Emerald Catron
Emerald Catron has written for Asylum, Lemondrop, MyDaily and Daily Fill. She is one half of rap duo Dem Shortybooz and is a comedic performer around NYC. Follow her on Twitter @emeraldcatron
Emerald Catron
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Meet an Extreme Dog Who’s Cooler Than You
Welp, it's official. This dog's life is more exciting than ours. He's wakeboarding. He can do back flips. He got on a skateboard and didn't break his collarbone. He is officially the coolest dog ever. But that's not the best part.
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Dogs in Pantyhose Are a Thing Now — Wait, What??
Well, the dogs don't seem particularly unhappy, so we guess this is okay. As long as dogs don't understand what dignity is, they'll probably be fine.
Owners in China have been stuffing their dogs into stocking and high heels, taking pictures of them, and putting them on the internet, because this is the world we live in now. Since you know you secretly want to see more of these, here you go:
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Why Every Cat Should Be More Like Pancake
Our childhood pet was a cat named Snowball whose two special tricks were hiding behind the refrigerator and disappearing for weeks on end. Sometimes we would think that Snowball was hiding behind the refrigerator, and then it would be a couple of days, and we would start worrying that Snowball had died behind the refrigerator, and then a week later she would show up and be mad that there wasn't food waiting for her
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10 Awesome Musical Performances From The Muppets in Honor of Jane Henson
On Tuesday, April 2nd, Jane Henson passed away. She was 78 years old. During her life, she was married to Jim Henson, and she worked with him until she took a break from puppetry to raise their children. Together they started 'The Muppet Show,' and Jane's work with the Jim Henson Legacy ensured that future generations would fall in love with the characters she and her husband dreamed up.
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Boat Tow Goes Horribly, Horribly Wrong
When we saw the way the camera was oriented in this video we got a bad feeling. When the first words we heard were a man screaming "YIPSKIDDLY DOO," it got worse.
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29 People Who Had ONE Job, And Completely Failed at It
Sometimes somebody has one job to do...JUST ONE...and they can't even get it right. These are those times. Here are our favorite examples of the latest internet meme that involves somebody screwing up one simple task. ONE.
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Melting Chocolate Bunnies Is the Best Way to Celebrate Easter
If you haven't seen this before, now is the time to watch it. It's a piece of video art by Lernert Engleberts and Sander Plug as part of a preschool art project called "Big Art for Little People."
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Find Out What 2,000 Calories Actually Looks Like
Here's a helpful video, if you were wondering how many carrots you could eat without going over 2,000 calories. If that sounds like something you definitely do not need to know, 2,000 calories is also quantified in Big Macs, pizza, Chipotle burritos and delicious, delicious avocados
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Watch All Six ‘Star Wars’ Movies at Once
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Capybara Playing With Puppies May Be the Cutest Thing You’ll See Today
Okay, maybe we shouldn't say "playing with puppies." Maybe we should say "tolerating being pestered by puppies." Regardless ... SQUEEEE!! It's no secret that we love capybaras (proof), and Cheesecake likes to foster puppies at the animal rescue where she lives. Capybara + Puppies = day made. For more information on the Rocky Ridge Refu
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See How Calvin & Hobbes Would Look as a Cartoon
If Bill Watterson had ever animated 'Calvin and Hobbes,' perhaps this is what it would have looked like. Redditor AdamAnimates used Watterson's drawing as keyframes to make this cartoon.
The cartoon was made using Flash, with Watterson's art dropped into the program and traced over to give the characters movement. Thankfully there's no dialogue, so the voice you've had for Calvin and Hobbes in your head all these years remains intact. Here's the original comic:
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