The Smashing Cartoons (Archive)
Smashing Cartoons is a new regular section on Smashing Magazine. Every Friday we will be publishing a new cartoon created by Ricardo Gimenes, the creative mind of Behind the Websites. The cartoon will be dedicated to design and web development, but also have a comic twist about everything happening around the Web and give you some insights behind the curtains of Smashing Magazine. Also, on this page we will be collecting all issues of the Smashing Cartoon for your convenience. You will also find the latest cartoon on the sidebar of our pages.
We are looking forward to your feedback and your ideas!
Cartoon #39: Web Battle
Cartoon #38: Designer’s Conscience
Cartoon #37: Modern Jobs
Cartoon #36: Back to work
Cartoon #35: Happy New Year
Cartoon #34: Wishes
Cartoon #33: The Beatles
Cartoon #32: iPhone 4, White
Cartoon #31: Cookies
Cartoon #30: Children
Cartoon #29: Search III
Cartoon #28: Search II
Cartoon #27: Search
Cartoon #26: New Experiences
Cartoon #25: Evolution (Some Things Never Change)
Cartoon #24: Food Delivery
Cartoon #23: Ping Without Pong
Cartoon #22: Open Standard Live Streaming
Cartoon #21: Face and Places
Cartoon #20: The Smashing Cartoons
Cartoon #19: Forbidden Apps
Cartoon #18: Twitter Birds II
Cartoon #17: Twitter Birds
Cartoon #16: Crime Scene
Cartoon #15: Hell’s Meeting
Cartoon #14b: Summer Holiday
Cartoon #14: Summer Holiday
Cartoon #13: How To Choose a Smartphone
Cartoon #12: Comments
Cartoon #11: The Flash Guy
Cartoon #10: Adobe vs. Apple
Cartoon #9: Jessica Talk Show (Cont.)
Cartoon #8: Jessica Talk Show
Cartoon #7: Smashing Team and Ricardo Gimenes
Cartoon #6: The Intern
Cartoon #5: The Intern
Cartoon #4: How to make money from iPad
Cartoon #3: iPhone OS 4
Cartoon #2: iPad
Cartoon #1
Pilot
The Smashing Editorial loves high-quality content and cares about little details. We also believe that content and design are crafts worth sharpening.
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Oh, God, WHEN WILL YOUR COMICS MAKE SENSE??
Comic: “Fleaty is a geek bug.”
I’m thinking, “Okay, so this is a comic about software bugs.”
Comic: “Fleaty loves technology.”
Brain: “Okay, I’m sorta with you. More advanced tech means harder-to-understand bugs. Oh, look, IE9 is there. I guess they’re saying there are bugs in IE9. Somehow the bug is supposed to be endearing.”
Comic: “Unfortunately, technology hates him.” [IE9 spraying poison at him and I guess killing him.]
Brain: “Okay… Um… okay….. Um…. WTF. IE9 eliminates bugs? IE9 eliminates geeks? IE9 eliminates the wrong bugs? IE9 is somehow exclusionary? Using the transitive property, IE9 is anti-technology because it is anti-technology-bugs?? AHHH!!!! WHY DO YOU MAKE MY BRAIN EXPLODE???”
Please hire someone who can tell a simple story, because try as I might, I can’t ever make heads or tails of your comics. I can’t even tell if they’re supposed to be funny. I can’t tell if they make a point remotely, and if so, what that point might possibly be. The best I can say about Smashing Magazine comics is that they are horrible, incomprehensible stories drawn pretty well. Sort of like a never-ending repetition of Waterworld, only with 250% more Kevin Costner.
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no one’s forcing you to read them…
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wow…
cant remember when last I spent 15 minutes on a single page.
Well done guys!
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the last ones are really a waste of time. they’re not funny at all.
Make funny ones again or leave it.thanks
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hehehe, that was a good one: brazil -> netherlands…
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I assume Spain will kick the Dutch back to Holland.
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This is absolutely brilliant! Love it… and I’m sad Brazil got sent home, but happy that Spain rules.
cheers
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worst post ever
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They are just amazing! :D
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Any chance of a cartoon showing how much thought, pain and re-design goes into pleasing the users that don’t care or notice anything :0)
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Gosh these comics are lame. Great animation, awful, awful, content.
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now..now… i just think you guys are germany fans (you should! :p)
ok, this is my prediction:
holland will go to the final against Spanish.
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Norman: I agree, a link to a news article of some sort would be nice.
