passiveaggressivenotes.com offers a tremendous look at just how flawed this whole thing called life really is. Sometimes leaving a note is simply the only thing to be done. Some other times, leaving a note is the thing you choose to do because you have, like, issues with confrontation. At that level, it’s about context.
But there […]
In my day, grandpa might say, things were different. We knew what we were about. Good was good, bad was bad.
Okay, Gramps, you salty old bastard, but it’s not like it was all black and white, nazis and nuns. Things are always simpler when they’ve already happened, when they’re history.
But Gramps might not relent–he […]
Invisible Man v Hawkman
This is the classic match-up. First conceived and told by John Hodgman on the Superpowers episode of This American Life (#178, thought by many, including this blog, to be perhaps the best episode ever), the question posited there is:
Which is better: The power of flight or the power of invisibility?
Hodgman, whose gloriously […]
For a second time, we’re drawing on the gold mine that is Gone & Forgotten (seriously, there’s so much there; it’s an epic collection of comic book recounts and interpretations). In terms of career path, longevity, benefits, etc, today’s pairing draws from two very different skill sets and overal ambitions:
Skateman v Prez
Skateman is a roller […]
It’s made the internet rounds pretty comprehensively over the past few days, but the 9-minute video of Tom Cruise promoting Scientology has been taken down in a lot of places — likely due to accusations of copyright infringement. [Hence, rather than embed the video here, the link above will take you to Gawker, where the […]
Clown v Astronaut
As with Part 4, today’s central question–what’s worse, being a clown or being an astronaut–is broken up into a series of smaller questions, all of which turn on the matter of deadly or deadliest. The answers are personal, relative to your own likes and (especially) fears; nonetheless, visuals have been provided to guide […]
Trash Collector v Private Investigator
This seems like a fun, sarcastic pairing, at first. But, for the purposes of What’s Worse? the Deadliest Jobs on Earth, right away there are problems. Deadliest? How deadliest is the private investigatorial profession? Barely, it turns out. And garbage men? Not so fatal.
When you look at the fatality numbers, you’ve […]
Every year, the Onion’s AV Club puts out a collection of the Worst Band Names the staff encountered over the course of the year, and this annum’s list is really, really funny. The bands are categorized under headers, eg,
Just Plain Bad
- Dyslexic Speedreaders
Funk
- Hubble Funk-o-Scope
Wookies?
- Legowookie
These are band names pulled from near and far, […]
Stunt Actor. If your first memory of watching TV happens to involve a big box of animal crackers, an older brother screaming at you to be quiet, and a salty-haired Lee Majors playing the rugged, steely-eyed stuntman on The Fall Guy, then you are probably me. And, hey, congratulations—things could be worse for you I […]
for a deliciously crafted explanation of the what’s worse, deadliest jobs edition rules, see part 1
Even with all the underground fame and notoriety, sometimes what Boba Fett wanted most was a place to stand still and rest his kneeless legs.
Part of the trick in deciding a given instance of what’s worse between two jobs […]
