Tag: unicorns

• What is Dispatches?

  February 28th, 2008

  This is one of those things I’ve thought I probably should write for a long time but never got to actually doing. Until now. Dispatches, for those who don’t know, is a semi-regular feature on this site. It consists, essentially, of a few sentences that laments that our (fictional) reporter hasn’t been in touch in…

• Five Frequently Forgotten Facts about Pirates

  June 25th, 2007

  Everyday, pirates seem to be getting more and more popular. I think this is absurd. Here are the five most important things we should not forget about pirates. Johnny Depp is not a pirate, pirates are not Johnny Depp. All this nonsense about good looking pirates has to stop. Pirates were probably some of the…

• Five Reasons that Unicorns are Better than Penguins

  June 19th, 2007

  Penguins have been getting a lot of press lately. At least 300 movies about penguins to have come out in the last year, of which Surf’s Up is only the most recent. But do you know how many movies unicorns got? That’s right. Not a single movie about unicorns has been released recently, and this…

• Dispatches from the Field: Land Speed Record

  June 9th, 2007

  Dispatches from the Field is our ongoing series of reports from our intrepid traveling reporter Steve Finch. This week, some insight on the most famously reclusive animals on the planet. In the history of the world, there has only been one land mammal faster than the cheetah. What creature is so incredibly fast and nonchalant…