Category Archives: Comedically Aimed

Valentine’s Day: A Day of True Love

Valentine’s Day: A Day of True Love

It’s Valentine’s Day! The day of the year when we all express our love for our significant others the best way we can: through consumer purchases of high-ticket items. Nothing says I love you like an expensive piece of …

Scientists: Over 700,000 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie-Roll Pop

Scientists: Over 700,000 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie-Roll Pop

Scientists in Zurich have released the findings of their 38 year long research into exactly how many licks it would take to get to the Tootsie-Roll center of a Tootsie Pop.

The official number is 712,230 licks to get …

An Open Letter to Deviled-Egg Potato Salad

An Open Letter to Deviled-Egg Potato Salad

I have a new mistress. Her name is Deviled-Egg Potato Salad. I wrote a missive to her, below.

Dear Deviled-Egg Potato Salad,

Why? Why are you so simultaneously beguiling and gas-inducing? On the one hand I enjoy your creamy-eggy-mustardy goodness. …

Where Is Padme?

Where Is Padme?

5 of the Worst Ice Cream Flavors Ever

5 of the Worst Ice Cream Flavors Ever

5. Menstrual Blood and Cream

4. Coconut and Diarrhea

3. Chunky Herpes Sore Sorbet

2. Scabby Vanilla

1. AIDS…

5 Things You Won’t Hear From President Obama Tonight

5 Things You Won’t Hear From President Obama Tonight

Tonight President Barrack Obama will deliver his State of the Union Address. He’s an impassioned and brilliant speaker, so I’m sure it will be a memorable speech. Congressional Democrats and Republicans, in the wake of the Arizona shooting tragedy have …

A Hipstertation on Modern Art and Culture

A Hipstertation on Modern Art and Culture

You know what I like? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I’m really just too cool to like anything, well with any kind of earnest emotion or passion. There’s no musical act, movie, or TV show I actually enjoy. I just think it’s …

Ask James: A Couple of Issues

Ask James: A Couple of Issues

This week’s installment of Ask James brings us a strange coincidence. I got two letters from two different people, both in the same marriage, it would appear. I think my answers to their problems really should help them find peace …

Ricky Gervais: A Legendary Host

Ricky Gervais: A Legendary Host

It’s not lost on me at all what today is a celebration of. And I have a piece on the great Dr. King cooking up right now as well, but I wanted to first address the Golden Globes last night, …

An Open Letter to Sarah Palin

An Open Letter to Sarah Palin

So Sarah Palin is all in a lather because of what she’s claiming is “blood libel.” She’s completely blown away, it would appear, by the pundits and analysts saying that maybe rhetoric like hers is at least partially to …

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