Hot Chicks...

The below series of websites encompasses the wild west nature of internet humor.  The first is a series entitled "Hot Chicks".  At first glance it is appears as an over the top satire on the Hot Chicks with Douche Bags site which paved the way for hot chick picture taking juxtaposed with atrocities.  These sites are like bar hypothetical ideas derived from a night of drinking with your best friend come to life.  I know that when I look at these websites I am reminded of thousands of conversation on the very same topics with my great friend Mike Risicia.  Aside from the personal investment and connection to the humor of these sites, I believe these sites are an important footprint of contemporary humor.  Not only is there a lot of meta-humor laid out in the collection of these sites, but the satire also speaks to the current climate of where society is, using the internet as it's frame serves as a reinforcement.  I shouldn't ramble on.  Here are the sites:

http://hotchickssmilingatgroundzero.com/

http://hotchickswithhotdogsintheirmouths.com/

http://hotchickspickingupdogshit.com/


http://hotchicksplungingtheirtoilets.com/


http://hotchickswithdogswithboners.com/


http://hotchickswithdogswithboners.com/


http://hotchicksblowingtheirassesdry.com/


http://hotchickswithsanddicks.com/

Other great sites I enjoy as Humor As Art are:

http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/


http://poopinaroundtown.blogspot.com/

Karl Stevens' Whatever - analyzed

This weeks strip of Stevens' Whatever has an excellent example of frame shifting in humor. Where the frame of what is happening takes a turn while in another frame. (literally in the panel and as a cognitive metaphor) This happens a lot in joke telling and metaphor.

Since Stevens starts the punchline at the beginning of the strip, the frame has to shift to the expected congruency, when it is not presented, the viewer rethinks the panel, then re-observes the strip. All of this is the cognition of the reader making congruent out of the incongruity setup within the narrative. This in itself can deliver a laugh.