Day 161: Zombies To Beer – The Quirky Underside Of The Political Spectrum

originally published June 9, 2012 So you want to be active in politics, but you just can’t bring yourself to care very much. It’s okay, there are ways around this. The most entertaining solution would be to find a hook, and start up a frivolous political party. The world has had its share of frivolous […]

Day 160: ‘Sploiting The Cinema – A Primer In Shockfilm

originally published June 8, 2012 As a film studies major, I have watched a breadth of movies as diverse and far-reaching as the numerous jobs for which my future degree will never qualify me. While it has been enlightening, watching Harold Lloyd climb the outside of a skyscraper, watching Mia Farrow get ravaged by Satan, […]

Day 159: Playing With Your Pee

originally published June 7, 2012 Tired of peeing like a common schnook? Do I have a treat for you. If you’re like me, and I believe wholeheartedly that you totally are, you find urinating to be a dull, uninspiring task. “Why is it,” I have often asked myself, out loud and in a mezzo-soprano Scottish […]

Day 158: The Unexpected Cult Of JoinMe

originally published June 6, 2012 This is Danny Wallace. If you haven’t heard of him yet, you probably will soon. I don’t like devoting articles in this experiment to other comedy writers; it tends to come off as pandering and a little wankish. So instead I’d like to focus on one of his works – […]

Day 157: Outside The Magic Circle, Looking In

originally published June 5, 2012 Regular readers of this site (both of us) know how much I love to piss off the magic community. It’s not that I have a problem with magicians – I’ve always been a huge fan of illusionists, and even took a magic class after school for short spell when I […]

Day 156: An Elegant Weapon For A More Civilized Age

originally published June 4, 2012 I try to keep things fresh with this project. I don’t like writing about similar subject matter on consecutive days. Yesterday I wrote about Alan Smithee, the great phantom director. For the record, today’s article is not also about the movies. It’s about religion. It’s about the lightsaber. Like most […]

Day 155: The Incredible Vanishing Director – Alan Smithee

originally published June 3, 2012 Meet Alan Smithee. He has no personal ID. He has no family. He doesn’t even have a face. But he has been involved in a number of major motion pictures, some of which you may have seen. Smithee first made his mark in Hollywood with the 1969 Richard Widmark / […]

Day 154: Bobbejaan – The Yodeling, Coaster-Loving Baboon

originally published June 2, 2012 It was only a matter of time before Ms. Wiki insisted I write about a Belgian country singer / amusement park tycoon. Of the millions who are no doubt out there, whistling, yodeling, and shilling tickets to the Tilt-O-Whirl, I have been directed to Bobbejaan Schoepen. Bobbejaan (whom I shall […]

Day 153: The Best-Tasting Article You’ll Read Today

originally published June 1, 2012 Do you ever get the feeling that someone is watching you? That they’re studying your every move, your subtlest nuances, even your thoughts? If so, congratulations on being so astute! There are people watching you at all times, with the sole intent of manipulating your choices, your behaviors, your purchases. […]

Day 152: Counting Down The Days Of Our Lives

originally published May 31, 2012 If daytime television was a nature reserve, then soap operas would be on the endangered species list. Where once they roamed free, drinking from the waters of extramarital affairs and seeking shelter from low ratings under bountiful storylines about amnesia, long-lost siblings and husband-stealers, now their numbers are few. One […]