3 (and a half) BLOGS TO CHECK OUT

1. MITT AND ROB: This tumblr takes the spleen sprainingly hilarious @MittRomney tweets of stand up comedian and twitter overlord Rob Delaney and makes corresponding illustrations. The comedic genius of this blog is many faceted. First, the tweets themselves are prime material for hilarious imagery. Like, how can you read this:

without picturing something so bizarre and off-putting as to make you laugh through the queasiness?

Every picture shows Delaney (with only a green speedo on his outrageously hairy body, of course!) tagging along with Mitt on his campaign trail. The pictures sometimes correspond directly with the content of his tweet, for example this is the picture for the aforementioned tweet:

What I like about this artist is that they don’t always concern themselves with drawing literal interpretations of Delaney’s bizarre thoughts. Sometimes the tweets are just set to random pictures of the two of them together on the campaign trail, such as this one:

I like this because it’s funny to think of Delaney, a very funny yet very progressive and intellectual human being, wandering through the clusterfuck that is Romney’s campaign alongside him.

(Actually, upon reflection, Romney getting advice from an irreverent weirdo with a liberal agenda may actually explain a shitton about his campaign strategy. I mean, how else would he have thought getting a spray tan to meet Latino voters was anything other than a seriously misguided decision? Think about it.)

2. MEME-Y BLOGS

This next recommendation is not actually a single blog but a number of blogs with a similar concept. The internet is nothing if not redundant, and these blogs all show there is beauty and humor to be found in repetition. There is a genre of blogs that devote themselves to a single meme by adding a single picture (or gif) in other pictures. While it might seem silly, there is a tremendous amount of creativity in choosing a picture that would be an appropriate background.

Some of my favorites of these include these two:

• Mo Farah Running Away From Things
• Lana Del Rey Dancing

But my all time favorite of these HAS to be One Tiny Hand.

Such finesse! A concept that is truly elegant in it’s simplicity! Take photos of celebrities and shrink one of their hands! It creates pictures that are just the perfect amount of WTF that you may not immediately notice what’s wrong with the pictures. It has the added bonus of making even the most cool, beautiful, and graceful celebrities look totally ridiculous. Look at this picture of the president:

Although the concept is always the same (it’s never a tiny foot or tiny nose) the altered pictures throw me off guard and make me giggle every time.

3. I TOUCHED YOUR DRIFTWOOD

Before you freak out, that’s not a link to a marine themed porn blog. The creator of ITYD started this blog when they found a lost digital camera on the beach of Montauk NY. There were a bunch of pictures of a group of 20 something’s aquatic vacation. The pictures themselves were a banal combination of group selfies, but the author of this blog decided to invent characters for each of the members of the photos (with ridiculous names like “Peaches” and “Sarlaac”) and label each photo with rather lengthy descriptions. The camera had a ton of photos, of which the author added several per day.

Don’t get too excited though. The blog exploded in popularity, and someone was able to locate whom the camera belonged to. Unfortunately for us, the owner of the camera was less then enamored with their pictures being made fun of by a stranger and viewed by over 50000 other strangers on the internet (who knew?). The original photos are not up anymore, but you can see the remnants of the blogs former glory. Someone sent the author a SD card of another lost digital camera to have them help find its owner. I’m hoping this becomes a trend and the creative and funny author is given even more material to work with. If you or anyone you know found a lost camera that you don’t know what to do with, this is a viable solution! If not, enjoy what the blog offers and spread the word.

AND THE HALF

I did not really feel right including this website as an actual entry on this list, because I’m not sure the format constitutes a blog. It’s a compilation video site called Wimp that is updated with 5 new videos every day. The videos vary in length from seconds to 30 minutes, but they are all AWESOME and fairly obscure (yay hipsters!). But seriously, these videos come from all over the world, and range in content from hilarious and inane to breathtakingly beautiful. There are videos about all topics, including clips from really informative science/technology documentaries or just cute videos of cats.

There have been many videos I’ve seen on Wimp that I can’t even find on Youtube or Google video (but all the videos are embedded on Wimp itself so it’s not taking you to sketchy/dangerous websites). It’s a great site to check everyday or to just go on once in a while and watch a ton at once (it keeps everything all former posts archived). It also has a search bar to find videos from a specific topic or to find one you saw before. This may seem like a basic aspect of any website, but I frequent some websites where finding something you saw on the site hours ago is an impossible task (I’M LOOKING AT YOU REDDIT!)

So blog or not, definitely worth checking out.