My Valentines Day turned out to be about as lonely and miserable as I had expected. But I found a game. With My Black Valentine, you can select a holiday icon (flowers, candy, teddy bear, etc) and use it for target practice. Bang! The flowers are gone. Bang! Bye-bye teddy! Ah, I feel better now. Thank you.
(via Everlasting Blort)

I caught the tail end (I actually didn't mean that pun) of the Westminster Dog Show last night and was relieved to see that neither of the two poodles in the final running won Best in Show. I wasn't the only one apparently as you could hear the crowd actually booing when the poodles were doing their laps around the ring.

The winner was a very respectable English Springer Spaniel named Jim, which is also a very respectable name (though it's short for Diamond Jim which is just weird).

Jim beat out this odd looking fellow who reminded me of this guy:

Anyway, the point of my post is actually to recommend that you take a look at The Wurstminster Dog Show at the online Wurst Gallery in which over 100 artists display a piece they have done about a particular breed of their choice. Here are a couple of examples. An Italian Greyhound by Aaron Meshon and a French Bulldog by Apak.

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Thank you for your attention to these matters.

Anthropomorphization is a comedy shortcut, but that doesn’t make it any less funny, especially when its done well. Ninja animals, today on the veg.

A 60¢ head trip
The return of The Joker
The Beyonder kidnaps again
DUI (Drawing Under the Influence)
And Kick! 'Splode!

Every Wednesday we run down the 5 most interesting comics and graphic novels that come out this week. These are the 5 books I would be buying myself but today's Valentine's Day and it's totally not cool to be buying comics on Valentine's Day. People will think I can't get a woman.

- They're not just one of the 7 deadly sins, they're also loud, hard-partying, foul-mouthed animals.
- There's a 5 second Star Wars, and a five second Return of the Jedi. So, is this like a thing, now?
- Check out 8 diseases that give you superpowers. Super strength, speed and flying not included.
- I got locked out a while back, and it cost me $300 to get back in. Where was NewYourKey then?
- And did you forget something today? Try sending a customized DQ Slow Jam (you cheap bastard)