This is slow to get going, but so worth it. By the end, it reminds me of that scene in The Untouchables when Connery and, er, that other old guy in The Untouchables kick the Christ out of each other in the alleyway.

Good god this is brilliant:
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?

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Hat-tip to Nerfgun.

Go. Just go.

Still trawling the wires about the big fire, but I found this and it is pretty excellent: a blog post featuring random pics of sleeping Russian cops.

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This sounds like it’s straight from the Clinton camp.

I am not prejudiced. Far from it. What I am—or, I should say, who I am—is a man who loves his country so deeply that he is unwilling to stand idly by while our nation allows itself to be completely annihilated by another incoming comet.
Have we learned [...]

This is the web gold of the day, kids. It’s the Etchasketchist. All hail.
Everyone from Phil Spector to LaMarcus Aldridge, lovingly represented on the Etch-a-Skizzle.

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Square America’s “Visit from St. Nick” series is almost as hot as the party pics I posted last week.
This guy should be on every card this year every year.

Of all the sites I was pointed to this year, this one’s my favourite. If it turns out I’ve been sleeping on it for years and this [...]

Amazing. Via Dethroner, check out The Party, a collection of vintage snaps from what looks like it was one hell of a dust-up.
Here’s one of the tamer pics.