Archive for the ‘entertainment’ Category

Should Movie Theaters Institute Segregated Seating For Pedophiles During the Justin Bieber Movie?

With Justin Bieber’s new movie [finally] on the horizon, pedophiles who are both cinephiles and casual movie-goers are flocking away from playgrounds and to their local AMC to catch the latest blockbuster. But a debate is raging over whether or not these lovers of films and children alike should have their own Jim Crow-type seating [...]

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Reserved-Seating Movie Theaters Need to Implement Awkwardness Protection

When the theater is packed, it makes sense. Reserved-seat movie houses have eliminated the problem faced by couples or groups of friends going to a blockbuster on opening night. However, this novelty of assigning seats completely backfires for two in the afternoon matinees on a Wednesday.You no longer have to lay out a blizzard’s worth [...]

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Alternative Name Changes for High Fructose Corn Syrup

The Corn Refiners Association lobbied the Food and Drug Administration to change the name of high fructose corn syrup to corn sugar last week. Here are some options for alternative proposals:

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Why Did They Translate The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo But Forget to Translate All The Swedish Names and Places?

It’s easy to knock any book that becomes one of the most popular in the country because America doesn’t read. Since we would rather do anything but pick up a book, this would mean that any book that appeals to millions of people must be catering to retarded people. So for the same reason I [...]

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Is Ronaldo’s Bastard Son Eligible For the U.S. National Team?

With the exciting news that Cristiano Ronaldo knocked up an American hottie (one of our best exports) and is now trying to play it off as a cover-up/surrogate situation, the United States national team might have finally turned a corner in international soccer. This is the break that Sunil Gulati and Bob Bradley have needed [...]

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How Have Serbians Preserved An Entire Ethnicity of People Who All Look Drunk?

Serbia seems to have produced an entire nation of citizens who all look like they are drunk

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Have North And South Korea Finally Worked Out Their Contract Disputes For The Korean War Sequel?

It’s a shame that soaring salaries and egos have detracted countries from producing wars the way they used to. You could make the argument that studios are so invested in “tentpole” wars that carry on for decades and don’t have discernible starts or finishes, simply for the sake of franchising their wars, that we’ll never [...]

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Los Angeles Outdoor Movies 2010

Despite the fact that Los Angeles doesn’t have anything by way of seasons, it appears that there are three or four months where it only drops ten degrees at night instead of the usual forty. During these months, which northerners call “Summer,” you can find some outdoor movies around Los Angeles. Here are the 2010 [...]

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I Was Improperly Prepared For Bankruptcy By Wheel of Fortune

Through a combination of the global financial crisis and thinking that Lehman Brothers was a great place to invest because he thought it was Brooks Brothers, my dad is declaring bankruptcy. For starters, this changes the entire “My dad can beat up your dad” school-yard argument into the proud declaration that no one who can [...]

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Can We Make The “Marty Jannetty” A Common Expression?

As an aspiring writer and stand-up, I constantly have to wonder how useless I truly am. I can go on the full scale of all human beings, on which scale I look pretty good. Most people have crappy day jobs, barely get by and loaf on their ass, in which case, I’m sort of interesting. [...]

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