Archive

Note on how to navigate this site: Apart from the highlights below, articles are archived by section. There's also a search function in the forum. (You have to sign up to search. Sorry. Them's the breaks.)

2008 highlights

• 3rd anniversary
  
  Last year, we travelled into the future. This time, we're going over 100 years into the past to see what the site would've looked like in the 1890s. I'm proud of the graphics I did for this article...well, one of them at any rate.
• Valentine's Day poem
  
  I mined the most romantic songs ever to produce the most romantic poem ever. Thank you, Marvin Gaye.

2007 highlights

• Two down, 98 to go
  
  To celebrate the site's second anniversary (of doom), I look 98 years into the future.
• My Mutilated Valentine
  
  Trixie the Pixie is having a bad Valentine's Day. I do so love the Valentine's Day updates.
• War on the Floor III
  
  Attack on Peep Village. Arguably the most ambitious to date in terms of stupidity.
• My Free iPhone
  
  I had enough hearing all these pretentious iDorks raving about an iPhone they had never even held in their hand.
• Cereal Awareness Month 2007
  
  This year's CAM was the best so far.
• Guide crazy
  
  I started several 'McAwesome Guides' this year, all of which are ongoing projects. First off, we have the Grammar guide, the Breakfast Cereal Guide, NFL Football Guide, G.I. Joe Guide and the not unrelated Transformers Guide.

2006 highlights

• Cereal Awareness Month 2006
  
  2006 was an exciting year. It featured two new kickin holidays, Happy Super Awesome Day (on December 26th) and Cereal Awareness Month in April. The origin of CAM is my staunch devotion to revealing cereal box cheat codes and walkthroughs. Video game sites have a long tradition of doing this for games. Why not cereal boxes?
• Dear Strawberry Shortcake
  
  She turned 30 and needed the solace only an old flame could provide.
• I am an imposter
  
  I thought the idea of letting people from the forum submit their childhood pictures to help celebrate Mother's Day would be a complete disaster. Little did I know what bizarre childhoods they each had.
• Ink Tales
  
  Zach's Ink Tales story is the perfect example of how to use a picture as a punchline.
• Manly Man Food for Men
  
  Zach: Though my other works have been of exceptional calibre, I believe Man Food to be my crowning achievement, a work which sits comfortably beside the greats, such as Hemingway, Faulkner, and Dan Brown.
• Paris Hilton Album Review
  
  Adam: My thinking was that there would probably be hundreds of reviews of the CD that attempted to be funny while at the same time completely bashing it. I also assumed that most of those reviews would include a lot of personal shots at her based solely on all of the "news" stories devoted to her. I figured approaching it as if I not only hadn't heard the music (which I hadn't) but also was completely clueless as to who Paris Hilton was would be a more original approach. The best way I could think of to do that was to make it a totally positive review of the music and make her seem like a credible and talented artist who worked extremely hard to get to where she was and deserved more mainstream exposure. I think it turned out pretty good. It made me laugh anyway.
• Quest for the Stink Flower
  
  The smelliest flower in the world is blooming in Brooklyn? Man, it's a shame Time Magazine didn't ask me to cover it.

2005 highlights

• War on the Floor
  
  To be perfectly honest, the sole reason for the existence of this site was to photograph action figures fighting on my living room floor.
• Yokorama
  
  The very first piece of content I ever put up. It began as an email exchange between me and the bassist of The Border States...then I went off the deep end.
• I ran for Pope.
  
  Probably the best thing that ever happened to me was the death of Pope John Paul II. I decided then and there that I should launch a campaign for the Papacy. Filming the commercials with Paul was cool, but I kept flubbing my lines. Originally, I wanted to cast someone as Dave McAwesome, but due to time constraints, I was forced to play myself. Lucky you.
• The Eyeman Cometh
  
  I'm still not thrilled with the title. Thank christ the article turned out okay.
• Blogtards
  
  This roundtable discussion about why blogs suck became the genesis for Blog Thunderdome.
• Trying is the first step towards failure
  
  Is there anything funnier than failure? I think not.
• Stubb's BBQ Sauce
  
  This is the quintessential Section 2 article: short, funny, one pic, done.

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