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It's safe to say I spend more time on Tumblr now than I do on Twitter or Facebook. It's also safe to say that I see more pictures of Katy Perry half-clothed or Saved By The Bell screencaps than most any person in Houston, considering I follow 10 Perry sites and too many SBTB tribute pages. I don't like Perry's music, by the way, if you know what I mean (nudges you with elbow and stares at you blankly).
Tumblr goes by at a fantastic clip, built mostly on images from users, along with the stray written missive. A few months back I wrote about the proliferation of naked folks on Tumblr, and that hasn't changed. Screw paying for porn, just start following the right sites on Tumblr. If you can deal with Tumblr being down at least once daily that is.
Each week I must find dozens of unique and bewildering Tumblr sites, which I normally just post onto Twitter for my friends and followers. Instead of throwing these onto the Twitterverse, why can't I just collect them here weekly for everyone to see? Seriously, a site dedicated to faithfully recreating the patterns on Bill Cosby's famous sweaters is too good to keep to myself.
A collection of hilarious Spider-Man memes.
"It's like Richard Scarry characters went to a Grizzly Bear show."
Small renderings of the patterns on Cosby's sweaters! Cosby sweatahs!
"Peanutweeter matches kinda random Twitter posts with somewhat less than random Peanuts® comic strips by Charles Schulz."
"People at restaurants who are just seconds away from being asked for their order."
Really kick-ass restrooms. That's all.
"All the greatness of the Turtles revisited in screen cap form."
"How not to get into someone's pants online: put your best foot forward... and right into your mouth. These are real "hello" messages and chat transcripts from dating sites."
"Hi, I'm Taylor. I'm 17, and I live in Ohio. I've edited the pictures of galaxies and nebulae into all of these pictures (unless otherwise stated), and none of the pictures are my own (again, unless otherwise stated.) That's about all. Thanks for lurking."
People talking shit to corporate Twitter accounts. If you follow Neil Hamburger on Twitter, you know where this is going.
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