please watch sara's tribute to playgirl and tip a 40 to the memory of the now-defunct publication.

Now that the election has passed by a bit, I can throw up the links that have been sitting in my browser for days.

• The best New Yorker cartoon ever.
• I should have posted this before today, but I didn't want to be too snarky or negative: Clinton sat on the board of Wal-Mart and didn't lift a finger to support unions.
• The Wire has been a staple in my life for the last year or so. We timed it perfectly (and accidentally) — watching an episode or two a week landed us finishing season 4 just as season 5 began. I believe it is the TV strike that has put so much attention on this show as it has moved into it's final season. It seemed for a few weeks, you couldn't turn around without bumping into an interview or article.

  But I have to be honest: this season isn't doing it for me. As in, it might be my least favorite. It's moving faster in crazy ways and slower in others. I'm terribly disappointed. Of course, some of the hype might be because some critics aren't even bothering to watch it before making a review.

• I have very purposefully not linked to '2 girls, 1 cup.' I'm not going to start. If you know what this is, your life is forever tainted. If you don't, please be aware: I have seen many, many awful things in my life, thanks to the internet. This is, without a doubt, far and away the worst thing I have ever seen. I'm not kidding. If you want to hold onto your humanity, don't watch this. (But here is a wikipedia link about it. Seriously though, I'm not fooling. This is beyond gross.)

  That aside, Slate has a nice slideshow talking about the reaction videos of people watching 2girls, 1cup. I wish I had taped friends watching it a few weeks ago. Most lost it, but one friend sat through it calmly. It was a little frightening.

  Also, in the slideshow, the grandmother's reaction is awesome. She keeps freaking out but can't take her eyes off the screen. It's amusing.

• If you haven't kept up with the Colbert/Conan/Stewart silliness about Huckabee, here is the latest couple of chapters.
• April has good taste. This is the girl who got me on Bendis' Daredevil, years ago. Her movie reviews are generally solid, when she isn't suggesting movies picked by her vagina. Eagle and Shark is the latest one she got me to rent and it was good. (She previously got me to rent 'whole', the doc on people who want to become amputees.) Dark-ish, in a way that made me yell at the characters. But some of it was brilliant, even if I hated the main characters for being fricktards. Check out her review and if it sounds good to you, rent it. You won't be sorry. b+
• Finally, a video of Chris Cunningham doing some mash-up fun with electronic music and Star Wars at 2005's eletrcoglide festival. The worst part is still feeling the sting of missing this show — we were in Japan about a week before it happened. I'm still bitter.
  

There might be more links later, but that almost cleans out all my open tabs. Go me!

sarah silverman is fucking matt damon. and it really makes me laugh.

new writer Legion of Super-Heroes

the fine fellow who made a mockery of 'civil war' has now started a campaign to get hired as the new writer for the legion of super-heroes. and dear lord, if he got the job, it would go back on my pull list in a heartbeat. how could you resist space whales? gorillas in the future? fights between karate kid (no, not that karate kid, sorry) and a million people?

this guy clearly knows how to have fun.

i have the joy and pleasure of introducing you to wendy and quinn's new sweet little cherub:

welcome, noah vinh holzheimer!

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seriously, a "clip of the week" on the soup a few weeks ago had me hysterically crying. i actually start laughing out loud just thinking about it. please, laugh with me. my guffaws start about :34.

i can't quite put my finger on why i find this so side-splitting, but damn, does it make me laugh.

(well hello!)

(whew! that was exhausting!)

what if for the first 25 years of your life you were blind. lets say you were born blind, grew up that way, were accustomed to not being able to see anything but complete darkness and maybe some blurry shades of light here and there. lets also say that you got married. and your relationship with your significant other was built on personality alone. what sensual, erotic things would you experience with your lover? your knowledge of that person would be on touch, taste, smell, hearing alone. you would never had ever seen them. you would have felt their face, but you would never know color their eyes or hair was.
now, lets say that one day you go into surgery and have new eyes put in. now you can see for the first time. you are for the first time in your life being given a new sense with which to judge how you feel about different aspects of your life. do you think that your perspective on that person might change after seeing them for the first time? or would that be completely shallow and superficial. most people would probably say yes, of course, that would be shallow and superficial. but what if, you see the person for the first time ever that you've spent the last 20 years with, and they are so god awful ugly that you cannot stand to look at them one minute longer? what would you do?

You heard me, Tyra Banks! You're on notice!