Yours portly possesses an abiding love for absurdity.  Chalk it up to years of watching [adult swim] in the early 2000s and growing up watching The Simpsons, but my artistic output visually—which consists almost entirely of unskilled doodling—leans heavily into the cartoonish and absurd and weird.  Indeed, I wrote an entire book based on that premise (that’s an Amazon Affiliate link; I receive a portion of all purchases made through that link, at no additional cost to you).

YouTube provides an outlet to unlock that visual and aural absurdism, and today’s Shorts are indicative of the kind of ridiculous, sometimes contextless, silliness that I like to tart up and present as some kind of philosophically abstract absurdism, when it’s really just me being a goofball.

Saturday Doodle Brawl

Okay, that video is weird.  I doodled the picture “I Yearn” during that student’s lesson, and he envisioned the unusual YouTube Short above.  It’s what happens when a forty-one-year old with the joie de vivre of a twelve-year old and an actual twelve-year old collaborate.

Here’s the doodle, too:

Popular Alien Sage Finds New Life in Can Form

Yoda will always be my favorite Jedi Master.  I’m glad to see he’s finally getting the respect he deserves.  First, a can of Coke Zero; next, the $100 bill?  Benjamin Franklin is sort of the Yoda of the 18th-century America.

Bathmat Receives Hero’s Burial

Dr. Wife and I are continuing to declutter even post-move, and this faded red bathmat was deemed unworthy of continued service.  I was glad to send it off with some fanfare.

What absurd slices of life are you willing to overshare on the Internet, dear reader?  Let me know!

Happy Friday!

—TPP