The McBournie Minute: Extreme survival in D.C.

Hi, I’m Bryan McBournie, and I’m submitting this as my audition for a new reality show. It seems like survival shows are getting more and more popular these days, and really, for no good reason other than we want to see someone die.

Well, I am someone that several people may have wanted to die at some point. What’s more, I live a pretty extreme life, man. The words I put down here won’t really suffice the extreme-ness, it’s the sort of thing you need to see on camera, with my expert commentary.

Here’s an example of how I survive Washington, D.C. Continue reading The McBournie Minute: Extreme survival in D.C.

Ms. Jackson, if you’re criminally nasty

SeriouslyGuys would like to wish a very maudlin birthday to the corpse consisting of Michael Jackson, Dow Chemical and Hasbro, makers of Mr. Potato Head. The unholy amalgamation of burn scars and poor self-image resulting from years of exploitation and abuse as a child would have been 53 years old today.

Mr. Jackson is survived by his legendary records, famous dance moves and Weird Al Yankovic.

Screw Irene, can we get a Hurricane Sea Lion in this piece?

It’s been awfully wet on the east coast side of the US lately and that all lies at the feet of a lady named Irene. And despite the fact that people may have lost power, become ill from drastic weather changes and been flooded, ultimately, none of that’s important. You see, while all of that hullabaloo went down, a real travesty of nature took place on the west coast of the US, specifically in Venice Beach, California.

A sea lion attacked two people. DUM-DUM DUMMMMMMMM!

An older couple decided to go swimming in the waters Thursday evening, as is their right. It’s a casual dip, what’s to worry about? Outside of terror. The woman was bit on her leg. Those tend to be useful for swimming. Her husband, being a kind and brave soul, swam over to help her. His thanks was being bitten by the marauding sea lion on the head, hands and feet. Again, these parts of the body tend to be useful for swimming. Which they were doing. In the water.

Know this nature: You may think that you can take our attention away from one side of this country in order to initiate an attack. You might think it’s a clever tactic. You might even be proud of it. But we will rise from it. The human race will be survive and be stronger from your attack. We will have vengeance, and a swift and powerful vengeance it will be.

Big Oil meets its match in the personals

Not to be too blunt about it, but we think print journalism just might be dying. You heard it here first. But the good news is that all those people employed by newspapers will still have a purpose, long after people stop reading what they write on dead trees, like getting us from point A to point B.

Researchers have successfully used a bacteria to convert old newspapers into a biological sort of gasoline that a lot of engines can run on. This means that even though no one reads them, those writers’ paltry salaries are not in vain, they could one day mean cheaper fuel for those of us on the road!