My feeling exactly

(From xkcd)

FAIL

For those, like Tom, who don’t enjoy the cutesiness of LOLCATS, I recommend The FAIL Blog. Here’s a sample:

Flowers fade away and rooms get rearranged

I’ve been getting our garden in order, with vital assistance and encouragement from young Alfie. I’m very pleased with how it is turning out, and looking forward to tasting the fruits (and vegetables) of our labors.

This explains why I feel like crap

For the past few weeks, I’ve been astounded by the sheer volume of pollen everywhere, like a yellow blizzard that doesn’t melt away. I thought perhaps that my perspective was skewed after three years in relatively pollen-free San Francisco. But, it turns out that Greensboro really does have it worse than nearly everywhere else.

Happy Bicycle Day!

It was 65 years ago today, that Dr. Hoffman taught the world to play.

Incidentally, Dr. Hoffman is still alive, and turned 102 earlier this year.

The truth shall set you free

Leonard Fein’s column in The Forward today caught my attention, not because of its substantive focus (the Clinton campaign’s ridiculous attempts to excuse Hillary Clinton’s fictional account of her Bosnia excursion as “misspeaking” or “mistaken remembrance”) but because of its opening paragraph:
Harvard’s motto is “Veritas” — truth. The motto of Brandeis is “Truth Unto Its [...]

Cold, dead hands

Charlton Heston, whose memorable roles included Moses, Ben Hur, Michaelangelo, and NRA shill, has gone to the eternal chariot race in the sky. His gun is now ripe for the plucking.

The Spaghetti Growers of Ticino, Switzerland

Just in the nick of time, I was reminded of this classic April Fools prank.

Poisson D’Avril

(I actually caught this one in the merry month of May, but it’s close enough)

Perm-a-potty

This is undoubtedly among the strangest news items I’ve ever encountered:

Woman sits on boyfriend’s toilet for 2 years
Girlfriend was physically stuck to the seat — her skin had grown around it
The Associated Press
NESS CITY, Kan. - Deputies said a woman in western Kansas sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for two years, and they’re investigating whether [...]