The Weekly Lollers: Episode One

Friends have dubbed me Uncle Forwardy, and this is my first step towards recovery. Every week I’m going to compile the things that made me ride my lollerskates to the lollercoaster of giddiness. If you unearth something of more-than-trifling hilarity, please send it my way. If it tickles my fancy, it shall be posted herein.

***Email me with hilarity at victor [at] purewest [dot] us ***

TWENTY CELEBRITY LIVES IN FLOWCHART FORM – Cracked

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This is simply sheer genius. There are plenty more lives condensed and charted at the site. At least take a peek at numbers 1, 7, 9, 14.

THIS SHORT STORY ABOUT A SCHOOL SHOOTING IS PRETTY GOOD – The Onion

An excerpt from this fine piece of journalism:

“All year long I’ve been trying to get my students to write what they know, and finally someone took the lesson to heart. The characters in Brian’s story feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings. His narrator—the shooter—is of course completely imaginary, but you can tell the other characters are based on people Brian knows from school.”

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

DANCE FAIL

If it isn’t fake, it’s brilliant.