From Gawker April 15th, 2011 Dilbert Creator Pretends to Be His Own Biggest Fan on Message Boards Adrian Chen — Scott Adams, creator of the great comic strip Dilbert, is sort of a prick. He is a horrible boss, and recently penned a charming misogynist rant comparing women to children begging for candy. Now we learn he likes to […]
From the monthly archives:
April 2011
I’ve talked about Big Evil before. It’s like the more famous Big Oil, Big Pharma and Big Tobacco, but not as romantic as smokes and Lunesta. Big Evil is more insidious because it’s banal. It’s rooted in the faulty organization of people, not necessarily the overwhelming individual badness of the people: the war profiteers, the […]
“A Rising Star in the Republican Party”. What the fuck does that even mean? Here’s a small smattering of those GOP “rising stars” (i.e. the MOST promising, the creme de la creme, the BEST WE GOT). Each of these fine folks was – at time or another – proclaimed to be a “Rising Star in the […]
“Mayda Munny” Wanna-be girlfriend/stalker of Richie Rich. Beautiful and filthy rich, Mayda is immensely jealous of humble (poor), ginger haired Gloria Good, using nefarious means to alienate Richie’s affection for Gloria. Ms. Munny is a colossal snob, addressing those beneath her as “peasants”. She flaunts her wealth at a party by filling her pool with cash […]
DISCLOSURE: I’ve kicked ass on every standardized test I’ve taken, and reading comprehension was my strong suit. Also, I produced the “Dilbert” cartoon series in 1999. Scott Adams has a blog, a really weird, bad blog. In March, Jezebel reported on one of the Dilbert creator’s posts – a withdrawn-but-not-retracted, reposted-with-caveat, pathetic misogynist-rant over the […]
I find the UK’s frenzied, orgasmic media circle-jerk leading up to the royal wedding seductive and annihilating in equal measure. Despite the outward banality of the couple, and the bourgeois nature of the monarchy, I like the royal family. Despite the obvious moral repugnance of a “monarchy” in the 21st century, its odious paradigm, and […]
Icebox cake, refrigerator cake – or as we inexplicably call it, freezer cake – was a special occasion staple in my house. Delicious cultural artifact and a symbol of post-modern cookery in which convenience rules, the hardest part about making a Freezer Cake is finding the cookies: Only Famous Chocolate Wafers will do. Crispy, thin […]