Rebel posts that don’t fit the mold.
Okay, folks, we need to have a little sit-down about some of the rules. God has been noticing a lot of disobedience lately, and He doesn’t want to have to kill a bunch of people again. Hey, Gershon, tell me about it, okay? I lost three cousins in that slaughter. …
WHO: That one guy who’s always hanging around down by the tire store. Just some dudes. You wouldn’t know her, she lives in Canada, but her name is, uh, Melissa Pabodie. Wealthy young gadabout Herbert Hirschman. The producers of Vantasy II: Vampire Van. Some guys in a low rider, I …
“Hello, Tideman’s Department Store, can I help you?” “Is this the Lost and Found?” “This is Customer Service, sir. How can I help you?” “I think I lost something when I was there over Christmas, doing my gift buying.” “What was it, sir?” “My soul.” “Your what?” “My soul. I …
Leonard plays for a sports team. Although it seems unlikely with this ragtag band of misfits, the team makes it to the big game. At a crucial moment, he blows a big play. Leonard dresses in drag to gain the trust of a woman he wants to date. Absolutely no …
Welcome to Fun Camp! By now you’ve been shown to the communal Squee Cabins and been assigned a bed shaped like a race car, rocket ship or cartoon animal, and you’ve probably asked yourself: what am I doing here? You’re here because someone very important in your life — a …
BORN. To Janet Corbett, 31, a convenience store clerk in Puyallup, WA, and Satanachia, 6008, Grand General of the Infernal Spirits, a man-child who shall be named “Enoch”. The father came to the mother on the moon of the sixth day of the sixth month at the sixth hour in …
“Hey, you feel like going down to Martha’s Vineyard for the Memorial Day weekend?” “Sure! Oh, that’ll be nice. A beach trip! And we can see my sister. Do you want me to book a flight tomorrow?” “Nah. We’ll just use the transporter.” “Oh, Henry.” “What?” “I don’t know why …
SALES INCREASE UNDERPERFORMS The Household Sundries division reported an all-time high 52% increase in sales this quarter, with strong showings in the cookware and cleaning supplies sectors leading a late-period surge that contributed to the record-setting total. Management notes, however, that its goal for the quarter was a 75% sales …
“Evenin’, Palladius.” “Evenin’, Kevin.” “What can I get for ye this sunny day?” “Wusky, my dear.” “The Jameson, I assume?” “No indeed. Give me the Glenlivet.” “Palladius! You don’t say so.” “I just can’t take it anymore, Kevin. Not another gory day of it. Look at them all, out there …
The Ayn Rand Institute * in conjunction with * The Leonard Peikoff Foundation for Rational Youth Outreach proudly presents: THE 2013 GALTIES (The 15th Annual John Galt Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Objectivism by American Youth) San Diego Airport Hilton – Saturday, August 24th – 8:00 PM – Nominees and guests only …
Hey, there, neighbors! I’m H.I. “Red” Hand, owner and head man in charge of Frederick’s of Rhetoric, and I’m here to tell you: April is the cruellest month, mixing memory and desire — but February is the shortest! And that means that I’ve only got four days left you offer …
People always ask me, “Ruth-Melissa, how did you come to operate the largest chain of Christian-themed pizza-pie parlors in the continental United States?” And I mean always! My neighbors ask me, my friends ask me, my less successful relatives ask me, and you’d better believe that paid undercover operatives of …
Today would have been the 120th birthday of legendary British filmmaker Reginald Sir Coptic Mange. On this momentous occasion I can think of nothing more appropriate than to look back on some of the films that made him one of the titans of the screen. Without further ado, to the …
As part of our ongoing dedication to preserving our nation’s cultural ephemera, LP dot com is pleased to present captions from rejected New Yorker cartoons, 1920-present. “Rodney, for God’s sake, control your Negroes.” “Prepare a standard sodomy clause, Miss Scunthorpe.” “It’s sort of a cook-out, only with horsemeat and machineguns.” “Oh, it …
To follow in the gargantuan footsteps of Barzun’s seminal (not to mention semeinal) work on the significance — and I use the word in its strictest structuralist sense — of the Hostess oeuvre, the immortal From Cupcakes to Chocodiles: The Decade of Difference, seems presumptuous, if not arrogant. And yet, …
