Around this time last summer I suddenly decided to go 50 days without booze. It was truly an eye-opening experience. I’ve always been a weekend drinker, but I hadn’t really realized how long it had been since I’d given my liver something to swim in other than Bud Light and Absolute Vodka. After my 50-day [...]
There are a lot of things I like about MySpace. The increasingly popular social-networking Website - although Facebook is quickly gaining ground - has allowed me to rekindle friendships with old acquaintances from as far back as grade school. It allows me to keep in touch with friends from Sacramento to New York. Posting silly [...]
As any blogger knows, keywords are everything. Popular search terms will increase the chances of a blog garnering attention. But what about Websites that don’t just use keywords, but domain names to increase Web traffic?
A pathetic attempt at attaining Web traffic at the very expense of the thing they wish to eliminate from American culture [...]
Last week, a Toronto elementary school principal admitted that she threw feces at a student.
Maria Pantalone, 49, was charged with two counts of assault - one against that child and one against another – but only admitted to one of the charges today.
“I couldn’t take it any more,” she testified, in describing the provocative circumstances [...]
Advertising is a pathetic beast. Billboards and TV ads clamor for a blinking second of our attention, hoping to lure us in. The Internet has only exasperated the absurdity of advertising. Whether it’s pressing a blinking button on an ad to make a monkey outrun a hunter or a movie trailer that always seems to [...]
Are humans idiots? I would like the answer to be no. Unfortunately, it’s not just the “news of the weird” that catches my attention.
I was jogging towards the beach here in Santa Cruz last Saturday when I approached a busy intersection. There were already five people waiting for the crosswalk to show us the cute [...]
04.02Jesus Loves Myspace
I got an invite a few days ago from Jesus to be friends on Myspace. Without taking time to check out His profile, I denied the request. As I drove through the fog on my way to work, I wondered if I had made a deadly mistake. What if this was truly His way of [...]
03.30The Art of Chiefing
In my heart, I strongly believe that humans have been fucking with each other for pure amusement since man first learned to make fire. I can picture in my mind’s eye a caveman using buffalo blood to write “penis” on his friend’s face after consuming a few too many wine coolers. Using a Sharpie, covering [...]