• February 13, 2012

nerds

Hey so here is a thing! Once upon a long time ago (earlier this week, when your editor was busy Googling “galloway drink-soaked popinjay”) somebody took a picture of what looked suspiciously like ILLEGAL POWDERED DRUGS and said basically “Long day at the office, you would not BELIEVE where the office is BTW” and then [...]

Oh here’s John Hodgman, author of the weird and hilarious The Areas of My Expertise, who is apparently also a “minor television personality,” who knew?! And here is his very sly “roast” of the president, Barack Obama, at some event covered by C-SPAN. Worth watching just to see Obama cracking up over the hinjinx of [...]

In the ninth circle of Hell, just between the usurers and the winged demon Satan flapping his wings in that frozen pond, lies a self-important little coffee house full of nerds who vote on each other’s poetry, which is universally awful. The Obamas will bring a slice of this Hell to their own home tonight, [...]

So no less than three (3) Richmond people told us that we just HAD to go visit the Hollywood Cemetery, where Jim Morrison is buried, because nowhere else will you see such an outstanding specimen of pastoral cemetery design. Of course we had no time to visit this ghoulish wasteland of cadavers, so we saw [...]

Look at these fools. They are the Leaders of Earth, for real! These are great meetings, because all the leaders get to wear some ridiculous native-garb costume so they look like a bunch of nerds at a Star Trek convention, in Iowa. Oh wait, that’s the other World Leader Meeting, right? Ha somebody forgot to [...]

Even though we live in pretty amazing times, what with the technology and magic and all, we generally just complain about it. And by “we,” we mean “you,” because your Wonkette is very cognizant of the fact that there’s no way this particular operation could exist — across four time zones, simultaneously, with no offices [...]

HEY GEORGE LUCAS, IS OBAMA A SPACE JEDI?: “I would say that’s reasonably obvious.” HOYVIN-GLAYVIN! [Yeas & Nays]