MasterChugs Theater: ‘How To Be a Man’

How to Be a Man is a comedy about a washed-up comedian named Mark McCarthy who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Since he most likely will not be around to raise his unborn son, he decides to create a film for him to learn important life lessons and to know what his father was like.

It’s not quite as inspiring as the filmmakers would have you believe. Unfortunately, the bar’s already pretty low as it is. Continue reading MasterChugs Theater: ‘How To Be a Man’

Right level of concern directed at wrong target

The F-word. The F-bomb. No matter what you call it, the word that starts with an F and rhymes with luck is a bit of a fire starter. Horses neigh and women cover the ears of children when it’s spoken in public. So of course, a great level of worry was was brought about when a restaurant used the word on their marquee.

Here’s the thing: all of the people, screaming to the world about the vileness of the word’s public exposure, are wrong.

Be concerned not because it’s out and exposed to the world, but because it’s not correctly being used in the past tense. Proper grammar and spelling, people.

The joke is that the Internet is the opposite of serious business

"I know what you're thinking, but, no. The Internet is not for us."
“I know what you’re thinking, but, no. The Internet is not for us.”

Hello, and welcome to the Internet! If you are …

  • … a person, please proceed to Pornography.
  • … a corporation or governmental entity, please stick to your own Web site.

No, really, nationally-vested entity that relies on a positive image to maintain its authority, you do not want to do anything else. Especially use social media. Historically, it has never gone well.

Alright, then, NYPD. Let’s see if you can do better.

Nope.

Animals: Clogging up the judicial system

As the weather warms up, the animals are stepping up their offensive on the human race. Their current strategy is taking up our time and resource in our very own legal systems.

In Oregon, there’s a lawsuit involving a duck attack. Back in 2012, woman was visiting her mother, when the neighbor’s pet duck (it’s Oregon, of course) she tried to run away from the berserk bird, and in doing so tripped and broke her wrist. The victim of this vicious attack is suing not the duck, but the owner, for $275,000 in damages. No doubt she is under the duck’s spell.

In France, a dog was called as a witness in a murder case. In a story we swear we aren’t making up, the dog took the stand because prosecutors hoped it would be able to identify its owner’s killer. The judge even ordered the accused to threaten the dog with a bat to get a reaction out of the Labrador. Incredibly enough, it didn’t work. Which means the dog wasted everyone’s time, likely on purpose.