Stand For Peace
Stand For Peace
How the joke ‘conspiracy’ Birds Aren’t Real became a real conspiracy about a fake conspiracy. 14 April 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Backstory: Birds Aren’t RealPeter McIndoe (born 1997/1998) created the satirical conspiracy “on a whim” in…
No one listens anymore. I said no one listens anymore. To anything. Hell, you won’t even bother to read this tale of woe about no one listening anymore. Photo: The Fan / James Porteous 18 March 2022 | James Porteous…
Bob Innes He set the (clearly) gag-website up in 2005 to test website security, and has received around 650 to 700 contact requests. Screenshots from rentahitman.com 26 November 2021 | Staff | Euronews A woman in the US has been…
17 September 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media ‘He Said, She Said’ – An engaging and humorous collection of Studs Terkel-style tales of faith, love, life, and sometimes, even redemption. Sample From ‘He Said, She Said’ Short Fiction (Bitter)…
Photo: Cropped – David Dee Delgado for The New York Times (original below) | With additional photos, quotes and video The beloved author wrote many witty epitaphs but never suggested where her remains should end up. Her fans helped complete…
22 August 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media There’ll be peace without end Ev’ry neighbor a friend With ev’ry man a King (Castro Carazo / Huey P. Long) By the time former Louisiana Governor and Senator Huey P. Long…
Photo: James Porteous 13 August 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Call it ‘gallows humour.’ Or simply bad taste. But let’s not pretend that soldiers don’t need down time. Or that terrorists don’t need rules -and money- to survive.…
Photo: FILE – Actor/comedian Jackie Mason stands beside a bus displaying a sign advertising his TV show, 1992. Mason, a rabbi-turned-jokester whose feisty brand of standup comedy got laughs from nightclubs in the Catskills to West Coast talk shows and…
Photo: NASA will send three inanimate occupants, like this one, to the moon on Artemis I to help measure radiation and vibration. Photo courtesy of NASA 24 June 2021 | Paul Brinkmann | UPI ORLANDO, Fla., June 24 (UPI) — NASA’s…
Headline: ‘Galápagos tortoise found alive revealed as species thought extinct 100 years ago’ Oh dear. Robots can be so troublesome #news360 #DominicCummings #truthfiction
Toby Jones: “We had the second series of Don’t Forget The Driver written, it was all there. And Covid ate it.” 14 May 2021 | Jay Richardson | British Comedy Guide Toby Jones‘s comedy Don’t Forget The Driver has been cancelled. BBC…
The director’s “other production commitments” have superseded ‘An Afternoon with SCTV’ 13 May 2021 | Calum Slingerland | Exclaim Following reports that Martin Scorsese‘s long-awaited SCTV documentary for Netflix had been shelved, it has now been confirmed that An Afternoon with SCTV is not off the table entirely,…
