7 Tips for Watching “Downton Abbey” While Staying a Man
So. You like “Downton Abbey”. Yet you have testes. Or DO you? It’s uncomfortable to admit that a show so luxuriously overloaded with frilly clothing and stately manors/manners is actually pretty decent...
View ArticleSadder Day Night Special: The 6 Saddest Moments on “The Wire”
Variety Magazine observed, "When TV history is written, little else will rival 'The Wire'." Today, we examine 6 of the Saddest Scenes on the Greatest TV Show ever. The post Sadder Day Night Special:...
View ArticleFive Ways to Turbocharge Your Married Sex Life!
Men, we have perhaps the single bit of greatest news since the invention of Scotch-in-a-can! A recent study finds that husbands who do housework may have less sex- or, if you want the glass half-full...
View ArticleSadder Day Night Special: “The Champ”
Does this one even NEED any introduction? No, it does not. I’ll give it one anyway. Franco Zeffirelli’s 1979 feature “The Champ” is a full-on, epic schmaltz-fest so shamelessly manipulative and so...
View ArticleWelcome to the World’s Biggest, Floating Toilet Bowl
The Carnival Triumph has great news for families, particularly if your family is the Norovirus strain of the Caliciviridae family! Because thanks to the perseverance of the Carnival cruise ship...
View ArticleWhen You Wish Upon a Falling Star…
It's been a banner day for meteors and asteroids, with the former crashing all over the Russian landscape, and the latter passing closely enough to Earth to have many editorialists clenching their...
View ArticleThe Top 4 Most Terrifying Moments from… Little House?!
Little House on the Prairie. When it was good, it was peerless. When it was bad, doubly-so. And when it was scary, it was ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING.The post The Top 4 Most Terrifying Moments from… Little...
View ArticleThe Top 13 Demotivators® Posters Of All Time
A recent post at Entrepreneur.com considers the Top 10 Successories Motivational Posters of All Time. After we put away our sick bags, we decided to reply to it, with our semi-scientific list of the...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Kim Jong Un (from a Bro)
Kim, Bro, we need to talk. Dude, I know you're feeling a bit insecure in your masculinity, but come on. These empty threats of preemptive nuclear attacks is just making you look even more impotent than...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Despair
Despair, Inc. officially turns 15 years old this week! And we're planning to celebrate the only way we know how. With lots of Drinking & Demotivation™! The post Happy Birthday, Despair appeared...
View ArticlePlease Stand By
After years of development, of false starts, aborted launches, and other self-inflicted mishaps, our most cynically brilliant adventure is about to begin.The post Please Stand By appeared first on The...
View ArticleIntroducing “Who Killed John F. Kennedy?”– A Lose Your Own Adventure!
The Detective is YOU, a brilliant kid detective! The Victim is JFK, the President of the United States! But the mystery is UTTERLY UNSOLVABLE!The post Introducing “Who Killed John F. Kennedy?” – A Lose...
View ArticleAdolescent Repair While You Wait
The summer of '87. World population reached five billion people. Ronald Reagan challenged Gorbachev to tear down the Wall. The Harmonic Convergence ushered in a new era of universal peace and brotherly...
View ArticleThe Wages of Overconfidence Is Success
Many of us have worked with or for individuals who have confidence in wild disproportion to their actual talent. The post The Wages of Overconfidence Is Success appeared first on The Pessimist.
View ArticleEarly Praise for “Who Killed John F. Kennedy?” Lose Your Own Adventure #1
Despair.com’s first Lose Your Own Adventure book, Who Killed John F. Kennedy?, is now hitting the mailrooms of over 100 journalists and book reviewers across the globe, and the early reviews have been...
View ArticleLose Your Own Adventure #2, “The Glass Ceiling”
For over a decade, our female customers have asked us to take on workplace sexism. Yet it's a topic far too complex to reduce to a simple poster or t-shirt. It deserves nothing less than a full-on...
View ArticleBehind The Scenes of “Who Killed John F. Kennedy?”
SPOILER ALERT. If you haven’t yet read Lose Your Own Adventure #1, Who Killed John F. Kennedy?, you probably should skip this post! If you have read it, we hope you loved it! From the reviews on...
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