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This treatment of the “Kim Jong-Un visits a lube factory” photo has been making the internet rounds for the past couple of days, and it made me chuckle:

Having spent most of my life in Canada, I think of November 11th as Remembrance Day, the day on which people in Commonwealth nations remember the people in their armed forces who died in the line of duty. I live in the U.S. now, where it’s known as Veterans Day, which honors people who have served in the country’s armed forces. On this day, I’d like to extend my thanks to those soldiers who served, which includes my future father-in-law.

Here’s a quick reminder from Canadian news-and-politics satirist Rick Mercer on the need to “remember to remember”:

If you ever get the chance, you should watch a production of Billy Bishop Goes to War, a one-actor-one-pianist musical about the life of Billy Bishop, celebrated Canadian World War I fighter pilot ace, and one of the few to survive an air encounter with Manfred von Richtofen, a.k.a. “The Red Baron”. You’ll learn about the first modern war, and even if you don’t like musicals, you might like this one, as it’s more like storytelling enhanced by songs than a typical all-singing, all-dancing musical production.

Here’s a scene from Billy Bishop Goes to War, as performed by its creators and original performers, Eric Peterson and John Gray. It’s where Billy, then an infantryman with a reputation for being a crack shot and fed up with trench warfare, decides to join the Royal Flying Corps. Gray introduces the scene, which he says is meant to give the audience “permission to laugh”:

Between my birthday and work, I’ve been a bit busy to do much blogging, but I didn’t want you to miss this bit of weirdness that I’ve been enjoying for the past couple of days. It’s an 11-minute-long (!) title sequence for a fake show called Too Many Cooks that aired on Adult Swim during a 4:00 a.m. time infomercial time slot. If you watched TV from about 1985 through 1995, this stuff will be all too familiar, but turned on its head in disturbingly funny ways. Be sure to watch it all the way through — it gets weirder and weirder as it goes along. Sit back, and enjoy…if you can!

Just kidding. Really, it’s…

…which has all the mystery of The Phantom Menace, with hopefully none of the confused storytelling and Jar Jar.

In honor of my birthday and my favorite way of celebrating it, let me point you to Drunk Furniture, a blog of photos of discarded furniture with captions that imagine the furniture as people who’ve had waaaay too much to drink…

We’ve all seen (or been) Dave.

Ah, the “We have to be quiet, tee-hee!” stage of drunkenness.

Yay, indeed.

Of course you are.

Somehow, we manage to find our way home. Most of the time, anyway.

…and today, “breakfast” means “a slice of the key lime pie that my future mother-in-law made for me last night”.

Click the comic to see it at full size.

This comic, by Argentinian comic artist Joaquin “Quino” Salvador Lavado, is quite fitting today.

If you’d like to see more, Prose Before Hos put together a collection of some notable Quino comics.