Don LaFontaine will make you cool.

Eye laughter.

I want to share with you two of my favorite visual humorists, Graham Roumieu and Nicholas Gurewitch. If you don't laugh at either of these, well, you can still be my friend. But seriously, these things are what make me laugh.

Graham Roumieu

Nicholas Gurewitch

My name in lights, so to speak.

Needless to say, I think that this is very cool.

New blog address!

I said I'd do it, and so I'm gonna do it. I'm changing blog addresses. This post will be the last at the old blog address, and should show up in your RSS reader, or however you read this thing. Then I'll switch over. You may have to do something to your RSS reader, or however you read this thing – I'm not sure. All my old posts will still exist, so you can return to such classics as "Regimonts" or "First encounters with the niece".

The new address of this blog, starting in about two minutes, will be kittensornails.blogspot.com...

WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN, CHRIS?!!

I'm glad you asked. I'd always heard (from no one in particular) that you should never drive over cardboard boxes in the middle of the road.

WHY NOT, CHRIS?

Because there could be kittens or nails in them.

I have never found anyone who has heard this advice. But I think it's good advice, and also a good representation of the unknown in life. Could be good or bad. Though running over either of those things would be bad. But in very different ways. Anyway, that's what the new blog is called. Kittens or Nails. GET USED TO IT!

Love,
Chris

New address.

Hey friends,

In a few days, I am going to change the URL of this blog from [redacted].blogspot.com to something less self-incriminating. I'm taking suggestions. What URL would you like to go to instead? Vulgar suggestions will be appreciated, but probably not taken.

Chris

Superheroes.

I am reading an article (on RollingStone.com) about real-life superheroes, and it's just about blowing my mind. I think it works well as a companion piece to two other articles that I blogged about here.

Here's a quote, from the main superhero of the article, Master Legend, talking about how he is soon to be evicted because of an eminent domain claim:

"I'd rather face a dozen men with chains in an alley than deal with the bureaucracy of the state of Florida... I want to be out there taking care of criminals, not packing my stuff in boxes."

Isn't that fantastic? Here's the link to the story: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/25020634/the_legend_of_master_legend

(A tip of the hat to BoingBoing.net for bringing this to my attention.)

2009 early review.