Tag: the onion
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who supported the Eric Garner protests and has admitted to smoking weed, continues to be a man of the people. On Tuesday afternoon, he performed a dramatic reading of an Onion article that gently mocked his preparedness for a storm that never arrived in New York City. Mayor de Blasio just […]
There’s a profile of the Onion’s three-person art department on FastCo Design and it just sounds like the best editorial art job in the world, really. An Onion article titled “New Law Enforcement Robot Can Wield Excessive Force Of 5 Human Officers” includes a remarkable bit of artwork, which you can see above: a muscled, armored tank-like robot armed with […]
It’s curious when people find a joke so offensive their immediate reaction is to discuss it in detail with as many people as possible. Some would say that this is counterproductive, like buying a Dixie Chicks CD in order to smash it in front of news cameras. However without bemoaning the transgression to your sensibility […]
A couple of geniuses created the On1on, a parody/not-parody news site that parodies the parody news site the Onion. Confused yet? The On1on compiles real news stories that are ridiculous enough to appear on the satire site, then packages them in a format that’s nearly identical to the Onion‘s. The site appears to automatically populate with content from Reddit’s “Not The […]
