“Like most of you I was inclined to say the war was caused by fish.” However, after a close examination of the evidence, Cadman Michaels — who held doctorates in theoretical physics and history, but who called himself an Alternate Historian — could say now with some confidence that the
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The Skwib: Fotoshop by Adobé
Dead-on send up of the beauty industry and the tyranny of image. Alltop feels like plastic too! Fotoshop by Adobé from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.
Continue readingThe Skwib: Evard Munch: The Revenant of Kristiania
Most art historians will recognize this painting as “Evening on Karl Johan”, painted sometime in 1892, while its creator Edvard Munch was still a young man. Modern commentators have described this painting as an existentialist cri de coeur, a public declaration hoping to wake up the somnolent crowd and face
Continue readingThe Skwib: Politicians don’t grok satire though
True dat. Alltop groks all forms of humor!
Continue readingThe Skwib: The Night Santa Went Crazy
This fan-made video is a brilliant adaptation of Weird Al’s “The Night Santa Went Crazy”. Click here to view the embedded video. You may also find some crazy at alltop.com.
Continue readingThe Skwib: Trooper Jinglo at home
Every time he thought about the Death Star, and how he was supposed to be on duty that day, Trooper Jinglo just needed to cuddle with his dog. More pics and cutlines like this at Monkeyjoys (my Tumblr blog). Alltop was supposed to be cleaning out the garbage containers, but
Continue readingThe Skwib: Jesus visits the Denver Broncos
I’ve been without TV for the last three months, so I haven’t witnessed all the miracles Jesus has performed on behalf of the Denver Broncos and Tim Tebow, but I do remember the Elway years… Alltop knew Mormonism was all real!
Continue readingThe Skwib: Betsy of Narnia Reveals the Ugly Truth
‘Allo, dearie, I suppose you’d like to hear all about your hero Aslan and those Pevensie folk, but you don’t want to hear it from the likes of me. You want to talk to Edmund’s horse Phillip or p’raps those Beavers (desperate suck-ups the Beavers). They’ll tell you want you
Continue readingThe Skwib: Sad Spaceman Sighs
Alltop can hear laughter, even in space.
Continue readingThe Skwib: Ask General Kang: Do you have Santa Claus on your home planet?
No, we didn’t have Santa Claus when I was growing up. We didn’t have Christmas. Heck, we didn’t even have your primitive paleo-brain concept of religion. We did have the concept of gift-giving, and something we called Consumer Day, when we tried to boost our Neecknabian economy and give gifts.
Continue readingThe Skwib: Charlie Brown: shallow bastard
So Charlie Brown’s troubles are not because he’s a loser, they’re because he’s shallow: He’s in love with a girl because of her looks. He wants to kick a football because his ego won’t let him fail (or learn that Lucy is a sociopathic liar). He is a child, but
Continue readingThe Skwib: Christmas Shoes – Patton Oswalt
It seems like all the lights are up in the neighborhood, so I thought I’d post this hilarious Christmas routine by Patton Oswalt: Click here to view the embedded video. Also here on youtube. Alltop gets cranky at Christmas time too. Originally posted Dec. 2010.
Continue readingThe Skwib: Sad Spaceman doesn’t read Nietzsche
More Sad Spaceman here. Alltop reads Nietzsche. It just doesn’t understand it.
Continue readingThe Skwib: Why Those 25 Things About You Aren’t “Random”
This is one that has been festering for some time, so please forgive the Phrase Freak if he goes “off the Bale” a bit. Like many changes to the English language, the meaning of this word has become twisted. Once, it defined something that was done without a method or
Continue readingThe Skwib: Literary horror stories
But only if the author is very, very lucky. Alltop would like to be turned into a View-a-matic slideshow.
Continue readingThe Skwib: The Tyranny and Creativity of a Word Count
On the other hand, a really specific (short) word limit can force one to be more creative and improve the text. I love the Blaise Pascal quote: “Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.” In English: “This
Continue readingThe Skwib: Top rejected final messages from David Bowman (spoilers)
1968- "2001" – astronaut David Bowman, a photo by x-ray delta one on Flickr. As you probably know, in the book version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, David Bowman’s final words recorded by mission control are: “My God, it’s full of stars!”. (This excellent line didn’t make it into the
Continue readingThe Skwib: Time travel/pop culture mashups with good humor potential
Gilligan is marooned on “Más a Tierra”, later renamed to Robinson Crusoe Island, with Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who had a low tolerance for bullshit Joey (from Friends) is sent back in time to live with Fourth Earl of Sandwich, while the Earl was still working on his eponymous
Continue readingThe Skwib: Sad Spaceman worries about his tubes
More Sad Spaceman at the website. Alltop is the best humor aggregator on the intertubes.
Continue readingThe Skwib: Sad Spaceman needs to cut the cord
Alltop just watches youtube all day.
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