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I read about this over at the NYT. I didn’t expect to find it so moving.

Become one of the millions of people who are checking out Matt Harding’s moves.

(There’s a good hi-res version on the YouTube. Click the vid screen below two times and find the ‘watch in high quality’ link under the millions+ view counter.)

I’m going to be doing some writing today for King Features’ Betty Boop franchise and, like the good writer-boy that I am, I spent some time last night researching the brand. I loved what I found.

Betty Boop started out her cartoon life as a dog-like creation of Max Fleischer (an animation legend who helped bring Popeye, Superman and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to life).

Boop first appeared in the early 1930s sporting a decidedly 1920s style — it was all about the saucy little flapper dress, jazz beats and wry winks to sexily intoxicated good times. Eventually she was toned down (yet another black mark on the morality police) and her popularity waned.

One thing that makes Betty Boop’s earlier cartoons so great was that, unlike other movie-makers at the time, Max Fleischer wasn’t afraid to work with black musicians.

Check out the incredible1933 Betty Boop cartoon Snow White below (not to be confused with the Disney version that came out four years later: You can read Time’s 1937 review of that movie here).

Fleischer’s inspired version of Snow White features an incredible section with Koko the Clown dancing in a skeletal underworld. Koko was voiced by none other than Cab Calloway doing an amazing version of St. James Infirmary Blues…

(This film was chosen for preservation by the U.S. Library of Congress in the National Film Registry in 1994.)

Spotted over at Dead Things on Sticks. Love the aesthetic of this thing. Enjoy.

I used to say that I wanted to die by being machine gunned off the deck of an aircraft carrier, but can I change my answer?

Imagine putting on your diving mask and running into this bad boy. Awesome…

Do y’all watch 30 Rock? Well you should. And one of the reasons is this guy: Jack McBrayer.

Listen to a great half-hour interview with McBrayer over at Jesse Thorn’s Sound of Young America. Funny stuff. You just might pee yourself.

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This new movie out of New Zealand looks “Shawn of the Dead” style hilarious.

On a vast New Zealand sheep station, a reckless genetic engineering experiment goes horribly wrong, turning sheep into bloodthirsty killers! Trailer here.

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This is a warning to all you babies out there. I’m on to you. Oh sure you can play dumb and be all, “I only know three words: ‘Uh oh’, ‘Down’ and ‘More,’” but then you’re in my kitchen crawling onto my dog and laughing your ass off as I scramble around like an idiot trying to find the digital camera in time.

Listen up babies: I’m not your trained monkey, you big-headed diaper-wearing bitches. This is a warning.

Jeanne was this month’s featured artist at Montreal Magazine. Check out the short piece here.

Dudes, see if you can resist getting torn apart by the cuteness bomb that this sleepy kitten drops all over your Monday:

There’s nothing necessarily funny or satirical here, but holy fuck, look at this picture of a fetus elephant in the womb!

Via Huffington Post. More here.