Monthly Archives: August 2011

AWESOME! Illustration from: here This drawing and many, many more are featured exclusively in The Calendar of Awesome. (Now available!) Read the first 20 pages of the calendar here.

Living in a big city can be lonely. Friends scatter and splatter in all directions and people dear to your heart fling themselves across state lines, borders, and deep dark oceans. And while calling your friends has gotten a lot … Continue reading →

Hey, sometimes you’re in the mood for a few drinks. Big bottle of Merlot over a romantic spaghetti dinner, clinking beers floating in an icy cooler beside the tent, Jello shooters before the bars in college, or bubbly flutes of … Continue reading →

Babies take a while to walk. If you’ve seen it happen, you know there is plenty of falling, crawling, and bawling. Hey, there’s a reason most two-year-olds are covered in fat lips, skinned knees, and coffee-table-dented foreheads. Learning to walk … Continue reading →

You gotta love the Egyptians. According to our egghead pals at Wikipedia our taste-loving ancestors from Egypt started putting gravy on food over 5000 years ago. Seriously, hieroglyphics in the tomb of Djer, an early first dynasty pharaoh, show diners … Continue reading →

AWESOME! Illustration from: here This drawing and many, many more are featured exclusively in The Calendar of Awesome. (Now available!) Read the first 20 pages of the calendar here.

Sleep lines are any line on your body when you wake up from sleep. They’re little indents on your arm from the pillow case zipper. They’re creases on your face from your corduroy covers. They’re just cute little lines and … Continue reading →

It’s known as the Paper Towel Pile. Germophobes, you know what I’m talking about. It’s that filthy stash of crumpled wet paper towels sitting in a pathetic heap behind public bathroom doors. Bacteria conscious citizens aren’t above using paper towels … Continue reading →

Bombs away. Bring on big splashes, wet clothes, and hot sunny afternoons of AWESOME! Photo from: here

We love your kids. We do, we do, they’re cute, they’re adorable, they’re beautiful little Future You’s who will rule the Earth just fine when we’re all done living. And it’s fantastic they won bronze in high jump,  scored a … Continue reading →