At 12:23pm on Saturday 3 November 2011 the reigning champion of the world’s longest game of hide and seek was accidentally discovered by his friend Fred through the use of the world’s most popular social media platform. Timothy, a 28 year old man from Minnesota, challenged his friend to the game in the summer of [...]

I live on the same latitude as Hawaii on the Pacific– as I’ve posted before, I live in Mexico. Despite being on the west coast of Latin America, it didn’t stop me from spending some 47-odd hours in New York City, Philadelphia AND Baltimore this weekend. Now, while such a quick trip to the East [...]

March, and Ken Bobbins from New Jersey is sitting at home in front of the TV with a beer and a cigarette. The year started off so promisingly – he had stopped smoking and drinking for several hours back in January. He had even put on his running shoes. But it was to go no [...]

An escalator broke down today at a local shopping mall. The patrons of the mall were forced to walk down the stationary steps. The incident didn’t cause too many problems. Sketchy spoke to Bob Stepford, who just happened to be out buying a new stepladder. “It didn’t cause too many problems.” he said. The great [...]

Kids today are not being taught the skills they need to cope in the real world, according to a report from an international think tank. In the report, it details how schools are not equipping young people with essential life skills such as drinking in public, swearing at other drivers, and pushing in at cash [...]

The new Gilmore Girls complete Blu Ray Box set, released on Monday, is the first Blu Ray release to include a “Slow down to normal people speed” setting. The new feature was added in the interests of public sanity. For those viewers who missed everything that was ever said on the Gilmore Girls, which is [...]

Michael Bay is about to release his latest movie, titled “Boom” which aims to break the record for the biggest explosion ever in a movie. The movie, which is just over 4 hours long, is simply one long explosion that lasts the entire duration. “It’s a story of love, life, and how they come together [...]

Mark Windsor, a brick layer from down the road, logged onto his MySpace account today for the first time in 3 years, only to find that he had no friends in his friends list. Upon further investigation, it became apparent to Mr Windsor that everyone in the world had actually left MySpace, around the same [...]

“My nail clippers should be here. Why aren’t they fucking here? I’m just not looking hard enough. I should keep searching longer. I’ll look under this sheet of paper. Not here. Dammit, I’d like to get to bed soon. It’s possible that my roommate was using them and never gave them back. Naw, I’m just [...]

Screw any big movie role, or some #1 rock hit. You don’t really know you’ve made it until you’ve been on a late-night talk show. There must be no other feeling like it. You sit there and recount random stories, while about two hundred people listen intently; you have their undivided attention. They are there [...]