You know what I really miss? Pimples. Not just little shiny red bumps or blackheads, or those wiggly white worms, but realy deep, powerful pits of puss and grease. Why don’t I ever get those any more? They’re so satisfying. Nothing, in fact, is more satisfying than finding a faultlessly ripe pimple, pinching it just [...]

Wherein Booger explains her philosophy on waking up and why she avoids it at all costs. Also, a hefty round of applause for DJ Sparsh on the 1′s and 2′s who last week was admitted to Georgetown Law School where he will follow in Abogado’s righteous footsteps and defend those poor, vulnerable multinational corporations while [...]

Back to Cape Town. I’m sitting in a BMW showroom, of all places, which conveniently doubles as the lobby to the IMAX theater where we’re about to catch a movie. I don’t even remember what we saw … probably because what was about to take place in the luxury car showroom enraged me so much [...]

Wherein Oso and Sparky lose half of their female audience amid stammering complaints about the “sexualization, objectification, and ethno-exoticization” of women. Oso and Sparky don’t understand the fuss. They just keep doing their dance. Update: In a rather worrisome development, Sparsh has unwisely offered up next week’s bonus track to whoever can name the most [...]

Wherein Oso and Sparky exact revenge on their egregious detractors by revealing that, though they may giggle like 7-year-old schoolgirls, at least they speak like men (unlike the falsetto high pitch of our beloved gee-oh-pee from the sea-pee-tea). Please, just try and say that this one sounds like a Gap commercial, I dare you. As [...]

Maybe some of you have been here. You’re working at a company, or for an organization, or even at a restaurant and it dawns upon you that you do all the work and your boss gets all the money. It’s a clichéd truism, something that gets talked about during happy hour at least as much [...]

There’s safety in numbers.

A rare double post from Global Voices. (refresh the page in your browser to see the translation formatting) Though International Workers Day (better known as “May Day”) was first established in the United States after the Haymarket Riot, government fear of spreading socialism caused then-President Grover Cleveland to adopt the September commemoration of Labor Day [...]