Basically Apple livestreamed their “event” (Salespitch) in a way that the only devices able to see it were theirs.
“Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards. Viewing requires either a Mac® running Safari® on Mac OS® X version 10.6 Snow Leopard®, an iPhone® or iPod touch® running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad™.”
Note the “Based on Open Standards”-bit. That’s a bit like what they say on “Orange Juice” packaging.
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“Worst post ever!”
:o)
I love it all and cry laughing with some :D
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Amazing! :-)
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pretty funny joke cartoon..
i love it !
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I second Brock Peters. You guys are great illustrators, but your writing leaves much to be desired. Some comics don’t even make sense. #39. Web Battle? What’s the battle in the comic? I mean, I know the Flash/HTML5 reference, but how does the comic represent battling with the somersaults? Is it saying Flash has had to do a lot? Is it saying Flash is confused with the squiggly lines? What does the fading Flash logo mean? And then disappearing and re-appearing? Did Flash leave and then return? Does it mean HTML is not prepared? Or capable? Dear God, WHAT DOES IT MEAN??
Hire a writer. Better yet, hire a comedic writer. Better yet, a comedic writer who makes comics. Like Axe Cop.
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Great style, very well done, but sadly there are at most 2 or 3 that actually made me laugh…
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Amazing…will buy these artworks in a book form if it comes out…
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MOM DAD WHERE DID I COM FROM ?
Cool
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“Worst post ever” Do you remember this? Yes, yes you remember!! hahaha ohhh!! It was you!
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nicely drawn but you guys need a writer, they are not funny even in the slightest.
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yup, totally agree! the execution is nice, but the humour… seldom…..
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For wooden-headed individuals
The flash comic is supposed to mean that we ve all seen what flash can do in terms of features and ease of use proved by the numerous examples all over the web (flash ads not included)
so lets see how how html5 responds..
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still waiting for HTML 5′s response.. grrr come on now don’t leave a dude hanging.. and #39 was COMPLETELY understandable.. just sayin..
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…if you want to get beat up.
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I see nothing funny guys, sorry.
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Thanks for the advice, James. Designing for a 1024 pixel width monitor is pretty standard. Many people still use that size monitor. Especially on laptops and netbooks. For a site that specializes in web design, it’s kind of a silly mistake to make. Telling people to buy things to fix the website’s problem is a lazy snob’s excuse – it’s the same as a web designer ignoring their IE users and telling them to install FF.
And I’m in agreement with the majority of readers here – the comic’s not even funny!
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ok.. i am still searching for the funny-ness here :(
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Lol… The little IE character is funny… “WHAT!?”
Can’t wait for the series…
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Chris Jamero
May 28th, 2010 7:23 amThe only place on the web where you can learn a lot, and have a bit of humor by the side. Keep ‘em coming.
Tin
May 30th, 2010 1:46 amWhat is the problem of drawing cartoons without knowing nothing about the web?
Really, the only dinosaur here is you. Weren’t you inspired and decided to go with the first silly thing that’s on the air those days?… I am sick of people criticizing flash, when no one of them can show sites in HTML5 or other technology that do the same or engage the user as SOME (not all) Flash Sites do.
By the way, simple animations in HTML5 take between 30% and 60% of the computer resources… and they call Flash a CPU HOG… The HTML5 CPU HOG is going to be legen…. wait for it… dary. Once they start building Flash Like sites in HTML5.
Ricardo Gimenes
May 30th, 2010 10:15 amHey Tin, you hit the nail on the head, I’m a dinosaur, I have an entire website in flash, check it out http//ricardogimenes.com RAWR!!!!
Tin
May 30th, 2010 11:50 amMmmm,
Oh, may be I didn’t fully understood your drawing as the irony within the irony. LOL. I apologize ^_^. But my post expresses the frustration that I feel… all because of Steve & Company trying to push HTML5 as a replacement for Flash… with non sense arguments.
^_^
wanyax
May 30th, 2010 4:04 pmI really like this series. I was hoping the idea wouldn’t die after the first attempt wasn’t so well received by us. Good to see what has come out of it. Kudos!
sonali
May 31st, 2010 12:07 amso funny i like this ……. nice creativity..
Rolando S. Bouza
May 31st, 2010 3:03 amHahahahaha! The flash guy! hahaha!
Tanja
June 1st, 2010 12:33 amApple must die.
Philip Sigar
June 1st, 2010 6:37 pmHaha, those are very funny for sure :))
Gags
June 1st, 2010 10:06 pmnice:)
Angie
June 2nd, 2010 10:52 amI love you guys!!!!
