Things I like today

I have decided that I really like xkcd even though it looks like something I wouldn't like, since I'm on record about my inability to read comics that are just too ugly. Somehow, despite primarily featuring stick figures who speak in complete paragraphs of handwritten uppercase, xkcd is not visually horrible. In fact I'd say it's often rather charming. (The hand-lettering helps, actually. Obviously typed-in lettering always loses points with me. Add in perfectly elliptical word balloons for double-yuck.)

Its sense of humor is invariably dead on target for me. I even like the frequent romantic strips.

And then there's this guy's photographic report of a Ren Faire, which keimel will probably laugh at though maybe he won't I don't know, by way of cthulhia. I like how he manages to make "Ha ha look at the funny people" fresh. It may have something to do with how he continually pokes fun at his girlfriend the whole time too, leading to the implication that he loves the faire he mocks. Or maybe I just need lunch and everything's too funny right now.