September 2009
6 posts
This Week In Big Fat Things →
Holy crap, look at the size of this freaking baby.
I’m not trying to trick you here. This isn’t a midget swaddled up in blankets. This is an actual 19-pound newborn baby born in Indonesia….
The 2009 Emmys Liveblog →
This is, quite literally, with no hyperbole whatsoever, the day you have been waiting for your entire life. The 2009 Prime Time Emmy Awards. Presented in liveblog form, for the socially…
Yes, there will be an Emmys Liveblog. →
This Sunday, all the TV show people will be getting together and giving each other gold statues to show how much they care for each other. If you’re not doing anything else, you can follow…
This Week In Buffoonery →
Good news, everybody! You remember all that polite listening you used to always have to do when other people were talking? Well, no more of that shit! Got something you want to say RIGHT…
Are You Fucking Serious, Mike Duvall? →
We’ve all done our share of bragging. Some of us even enjoy bragging about our sexual conquests. The more depraved among us take special pleasure in bragging about the women that we’re…
Somebody please make them stop. →
If you are like me, you were up late last night thinking to yourself, “Boy, it’s sure been a while since the world got a new Duggar. I wonder how much longer I’ll have to wait for that to…
August 2009
9 posts
If ya ain’t first, yer last →
As our last summer weekend has come, so has a new entry into a popular franchise about people dying. This could be the header for the new Halloween movie as well, and maybe I’ll review that…
District 9 →
If you want to call it a new genre, I wouldn’t blame you. District 9 is probably the strangest movie of the year, and it’s great that such a new formula can be put into an imaginative summer…
Are You F—ing Serious, Aberdeen, Washington? →
Aberdeen, Washington is not a town you ever want to visit. Sure, it’s the birthplace of grunge icon Kurt Cobain and more than a few of you reading this just had that though scrawl through…
Ground Zero: Deep Douchebag Impact →
First off, I should probably apologize for having exposed you to the image you are now witnessing. If I were a nicer person, I wouldn’t have done that. But it’s a Friday, and I’ve got…
Yet another strange reason why I kinda miss Dubya. →
Okay, everyone just calm the hell down. We can figure this out.
So what we’ve got here is a plaque on display at Worcestershire, England. If you can’t quite make out the text, grandpa,…
Seattle: Get Bent →
Seattle: haven for the uninsured motorist searching for a dropped cigarette on the car floor, prone to smashing my car into stationary car in front of me, leaving me to foot the bill. To you: Get…
I Love the Ferris Wheel…No, You Don’t Get It, I... →
Remember when the fair would come to town? If you grew up in a smallish town like I did, there was that one magical week of the year when the county fair would run and a row of creaky, rusty…
Why so socialist? →
So this is apparently the new thing that everyone’s talking about. Some guy put Joker makeup on an Obama picture and posted it all over the continental U.S. And I guess that leaves all the…
Hawaii’s Coach Is Still A Sore Loser →
Lost in the media wash of Obama’s “Beer Summit” and the newest revelations of who tested positive in 2003 for Performance-Enhancing Drugs (here’s looking at you, Big Papi), is the mild…
July 2009
10 posts
Flickr →
This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.
McDonald’s New Mc.45cal Sandwich →
We’ve all been on the short end of a long drive-thru line at our favorite fast-food joint. That horrible line of cars slowly inching forward, the one actually at the window apparently having…
Time enough… →
rod austin, my friend, recently lost his wife crystal to a condition with which she battled constantly and courageously; a condition i couldn’t have explained with any facility to anyone before last…
For Crystal… →
I don’t know if this is my place or not, so I apologize if I shouldn’t be talking about this so soon or at all. I’m not sure if it’s appropriate to take my grief public like this, but I just…
Family Guy? For God’s sake. →
The Academy Awards announced a while back that they were going to open up the number of Best Picture nominees from five up to ten this year. When this was announced, a lot of people got…
A Touch of enV. →
There’s certainly been no shortage of blog topics in the last few weeks or so. There’s the South Carolina governor who was hiking in the Appalachians and made a wrong turn or two and ended…
Sod’s Gonna Get Sued By Sarah Palin!!! →
With everyone’s favorite Alaskan wingnut, Sarah Palin (sorry, Jewel), quitting to win last Friday, there was even more incentive to shoot off fireworks this weekend. For those jubilant about…
Star Trek →
So, of the 2 or 3 people that read my Quantum of Solace review, you may recall a harsh statement about the new Star Trek movie I made as a closing statement. My issue then was that Hollywood…
Allowing You To Exist →
A relatively insignificant politician, Pennsylvania State Sen. John Eichelberger (R), doesn’t like gay people. Actually, that’s a bit of an understatement. John Eichelberger doesn’t think…
All fast food advertising now replaced with porn.... →
A couple years back, McDonald’s put out a web ad that I, at the time, thought might have been the funniest goddamn thing ever. See, it’s one of them flashing banner ads featuring a…
June 2009
7 posts
No Diploma For You! →
Kids these days…
Do you remember your high school graduation? I do.
