Archive for July, 2006
Tales From The Front: Madness Edition
Monday, July 31st, 2006Let me tell you all something about my old friend Graf, she takes her shit seriously. As my editor, she once almost ripped my belly inside out for suggesting that we use italics to show voice inflection in a story.
“What the fuck does that even mean?” she demanded. And she was right, italics are overused […]
Three Stars of the Newscycle: 7.31.06
Monday, July 31st, 2006Now THIS is a news day. The middle east continues to teeter on the edge of shit rattling chaos and that doesn’t even make the top 3. IN YOUR FACE dead children.
• Verizon offers a shitty iPod clone. Disaster lurks. Farts. Lurk.
• Count the headline puns Sugartits!
• Remember when I politely discussed the merits of […]
Breaking News: Sky Not Falling
Monday, July 31st, 2006Hey just so you guys know, the Internet isn’t going to bankrupt newspapers. It isn’t going to steal your sandwich. It isn’t going to kick sand in your face whilst you read the second Foundation book on the beach. It isn’t going deliver a punch to the butt hole at the present date, immediately.
Okay? Everyone […]
The Bitchfest Zeitgeist
Sunday, July 30th, 2006Sure, it’s a shitty blog. But it turns out Justin’s filthy fucking dagowop mouth is a veritable search-engine-optimizing powerhouse — and to celebrate the creative use of profanity and general disregard for personal hygiene that make this site great, we present our newest feature, The Bitchfest Zeitgeist. It’s a compilation of all the hilarious and […]
Lazy Friday: Jump In A Lake Edition
Friday, July 28th, 2006You can all jump in a lake. I don’t know which one. Or how. Or why.
But you can, and I don’t care who knows it. You and Hezbollah, if it weren’t for Hezbollah then Nerd Israeli Hostage would still be front page news. Why haven’t we seen pics of the other two kidnapped soldiers? Are […]
Shafer, The Times and Local Boobery
Friday, July 28th, 2006I have always been of the belief that newsworthiness can be summed up by the “Oh Shit” principle. If you read something and it makes you say “Oh Shit,” it’s newsworthy. If you read something and you say “Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh Shiiiit,” it’s that much more newsworthy.
By this thought process, something that is “Oh Shit” on a […]
Sorry, No Three Stars Today
Thursday, July 27th, 2006Deal with it fatty.
Old Timer Fires Back, Blogger Very Polite
Thursday, July 27th, 2006If you remember correctly, yesterday morning I poked fun at a story about YouTube written by one Tom Scocca for the New York Observer. If you one of The 15, you know that this kind of things happens, well, twice a day. More rare, is when the object of my ridicule reads what I wrote […]
Let’s Go Over This Again…
Thursday, July 27th, 2006As an excitable artist, Quentin Tarantino will talk about anything. If you talk to him long enough about a project or a person he is likely going to say that he wants to make a movie about/of it/him/her.
Seriously, watch two or three interviews with him, it all makes sense. Of course, since everything he does […]
This One Kind Of Speaks For Itself
Thursday, July 27th, 2006Stephen Colbert decides to brandish his snark sword and spill the entrails of Good Morning America and The Today Show. In your face.
However I think we can all agree as Americans that The Colbert Report has easily outpaced The Daily Show (except John Hodgman) at this point. Every time Jon Stewart does a predictable, hacky […]
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Critical Acclaim:
— Tom Scocca, New York Observer
— J. Michael Robertson, Media Studies Department, University of San Francisco
— Shelly Smith, Comedienne of The Brothel
— Will Leitch, Deadspin.com
— mute_everything, MBF Commenter
