Today's featured animation comes from Michael Rokes, who brings us a hellish marriage in the heavens.  With only grunts and glares, Bruno and Bertha fight mercilessly while they live in the clowds.  They may grin to passing planes but they're at each others' throats the second they fly by.  Rokes's story is an all-too relatable, but no less funny, showcase for a marriage on the rocks...but up in the clowds.

Signs that the times are tight aren’t just in thinning classifieds or sputtering stock tickers—experts say that the aisles of the supermarket are the front lines of a sinking economy.

But if you think I’m talking about buying factory-second bread or a cereal called Genero’s, check out animator Stephen Leonard’s twisted take on dining for dimes…