Dance, internet monkeys, dance!

[scarlettina]

What are your favorite Web sites for when you're feeling blue? What sites cheer you up (besides Cheezburger and Shorpy)? What's always interesting? Recommendations?

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[oldmangrumpus.livejournal.com]

Are you blue????

It's been a while, but Mr. Cranky (http://www.mrcranky.com/) always makes me laugh. I checked, and he still can. But I'm mean and cruel:

"If I wrote 100 of the most tired and over-used movie cliches on a huge 10x10 grid, had a group of drunken monkeys throw feces at this grid for a few days, then made a screenplay based on nothing but the most shit-stained contrivances, the resulting film would have a 95% chance of being better and far more coherent than "Max Payne.""

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

I'm not blue right now, no. But I realized this morning that my surfing has become extremely limited, and I really want some new territory.

[botgrrrl.livejournal.com]

failblog.org

It never fails to make me laugh.

[janetl.livejournal.com]

Cheezburger is a wonderful, wonderful thing. Some of my other favorites:
Cakewrecks
Install the app Stumbleupon, and spend some time stumbling. You can select what you're interested in, and I picked art and photography. It just takes me from one gorgeous and amazing thing to another.

[ironymaiden]

http://delicious.com/ironymaiden/awesome (dig in a few pages, there are over 100 things there.)

when i'm sad, it's definitely zooborns.com. always interesting, artificialowl.net.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

http://youshouldhaveseenthis.com/

a/k/a: 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet

I haven't seen all 99 (thank heavens!) but it was worth poking all around and about at.

[davidlevine]

Cake Wrecks!

Also the baaaaabyanimals community on LJ (I forget how many a's exactly...)

[pixxelpuss.livejournal.com]

www.orisinal.com

[e-bourne.livejournal.com]

I go watch movie previews. I like them more than movies, really, and can pass an easy 3-4 hours watching previews of even stupid movies. Apple trailers makes me happy, or at least brainless, which is pain-free.

[xochitl42.livejournal.com]

It may be a bit limited-interest, but when I'm feeling sad, anything involving Top Gear makes me smile. The articles are fun (specifically the ones written by the three hosts), but the videos (http://www.topgear.com/us/videos/) never fail to make my day.

[shadowdaddy.livejournal.com]

I find when I am feeling blue it is really good for me to get the heck off the internet, because it's far too easy to blow far too much time and it really never helps. But that's in the perfect world, and in reality it ends up being stuff like stupid pet tricks on YouTube.

I'd all but forgotten about pixxelpuss' suggestion of orisinal...that is a very happymaking site, for sure, full of pretty things.

Because I'm a small, small man.

[melkahb.livejournal.com]

Often, blue or not, I find that pointing and laughing (http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/) makes me happy. Is it petty and childish? Perhaps, at least until you know the rules and discover that all the material for mocking comes from the people getting mocked. Also, when it's slow, a bit of history (http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Main_Page) helps. Sometimes more traditional history (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittites) serves better. Usually learning something improves my mood.