Category: Humor
ManBearPig: “Al Gore Was Right All Along”
I had totally forgotten about ManBearPig, a 2006 episode of South Park which parodies Gore and the release of his documentary on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth: Al Gore visits South Park Elementary and warns the school’s students about ManBearPig, an...
Kaiser Permanente’s Unfortunate Dog Fountain
Kaiser Permanente placed a dog fountain in front of their new Care Essentials without a people fountain for the street's homeless. So, I tried to fix it for them.
The Brilliance of Amtrak Security
Traveling in the Northwest by Amtrak was relaxing and beautiful. There were almost no lines and they seemed to know I was carrying a real laptop and had purchased my water at the train station. After having been felt up before a...
Has Seattle Lost Its Sense of Humor? Or, Does Amazocalypse Suck?
Zoe and the Amazocalypse have been covered in three major Seattle news outlets (Geekwire, Seattle PI and The Stranger) and one major Internet news site (Slashdot), but there’s been minimal interest and sparse sharing and pledging. After yesterday’s slog post,...
The Road to Amazocalypse
I wanted to share some of Megan Marie Myer’s original sketches for Zoe and the Amazocalypse, our Kickstarter for an illustrated children’s book about the tech boom’s impacts on Seattle. She actually came up with the box monster concept used...
Google Now Studying “Suers”
More evidence of why I’m clearly not smart enough to work there.
Jasper’s Summer Cat Shave Frightens Sister Luna
When my neighbor Jasper got a cool lion shave this summer, his sister Luna didn’t recognize him when he arrived home. She hissed at him for days … and then she got her own. Here’s what happened next: The video...