Lori Dorn
Lori is a Laughing Squid Contributing Editor based in New York City who has been writing blog posts for over a decade. She also enjoys making jewelry, playing guitar, taking photos and mixing craft cocktails.
Minnesota Man Entertains His Neighbors With Oddly Anthropomorphically Posed Frozen Jeans
Tom Grotting, prankster and member of the “Polar Vortex user group”, likes to entertain his Minneapolis, Minnesota neighbors with a group of strangely anthropomorphic pants…
A Highly Cultured Experiment Resulting in Oddly Engrossing Bacteria Portraits of NYC Subway Riders
In response to the adage that “using the handrails on the subway is like shaking hands with 100 people”, typographer, illustrator and artist Craig Ward,…
Thieving Long Tailed Monkeys in Bali, Indonesia Surrender Their Stolen Treasures for a Bit of Fruit
In a promotion for a new PBS Nature series Natural Born Hustlers: The Hunger Hustle, a group of highly-intelligent but thieving long-tailed macaques at the…
Loving Maternal Siberian Husky Dog and Her Two Canine Brothers Adopt a Tiny Kitten as Their Own
In April 2015, a tiny kitten named Rosie came into the home of Lilo the Husky and her two canine brothers and each of them,…
A Wonderfully Surreal Short Film About a Boy Who Was Born With a Camera as His Head
“The Boy with a Camera for a Face” is a wonderfully surreal, award-winning short film narrated in a sing-song rhyme that tells the story of…
The Caring Humans at the San Diego Kitten Nursery Who Provide 24-Hour Care to Newborn Feline Orphans
Cole and Marmalade‘s devoted human Chris Poole paid a visit to the San Diego Humane Society’s Kitten Nursery where the generous and compassionate staff provide…
An Amazing Acoustic Version of the Ewok Celebration Song ‘Yub Nub’ from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Musician Chris Nandor performed an amazing acoustic version of the now-deleted Ewok Celebration Song (“Yub Nub”) that originally appeared in the final scene of Star…
Why Cats Reserve Their Unique Meows As a Means to Communicate With Humans Who Take Care of Them
BBC Earth took a look at the behavior of domestic cats and found that while they make many sounds to one another, they reserve their…
Hannah and Friends Try to Accept That They’re Getting Older in the Season Five Trailer for ‘Girls’
In the new trailer for the fifth season of Girls, characters Hannah, Marnie, Jessa and Shoshana try to make peace with the fact that they’re…
Ross Marquand Performs More Nano-Impressions of Celebrities Finding Themselves in Odd Situations
Master impressionist and regular Walking Dead cast member Ross Marquand returned to the cameras of Vanity Fair for a second set of “nano-impressions”, once again…