Getting Platters to Peasants

Dave laid out a simple challenge in the comments section to the previous post. He said that he would “even drop something in the kitty if you would be so kind as to write a new front page post more clearly calling for your readers to be a little more proactive and donate to a [...]

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Tea Protest Followup

We got to thinking some about our experience with the teabag brigade and also about the extraordinary national attention devoted to the protests. We followed the extensive antics over at Wonkette and at a site set up just to collect tea-themed blog posts, Tea Blogging. We read the mainstream media coverage and listened to TV [...]

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Facebook Sucks

I’ve started to find Facebook depressing.
Frankly, I spend a lot of time on the site. It’s usually open when I’m at work, so that’s a good chunk of hours per day right there. I’m not actively surfing it, but I’ll leave it up for a periodic refresh or to IM someone. And then I’ll often [...]

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Daily Thanksgiving

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, take a little moment out of the day right now and be glad that your appendix — that little useless scrap of flesh inside your guts cavity — has not exploded. It’s worth consideration that it could happen to anyone, at any moment, and the odds are good [...]

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Something magical for your day

This is truly wonderful. Click to read it in all its extravagant, multiple-column-inched glory. It ran in the Albuquerque Journal in October.

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Not a Great Start to the Week

I woke up Monday morning from an extremely strange dream. It involved me pulled a deformed fish out of a fast moving river with a homemade fishing pole. The fish’s face was melted like the Toxic Avenger and it was covered with leeches. Just as my revulsion was peaking, I looked back into the river [...]

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Dear Lucky Magazine,

Dear Lucky,
It’s over between us. I know, we’ve had our ups and downs before, but this time I really mean it. Let’s not beat around the bush, shall we? I know that you know all about the indissoluble relay that connects femininity to shopping. After all, that’s your reason for being. And for a long [...]

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The Sunny Side

I got an email from my mom recently complaining about my post in response to the death of legendary bigot Jesse Helms. While I don’t think the post was particularly mean-spirited or unfair (particularly given some of the other things I have written over the course of a lifetime of acid-penned scrawling), I did take [...]

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Guy Incognito

Two articles in the New York Times today are food for thought about the issue of authenticity, previous grist here at the Toxic Culture mill.
On the one hand, there’s this amazing New York Times article that fills us in on yesterday’s capture of Radovan Karadzic. In particular, we learn about the double life he’s been [...]

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Berkeley rules

Alas, the Weekly World News has ended its run of excellence. But before it did, that esteemed publication announced that the clock had started on the End of Days. So, you’re been warned. And if all of this is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, well, at least the eschaton will be immanatized in [...]

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