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LESS INFIDEL. MORE ZINFANDEL.

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
by Chairman of the Bored
Far be it for us to pretend to know religion half as well as we know random movie quotes from the mid-Eighties, but we’re pretty sure we just stumbled upon the solution to world peace. Wine is good, wine is great! Wine has it’s own God (his name is/was Dionysus and his reputation beyond stellar). Wine brings people together and gets them laid.
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LESS OF YOUR BABY. MORE OF YOU.

Thursday, January 7th, 2010
by Chairman of the Bored


Everyone knows at least one of these people. You know, the proud, doting parent whose entire vocabulary has morphed from that of a normal human being into that of Dustin Hoffman’s Rainman, if Rainman (god forbid) was allowed to sire children. Obsess much Mommy? Now that’s not to say that we’re not potentially interested in what the offending parents have to say, assuming they’re a friend or at least mildly amusing. Unfortunately, co-workers struck by this phenomenon/affliction may as well disappear. They’re dead to us.
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LESS WARREN BEATTY. MORE NED BEATTY.

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
by Chairman of the Bored
Given the recent publicity surrounding Warren Beatty’s unauthorized biography, in which the actor is purported to have slept with well over 12,000 women, we thought the topic deserved some discussion. None of this takes into account the feelings of Beatty’s goreous wife, Annette Bening.  This woman is/was an absolute specimen, so how exactly did that all too typical of conversations go between Beatty and Bening by their third date?
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LESS AIRLINES. MORE SMART AIRLINES.

Monday, January 4th, 2010
by Chairman of the Bored
Dear Airlines,

How do we hate thee, let us count the ways…

Yet not all airlines fail to “get it.” There are alternatives, unless you’re flying to Decatur, Jacksonville or El Paso.
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LESS 2009. MORE 2010.

Friday, January 1st, 2010
by Chairman of the Bored
Ok, we all get it. The period of time between 9/11/2001 and 12/31/2009 was pretty much the worst 8.75 years in U.S. History. So what, exactly, do we have to look forward to as a new decade dawns? Do we even know what to call it?
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