Review 3420

I’m always looking for a new weblog to add to my list of daily must-reads/distractions. When I read the about section of catsandbeer.com, I had a good feeling I might be visiting it again and again: “Catsandbeer.com began as a pet project of Superbad co-creators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and evolved into a humor website that has nothing to do with either of them.”. If you’ve seen Superbad (or watched any of Da Ali G Show), then this tells you exactly the sense of humor relayed through this site. If you haven’t seen Superbad, well, you’re dead to me.

Just last week, a friend of mine sent me the link to a recent entry called “The Top 10 Rap Songs White People Love”. I’m only black when I’m singing Kanye West in my car, and the rest of the time, the ten songs that were listed turned me into the best cliché rapper in all the land. One hundred and fifty one comments on that entry alone give readers a view into the type of crowd following along at catsandbeer.com – raucous, opinionated, and, according to the commenters, better qualified to choose that list of rap songs.

Some people Live Blog things like the MTV Video Music Awards, but not catsandbeer.com – they live blog a caterpillar that’s found its way to one of the authors’ front porch. Instead of deleting spam, the same author analyzes line-by-line the bulk email sent to him from the Penis Enlargement Patch factory’s marketing department. While it may not be humor to all, it’s damn funny to me.

Aside from the fact that this weblog matches my sense of humor, there’s more to see. There’s an occasional poll that seems to be most popular when it’s either picking between killing Frenchie Stewart and Chris Kattan, or deciding which notorious rap song was erroneously left off the aforementioned Top 10 list.

The layout’s a simple three-column layout, and the authors have filled the sidebars with a poll, and various ways first-time visitors can navigate around the site – the most popular articles, most recent comments, and various ways of archiving the entries. It’s a clean design and works well with the site as a whole.

I loved catsandbeer.com, but I don’t think everyone will. I wish everyone would, because it’d clearly make the world a much happier place.
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