Who's honoring us now?

Why it's none other than our old pal and fellow simian blogger Dr. Zaius. Give it up for Dr. Zaius everybody!


The good doctor has chosen us here at Monkey Muck as one of his five blogs that make him think and so we get to put this nifty picture on our blog now:


Seriously, thanks from the bottom of our hearts Doc. We feel doubly honored because it was you who awarded it to us.


You see boys and girls Dr. Zaius was one of the two bloggers who inspired us to start our little blog. We followed a link one day on Crooks and Liars and it led us to a post that chronicled the Jesus Convention. Quite frankly the piece blew us away, it was funny, well written, and so insightful that it made our teeth hurt. After reading that masterpiece we started clicking some of the links on his blog roll and we found a fantastic little blog called No Smoking in the Skull Cave, written by a human woman named Becca. These two blogs taught us some things, Becca's blog taught us that pop culture ephemera is worth celebrating and even basking in and Dr. Zaius's blog taught us that political opinion and commentary can be elevated to a work of art, and that Nancy Pelosi is not only third in line to be President, she is also hot, hot, hot.

And so we jumped in the blogosphere after seeing that blogging, especially blogging that is done by smart, funny, and aware apes and humans, can be done well.

So we arrive back to today and the news that Dr. Zaius has seen fit to award us one of his Thinking Blogger awards. When one is honored with one of these babies one must then do three things:

1. Pass the award along to five other bloggers whose blogs make you think.
2. Link to this page, the original post about the origins of the award.
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote.

Having done the last two, we now take extreme pleasure in bestowing this honor on five other blogs. And they are:

• The Self Help Center. Written by Romius T, who also blogs at The Needs Of The Few, this blog covers the banal and ordinary on any given day. Romius's posts on The Self Help Center are like haunting prose poems of the damned or they are a dry joke inflicted on a world that has no sense of humor.
• The Largest Minority. Written by Manila Ryce and his gang of ne'er do wells, this blog has it all, great political commentary and opinion, video posts that are at times funny and at other times enraging, and the Daily Connect. Miss it at your peril.
• Sorghum Crow's General Store. This is one of the funniest blogs out there, it's just pictures with the wittiest captions ever thought up by a human male. It proves the old adage that less is more.
• Ice Station Tango. We found this great blog about politics and other related stuff only a few days ago but we're already hooked. It has a great little biting attitude and the folks over there crank out daily posts with almost the same frequency as we do. It's cold, it's hot, it's a must read.
• Princess Sparkle Pony. No one has as much sass, smarts, or wit as the Princess. No one can turn a phrase or cut through the crap like her. As Blue Gal once said in a comment on this blog, "We all aspire to be like the Princess." We know that when we visit her she'll make us laugh and the first thing that we think after reading her posts is, "Holy shit, why can't we be that funny?"

Once again Doc, thanks for the honor and for all the great photoshop pictures you made for us. And as we can all see from the picture above, you rock.

Lighten up, it's Tuesday

Here's a list of things that made us laugh this past week (and we apologize for any delay in clips loading, pay your damn server bills You Tube!!):

1. The Bush "shocker," via the Aristocrats. Unfamiliar with "the shocker" you say? Well go here and find all about it. And then be afraid, very afraid.
2. For a double dip from the ice cream bucket o' political hijinx that is the Aristocrats, check this out because dick jokes are always, always funny, if their done right.
3. We have no idea what language they're speaking on this clip, it's the inter-species romance that gets us.
4. While shopping at Sorghum Crow's General Store this made us laugh so hard Limonata shot out of our nose.
5. Nobody throws down quite like Samurai Frog. Who knew a reptile could be so snarky?
6. And who knew that it took a reptile to remind us why we don't watch Regis and Kelly Lee? (This link is not, we repeat NOT safe for work, unless you work at a massage parlor, bordello, or for the Department of State)
7. Heeeee's back and he wrote possibly the greatest throw away line ever, "Oh, and the invasion of Iraq kind of sucked too." Damn you O Evil one, we bow before your evil comic genius.
8. Holy shit, so this is what happens to 80's New Wave bands right before they get rounded up and shot.
9. Any gal who refers to her kids as "the spawn" is okay with us.
10. It took Princess Sparkle Pony to remind us why we should be ashamed, so very ashamed that Condi is our Sec. Of State.
11. The song stylings of Manila Ryce's future fiancee made us laugh out loud.
12. And then he posted this and it reminded us of the family reunions we used to have at the Monkerstein Family Estate. The only things they would have needed to make it more like our family get togethers would have been firearms, alcohol, and a lifetime of passive aggressive simmering resentment for each other. Ahhh, those were some good times, good times.
13. Sweet Jeebus, this is why they invented My Space, wasn't it? Who says they don't write songs like they used to?
14. Here's something that we didn't know about until The Onion brought it to our attention. And we'll sacrifice a small animal to the dark gods that bore us so that we may be spared.
15. He's done too damn many photoshop masterpieces lately to pick out just one that deserves mentioning, so just go visit Dr. Zaius at Zaiusnation and marvel at his photoshop wizardry, his trenchant political commentary, and his love for La Belle Pelosi.
16. And finally, sometimes we think that the only thing funnier than hearing little kids cussing is hearing Betty White do it.

It's Tuesday, lighten up and laugh a little

Before we had our heart attack and subsequent quadruple bypass, we used to do improv comedy. We were part of a group that has a regular Tuesday night gig in Knoxville, TN. So Tuesdays will always mean improv comedy to us, well until we get Alzheimers and forget everything or we get slaughtered by those damn war loving gorillas during the reign of Dr. Zaius, and in that vein we present some of the stuff that made us laugh out loud this week.

• This gem came from Sorghum Crow's General Store, as did this, and so did this. It's no wonder why we love to shop there so feckin' much.


• Evil Spock made us laugh so hard with this post that our Banana Daiquiri nearly shot out of our nose.


• Blue Gal is still gettin' it done over at her place with this post.


• Our new sweetheart o' the blogs Princess Sparkle Pony slayed us with this and this. Thanks for reminding us why we love Condi so much Princess.


• Dr. Zaius's version of the Republican debates is priceless.


• We admit it, we're not above laughing at stuff that references tea bagging, your mother, and convicted felons. We are monkeys after all, not Belgians.


• We'll take some heat for this one, but Cleveland steamers make us giggle like schoolgirls.


• And finally, we know, we know, this is juvenile, and sophomoric, but we laughed out loud despite our highly evolved selves.

Go on, laugh a little. Because if you don't, you end up like this: