The Bread Blog: December 2009

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

nial: "there are so many videos of cats on roombas!"

and it's true...

Monday, December 21, 2009

Announced in November 2009, Wells, Tremblay and Smith announced that they will be starring, though not as their Trailer Park Boys characters, in a new television series for Showcase called The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour, set to air in November 2010. The series has been given an order of six episodes. The actors will also serve as writers and executive producers for the series as well.^[10]
Alex Lifeson of Rush will also be a regular on the show.

I'd rather have breastmilk than 1 MILLION MELONS

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

discover magazine: top ten astronomy pics

"Every now and again, an astronomy picture will make me stop and do a double-take. This one really threw me when I first saw it and made me laugh out loud. It’s a hand! And it’s reaching for something! Perhaps some sort of cosmic sausage!"

Sunday, December 13, 2009

mostly for kevin's enjoyment:

The Short, Tongue-in-cheek Autobiography of Bill Watterson

Bill Watterson squandered a rather unremarkable childhood reading the comics in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. By the time he graduated from high school, his own primitive cartoons had appeared in the school newspaper and yearbook, and not a few stall doors of various boys' rooms.
At Kenyon College, fellow delinquents encouraged Watterson to pursue political cartooning. Watterson's chronicles of the Carter years proved to be amongst his most humorous work ever, the insights into foreign policy being especially laughable. In an effort to remedy this, Watterson majored in political science and, thanks to a friend with access to the school's computer, Watterson earned a degree in 1980.
A major Cincinnati daily immediately offered him a job as editorial cartoonist, but within a matter of months, the editor returned from the sanitarium and Watterson was fired.
Disillusioned, Watterson turned to comic strips. The next few years were not proud ones, and only a well-tuned, used Fiat kept Watterson from the law's grasp. Rejection slips and debts piled up, and eventually his parents sold him into slavery as a lay-out artist for a sleazy tabloid shopper. There, in the dank and windowless basement of a convenience store, submitting to the idiot whims of a maniacal tyrant, Watterson developed that carefree, happy-go-lucky view of life that so permeates all his cartoons.