Article by Matthew Chard
Taking over a planet isn't easy. If it was, super villains across the universe wouldn't be getting regularly defeated by everyone from James Bond to the Gummi Bears. It is for this reason, then, that everyone with a...
Article by Tom Eydmann
I am constantly hounded by people asking me questions that begin with the line, "Did you know..." followed by some small fact about a movie, musician, celebrity, or food product which I either already knew o...
Before talking with stand-up comedian Tom Green, I commissioned friends and fellow comics to assist me in coming up with questions. "Anything, at all!" I proposed. And honestly, there was almost too much to choose from; it's Tom Green for fuck-s...
Column by Yaro Shepherd
Hi Daddy!I know I haven't written to you since I left Lake Placid 6 months ago to pursue fortune and fame in the form of a record deal, but I wanted to remind you that your little girl is still alive and trying to "make it&quo...
Blog by James Parkinson
Why am I awake? Confronted directly, the darkness answers back with more darkness. It's 2 o'clock in the morning and I have stumbled into consciousness for no detectable reason or purpose. I don't have to be up yet, and Andy the An...
Column by Andrei Trostel
Well it's officially The Day After. No, I'm not talking about that post-apocalyptic nuclear war movie with Steve Guttenberg and John Lithgow, although in many ways, venturing out into that society is more appealing to me than leav...
Blog by Casey Freeman
(I came to America)Don't get me wrong, Korea has a lot of awesome stuff, but there are just some things the USA does great. Hamburgers, pizza, bagels, Mexican food, Mexican pizza, pizza bagels and so on. Here are some other things......
Article by Ryan DeCurtidor
Take your half-finished Sudokus and throw them away. Numbers and logic won't help you where you're going. Take your word jumbles and your word scrambles and make confetti. You'll need confetti where you're going....
Blog by James Parkinson
You were bolt of lightning. For a time I held you in my fist, crackling around my knuckles, snapping at my belt buckle with your forked tongue, vibrating the fillings in my teeth, fusing the change in my pockets. But I let you go,...
Blog by Omar Kitrich
I have decided to rectify a mistake a made long ago, when I identified the Jews as My "Chosen People." I had high hopes for Abraham and Isaac, but with the exception of Sandy Koufax and Mark Spitz there have been few Jews t...
Column by Ashley Garmany
Growing up, I spent most of my formative years in a single-parent setting. Being raised by my father, I learned to be tough and strong (mostly because he didn't believe in going to the doctor). He followed the old school methods o...
Article by Jeff Gassen
Robots are cool. Unfortunately, pretty soon they'll be able to make mincemeat out of your pansy ass. You think the Terminator was a badass? That pussy couldn't even go back in time and "terminate" his own il...
Blog by Vernon Ross
The lights of the city cast heavy shadows on me. The weight is burdening. I do not know what to make of this. Hours go by and I find myself aimlessly walking Echo Park. I slip in and out of underpasses, slinking behind homeless men and...
Article by Mike Gursky
We'll all face the hard times of living with a crazy roommate at some point in our lives. Maybe it's somebody who gets on your nerves, or somebody with ridiculous habits. It might even be somebody loud, who speaks in...
Blog by Molly Williams
Volunteering sucks. I know this because I was in the honors program for all of a year until I deemed it a pointless waste of time, and one of the program's requirements was volunteering—because there is no better way to help a com...
Blog by James Parkinson
The enemy approaches. I can hear them squeaking against each other. Ten thousand helium balloons, maybe more. It's a bloody shitstorm of fire-retardant latex and iron-plated polychloroprene, self-propelled and broiling into an unst...
Column by Mike Lamb
FATHER: Junior, I think it's about time we had a little father-son talk.SON: Okay Dad.FATHER: Whiskey?SON: No thank you.FATHER: Son, what I wanted to talk to you about was...man, this is harder than I thought. Say, how old are you now,...
Article by Jerry Landry
« Back to Part 1If you were to ever translate the rules of the game "Punch Buggy" to "Tool Spotting," you'd probably have a lot of dudes walking around with bruised arms. The concentration would...
Article by Wesley Jansen
Your help is needed. Today, you have the opportunity to make a difference in somebody's life. Please read the following story all the way through, and you will see why.Hello. I am a recently divorced mother who is g...
Blog by James Parkinson
My periodontist asked me to fuck his daughter for him. It was during surgery, a fairly minor procedure. He stuck me with a six-inch dagger of Novocaine and hacked into my gum line to chisel out 30 years of horrific rot. Wiping bloo...
Article by Tom Eydmann
There are moments in life that go beyond awkward and embarrassing and reach the point that you have to go home and either bury your head in your pillow or laugh like a madman while abusing yourself in whatever way you...
Article by Ryan DeCurtidor
"Every city in the world should undertake policy development to support the deployment of renewable energy, recommends a 200-page report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The report is designed to '...
Blog by James Parkinson
My rivals are scheming, looking over their War Boards somewhere beyond the blue mountains, those cold-activated indigo peaks illuminated in the face of my laptop’s glow. Five Coors Light Silver Bullet shell casings lie scattered...
Article by James Boulstridge
Human women are the most emotionally, mentally, and physically weak species on the planet. To overcompensate for past suppressions, they've been given the freedom to do anything and get away with it. Basically p...
Blog by Ben Link
CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT ofTHE CERTIFICATE OF DOOFUS ofMR. YANCEY P. SULLIVAN IV(Under Section 805 of the Doofus Law) Pursuant to the provisions...
Article by Matthew Chard
When I kissed a girl for the first time it seemed like the most magically passionate moment anyone could possibly experience. Looking back on it, though, I realize that dancing around a school disco in an emptied gy...
Blog by James Parkinson
This morning I set out to reinvent the concept of chili. I went to the grocery store without a map. Recipes are for cowards. Cooking is an act of violent creation. I'm not selling square hamburgers and meals that promise "hap...
Blog by Casey Freeman
(Almost the same type of Culture Shock I received upon returning home) When you become a world famous writer and ESL professor, you get these things called "Two Month Paid Vacations." So I decided to pack my luggage and...
Article by Riley Raycroft
When I stepped foot onto my college campus for the first time, I had one goal in mind: to bang every single chick that I possibly could. The only problem was that every other guy on campus was thinking the same thi...
Blog by James Parkinson
I confronted an officer of the United States Postal Service this morning. I spotted him a block away, casing the neighborhood one house at a time in a criss-cross pattern. He stopped at every door. Who is this man? What is his angl...