Three of my classmates showed up either nude under their robes or with just boxers and socks on. Another swiped his older…
Sea Kittens Are Not For Throwing, Silly →
UPDATE (8:50AM) - PETA has sent President Obama a “humane fly catcher” in response to his swatting of a pesky fly during an interview earlier this week. Seriously.
People for the Ethical…
Palin Nation: The Furious Fifteen →
Good Lord, you would’ve thought this would’ve been the end of it.
One would think that after not one, but two on-air apologies to Sarah Palin, David Letterman would finally be off the hook,…
And…That is for the Rock of Love Bus, Bret... →
Satisfying, isn’t it? I don’t normally watch the Tony Awards. It’s not exactly on my social calender, even though I enjoy plays and have seen a handful of musicals. I’ve even attended a…
Sarah Palin Thinks David Letterman is, Like, A... →
You’ll have to excuse me. I got to this high school cat fight a little late. I was in wood shop when someone ran in and told everyone that Sarah Palin and David Letterman were having it out…
Tips on being a better Best Man. →
As Nate already wrote about previously, the weekend before last was my brother’s wedding; an event at which pretty much every single person who’s ever written for this site was in attendance…
James Inhofe (R-OK) is a Stupid Cocksucker →
I bet you think that I’m being over the top in a Olbermann-eque way, right? Well, I’m tired of being nice, tired of parsing my words when talking about politics. I’ve always hated niceties…
May 2009
8 posts
A Bismarck Wedding →
Sara and I are in Bismarck, North Dakota for our good friend Kelly’s wedding. Weddings are funny things. I’ve been involved in only three in the past ten years, one of them my own, and by…
Please stay tuned. →
Okay, so that’s an entire week without an update on the site. What’s going on, you’re wondering? Well, see, it’s like this. Nate’s had a bad case of writer’s block ever since he lost both…
Ruminations on the worthlessness of Jay Leno. →
I had been having what seemed like a good day, up until I checked my Facebook page and saw that one of my Friends had posted the following:
“Less than two weeks until “The Tonight Show” is…
Of all the phones I’ve loved before. →
It’s that wonderful time yet again where Verizon kindly offers to give me an ever-diminishing amount of credit towards a new phone as my “reward” for continuing to pay them money each month….
Brett Favre Considering Retiring from Retirement →
Former Packers and Jets QB Brett Favre, holder of a myriad of NFL career records, is reportedly considering retiring from retirement. While no source close to Favre has corroborated this…
You can’t fix stupid. →
And now, I present to you some down-home, good ol’ fashioned Blue Collar humor. Because I hate you.
• If the back of your neck is often burned red from walking behind your plow with your…
Social Networking for infants. →
Like most parents, I want only what’s best for my daughter. As such, since my daughter has been born into an exciting new world of dynamic online social media, it has been imperative for me…
To “B” or not to “B” →
Interesting news out today. Remember this gal?
Well, turns out that she won’t forever be known only as the narrow-minded runner-up to Miss USA 2009. Now, she’ll be known as the competitor…
April 2009
8 posts
YouTube - 55: A Meditation on the Speed Limit... →
YouTube - 55: A Meditation on the Speed Limit Extended Cut.
I remember running across this a few years ago. A group of college students in Georgia decided to do a large-scale social experiment…
The Hold Steady-Live @ Lola’s Room, 2006 →
This is one from the archives. I had scribbled this down immediately after the show in a notebook, three years ago. I just ran across it today and with the recent release of The Hold…
Weak Tea →
You may have not been aware of it, but it turns out yesterday was the important day ever in democracy. Yup, it’s true. Yesterday was Tea Bag Day, where tens of thousands of angry, pouty…
Dead Space →
I apologize, I really shouldn’t be reviewing (or knowing me, complaining about) a game, especially one like Dead Space, because it isn’t the sort of thing that many people are too excited…
Growing Up Nate: I Ran A Third Grade Ponzi Scheme →
Sort of.
My elementary school got it’s first soda machine when I was in the third grade. It was kind of a big deal at the time, since we were kids and this was yet another way for us to…
Once upon a time, I could control myself. →
In life, you are occasionally granted with certain subtle signs that reveal to you the levels of desperation that lurk within you. For me, I had one just the other week. Want to see it? Here…
Iowa: Gay Marriage Mecca of the Midwest →
Last week, the Supreme Court of Iowa reversed a statewide ban on gay marriage, making it legal for gay people in Iowa to attain the same status as straight people, in the eyes of the state….
Monkey and me. →
I know I’ve been doing this a lot lately, but I wanted to introduce you today to the newest member of my family. This is Mojo.
Mojo is a white tufted marmoset, and is only one years old. It…
March 2009
15 posts
Obama Makes Tough Decisions on Auto Industry,... →
President Obama spoke this morning about the dire business that is our sputtering auto industry. The head of General Motors was asked to step down and Italian auto company, Fiat, has been…
Grit and Determination →
I’ve been trying to come up with something humorous all week to write for Sod, but it’s been rough going. I can’t get my mind off of the thousands of people in the Red River Valley who are…