Monster Factory Brings the LOLz to High School

Just another example of my theory that puppets aren't ever not funny. Please take a few minutes to watch this hilarious Web series called Monster Factory starring the kids and monsters of the Orde Street School. Get to know them all here:

'The Office' Stars Make Their Own Lib Dub

Last night was the season premiere of The Office on NBC and the employees of Dunder Mifflin continue to prove their hip to the hottest viral videos on the Web.

First they recreated that famous walk down the aisle from YouTube (which may or may not get me teary-eyed) and now they're taking on the lib dub sensation with a video for Human Beinz "Nobody But Me." Check it out!


If only this happened at my job. If only.

Yinz Need to Watch 'Greg and Donny'

I am a proud native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but sometimes it's very hard for me to explain to people the... unique accent Pittsburghers have. Luckily, I found this awesome Web series called Greg and Donny which features some average yinzers (as they're called) in their funny day-to-day lives.


The series follows Health teacher, Greg, his big mouthed wife, Gina, and their unemployed buddy, Donny, as the three of them communicate via Web cams from their small Western Pennsylvania town (or tahn, as they say it.)

To get a better understanding of the series check out this episode where Greg gets picked on by coworkers for his Pixburgh accent.

Vlog Challenge #7: Magazines

This was long overdue! Please enjoy Carolyn and I as we partake in another one of our vlog challenges. This time we're taking on the category of "magazines." Check it out...


You can view all of our vlog challenges here.

Videos: A Day at Kennywood Park

As I mentioned in a previous post I was back home in Pennsylvania this weekend and took a trip to Kennywood Park. I also got a new video camera last week, so this was the perfect opportunity to try it out. Check out a few of the clips I took while riding the rides and playing games at Kennywood.

Hungover Owls Do Not Wanna Hear It from You

Again I say, my dream in life is come up with a simple, stupid web site idea that will suddenly become insanely popular and get a book and movie deal and then I can swim in my own pool of coins like Scrooge McDuck.

Unfortunately, the guys at Hungover Owls already beat me to the idea, so it looks like I'll have to go back to the drawing board. I have to show them nothing but love, because they found a site that combined two of my favorite things; funny animal photos and drinking. Behold.






Love stupid animal blogs. Head over to Hungover Owls to see more pictures of the surly avian drunkards.

Summer Friday: Warning Signs Your Friend Might Be a 'Jersey Shore' Guido

Every Friday between Memorial Day and Labor Day I'm going to be featuring guest bloggers as a part of my "Summer Fridays" series. This week's post comes from comedian and writer Chris Vespoli who shares with us the warning signs that someone you love may be a friend of Snooki.


To millions of Americans, MTV's Jersey Shore is a spray-tanned, greasy orgasm of drama and violence, but to me, it's something far more important. It's an educational tool -- a cautionary tale of misguided youth. You see, no one is born a Guido; Guidos are genuinely good kids who just got swept up in a turbulent sea of Ed Hardy t-shirts and LA Looks Mega Hold hair gel.

Side note: Please realize I use the term "Guido" not as a racial slur towards Italian-Americans, but as a general term for the hard-partying Jersey Shore cast and other tri-state twenty-somethings like them. After all, Ronnie is only half Italian and Snooki is actually Chilean, so to label the word an epithet is pretty misguided in this situation (no pun intended). Also, I can use the word because I myself am Italian-American, so there.

So, in order to make sure this doesn't happen to one of your friends, it's important to recognize the seven warning signs below.

Your Friend Makes Constant, Non-Ironic Use of the Word "Bro"
If someone who is not your brother starts calling you and everyone else he knows "bro," that's usually one of the first signs that something is up. Whereas normal dudes might bust out a "bro" only during a heart-to-heart talk, Guidos use it in nearly every form of social interaction. Be cautious: Use of the word is often accompanied by an increase in aggression on boardwalks, as in Ronnie's "come at me, bro!" + face punch combination in Season 1.

