Sophia McClennen via Salon: For some time now our nation has counted on satirical comedians like Jon Stewart to entertainingly inform us of major issues we would otherwise ignore. In an era…
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Tuesday 10:28am: I’m cruising east up Market, away from downtown. It’s just me and Citizen’s Cab #137 fishing for fares, as we cross the brink into the Loin… There’s a dude flagging…
Comedians Rhodes and Rose make a brilliant satire of pharmaceutical commercials, their side effects, and the lawsuits they generate. Fun fact: the only nations in the world where it is legal to…
I woke up with cable this morning, in a hotel room, with a few free hours before work. I haven’t had cable in a while. This, coupled with the absence of clothing and the…
I am not an expert on sex in the truest sense. I have a degree in political science. I have no training. Still, I write for a bunch of websites about sex,…
I took some days off, for the soul… to “think”. Each time my kid came home from school to find me on the couch staring into space, he gave me crap, “Dad!…
Granny’s Hope Chest from Etsy handmakes these hilariously awesome prayer candles.
Sometimes, a ride just speaks for itself. Meet Chocolate Nam… It’s mid-day and I’m cruisin’ Haight-Ashbury. The sun is high and it is yet another perfect, beautiful San Francisco day. (Yawn.) The…
Disinfonaut & resident emcee Fletch serves up his next take of camp-satire Collage/Remix Art in the form of Short Film/Hip-Hopera “Fletch In Paris.” (Disclaimer : Audio NSFW)
Monday 4:15am: I haven’t slept. Well, I haven’t slept well. Okay, okay, I admit it… I relapsed into nighttime cough syrup abuse. And sedatives of this type are widely reputed to rob…
THE OFFICES of Aldrich + Rover are spacious and lightly furnished. A small reception vestibule, home to two Barcelona chairs and accompanying Granada footstools, leads into the work area. There are drafting…
Dr. Chuck Tingle is an erotic author and Tae Kwon Do grandmaster. After receiving his PhD at DeVry University in holistic massage, Chuck found himself fascinated by all things sensual, leading to…
It’s a groggy morning coming back to big city cab driving from a Labor Day weekend camping with my kid and his Boy Scout troop. The scene of the crime was a…
Lucia Love is a multidisciplinary artist who works in sculpture, painting, and performance. But her illustrations retrieve the best of Zap Comics and Ren & Stimpy and often takes it to unpredictable new…
Thursday I bribed Kojak at dispatch for an airport this morning. But it is not the airport, per se, with regard to which I write to you now… 6:30am: 2537 Clay –…
On October 23rd there will be a new World’s Largest Religion: “Quantum Psychiana.” Cult of the Month, a “Religious Subscription Service,” which enrolls all of its members into a new cult on the 23rd of every…
Gunduz Aghayev is a painter who creates satirical illustrations ranging from pop culture to religion and human rights around the globe. This time he is taking on the concept of Justice seen through…
A former adman who stopped drinking the Kool Aid, Steve Cutts is a London based illustrator who uses his experiences behind the corporate grindstone to turn dismal truths into adorable cartoon like…
High noon: I’m coming up on a red at 7th, heading west on Market. The Tenderloin. There’s an empty Yellow just ahead of me at the light and an historic F line…
So you want people to believe that you’re Jesus Christ. Or, if you don’t want to be tied down to anything so specific as Jesus, then you at least want people to…
It was a dark and stormy, clear summer’s day around high noon, as I rolled through the Elysian Fields that is the Mission District of San Francisco, when, “Cha-ching! – 186 Liberty….
Banksy, the infamous, unknown street artist is back with his boldest, most terrifying project to date. The anti-theme park, a bemusement park, if you will…Dismaland.
As the author of a totally weird book about sex called Raping the Gods, I often get phone calls and emails asking me how to get rid of a monstrous, ridiculous, and unwanted erections. It happens…
Michael Schaub writes at the Pessimist: You probably think that the online contrarian thinkpiece represents a new low in journalism: a dispensable, reactionary quasi-essay written by a condescending know-it-all, and published by…
From 41st Best Stand Up Ever (2008). Commentary over the video is from Lee’s book, “How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian.” “If political correctness…