i'm going to be irked if you get a pair of these before me. 

a successful use of comic sans!

courtesy of this article, which kai salmela linked to on taryn runck's facebook wall.

i now know what i want to do with myself: slice and dice the ice to play a cool game of pool.

iris häeussler's fictitious character joseph wagenbach

three variations on that theme, sequentially becoming more grim:
first story on "home alone"
the documentary a certain kind of death
article that mentions death of son and disabled mother