Are you able to find sarcasm in damn near anything? Do you like making fun of the past while realizing that people will do the same with our generation in twenty years? Do you find jello hilarious? Do you like laughing at horrible art? Then these are the sites for you. The first link is for the main page of Lileks which contains wonderful archives such as Postcards of the Open Road, where they make fun of the 1950s and 1960s. The second link is the all cookbook page where they wax sarcastically towards every unappetizing food you've ever thought of. My personal favorites are "Jello Confronts The Depression" and "The Unbearable Sadness of Vegetables."
As a former architecture major, and current history major, you would figure that I would be knowledgable about historic preservation. You would be right. Compared to Europe, nay, the rest of the world, Americans are horrible wasters of architecture. We see buildings 50 or 100 years old and we destroy them with nary a care; Europeans don't even consider that age to be old for a building. Check out this website to see how disgusting the American ignorance of history is.
Whether you're gay or...not...gay...-cough-, this website is just all around fun. You get to learn about all the current injustices in equal rights and such while staring at men/women that are completely unattainable for you (unless, of course, you are of the homsexual persuasion, but even then...). And besides, who doesn't enjoy clicking on a big gay flag! The advice columns are also pretty good, just change around the advice to fit your own freaky little heterosexual life, ya creepy breeder.
While this isn't a good picture of any of the three people in it, it's the only one I have (on computer) of them, so there. Anywhoo, these two people through weird twists of fate have known me best for longest (no slight to you in Philly, but recall I knew you lovely people for nine months). They are both pursuing acting at different schools (one in the Big Apple, the other in the Big Cornfield) and we are now distanced from each other a good deal of the time. I recommend Mike's website because it has awesome videos he shot...one of which has me in it. Check out The Fairy Godfather - awesome script, and enjoyable impersonation. And I recommend Cari's thing because her writing style is quite inimitable. She's also hilarious.
Please, please, please go to this website and sign the pledge. To put it simply, even if gays get civil unions (which with this administration seems incredibly unlikely) we should not stop until marriage is accepted. Why? Every argument against that idea fails miserably when held up to scrutiny. Seriously, this is a quality website. Please sign this.
I first knew of Sean Patrick Murphy merely as one of Cari Maher's "Bolingbrook Friends." In essence, the people she hung out with a lot before she started doing theatre at NNHS. Over this last summer, I got to know him better and he is a fascinating person. Always ready to discuss an opinion on anything and everything, he is not definable by anything like "liberal" or "conservative"; "Democrat" or "Republican." He might almost be called one of the last humanists: those that want whats best for the people even though he/she knows they'll screw it up. It's an excellent website and whether you agree or disagree with his most recent post on a hot topic, it'll make you think.
Ok. This is just for personal amusement. The one on the left is recommended by Dan Stone (know him from UIC's "Twelfth Night." The one on the right is just some fun animation showing that Dubya needs to not be reelected. Good for you, Mark Fiore! Enjoy some random animation.
I love this parody newspaper not just because it's a parody newspaper, but because it's provided free on the UIC campus. Thursday is now Onion Day for me anyway. And while the slant is decidedly democratic/liberal, occasionally they have been known to get some great zingers in at Bill Clinton and crazy Howard Dean. In short, everyone is ripe for a ribbing by them.
