Day: March 26, 2012

The McBournie Minute: Things we need to bring back from the ‘Mad Men’ era

Last night Mad Men made its return, after a year and a half off the air. All of you probably know about the delays because of contracts and boring details like that. For my money, this is the best show on television, and I was happy to see it finally come back.

This isn’t a review of the season premiere, you can find those anywhere else, but it is Mad Men inspired. In anticipation of the new show last night, my girlfriend and I had a mini-marathon to serve as a refresher. The show has always done a great job in highlighting how different society is today from 50 years ago, and mostly for the better.

But there are a few things from the 1960s that we really need to bring back. Continue reading The McBournie Minute: Things we need to bring back from the ‘Mad Men’ era

The War on Plants?

The Guys are fierce lovers (, ladies) and animal warriors, but what are we to do about plants? Some plants may help in our war by eating animals, but many more continue to rely on animals for their filthy, anonymous sex lives. This is why we’ve begun investigating means to disrupt flowers disgusting bestiality, and one avenue may be noise.

Researchers have found that noise from natural gas wells might be driving away western scrub jays, a bird that responds to the Craigslist posts of the pinion pine by spreading their love cones all over public land, sometimes even in front of children! The method is far from perfect, however, because hummingbirds with a penchant for industrial metal have taken advantage of the scrub jays’ absence to get freaky with wildflowers.

Unless we find a sound that will keep away the jays while still offending the sensibilities of hummingbirds stuck in the ’90s, we’ll be up to our armpits in unruly weeds.

You don’t see this type of thing happening to Catman

The Joker. Hugo Strange. Bane. Leviathan. Doctor Simon Hurt. All of these villains are seriously contenders for the greatest adversary to Batman, and yet, none a one of them can claim it. Oh sure, they’ve all done some incredibly crippling (some literally more than others) acts of terror to the Caped Crusader, but when it comes down to it, they’re not the worst enemy of dark vengeance.

No, that would be Captain Paul Starks of the Montgomery County (Maryland) police department.

Prom dream denied

Senior proms can be memorable, but often, expectations exceed reality. That’s what a Minnesota teen learned, but it was the school board doing the disappointing.

All Mike Stone wanted to do was bring two adult film stars as his dates to prom. It’s the same dream that so many young men have. But the school superintendent said it won’t happen. Apparently, being so cool would “not be in the best interest” of the school, and could bring a lot of unwanted attention — like blogs writing about it.