A hilarious new short film about "the birds and the bees"

I got hipped to this by the online graphic-design newsletter LiquidTreat, to which I subscribe. When you were a kid, did you have the gumption and the curiosity to ask your parents where babies come from? And did they tell you the straight story, or euphemize it with all sorts of silliness about storks or magic seeds? Or did you have to get your intel from the other kids in the schoolyard? A filmmaker named Jessica Yu has sought out people of all ages to hear their, um...misconceptions (so to speak) on the subject for a sinfully funny new short film called The Kinda Sutra.

The interviewees' stories are illuminated with fanciful animation in the style of Indian art, specifically the Kama Sutra (hence the name) and depict everything from a woman with a glass-doored oven in her abdomen baking babies to the actual sperm-and-egg moment of conception. You can watch an excerpt here, but they make you watch a short ad first. Probably not work-safe; definitely not Pepsi-and-keyboard safe.

Happy birthday to a dear old N'Awlins friend

crystalgee celebrates her birthday today. Have a great one, dawlin', and many more to you and your lucky hubby.