Please, give us a break! I’m so, so over turning on the Olympics or looking at the covers of newspapers to see this man. He hasn’t even returned from Beijing yet, and he’s already played out most of his popular welcome. Why does the media unfailingly drown us in someone’s newfound popularity? Ten weeks ago [...]
August 15, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: satire, Michael Phelps, sick of michael phelps, doping, athletes . Author: tmacphail . Comments: 9 Comments
Ok, so as a medical anthropologist, I read just enough science to make me nervous, but not enough to make me qualified to say anything meaningful about the results of tests and/or experiments.
But, when I read that an expert is nervous, it makes me even more nervous.
Here is a story from the BBC - quoted [...]
July 24, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: cancer, cell phones and cancer risk, medicine, satire, science, top causes of death . Author: tmacphail . Comments: 1 Comment
After seeing this:
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog
I am a horrible Buffy the Vampire Slayer dorkette. Not only did I watch every single episode religiously, but I bought the entire series. When I saw that Joss Wheedon was doing this, I had to check it out. The first episode is kind of slow, but if you stick [...]
July 17, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: comedy, comic books, Dr. Horrible, Joss Wheedon, musicals, Nathan Fillion, Neil Patrick Harris, satire, superheros . Author: tmacphail . Comments: 4 Comments
How much is your entire life worth? Your home, your car, your job, your friends, your lifestyle. Just as a guess, what price would you put on it? Priceless? Maybe not.
A man in Australia recently sold his for approximately $400K.
Seriously.
The person who purchased it has his three-bedroom house, his 19-year-old Mazda, a motorbike, a boat, [...]
June 29, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: BBC, E-Bay, humor, satire, selling your life, your life's worth . Author: tmacphail . Comments: 1 Comment
OK, I’m not proud of this, but I actually owned the CD “Hangin’ Tough” in the late 80s. I never admitted to anyone that I was a NKOTB fan (New Kids on the Block, yo), but I was. Of course I was. The formula works, for better or for worse, because girls need something to [...]
June 21, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: satire, humor, New Kids on the Block, new video, hot babes, summertime, summer songs . Author: tmacphail . Comments: No Comments
OK, Radar magazine. You had me at one glance. I, most definitely, am not a Millennial. Thank GOD, or else everything in this blog would either be misspelled, ungrammatical, or punctuated with ‘like’.
Sign me up for the X revolution!
This is important enough to post in full:
Generation Slap
They’re naive, self-important, and perpetually plugged in. This is [...]
May 15, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: life, satire, comedy, humor, youth worship, generation gap, slackers, generation X, Millennial Generation, Radar magazine . Author: tmacphail . Comments: 2 Comments
I like Obama. Not as much as Hilary, but there you go. I also like John McCain.
I am, however, sick of hearing about “change”.
I’m even more sick of hearing about “hope”.
These are, for the most part, empty rhetorical devices, bandied about by people who want to get elected into the hot seat that is the [...]
May 14, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: Barack Obama, comedy, humor, obama, presidential election, satire . Author: tmacphail . Comments: 2 Comments
Upper and middle-class white people hate paying taxes. Due to the fact that most of them owe money to the government, despite all the sneaky write-offs they do. (Come on, do you really have a “home office”? If we could write off over-filled garages, spare rooms, and attics, we’d be all set.)
Worry about “filling out [...]
April 2, 2008
Categories: comedy, humor, life, parody, satire, stuff white people hate, stuff white people like . Tags: comedy, doing taxes, humor, life, parody, satire, stuff white people hate, stuff white people like, taxes . Author: tmacphail . Comments: 1 Comment
The Olympics are here! And I’m already over it.
The opening ceremony hasn’t even aired here in the U.S. and I am already bored of the Olympics. Isn’t that terrible? I blame all the media hype.
I blame the fact that for months, all I’ve been seeing everywhere is Olympics, China, China, Olympics, human rights, China, Tibet, Olympics, trade, oil, China, environment, China, Tibet, protests, [...]
August 8, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized . Tags: Beijing Olympics, China, China-U.S. relations, commentary, election 2008, media, media hype, Olympics, satire . Author: tmacphail . Comments: No Comments