28th Mar2011

Ugly Babies and You: How to Avoid Offending Everyone Around

by Amanda

Those Horrible Sticky Baby Things Make Me Frown

 

Human babies are not pretty things. Ever. They dribble, goo, spit up, stink outrageously, and make ear-shattering screech-noises at all hours of the day. Their heads are enormous for their body sizes, and they don’t appear to have teeth or anything. They can’t even form words. Instead, they make nonsense gurgle noises which, quite frankly, terrify me. Some babies don’t have any hair, and some unfortunate babies have far too much hair. Exceptionally ugly babies already have a unibrow. I have seen a few of them, mostly in photographs. I avoid babies as much as humanly possible, and yet, even I have been faced with the question “Awww, isn’t he or she just the cutest thing?” Of course, it is not. (more…)

21st Mar2011

AIM Comic #29 – Kevin Didn’t Want to Share with Us

by Amanda

You all know Kevin.  Not only does he feature heavily in these little comics, but he lords over this site now!  Before all of that happened though, I treated him as an equal at best, and so there are comics like this.  Actually what had happened was that he had sent me a link to his name history by accident.  The fact that he obviously had not meant to was surprising to me, in the bad way, and so I felt I needed to find out why he would hide these things from me.  (more…)

17th Mar2011

Reader Submission Corner: The Blight That Is St Patrick’s Day

by Guest

Submitted by Holly

Well, once again Saint Patrick’s Day is upon us. Once again the Judgment Day has failed to come before March 17th, and now we all have to live through another green-soaked embarrassment. Oh well, maybe next year.

When people find out that I am not a huge fan of St. Pat’s Day, they often exclaim: “But aren’t YOU part Irish???,” or “But doesn’t your dad COME FROM Ireland?,” as if I am committing an ethnic sin akin to, say, being Italian and punching the Virgin Mary and then your grandmother. Or being Greek and not wearing crappy baby-blue and white togas during the soccer season. It creeps them out, because I, as a proud Irisher, hate this day with every fiber of my being, and this makes them question everything they believe in. (more…)

14th Mar2011

NEWS UPDATE: Heap Big News from Sexy Town – Notes on the New Regime

by STAFF

Many of you (three of you) may have noticed last week that there was a morning when this old site was down.  Surprise!  It was just our annual happening, an OMGJ Tradition, the one where Jeremy forgets to pay some domain bill or something!  Every year since the very beginning, he either forgets or cannot pay it.  The past has seen instances of Sad Charity Events on the Forum where everyone pitches in a few cents here and there and we manage to scrape together just enough to go on for another year.  Magically, we always forget by the following March. (more…)

14th Mar2011

AIM Comic #28 – Mention of Grip

by Amanda

So I have this friend named Alex (not XV Alex) and I guess he is drunk fairly often.  He is actually one of my newer friends, so this conversation is one of my earliest impressions of his character.  Do you see how far apart we are in these panels?  It is because they are symbolizing the fact that we live far away from each other.  That space between us in varying shades of mulberry-reddish is in fact meant to represent the Atlantic Ocean!!!  It’s ART.  (more…)

11th Mar2011

Netflix Friday – Timestalkers

by Jeremy P

As a rule, Time Travel is a hard thing to write about.  It’s sort of stupid that you’d ever go back in time to “fix” anything, because even the most minor of changes would blow your reality apart.  Once you do the smallest deviation from what actually happened in the past, you would somehow write out your own existence because of a modified timeline that had been created by you going back to 1985 to get a McDLT while they were still around. (more…)

10th Mar2011

MAN CHALLENGE: Hard Corps Uprising

by STAFF

Greetings, readers! This is Amanda writing the intro because I am sick of being left out of MAN Challenges. And WHATTA Challenge it was this time! It seems that the other writers decided to compete viciously over a game. The “contra” game I guess, judging by this title. They had an email thread going and I sort of looked at it a few times and it seems like Billy Holiday and Jeremy P were getting angrily competitive. Over Contra? I don’t even know what that is. (more…)

08th Mar2011

AIM Comic #27 – the Inevitable Talk About Ayn Rand

by Amanda

I don’t even know if Kieron here is pro- or anti- Ayn Rand, but I feel that I should let you know that the reason we were even thinking about Robin Hood is because he is from Nottingham.  Both of them, Robin Hood and Kieron.  So therefore we sure do talk about Robin Hood pretty often, really.  Also for a little bit of footnotery:  I have seen Ayn Rand books for sale for VERY CHEAP since this conversation, but I did not buy them.  I will only ever read one if I borrow it or I get it for free.  This is my promise to you.  (more…)