Category Archives: Pop Culture

Spork Prophecy: Part Two

19 Thursday May 2016

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Welcome back! In part 1, I described some common tricks the pundits use to make their predictions appear accurate after the fact. I won’t be using any of those tricks for my predictions. There are two reasons for this. First, I don’t have an army of pundits backing me up. The self-reinforcing nature of pundits accounts for over half of the perception that they are all geniuses. Second, I am a humorist on the internet. Sometimes people laugh at the things I write. Playing the fool is an honored tradition. Besides, when I am wrong I will get to write a post berating myself, and that’s considered “easy content” in the blogging world. Continue reading →

Future Food

05 Thursday May 2016

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You are probably familiar with barbecue-friendly animals like cows and alligators. These sit high up in the backyard food hierarchy. Lower on the ladder, but no less tasty, lie edibles like corn, shrimp, and the meat-like-mystery-paste that hot dogs are made of. We are all about to become intimately familiar with an even lower layer in the grilled-food web. And by “intimately familiar” I mean in the husbandry sense. And by “husbandry sense” I refer to the raising, caring, killing, and eating cycle of said food.

I don’t mean “husbandry” in the marrying sense. Marrying your next meal is still illegal. Probably. Continue reading →

The Semi-Obligatory Comicversary Post

03 Tuesday May 2016

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Comicversary is a word. Really. You are allowed to make up words nowadays. Society is truly lurching toward utopia. We’ve been making comics for an entire year. This is nothing compared to professional cartoonists, but it isn’t bad for us wanna-bees. We cherish our amateur status, and hope to win cartoon-related medals in the upcoming Brazil Olympics. Olympic medals would garner us the attention and publicity we seek. So would catching the Zika virus. Continue reading →