He Treats G-T-L as if it were a Buddhist Mantra
As popularized by Pauly D and The Situation, going to the gym, getting an artificial tan and doing your laundry is the daily routine by which every Guido maintains his "freshness." You'll know it's time for an intervention when your friend starts spending more time and money on his appearance than he does on paying back his student loans... Oh, and his skin will be a bright shade of orange.

Get Down with Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man

Having a bad day? Need a pick-me-up? Need to get your groove on? If you answered yes to any of these please take a minute to yourself to get down with the wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man!

Amazing Miniature iPhone Scenes

I'm loving these miniature scenes created using an iPhone as a back drop. The artist -- JD Hancock -- has a quite a collection of miniature photo shoots on his Flikr page, but these iPhone scenes are particularly enjoyable. Check 'em out...


"Swimming in the iPool"

Summer Friday: The World According to Twitter

Every Friday between Memorial Day and Labor Day I'm going to be featuring guest bloggers as a part of my "Summer Fridays" series. This week's entry comes from nightlife promoter, social media addict and wannabe web entrepreneur Justin B, who gives us a glimpse of the seedy, scary underbelly of Twitter’s millions of users.

A Tweet is worth a million words. Okay, maybe it’s only worth 140 characters, which isn’t that many words at all. But you’d be astounded at just how much can come through these little textual blurbs that zip across the Internet at the hyperspeed of a monkey on rocket-backed roller skates.


In my newest Web project, Dearest Twitter I curate from Twitter only the funniest and strangest tweets written in traditional letter format (aka, those that start with the word “Dear”). Looking at my site, you might assume that everyone on Twitter is either witty or intelligent. But that’s because you don’t see the cutting room floor. And on that floor, there are millions of interesting folks writing letters that no one may ever read.

Most people may consider these stray tweets junk. I see them as the rich soil from which we can pull life truths and statements on the human condition. Teaching moments, all. Allow me to share with you a few universal lessons that the Twitter letter pile has taught me:

Everyone Is Stuck Behind an Asshole in Traffic
It happens in every state, every highway and byway, and at any sign or corner you could think of. Maybe right on your corner, right now! Yes, these “Dear Driver” tweets tend to pop up mostly right before work time, or right after. Sometimes said driver is speeding. Sometimes they are going far too slow. Sometimes they are picking their nose, pulling their armpit hair, flipping the bird, running lights, cutting off the elderly or lip-syncing to Justin Bieber. So furious tweeters take to the stream to voice their horror and anguish. Then again, maybe everyone is driving so terribly because they are too busy tweeting about each other.

Oregon Trail Gets Its Own Movie Trailer

Children of the late 80s rejoice! Everyone's beloved computer game Oregon Trail is being made into a movie!


Okay, okay... So, it's not a real movie, but it definitely should be. Check out this hilarious trailer parody by Half Day Today and then try to resist the urge to find a free online version of Oregon Trail (it's right here.)

'Kid-ception:' Animated Films Get Thrilling New Trailers

Inception is undoubtedly the biggest blockbuster of the summer and is still holding its place at the top of the box office charts weeks after its premiere. I loved the movie (and plan to see it again) and apparently so did everyone else, because now even kids' movies are getting rebooted with new Inception-style trailers.


From Toy Story 3 to Peter Pan, check out how a group of classic kiddie flicks are completely transformed with some new music and a re-edit.

Do You Use Blue or Black Pens?

While sitting in a fairly boring meeting last week I was noticing what types of pens people in my office chose to use. Personally, I use exclusively black ball point pens. Specifically these ones from Staples. Never -- and I mean never -- will I use blue ink.

Not sure if I was a lone freak, I decided to poll my Twitter and Facebook friends to see if they too had particular pen habits. These are my very unscientific findings:

Bloopers from iVillage's "Likes or Yikes" Series

In case you didn't know, I'm part of a weekly video series for iVillage called "Likes or Yikes" where the fabulous Jacki Garfinkel and I give our spin on the week's funniest and most outrageous entertainment stories.

The great thing about making a weekly video is that there is a ton of footage that never makes it to the web... until now.


