Recent Posts Tagged With 'satire'

• I love lamp … no, wait

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 08:09 in video, satire, parody, college humor, pixar, but is it art?, parody & satire

  Beware the adorable, yet homicidal lamp. A brand parody of Pixar: You can find it here, if the embedded video crushes your browser. Brought to you by alltop, humor-blogs.com, and the letter “z”....

• New poll shows Canadian voters not apathetic, but in existential crisis

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 06:11 in politics, Canada, satire, Liberal Party, apathy, federal election, existentialism, parody & satire

  TORONTO (The Skwib) — They may wear toques instead of berets and scarf down high-octane Tim Horton’s coffee instead of smoking Turkish cigarettes, but a new poll shows 79 percent of Canadians are in as serious an existential crisis as mo...

• Stanley Kubrick Bloopers

  Posted on Thursday September 3rd, 2009 at 11:18 in movies, satire, bloopers, stanley kubrick, but is it art?, parody & satire, retakes

  You can always find the Kubrick kookiness here if you need a retake on the embedded video. Via the talented Dan Meth. Alltop and humor-blogs.com still think Dr. Strangelove is Kubrick’s best film....

• The Marvellous Hairy Podcasts

  Posted on Thursday September 3rd, 2009 at 08:20 in humor, satire, literary fiction, chaos theory, a midsummer night's dream, but is it art?, mark a. rayner, skwibby fiction, marvellous hairy, a novel in five fractals, fabulist satire, project oberon

  As readers of The Skwib, you may be aware that I am also a novelist releasing his second work, Marvellous Hairy – a novel in five fractals. It’s available direct from the publisher now, and in stores in October. But I’m also podca...

• The Marvellous Hairy Podcasts

  Posted on Monday August 17th, 2009 at 08:21 in humor, satire, literary fiction, a midsummer night's dream, but is it art?, monkeys!, mark a. rayner, skwibby fiction, marvellous hairy, a novel in five fractals, fabulist satire, project oberon

  As readers of The Skwib, you may be aware that I am also a novelist releasing his second work, Marvellous Hairy – a novel in five fractals. It’s available online from the publisher now, and in stores in the Fall. But I’m also podca...

• Listen to my new novel, Marvellous Hairy

  Posted on Wednesday August 12th, 2009 at 06:11 in satire, novel, fractals, monkeys!, mark a. rayner, skwibby fiction, parody & satire, marvellous hairy, turning into a monkey

  If you’d like to join me for the podcast of my second novel, you can find the listing of them as they’re released at the Marvellous Hairy website. While you’re there, sign up for my newsletter to catch all the news as it happens. ...

• Tragedy plus time equals comedy, or why you shouldn’t trust Wikiquote

  Posted on Saturday July 11th, 2009 at 11:52 in humor, humour, satire, but is it art?, tragedy plus time equals comedy, parody & satire, not being funny

  Warning: while this post may be about comedy, don’t expect it to be comic. I would consider the quote “comedy is tragedy plus time” an old saw, but it’s still an interesting idea. Could every tragedy become funny, given eno...

• Thag not like cut his toenails!

  Posted on Friday July 10th, 2009 at 06:44 in painting, satire, brain, shaman, caveman, cave paintings, lascaux, but is it art?, skwibby fiction, thag, hinky history, aurochs

  Onga was always asking him to cut his toenails, and it made Thag crazy. If he cut them too close, then he had nothing to protect the end of his toes. Good nails were especially important when you jumped on the back of an auroch during a hunt. If yo...

• Apocalypse Cow

  Posted on Friday June 19th, 2009 at 13:01 in fiction, satire, parody, but is it art?, skwibby fiction, apocalyse cow, catastrophic cattle

  Nick over at Name Your Tale asked me to guest pen one of their stories. In case you haven’t ever been to the site, it’s kind of a neat idea. Anyone can submit a title idea, and then the busy scribblers at NYT pen a 100-word masterpiece ...

• Ask General Kang: Apparently, only one in four people read a book last year — how can we improve that figure?

  Posted on Thursday May 14th, 2009 at 10:00 in books, reading, satire, ask general kang, parody & satire

  I’d start by disabling the publishing industry in some way — perhaps an elite cadre of pulp-loving squirrels armed with plasma-shredders and capable of firing book worms out of their mouths? Or perhaps you could change the tax laws so th...

• Carnival of Satire (#113)

  Posted on Thursday April 30th, 2009 at 11:11 in humor, humour, satire, parody, economic downturn, swine flu, carnival of satire

  Isn’t it wonderful living in interesting times? This month’s edition of the Carnival of Satire demonstrates how even dire news has its satiric side: Lobo kicks things off with this useful advice on how to prepare for the biohazard finale...