Here’s a neat Wondermark-style video made to dramatize a radio sketch from the BBC comedy show That Mitchell & Webb Sound:
And rarely has my email lit up like it did upon the release of this video for the Ramona Falls song “I Say Fever”:
Quite striking, and quite worth a watch!
BONUS THIRD VIDEO: TEA RAP
You remember my immensely talented, wonderfully creative wife Nikki — she of the calendars, the pins, the Slügs and Doughboys, she of the special-effects makeup and many strange costumes, and even of many special future projects unrevealed as yet. Well, this spring she’ll be teaching an adult class at Santa Monica College entitled “Arts & Crafts to Share With Kids”. Here’s the course description:
Make the most of the time you spend with kids! Come learn about some fun, creative, and very appealing arts-and-crafts projects you can share with kids, whether you’re spending a quiet afternoon with your family, or having a lively meeting with your neighborhood youth group. Find out about the steps and materials you need to create sand candles, melted crayon pictures, Jacob’s ladders, ‘stained glass’ windows (no glass involved), and other awesome projects. You’ll leave this workshop with instructions, materials lists, and even a finished piece you create yourself, ready to share with others.
It’ll be a great class for parents, group leaders, or even just strange and crafty individuals. The class runs four Saturdays in April and May, and enrollment is open now!
I hope you’ve been listening to my weekly comedy podcast, Tweet Me Harder! If you haven’t, there’s absolutely no better time to start — the latest episode that’s been posted, Episode 30, may be our best yet. I’m super-pleased with how the show’s been progressing and developing over the last few months, and if you like the voice and temperament behind Wondermark, I’m confident recommending TMH to you as well.
In fact HERE IS THE EPISODE IN QUESTION for your listening pleasure:
We’re engaged in a concerted campaign right now to get noticed by the folks at iTunes who decide on the “staff picks,” which are podcasts that are given special precedence in the iTunes directory. If you’re an iTunes user, and you enjoy the show, there are two things you can do to help:
– You can subscribe to the podcast using this direct iTunes link, which is what determines our popularity ranking;
– You can rate and/or comment on the show in iTunes!
And, of course, there is one thing that you can always do, iTunes user or not, TMH fan or not… you can give yourself a big ol’ hug. Why not? (Unless you are spiky)
Merry Christmas, Christmas-celebrators out there! Here are some of my favorite Christmas-themed Wondermark strips from years past:
#141; In which the Son of God stands in queue
#260; In which a Plan ends poorly
#363; In which Joy is Mandated
#357; In which Mall Parking sucks
#466; In which Everyone loves the Freak
#474; In which you better Watch Out
#476; In which Suffering was a Waste
And hey, if you’re not celebrating Christmas, that’s okay too — here are a bunch of comics just for you!
Let us say you are idle, this day in September. Let us say that to the cars rushing by outside you are a stationary observer, moving backwards in their memory as they disappear. What use can be made of this time?
The deadline for my comic-coloring contest is this Sunday night; surely you can spend a few hours today in pursuit of this, a task that provides distraction from those things you are not doing anyway.
The television provider DirecTV is offering new customers a promotion; if you were considering their (perfectly adequate, in my experience as a customer for the last seven years) service, you could do worse than saving $100, in the form of ten $10 bill credits. By using my account number — 23334574 — as your referral, not only do you obtain the discount, but I am rewarded somewhat as well. This is no particular urging on my part; simply if you were contemplating the service, on this idle day, regardless.
Finally, if you enjoyed the sight of the ridiculous, entirely un-aerodynamic flying contrivance in Tuesday’s strip, and have twenty-odd minutes to spare on a break from your lack of activity, you may enjoy this remarkable and arresting short film, brought to my attention by kind Marksman Kevin S. It is embedded below; or on YouTube here.