Lidia
June 5th, 2010 12:45 pmthis is sooooooooo goood! make more!
Stacii
June 5th, 2010 3:27 pmI love this and I’m always checking back :)
Stefan
June 7th, 2010 12:17 pmLove them!!! Awesome idea…..
Gilang
June 9th, 2010 7:03 pmkocak dan keren! (Indonesian language) it means awesommmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Vanessa GONG
June 10th, 2010 6:00 pmGreat stuff! Warm up our office at this freaking cold weather, keep up!
Thomas
June 11th, 2010 5:04 amWorst post ever…! :) no i`m kidding, nice cartoon!
Wes Peery
June 11th, 2010 5:13 amMore of Jessica!! LOL
mathiz
June 11th, 2010 5:40 amfunny stuff!
FreakSoap
June 11th, 2010 5:45 amtap tap tap = fap fap fap
gianiaz
June 11th, 2010 5:46 amI love #2 and #3!!!
Marin
June 11th, 2010 5:58 amWorst post ever ! LOL
manu
June 11th, 2010 10:54 pmI have to say it to:
worst post ever
lol
Eva
June 15th, 2010 12:19 amI love these cartoons, so funny!
emilio
June 15th, 2010 10:16 pmit’s so funny this cartoons! do more!
khan
June 16th, 2010 11:44 pmgreat work I like all cartoons characters…
Angga
June 17th, 2010 7:27 amAwwww … just ignore those people who always complaint and keep saying worst post ever, they didn’t know how hard it is to publish a great articles that you guys posted. Keep smashing the magazine guys !! you rocksss
Matt Litherland
June 18th, 2010 3:45 amCartoon #1 is awesome :D
Brian Yerkes
June 18th, 2010 8:19 amI enjoyed them. But…am I the only that noticed the Jessica has NO ARMS?!
Boba
June 19th, 2010 7:49 amHaha, i just noticed that. The “boobies” don’t let people notice things near them :)
Smashing Editorial
June 18th, 2010 8:22 amCartoon #13: How To Choose a Smartphone is posted.
Ricardo Machado
June 18th, 2010 9:34 am-.-
Is it just me or… you’re too much “fanboys” of Apple? Since when does android is used to impress ‘geeks’ ?
And since when do you impress girls only with an IPhone? You can impress them even with a dog, and probably not an top technology dog -.-
You’re starting to disappoint me, I was expecting a more balanced judgement on things that depend on opinions/tastes/likes and dislikes… =/
Takeiteasy
June 18th, 2010 11:07 amIts just a cartoon, so chill dude…. Appreciate the humor in it and embrace the “truth” ;)
Andres Jaimes
June 18th, 2010 1:52 pmHi Ricardo (Machado)
Well, It was Steve Jobs the one who said you can impress a girl by using an iPhone… He got an email describing such story…
Relax man…
Tonmoy Goswami
June 18th, 2010 10:29 amAwesome toons!! Loved them all..
industri kreatif
June 20th, 2010 7:52 pmCartoon #2: iPad is really happened in my real life ., lolz., and I sent link to my friend who did the exact thing in the cartoon haha
Diana Solorzano
June 21st, 2010 9:01 amI love your cartoons they’re so so creative…
pakaworld
June 23rd, 2010 6:30 amI Like your creative sprite, It makes things look so funny. I always which it is Friday to see the next cartoon. Keep creating.
Chakstor
June 25th, 2010 6:18 am“after Brazil be the champion of Fifa world cup”
jajajajajaja… subliminal :P
Tom
June 25th, 2010 9:11 am“after Brazil be the champion of Fifa world cup”
No more cartoons? Oh noooo … :P
LeoLavalle
June 26th, 2010 9:07 amRicardo this means you’re never gonna do cartoons again cause what you said is never going to happen… ARGENTINA is gonna win this Worldcup!!!!! :)
Ricardo Gimenes
June 28th, 2010 3:29 ammaybe Germany ;)
Boba
June 29th, 2010 4:41 pmArgentina 100%
They’re on coke, they can’t lose :)
Luis Lopez
June 28th, 2010 6:28 amJust Awesome, Its been a while Ihad’nt been here but this section is excellent.
RamireZ
June 30th, 2010 3:38 amCreative cartoons. Thanks
Cris Freire
June 30th, 2010 10:09 amOh Ricardo, I know you support Brasil but I want Argentina to win!!!
Loved the #14 anyway!!!!!