Please enjoy these short clips of some of Jacki and I's most memorable gaffs and mistakes. Some of them are much funnier than what we actually meant to say!

Can You Name All 99 'Seinfeld' References?

Here's a fun way to ease yourself back into the work week after a long weekend that may be challenging for even the biggest Seinfeld fan.

Artist Kiersten Essenpreis has created this illustration of 99 references from the now-classic TV sitcom about nothing. See if you can find all of the show's inside jokes below.


Click the answer chart to enlarge:


How'd you do?

An Artistic Icing

America's favorite drinking game called "icing" -- which involves presenting unsuspecting victims with a delicious Smirnoff Ice -- continues its reign of terror.


First it was an Internet sensation, then it appeared right here on this blog, and now it's come into my real life. One of my buddies was unfortunately iced last week at a fancy art show. Check out the video of his sophisticated icing below:

Summer Friday: My Worst Date Ever. So Far...

Every Friday between Memorial Day and Labor Day I'm going to be featuring guest bloggers as a part of my "Summer Fridays" series. This week's entry is republished with permission from Matthew F. of To Be That Guy, because I thought it was so funny when I read it that I had to share it with everyone.

Have you ever had a bad date? I don't just mean a date that made you think, "ehh, this isn't going anywhere." I mean a date that made you want to punch yourself, made you wish that you hadn't washed your hair and dirtied a clean shirt, made you wish you had stayed at home and cried, or maybe pulled out all your eyelashes. Tonight I had one of the worst dates. To clarify, I don't mean just one of the worst I've had; I mean one of the worst dates to have ever occurred, right up there with one of Joran van der Sloot's dates.

When the guy -- who we'll call "Squealer," for reasons that will soon become clear -- called me this afternoon to figure out the details, I got my first warning sign. He made some crazy statement -- I can't even remember what it was because it was so nonsensical -- to which my response was, "um... I don't know what that means." and then came the scary part, his response: "Well, get ready because that's just the first of many quips I've got planned for you tonight [insert squealing laughter]."

When Squealer caught my eye and walked toward me, my heart sank. Please don't be him. Please don't be him, I thought as a hipster walked toward me in the skinniest of circulation-cutting-off-est jeans I've ever seen on a purported male of the species. Worse, this thing was wearing a beret - a beret!!!!!!! - and a flannel shirt that looked like something my grandma wore (yes, it was definitely a woman's. No doubt.) In the '70's. Even disregarding the woman's shirt, it was 100 degrees and humid out. Who is this person? And -- oh god -- why is he walking like a fashion model? Oh god, why hast thou forsaken me?!

Fast Food Gets Sexy in "Carry Out" Parody

The original video for Timbaland's and Justin Timberlake's song "Carry Out" might leave a little to be desired, but it's this parody from comedy group The Mouth Breathers that really takes the cake. Please enjoy these two nerdy restaurant workers who get a little frisky in between orders.

City Slickers Pumping Gas

On a recent trip from NYC to the Finger Lakes region of New York for a wedding, Billy proved his car-less, city slicker stereotype to be true after spending eons trying to figure out how to work a gas pump... twice.

So, instead of helping him I filmed it for your enjoyment.


I guess filling up a car is nothing like riding a bike.

Racing Pierogi Gets Its Walking Papers

I may not be the biggest sports fan around, but I'm always happy to cheer on my hometown teams from Pittsburgh. While the Steelers and Penguins have had very successful seasons in the last few years, the Pittsburgh Pirates just can't seem to catch a break. I mean, I can't remember them being a good team since I used to go with my Dad in the late 80s and early 90s.

Apparently I'm not the only one who is tired of the Pirates stinking, but the comments on the team have cost someone on the Pirates payroll their job. No, not one of the players... Not one of the coaches... but a pierogi.


During every home game there is a pierogi race (yep, pierogies) after the fifth inning where four flavorful mascots run a race around the stadium. It's a crown favorite and honestly, is one of the few actually enjoyable moments of watching a Pirates game in person.