January 11, 2005
On Theology

When I was a kid, I believed that God made it impossible for us to roll our eyes all the way back into our heads because He didn't want us gazing directly inward upon our bare naked souls. Now that I'm older and have more life experience, I realize what a stupid idea that was. The real reason God doesn't let us roll our eyes all the way back in our head is so that it's easier to tell normal people apart from zombies.

Posted by Michael Genrich at 10:49 AM
January 10, 2005
An Adult-To-Child English Translation Guide: First In A Series

SITUATION: Changing the morning diaper of a child between 18 months and two years old.

ADULT SAYS: "Stop kicking while I'm changing your diaper."

CHILD HEARS: "Kick me in the crotch as hard as you possibly can, like you're Charlie Brown finally getting a shot at that football while Lucy isn't paying attention because she's staring at a pack of wolverines attacking a bunny, and laugh like a hyena full of nitrous oxide when I collapse on the floor praying to every diety throughout human history to end the pain and return to me the gift of sight."

NOTE: Depending on age of child and angle of attack, you may fail to hear actual laughter due to your state of unconsciousness.

Posted by Michael Genrich at 10:01 AM
January 06, 2005
On Foreign Music Styles

I bet more young Americans would pick up yodeling as a hobby if people in the Alps would meet them halfway and start yodeling about text messaging and crunk juice.

Posted by Michael Genrich at 11:49 PM
January 05, 2005
Quiz: Variety of Dart Game, Or Yardage Allowed In A Game By The Defense Of The 2004 San Francisco 49'ers?
  1. 453
  2. 501
  3. 360
  4. Cricket
  5. 301
  6. 441
  7. A Buttload

Posted by Michael Genrich at 09:35 AM
January 04, 2005
On Gender Issues

I imagine the best part about being bisexual is not that you enlarge your potential dating pool to include everyone over the age of consent in liberated societies, but that you qualify for a free hat and large soda whenever your local minor league baseball team has Bisexual Hat Night.

Posted by Michael Genrich at 11:32 PM
January 03, 2005
Names Of Battlefields That Love Was Like To Pat Benatar When She Was Still Working Hard To Save The Relationship
  • I'll Give You One Last Chancellorsville
  • I Need You To Be My Loverdun
  • Please Just Answer My Questions And Stop Stalingrad
  • It Will Be Like Falling In Love All Over Agincourt
  • Waterloo Gonna Do, Leave?  (only when drunk)
  • Antietam
Posted by Michael Genrich at 10:29 PM
Possible Characters In Musicals Whose Names Are Formed From My Children's First Names And The Names Of Large Cities In Which I Do Not Necessarily Wish To Live
  • Jonathan Milwaukee
  • Loren Baltimore
  • Zachary San Antonio
  • Nathan Detroit
Posted by Michael Genrich at 09:43 PM
On Chemistry

If the chemists of the world really want to become all-star sex symbols and have movies and books written about their glamorous lives, then I say it's time to drop all this "ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase" and "2,1,5,6-quadrichlorine-1,3-phenyldiacarbonitrile" nonsense when it comes to naming what you make.  Why not call your next industrial solvent "The Sweaty Norwegian," or let agricultural pests know they've got a fresh batch of "Powdered Windshield" coming at them?  Without a slew of catchy names that women can still pronounce when drunk, there is no Cocktail.

Although, now that I think about it, there probably isn't a Cocktail without a large group of studio executives snorting some 2,1,5,6-quadrichlorine-1,3-phenyldiacarbonitrile before greenlighting a project with lines like "Anything else is always something better."  So thanks a lot, chemists.

Posted by Michael Genrich at 06:43 AM