NT
June 30th, 2010 9:12 pmCan I find more of it as it is very interesting…:)
Mufeed Ahmad
June 30th, 2010 9:44 pmwow! so creative work… I love it..
Dr. Aloha
July 2nd, 2010 7:36 amWell, Ricadro, I really hope you have the honor to update your mistaken #14, and let Brazil come back to the Amazonas (and keep shut for the next 12 years!)
The Fifa World Cup is for Argentina ;-)
BTW: funny cartoons. #14 in particular
sneijer
July 2nd, 2010 7:56 amDo you like some Orange Juice? This means that no more cartoons?
Netherlands 2 – Brazil 1
Diego
July 2nd, 2010 8:00 amSorry Ricardo… back to work. And see the final Argentina-Netherlands by TV… (design T-shirts “Messi 10″… you will see it for the next four years!)
Don’t be sad… next Mundial it’s at home… sure yours!
Tristeza não tem fim. Felicidade sim…..
argentina
July 2nd, 2010 10:19 ambye bye brazil!!!
Ph99Ph
July 2nd, 2010 10:31 amNo issue today?
Diego
July 3rd, 2010 8:40 amNow… u must do an #14c cartoon without argentinian t-shirt at display.
Have u “coragem” and put the german tShirt?
ardianzzzz
July 3rd, 2010 7:44 pmAdios amigos…
:)
Shageevan
July 4th, 2010 11:48 pmAwesome! Love it! Nice and creative work!
hans wurst
July 5th, 2010 2:42 amoh please…you completely messed up #14b.
the sign should say “GERMANY”. I´ll give you a last chance in #14c…
;-p
toufik ismail
July 6th, 2010 1:59 amnow..now… i just think you guys are germany fans (you should! :p)
ok, this is my prediction:
holland will go to the final against Spanish.
and let see then….^^
jelle schouwstra
July 8th, 2010 4:35 amI assume Spain will kick the Dutch back to Holland.
dating
March 16th, 2011 8:45 amNice cartoons..It’s a Very amazing article..All the information are given very clearly.I really appreciated with it…I will bookmark this site.Thanks for sharing.
Andres Jaimes
July 6th, 2010 9:14 amhehehe, that was a good one: brazil -> netherlands…
hokya
July 7th, 2010 4:30 pmspeechless but meaningful :)
willy
July 10th, 2010 2:27 amHolanda sucumbirá ante España y tu tendrás que hacer un dibujito para reconocerlo…
U R Wrong
July 11th, 2010 6:22 pm…again.
GO SPAIN GO!
Sebastiaan Stok
July 12th, 2010 1:26 amWell Spain won, is this they end of the Smashing cartoons?
khan
July 12th, 2010 2:38 amWell we need a 14c now
Marin
July 12th, 2010 6:29 amit’s Spain … Spain I tell you … gowl-hum gowl-hum
Dr. Aloha
July 12th, 2010 12:52 pmI really hope you don’t disappoint us, and #15 is about Brazil not winning the 2010 World Cup!
Deepika
July 13th, 2010 10:36 pmI like the comic design styling & concept of each strip, Ricardo this is purely AWESOME. I look forward to SM strips every week, great going :-)
BebopDesigner
July 14th, 2010 7:52 amThis is absolutely brilliant! Love it… and I’m sad Brazil got sent home, but happy that Spain rules.
cheers
Dr. Aloha
July 19th, 2010 7:01 am… so?
Alvaro
July 22nd, 2010 9:25 amjo! very funny… nice vectors by the way…
concerto
July 22nd, 2010 10:25 pmThat talks a lot with few words~!
Nice!
altrugon
July 23rd, 2010 2:39 pmI can’t believe they never create a cartoon recognizing the victory of Spain… come on do not skip on this and create that cartoon, it is history! :D
Katie Al-adawy
July 26th, 2010 7:53 pmGreat Work, Very Creative
Dirman Suharno
July 27th, 2010 5:32 amhahaha i like this!
Steven Crowley
April 5th, 2011 11:44 amHi. You have great initals.
digof
July 28th, 2010 11:11 amhahahahaha Really cool
Pusparaj
July 28th, 2010 11:47 amComments… nice one. :D
reader
July 28th, 2010 2:19 pmhaha, cute and humorous cartoons!
Ben
August 1st, 2010 3:17 pmSorry I don’t get no.16..
The earlier cartoons were way better
Iva
August 5th, 2010 12:28 pmApple limiting developers’ possibilities, I reckon?
