To support World AIDS Day (and to advertise), they also made this Beautiful Agony style video of one of the most beautiful things in the world—it’s up there with babies and love, though not entirely unrelated. Oh, and of course it’s NSFW. You gotta love the French.

These French public service announcements about AIDS are a bit strange. But the music and animation is top notch. Two more after the jump. Each one is like a little story.

- by George Tabb

So there I am at the check-in desk at the Econo Lodge Motel on Southwest Thirteenth Street in Gainesville, Florida.

Standing to my right is Andrea. She likes the punk rock. I can tell from the Devo and Undertones buttons she’s wearing on her black jean vest. That and I guess the dyed green bangs on her head.

The clerk behind the desk looks at us funny over his wire-rimmed reading glasses.

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- by Chris Rockwell

“I have a boyfriend,” said Mickey as our conversation swerved from mildly flirtatious to brazen. This wasn’t news to me. I’d scoured her MySpace profile from top to bottom, hoping to find a point of conversational entry, and stumbled upon a picture of Derek: the guy she had been dating for four-and-a-half years and living with for three. I was wondering when she would mention him. The declaration came just as her body language suggested that she wanted to be kissed.

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Every guy’s dream girl. She should go on tours and spread the word.
Thanks Ming for the link.