Too many serious posts lately. Time for some fun time wasters: Pirates' Pet Peeves John Cleese's "Letter To America" And the always classic StrongBad Emails. For previous posts that don't necessarily have anything to do with anything, check out the "Just For Fun" category listed over to the left. Oh, and Doug TenNapel is back! If you miss his old blog, check out his...
Copyright © Cedric Hohnstadt. All rights reserved. I would have posted this on Friday but I wanted Ask Mr. Artist Guy to be front-and-center all weekend. A big "thank you" to everyone who's submitted questions so far. Illustration Friday is a fun website for artists. Each week a topic is posted, and any artist who wants to (regardless of skill level)...
Since this is a holiday weekend, here's a fun time waster: Somebody's been keeping a record of the entire internet. Go to the Wayback Machine, type in the URL of any webpage, and see what it used to look like. Don't ask me how it's done, or why. I can't imagine how much server space this takes up. But it's fun...
Here's something a little different. Ken Levine is an emmy-winning comedy writer whose long list of credits include M*A*S*H, Cheers, Frasier, The Simpsons, and Everybody Loves Raymond. Recently he hosted a free online seminar about comedy writing titled "Sitcom Secrets Revealed". It covered such topics as: • The current & future states of sitcoms • How the possible writers' strike affects...
One of my favorite TV shows is Monk, a dramedy about an obsessive-compulsive detective (Adrian Monk) played brilliantly by Emmy-winner Tony Shalhoub. Imagine if Sherlock Holmes had been wracked with anxieties and phobias, and you've got the essence of the character. His over-the-top attention to detail makes him an excellent detective but also an enormous frustration to the people around...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av6fWfmugds] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azGhHh9mV_Q] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbRh9MFW9FU] I was playing around on my iPhone the other night and came across these YouTube videos. They gave me a good chuckle. The first one is a spoof of the "I'm a Mac", "I'm a PC" commercials. From there they evolve into a series called "After Hours" where various heroes and villains hang out and talk about whatever. To view...