3 and 12 are my favourites.
GunturAF
August 8th, 2010 5:43 amahahahahaha, very funny! nice cartoon! I’m so happy after watching these cartoons! :)
Kate Mag
August 11th, 2010 10:40 pmI like cartoon #1,got to the point…
The cartoons have same charasteristics. Good, it will make us remember you, Smashing Magazine.
bluepicaso
August 18th, 2010 12:58 pmhahahaha… So good I loved the IE one, the Flash one and the Giant twitter whale. hahahaha Awesome
Thanx for making them
Better.And.Better
August 19th, 2010 1:40 pmEvery new cartoon funnier than the former… awesome…
niyi okeowo
August 25th, 2010 7:25 amplsss dont stop , love the one of the crime scene, piratebay and apple
Ricardo Gimenes
August 30th, 2010 6:36 amjeez! You found my secret formula out! Thanks, probably I have no more jobs with smashing.
vane
August 30th, 2010 9:22 amBinnie, i think you need to laugh more and be less grumpy.
shredz
September 1st, 2010 5:32 amlook forward to these every week…keep it up.
Ad
September 2nd, 2010 9:41 pmit’s so funny, jeje
nice work!
Norman
September 6th, 2010 3:22 amHm mby add a few lines of text to make it clear for people (like me) who don’t get it :/
#22 does I-Phone support livestream and Android doesn’t? I’m not into the whole app-scene :O
BSchildt
September 8th, 2010 5:00 amNorman: I agree, a link to a news article of some sort would be nice.
Basically Apple livestreamed their “event” (Salespitch) in a way that the only devices able to see it were theirs.
“Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards. Viewing requires either a Mac® running Safari® on Mac OS® X version 10.6 Snow Leopard®, an iPhone® or iPod touch® running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad™.”
Note the “Based on Open Standards”-bit. That’s a bit like what they say on “Orange Juice” packaging.
BSchildt
September 8th, 2010 4:55 amThe last one (Ping / Pong) is pretty good. (Although you might want to take a look at the iTunes icon, it looks awful).
It seems like you are coming into the groove of social commentary. #21 -23 are the strongest message wise. (#18 has a really good joke though… :-) )
Keep doing this, don’t listen to the haters (It took me about #20 cartoons to get into it)
Bruno Alexandre
September 8th, 2010 5:03 am“Worst post ever!”
:o)
I love it all and cry laughing with some :D
Alexandre
September 8th, 2010 5:57 amAmazing! :-)
Hastimal Shah
September 10th, 2010 8:54 pmIts really Amazing :)
Presheka Wali
September 14th, 2010 10:37 pmVery Creative :)
Nikunj
September 15th, 2010 11:24 pmAwesome, cool & funny
Adi
September 17th, 2010 4:57 ampretty funny joke cartoon..
i love it !
TheFunnyGuy
September 19th, 2010 1:24 amworst post ever
Artem
September 21st, 2010 6:40 pmI just bought an I Phone game by Comedy Central Adult Swim its called Adult Swim Surgeon i love the illustrations in the game and if im not mistaking the cartoon is drawn by the same person who brings us behindetheweb.com and smashing cartoons.. awesome illustration but the game its okay
Ricardo Gimenes
September 22nd, 2010 3:20 amArtem, I love the swim surgeon stile, unfortunately I didn’t draw it.
Salman
September 23rd, 2010 5:47 amI really like this jobs :)
hardus
September 24th, 2010 1:36 amwow…
cant remember when last I spent 15 minutes on a single page.
Well done guys!
RAFi
September 30th, 2010 6:52 amGreat stuff!
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September 30th, 2010 7:27 amAmazing stuffz!!
Felipe López
September 30th, 2010 2:27 pmThey are just amazing! :D
boo
October 5th, 2010 6:18 pmit’s funny….
shredz
October 13th, 2010 7:00 amno one’s forcing you to read them…
Paul
October 19th, 2010 11:43 pmYou should make a t-shirt with this cartoons
Jon
March 25th, 2011 2:20 pm…if you want to get beat up.
novi
October 22nd, 2010 5:15 amthe last ones are really a waste of time. they’re not funny at all.
Make funny ones again or leave it.
thanks
Ricardo Gimenes
October 22nd, 2010 7:04 amyou are right novi, I need holiday… three in a row with similar idea. Don’t worry, this year holiday starts in november ;)
Rebecca Agra
October 28th, 2010 4:30 amI love it!
Relief for the day in a bad mood.
=D