday to see my favorite band from England.

By: Jaye

Jaye — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:53:40 +0000

For cheering up purposes, I offer you baby pandas on a slide:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j4dMnAPZu70

Also Terry Bisson’s short story, “They’re Made Out of Meat”:
http://baetzler.de/humor/meat_beings.html

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:38:44 +0000

Bubble wrap!

http://www.virtual-bubblewrap.com/popnow-insane.shtml

Spoons!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2hADCEIDMp4

Any of Meg Cabot’s videos!

http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=MegginCabot&p=r

Hope this cheers you up.

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:17:59 +0000

Well I don’t know if this is your bag, but it always makes me larf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSed1K-QNMc

Q: What’s the similarity between Nellie the Elephant and Winnie the Pooh?

A: the the.

By: Laini Taylor

Laini Taylor — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:37:33 +0000

How about Isabella Rossellini’s short films about insect sex, wherein she plays all the insects? SO WEIRD. And wonderful. And you’ll learn how spiders, praying mantises, snails, etc have sex!

http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno

By: Steve Buchheit

Steve Buchheit — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:34:17 +0000

Go out and see your neighbors molting into summer this weekend as they shed the heavy outer coats, shake off the excess liquid, and unfold their wings of gingham in the warm air.

Or, find or draw a map of Australia, put it on a cork board. Locate 50-100 live webcams that show some part of Australia and put a pin in the map for where they’re located. From the shadows, try and figure out which direction they’re pointed (although they’d all be dark right at the moment).

So, a Frenchman walks into a bar with a parrot on his beret (which is how you can tell it’s a Frenchman). He walks up the to the bar and the bartender points and says, “Hey, that’s kind of unique. Where did you get him?”

And the parrot says, “I got him in France. They’ve got millions of them there.”

By: Dave Hogg

Dave Hogg — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:33:10 +0000

Look on the bright side – being on this side of the world means you can follow the Australia-West Indies Tests without having to stay up all night.

Just think, you get all the excitement of test cricket without the stress of thinking your country might possibly lose.

And it is certainly better than watching England and New Zealand play the “Bad Light Test Series, sponsored by The Dark and by Rain”.

By: Brent

Brent — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:28:34 +0000

A visit to lolcats is always worth a few wasted minutes to cheer yourself up. http://icanhascheezburger.com/

By: Megan Crewe

Megan Crewe — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:17:17 +0000

You have probably already seen this, but I was just showing this to some writer friends the other day, and it made for much amusement: The Skinhead Hamlet Also, when I'm down I often turn to my fave smile-inducing books: THE PRINCESS BRIDE or THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.