First off, the answers to this week’s Weekly Question of the Week were awesome. I was a little concerned that “What the best rock band name you can come up with from news headlines?” might be a little esoteric or feel like a chore to those looking for a quick chuckle, a transitory guffaw. But […]
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Recently voted "The Best Humor Site in America That I, Personally, Write," The Byronic Man is sometimes fiction, but sometimes autobiography. And sometimes cultural criticism. Oh, and occasionally reviews. Okay, it's all those different things, but always humorous. Except on the occasions that it's not. Ah, geez. Look, it's a lot of things, okay? You might like it, is the point.You Had Me At “BWWWAAAAARRRMMMM!!!!!”
March 30, 2012
If you’ve seen a preview for a movie lately, you may have noticed a couple of trends emerging. One is awesome/lame (which I’ll clarify), the other needs to stop, immediately. The first, is the sudden popularity of the BWWWWAAAAAARRRMM!!!! This, in case you’re for some reason unsure what I’m talking about, is the blast of […]
This Would Make The “Swearing In” REALLY Exciting!
March 29, 2012
Senator Santorum swore! He swore like a truck-drivin’ sailor who just hit his thumb with a hammer soaked in gasoline and thumbtacks! There was more bleeping going on than a dump truck backing up over a crate of smoke alarms! Teamsters were blushing. Soldiers gasped and fainted. Man oh, MAN did he curse up a […]
A Beagle By Any Other Name…
March 27, 2012
People get kind of silly around babies and pets, don’t they? Babies? Fine. All bets are off. It’s like some biological imperative to let the baby know we’re not a threat by acting ridiculous. Pets, though, people fall in to two rigid camps: ‘Getting Cutesy With Your Pets is Idiotic’ and “Mr. Barkington doesn’t see […]
What Goes Through My Head When I Look At The Hubble Deep-Field Images
March 26, 2012
As you may have seen last week, there are new images taken by the Hubble telescope from deep field. This isn’t just deep space – this is up to an estimated 13 billion years in space/time. What they did was, instead of pointing the telescope at something, they – in what sounds like something that […]
Hey, Blogosphere! Are You Ready To ROCK?? (If Not I Can Wait…)
March 25, 2012
The world’s rock bands need your help! Clearly, the world is running out of viable names for rock bands, as the emergence of more and more strained, awful band names come up, such as !!!(pronounced “chk, chk, chk”), And They Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, and Dance of the Mourning Child. Obviously, […]
Senator Strangelove, or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Find The Silver-Lining In The Popularity of Rick Santorum
March 23, 2012
When Rick Santorum first got mentioned as running for the Republican nomination, I laughed a bit, because, you know… Santorum. He’s insane. If this were a different time-period is there even a doubt that he’d burning witches? It can really feel like we live in a hate-filled time, but there is a silver-lining, so to […]
Hey, Laura From “Laughter Is Catching”! Let’s Play 20 Questions!
March 22, 2012
Today’s 20 Questions interview is with the beloved Laura Tinker over at Laughter is Catching. I’ve been a fan of Laura’s(aka Tinkerbelle) for some time, as she has a fantastic ability to weave stories and bring into her narrative. Her blog can cover a huge range of topics – concerts, travel, people being mean in […]
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