35mm: Why “The Paul Reiser Show” Got Cancelled
After only two episodes, NBC’s newest sitcom, “The Paul Reiser Show” was tragically cancelled. Could it be because nobody under thirty knows who Paul Reiser is? Could it be because its ratings were nowhere near his staple 90′s NBC sitcom Mad About You? No. It’s because it’s f-ing terrible.
#FailFriday: Donating While Intoxicated
Slowly I began piecing the events of the evening back together. I drank so much of the cheap bourbon that at some point between midnight and 1am, I passed out. When I awoke around 2:30, the TV was still on, still playing the carnage in Haiti on a round-the-clock loop, still asking for donations. Donating [...]
Abandoned Masterpiece Theatre: “Cattz”
It was only in 2007, which puts me at about 24, and therefore leaves me no justification for writing a novella told completely from the first-’person’ perspective of a male cat… Reading it now the whole thing seems really sick, somewhere on the spectrum between terrible judgement and mental illness.
#FailFriday: Applesauce Balls
Here’s a humiliating #FailFriday story from those deviants at The Velvet Beard. I was told it was ecstasy. I was also told that I would need to take nine of them. It was the Fourth of July. I was fourteen. I had started smoking cigarettes, marijuana, and drinking coffee just a couple months [...]
#FailFriday: My Job With the U.S. Census Bureau
I was handed a flyer promising unrealistic things. Seventeen dollars an hour. Choose your own hours. For an unemployed kid, it sounded too good to be true. And I would have thrown the flyer away. Except- it was a job with the US Census Bureau, through the Federal Government. Maybe it was legitimate? I called. [...]
#FailFriday: “swimkids”
It’s the best ten-minute EP you will ever listen to, let alone download for free. This masterpiece is best listened to sitting down, in one continuous ten-minute stretch. It’s the rare chance to see true genius at work, and you’d be a fool to pass it up.