2016 has been a heck of a year. Let's look back with a sense of satirical humor, shall we?
Here's a snippet:
The fall campaign was an unending national nightmare, broadcast relentlessly on cable TV. CNN told us over and over that Donald Trump was a colossally ignorant, narcissistic, out-of-control sex-predator buffoon; Fox News countered that Hillary Clinton was a greedy, corrupt, coldly calculating liar of massive ambition and minimal accomplishment. And in our hearts we knew the awful truth: They were both right.
Zing!
A new week is here! Are you ready to rumble??
Get out there and conquer like the apex predator you are, people!
OK, I laughed out loud. Enjoy!
Look who's playing Pokémon Go!
The school year is finally coming to an end! I can guarantee that the exhausted instructors are far happier about this than the exhausted students. Still, as I start to emerge from the black hole of school to look around at the world, all I see is TRUMP/HILLARY/BREXIT panic-mongering and media madness, and I'm tempted to dive right back into the black hole.
Anyway, as proof of life, here is a hilarious ad that I got from a friend of a friend. Let's have some fun with stereotypes and sport rivalries, shall we?
It looks cool and all, but I'm not cleaning that up.
I am pleased to report that I am still alive and kicking in the massive blizzard that's dumped a metric ton of the white stuff on a huge section of the country.
I am also pleased to report that Snowzilla has produced a peerlessly party-tastic soundtrack that is all the more remarkable for being from a rather unexpected source. Let's just say that's the best thing to come out of DC in months, if not years. Listen to this soundtrack to a livestream of the weather, and you'll see why people are freaking out about this.
I very much enjoyed The Martian, and the Honest Trailer is hilarious too:
2015 was a crazy year, and it looks even crazier in humorist Dave Barry's zany, satirical retrospective. Here's a bit of the section on January 2015:
In Paris, 1.5 million people march in a solidarity rally following the horrific terrorist attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Eyebrows are raised when not a single top U.S. official attends, but several days later, Secretary of State John F. Kerry arrives in France with James Taylor, who — this really happened — performs the song “You’ve Got a Friend.” This bold action strikes fear into the hearts of terrorists, who realize that Secretary Kerry is fully capable, if necessary, of unleashing Barry Manilow.
Zing.
FINALLY! Just today Screen Junkies has released an Honest Trailer for the best Christmas movie of them all! La Parisienne, this one's for you, babe.
Hooray! Screen Junkies has finally done an Honest Trailer for Revenge of the Sith as part of the Overwhelming Universal Hype about the upcoming new Star Wars movie. Let's now cheerfully ladle hate on the entire prequel trilogy at once, shall we?
What with all the recent hype about The Force Awakens, I thought it'd be fun to look back a little, both at Gotye (remember this once-ubiquitous music video?) and the Star Wars prequels:
I loved Marvel's Ant-Man and will write a review soon (update: here it is). It's been a frantic summer of work (and, alas, far less blogging than I would like), but let's take a break right now, dear readers, and enjoy this:
