Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Trainwrecks
December 25, 2008 | Thursday | 47 Comments
Have a look at this festive tree. Go on, gaze up on it. For today’s giveaway, we can ponder this beautiful image and get creative. What better way to be inspired than by 9’ Pre-Lit White Crystal Pine Upside Down Artificial Christmas Tree. And as you gaze upon the inverted, perhaps subverted, wonder, ask yourself this burning, delightful question: What Christmas carols would have been written had all trees looked like 92-pound $800.00 upside-down white-frosted vaginas? Because this is CLEARLY a case for a ding dong merrily on high. Leave your suggestion, your parody, or your suggestive carol goodness in…
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September 05, 2008 | Friday | 29 Comments
First, from many, many people: what to do with bad reviews? Put them in the mouths of your little league team, your grandparents and their friends, and anyone else who will appear on camera. Then make it into a ersatz book trailer. What makes me giggle, personally, is that this many reviews, even bad ones, from this many powerhouse publications is in and of itself something of an accomplishment. To turn them on their ear and make them humorous (the armpit farts are inspired) is just absurd and awesome.
But wait, there’s more!
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May 01, 2008 | Thursday | 86 Comments
Yes, we know it’s a bit late to weigh in on the Open Source Boob Project. If you don’t know what it’s about, John Scalzi has a very concise summary and a more measured take on things than most anyone else I’ve read, and you can read the posts by the originator of the idea here, though you’ll need to scroll past a bunch of confusing apologies first. The idea in and of itself, while ill-advised in some ways, didn’t strike me as especially controversial at first—hey, if somebody wants to opt-in for some boob groping at a science fiction…
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