Things I am doing that are not grading assignments

1. Hitting refresh on facebook
2. Looking up all the Glee cast members' twitter feeds
3. Looking up Jodie Sweetin on Wikipedia (she just had a baby, guys!)
4. Thinking about making dinner
5. Discussing the characteristics of a good spatula with Tory
6. Looking up cute cookie designs
7. Checking out texts from last night, which resulted in me finding the most incredible 404 page ever. I took a screenshot for posterity:

Smartphones! Horrifically drunk and useless! Signalling that the site is down!
The site where you can read texts people send when they're drunk and useless!

Obviously, procrastinating does not lower my standards for amusement in the slightest.

That comic I always forget that I love

Hark, A Vagrant (drawn by Canadian Kate Beaton) is a wonderful comic. She draws on history, literature, and popular culture like no one else. I went back today after a long break and found this gem:

For some reason the idea of a battalion of hipsters is TOTALLY hilarious. (In a previous comic, the Napoleon and Centurian hats are deemed "ironic").

Making fun of magazines

Ever notice how the shots in catalogs and magazines seem to reflect some sort of parallel universe where everything is like normal, but just a little too perfect, a little too contrived? The authors of Catalog Living and Unhappy Hipsters give voices and stories to the people in magazine-world, satirizing decorating and architecture magazines respectively. Lovely dark, subtle humor to be had.

Here are some of my favourites:

From Catalog Living, a continuing story about Gary and Elaine:

From Unhappy Hipsters, a series of vignettes: