Archive for Fortey
Ian Fortey knows no shame. He writes from the gut and/or groin, a method that has earned him no awards yet, but probably makes others feel warm in their unwholesome locations. Ian Fortey will rub your belly. If you find yourself feeling something akin to love, admiration, lust or revulsion, you can e-mail Ian at fortey@scenicanemia.com
The Learning Channel: Teaching Us All Absolutely Nothing
Cable networks often adopt names that cut to the heart of what they want to show to audiences. Animal Planet is like a whole damn world full of alpacas and monkeys, Comedy Central is right in the heart of hilarious. Spike TV is the epitome of what people with the intellect of a 12 year [...]
27Sep2008 | Fortey | 5 comments | Continued
You Too Can Write for the Internets…Maybe
Recently, the crack team of literati here at Scenic Anemia sat down and decided we needed to start blogging. Not just to fill space on the website and make you, our 7 readers, feel like we were updating on a semi-regular basis, but because we wanted to give something back to the internet community that [...]
27Sep2008 | Fortey | Comments Off | Continued
Entry Level Loser 2: StarMail Warehouse
This likely wasn’t my second job ever, I just can’t remember where it fit in. I think I was in high school when I had it. Now, for those who read of my adventures at Best Value Restaurant and recall I said it was my first job, and I was in college, you’ll have to [...]
26Sep2008 | Fortey | 1 comment | Continued
Fraudulent Friend Finder - The Revenge!
For my original fraudulent friend finder article, I decided to go out of my way to be a complete douche to a total stranger, even if said stranger was an eerie shut-in degenerate who liked to be wrapped in saran wrap by strange women. You don’t need me to explain the details again, go read [...]
26Sep2008 | Fortey | 2 comments | Continued
Brine Shrimp Vagina
It’s 2:45 in the morning and I have to work at 10:00. To do this I must leave the house by 8:30 to catch a bus all the way across town. To do this I figure I need to be up in 5 hours. But I am already up, so I am ahead of the [...]
11Sep2008 | Fortey | 11 comments | Continued
Websites About Which I Am Chagrined
Why doesn’t the internet seek to please me at all times? I don’t know. The result of the internet’s slothful inability to bend to my unspoken whims is a pantload of websites that make tiny muscles under the flesh of my face spasm in frustration and anger. There are so many preposterous [...]
3Sep2008 | Fortey | 6 comments | Continued
This is Some Good S#!t: Practical Uses for Feces
Shit, like Ryan Seacrest, is mostly water. The rest, probably also like Seacrest, is dead bacteria, fiber, fat, and ass mucus. It’s pretty simple (this Seacrest metaphor keeps going, doesn’t it?), pretty awful and people have found far too many ways to make it do something for them.
Booze - The origin of the term shit [...]
3Sep2008 | Fortey | 4 comments | Continued
A Fear of Hobos
So I have this fear of hobos. Some years ago I took it upon myself to head downtown at a totally unreasonable hour in the morning in the hopes of being first in line to get tickets to a concert that was in a town that’s about 160 miles away. It didn’t occur to me [...]
3Sep2008 | Fortey | 1 comment | Continued
From Dumping to Humping: World’s Worst Car Names
Sweet Irony
Deciding that likening an ugly ass car to an ugly ass fruit was a good idea, French automaker Renault tried to launch a campaign that compared the Renault 14 to the pear. The fact that poire, in French, can mean both pear and gullible was apparently lost completely on the manufacturers, as was the [...]
2Sep2008 | Fortey | 2 comments | Continued
Animal Abuse – The Stupid Origins of 13 Animal Names
Not a lot of people stop to ponder where names come from these days, unless they run across some idiot with a name Xerxes, Jermajesty or Dane Cook. Even less noteworthy are the names of animals, which we all tend to take for granted. But as it turns out, a number of our little friends [...]
2Sep2008 | Fortey | 4 comments | Continued