College humor magazines have been around for literally hundreds of years, with the oldest of these entertainment publications beginning in the late 1800s. For a long time they trafficked in fluffier fare such as innocent parodies, grandpa jokes like “Have you taken a bath?’ ‘No, why, is one missing?’” and other similarly nonsensical written gags that were funny and skillful, but still squarely on the lighter side of the humor spectrum. This shifted during the 1970s when many of these outfits began to satirize on-campus and off-campus events more heavily and inject a more cynical tone, or at least a heightened irreverence, that produced work worthy of the 1970s and [...]
Hi, God. Bernie Turkingham. Duh, you know that. You got a minute? Great, thanks.
I'm gonna tell it like it is: I think you're doing a bang-up job. This world's what, a few hundred years old, and you're still running a tight ship … Millions? Wow, I was way off. Point is, you've got a great business model that's working for Earth, and I salute you for that.
And that's to say nothing of Heaven. I mean, this place, just, wow. This place is amazing. They weren't lying, everything's better up here. You have an entire TV channel dedicated to old “Head of the Class” episodes! I had Boston [...]
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On Monday afternoon, 80 first graders at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School took the stage to present "Go Fish!" The one-act play, directed by music teacher Lisa Rennell, boasted five songs and an audience participation element, but its true accomplishment may be that it was the single worst performance I have had the misfortune of sitting through in my 34 years as Arts Critic for The Jonesborough Dispatch.
There were plenty of ominous indications before the play even began that this would be a catastrophe. I was willing to look past the cheap set made out of construction paper, and even the lazy t-shirt and shorts costumes that were totally [...]
“You know, I’m cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn’t. I wish I was raised by wolves.” — Carson Daly to Elle magazine
Dear Editor:
It is with the utmost reticence that I write to you today; however, as the leader of the wolf community, your recent issue has left me no recourse. Throughout history, the canis lupus community has shrouded its behavior in utmost secrecy, but I simply cannot allow Mr. Daly’s comments – or your careless publication of such slander – to go uncontested. Mr. Daly would have done well to be raised by wolves.
I wonder, did it ever occur [...]
