'funny' Category
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Apr132009
or, A Bulleted List of Funny Things About a License Plate I Saw In The Parking Lot At Whole Foods
Nothing says “gangsta” like “prestige tag” Nothing says “gangsta” like “shopping at Whole Foods” Life is full of Hard Knox in Virginia, but the fall foliage can be pretty spectacular Only a true Gangsta is hard enough to display their gangstaness on the back of a white Pontiac The Shenendoah Valley has been woefully underrepresented […]
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Feb022009
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Jan202009
More mildly amusing stuff from work
The video capture is not, in fact, the Arsonists Caught on Tape, but of the ad that preceded the video of the aforementioned arsonists, in which this guy burns all his luggage cause now he’s got gotomeeting and is going to Do More while Travelling Less, and apparently never go on vacation again. I’d qualify […]
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Jan192009
Here on Captain Santa Island
15 men on a dead man’s chest / Yo-Ho-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
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Jan182009
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Jan082009
(Yes, I am going to hell for poking fun at this poor woman)
…so Jessica’s mom, she lives out in Santa Fe, and she has a neighbor that’s very, very old. And, being as they’re in the High Desert, where the air is thin, this old lady, she’s got an oxygen tank she lugs around with her. And so she wants to park right in front of her […]
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Aug082008
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Jul152008
Gender Bias in the MEdia Mall
check out these actual menus from the “Games” section of the crappy Cingular/AT&T Media mall thing on my cellphone: New Releases Featured Games Most Popular Free This Week Her Favorites Wedding Dash Bejeweled Text Twist Turbo Cake Mania 2: Bake Off! Diner Dash 2 Midnight Bowling Super Mah Jong Quest (sic) Collapse! Chaos Slingo Quest […]
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Jul112008
Just for the record, my wife is *not* a carpet-bagging a-hole
Although you wouldn’t know it form reading her one line in this article, which I like to call, “Hey! Did You Know New Yorkers are Dickbags Where-ever They Go? Let’s Reinforce Some Regional Stereotypes!!” I just want it stated: Jessica talked to the author for 20 minutes about how great she thought Atlanta was, and […]
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Nov252007
Undserstaning language is important, I guess
…so here’s something you might not know about me. Even though I have a fancy schmancy music degree from a fancy schmancy university, am an indie rock snob to the point of making my daughter listen to lullaby renditions of Radiohead to lull her to sleep, I, Chip Harlan, Mister “I have no guilty pleasures […]