Monthly Archives: October 2011

AWESOME! Happy Halloween! Check out our past Halloween posts here: #960 Strategic trick-or-treating, #645 Hilarious last-minute Halloween costumes, #385 That one house on your street that gets really, really into Halloween, and #384 Intense-post Halloween candy trades! Photos from: My … Continue reading →

I used to run a sandwich shop. Yes, I was a rootin’, tootin’, mayo-squirting king in the dirty mustard-smeared sandwich underbelly. I helped manage about a dozen high school kids and together we fired sandwiches down an assembly line, into … Continue reading →

AWESOME! This drawing and many, many more are featured exclusively in The Calendar of Awesome. Read the first 20 pages of the calendar here.

Babies stay put. Set a newborn on a couch cushion, kitchen table, or pull-out bed and it just lies around making spit bubbles. And sure, baby grows older, starts crawling, starts bashing into walls, but it isn’t until she begins … Continue reading →

Making movies ain’t easy. Script ideas are batted around in basements, screenplays are slaved over under dim desk lamps, edits are massaged for months in coffee shop corners, ideas are pitched in glassy boardrooms, storyboards are drawn in dusty studios, … Continue reading →

I stayed at my parent’s place last week. Now, I don’t know about you, but my parents go to bed about four hours earlier than I do. Pajamas and dental floss come out around eight o’clock and a late-night mug … Continue reading →

Welcome back, fourth grade classmate. We forgot you existed, boss from the burger joint. Thanks for coming back for a tea, Grandma. Yes, life is full of twists and tunnels and old relationships sometimes disappear into the well. So when someone … Continue reading →

I sat beside a Curled Up Ball on a flight recently. Poor girl hadn’t been on a plane before and was gripping the armrests, gritting her teeth, and eyeballing the barf bag the entire trip. Me, I was enjoying unlimited … Continue reading →

Get lost, elevator jazz. Hang up, hold music. Pack your bags, grocery store soundtrack. Your whispering background noise is an insult to music everywhere. Yes, when the soul-lifting beauty of music dissolves into fluorescent-dim worlds of three-piece suits, can-clinking carts, … Continue reading →

What do you call a six-month nap? AWESOME! Photo from: here Read more: here