Wednesday, May 02, 2007
I Shall Keese You!
One of my most favorite websites won a (another) webby.
It’s the most brill, annurable, prosh site to ever categorize and qualify the rules of cute-ness: Cute Overload!
Because I love this site so much, and because he hears me going “omg ponies!” randomly when I’m visiting the site in the middle of a rough day, my good friend Erik made me a sweet and tiny photo album for my birthday. It’s filled with glossy pages of bunny, puppy, ducky, kitty and hammy porn.
Look how awesome:
Years ago, I had a clutch of framed photos on my desk, all pets and past pets: kittens, my bunny, my birdy. When I needed to take a little break, I’d look at them. Plus they were good for freaking people out.
In 2006 Cute Overload won “Cultural/Personal.” Now they’re triumphantly categorized as “Weird.” Thank goodness society caught up.
Most of the reading I do on the internet these days has been reduced to Major News orgs and Slate/Salon/Boing/Kottke type sites. With categories like “Cats N Racks,” “Cute or Sad?” and “I Shall Leeck You” I’m clearly not learning about current events or anything that could be contrived as enriching to my career or general savvy. This site is just for me and irrelevant to anything else.
It makes me feel like there are good people out there who share joy and love for the world. If a monk can ponder his own big toe, I can gush at a tiny pink tongue, the cuteness trifecta, or interspecies snorgling.
I’m also really happy about David Bowie, but he’s more white-magic-hot than cute, and I don’t have a psychotically cherished photo album of him.
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