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http://drewfriedman.blogspot.com/2011/11/jack-davis-sampling.html">DREW FRIEDMAN: A JACK DAVIS sampling
A selection of cartoons, album covers, movie posters, and other art by the prolific MAD Magazine illustrator, whose work is the subject of a new anthology, Jack Davis: Drawing American Popular Culture by Fantagraphics Books. And don't miss Drew Friedman's story of Jack Davis's appearance at the Brooklyn Comics & Graphics Festival.
Doug Gilford's Mad Cover Site - The Don Martin Dictionary - Listing By Date
Sometimes you need to know the right way to spell the sound of a hippie lighting a match on his crusty jeans ("THIKOOSH") or squeezing food out of his beard ("SHKLURCH"), a man hitting a pole ("DOONT"), dripping soup from spoon into soup bowl ("DRIPPLE BLIT"), or two frogs catching each other with their tongues ("ZAP GING GING TWONG SPLAT").
High fliers: 5 great paper airplane designs | Games Blog - Yahoo! Games
The Record Holder, the Sabretooth, the Cobra, the Arrow, and the Spirit, with YouTube demonstrations of how to make each one.
Slate's Procrastinate Better blog
If you're going to blow off real work, may as well do it in a creative fashion. Slate's bloggers suggest learning farming tips from The Archers on BBC Radio 4, watching tacky Lifetime movies on Hulu, and listening to Dylan Thomas read W. H. Auden.
27b/6: "yeah thats not what I was looking for at all."
This has gone viral; here's the original e-mail exchange between snarky designer David Thorne and the receptionist who wanted him to design a poster to help her find her lost cat. And here's another funny exchange (but with far ruder language) between Thorne and the "friend" who wanted him to design a logo and some pie charts for free for some pie-in-the-sky business concept that sounds suspiciously like an attempt to reinvent Twitter. (Warning: Vulgar language and hand gestures.)
A blog devoted to episode guides and discographies for favorite TV and radio comedy.
Home page for the classic radio comedy of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding. You can buy a thumb drive with the complete Bob & Ray audio archive -- 90 hours, 1837 routines -- for a mere $349. Bob & Ray audio is also available for download at Amazon MP3. Bob & Ray are (is?) on Facebook, too. And here's a New York Times story about Bob Elliott, his son Chris ("Get a Life"), and Chris' daughter Abby, a featured player on SNL.
Some of these are pretty funny. Reid and Pelosi: "We crafted this Valentine's card behind closed doors." Obama: "I've saved or created millions of valentines." Algore: "I'll charter a flight to bring you this Valentine's card in person."
A new blog of funny political Photoshops from a conservative perspective. (Via The Other McCain.)
Language Log » Singular y'all: a "devious Yankee rumor"?
An exchange between Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan at the beginning of "Oozlin' Daddy Blues" is evidence in a discussion about the use of "y'all" to refer to a single person. (Via Ace of Spades HQ.)
