Author: The Frisky

This Week In Accidental Vaginas: A School’s Art Project Titled “Candlelight”

The beauty of art is that it’s open to interpretation. That said, these paintings above look like a bunch of melting Georgia O’Keefes that have been put in the microwave. The picture, posted by jimmypork, is actually the result of a local school art project titled, “Candlelight,” which partially explains what’s happening here. The Frisky contacted “Mr. Pork” for […]

Anti-Vaxxers Are Maybe Starting Their Own Religion Now

Earlier this year, the state of Vermont became the first state to no longer allow “philosophical” exemptions to their mandate that all public school children be vaccinated. Which is a pretty smart thing to do! They did, however, decide to continue to allow religious exemptions to the mandate — and now some anti-vaxxers are considering starting a new religion in […]

Attention: We Would Still Like Your Cat Postcards For Our Good Friend Wesley

Remember our good friend Wesley who sent us an adorable hand-typed letter asking for kitten cards because he thought The Frisky was the headquarters of Friskies, the McDonald’s of cat food? How could you forget!? It was so heartwarming and kind and nice – and hopefully not an elaborately conceited troll – that we were […]

9 WikiHow Articles On Epically Simple Topics

Occam’s Razor is the principle that the simplest solution is usually the correct solution. WikiHow authors have apparently never heard of it, because WikiHow articles on topics like basic human functions and fundamentally simple tasks wind up getting elaborated into processes that take tens of steps. To be fair, sometimes those over-complicated articles provide useful […]

9 Reasons Why Americans Pay So Much More For Healthcare

Yesterday, the country collectively dropped its jaw when Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals dropped the news that his company would be raising the price of a very important drug that cures toxoplasmosis, Daraprim, from $13.50 to $750. One thing not mentioned nearly enough, other than the fact that this happens all the time–that’s only […]

Peter Dinklage Maybe Spit His Gum Into His Wife’s Mouth Before Emmy Speech

Peter Dinklage is brilliant on “Game of Thrones”, but he’s also humble — his win for Best Supporting Actor at Sunday’s Emmy Awards came as a genuine surprise to the actor, who has won the award once before. He was so prepared to lose, in fact, that he didn’t come prepared with a speech and was still chewing gum […]