To a brilliant blogger! I found this blog, Hyperbole and a Half, thanks to NPR’s recommendation. Just spent the last hour perusing it. Allie’s posts are so insightful, relate-able, and hilarious! Her simple-yet-quirky animations balance beautifully with text discussing often-heavy subjects, allowing the posts to remain as authentic as they are funny. She seems to have found just the right cocktail of campy animations and well-written prose to uniquely capture and express what is going on inside her head.
This blogger really has a talent for reflecting on experiences from ridiculous, abject despair and spiraling depression to consuming, childlike desire (for cake). The posts are unapologetically flavored by what I can only hope are Brosh’s own outsize personality traits and her keen ability to evaluate and, sometimes, make light of her own emotional experiences… a must-read! My favorite post, thus far? “This is Why I’ll Never be an Adult.” It’s so refreshing to see that somebody else experiences the same crazy, funny thoughts even during the spirals and waves of progress. And it’s a delight to hear Brosh tell the story.
