Everything's Amazing, Nobody's Happy

This weekend, take a break from our modern world with a hilarious clip from comedian Louis CK. Give it time to load...

Life In Technicolor ii

After an album that I liked but was underwhelming in parts, Coldplay released the Prospekt's March EP that had more blow-me-away songs for my buck. In a similar fashion, after the music videos for Viva La Vida didn't really stick with me, the next video out of the Prospekt's March EP is a return to form. With a style and humour that hearkens back to the glory days of MTV, and a clever play on the "now my feet won't touch the ground" lyric, the video only adds to my love for the song (in my opinion, the best on the new album).

Coincidentally, it also reminds me of the haunting Spice Girls music video for Viva Forever with all it's animated puppetry and vintage British quirkiness. Yes, I said haunting, and yes, that is my favourite Spice Girls song...

Dinosaur Comics

I have been reading Dinosaur Comics for months now, and have been enjoying it immensely. So much so, however, that I haven't been a good friend by not recommending it sooner. In fact, ever since my favourite web comic, Perry Bible Fellowship went off the air (more about that here), this has been my favourite daily funny.

Now before you write off a web comic about dinosaurs, you should know of the storied history of Dinosaur Comics. Namely, that this Canadian guy uses the exact same computer-retro, clip art-inspired, bitmapped artwork for every single comic, with only the dialogue changing. This may sound like the cheapest comic ever, but within those six panels, it explores "a wide variety of topics, including ethical relativism, the nature of happiness, the secret to being loved, and more." Besides the three main characters (T-Rex, Utahraptor, and Dromiceiomimus), you can also expect guest appearances by Edgar Allan Poe, Patick Stewart, God, the Devil, and mirror universe versions of the regular cast, but with goatees.

The thing that brings me back to Dinosaur Comics, and the reason I so miss PBF, is that both comics are consistently enjoyable while simultaneously being intelligent, thought-provoking, relatable, witty, informative, philosophical, outrageous, irreverent, tragic, bizarre, truthful, and more often than not, all of these and hilariously inappropriate at the same time.

As you can see, it is extremely hard to choose the perfect example of a Dinosaur Comic, so start with those links and I think you'll be frigorific in no time.