{"id":735,"date":"2006-11-01T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T22:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=735"},"modified":"2012-06-20T06:19:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T11:19:18","slug":"life-blossoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"Life Blossoms"},"content":{"rendered":"

StrongBad Emails are fairly surreal and never try to say much. They are usually just humorous nonsense, but the latest actually dabbles in satire with a brilliant lampooning of self-esteem driven education<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It made me laugh.<\/p>\n

StrongBad: Soy is Murder<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table>I usually take it for granted that everyone that gets HomestarRunner already reads HomestarRunner. The site was so huge at one point, with everyone telling everyone else about it, that it seemed useless to link it. Everyone that liked HSR was already checking that site every day.<\/p>\n

That was a few years ago. The site has slowed down this year. Maybe the brothers who write this thing are getting tired of it. Maybe they went back to their day jobs. It’s hard to tell. <\/p>\n

So, I don’t see HSR links much these days, but I can’t tell if that’s because the site is in decline or because people just don’t bother posting links. I think the site is as good as it ever was, although now that the style of humor is familiar (it was really different and innovative to me when I discovered the site years ago) it doesn’t make me laugh the way it used to. Actually, the site is arguably better, since the animations are much more varied and more sophisticated these days.<\/p>\n

And now that I’ve gone off on this tangent and then painted myself into a corner, let me just circle back to the original point: This week’s StrongBad email<\/a> is funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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