Dear dedicated followers of this website (I’m sure there’s six or seven of you out there),
You may have noticed that stories have not come in as great a quantity this past week as they have in weeks past.  This is for one very simple reason: the minds behind Satire on the Rocks are tired.  So [...]

Memorial Day 2009 was a day of sadness for fans of the rock band Wilco.  News leaked early Monday that former Wilco member Jay Bennett, he of the dreadlocks and the in-studio knob-twirling, with the ripping lead guitar and perpetual cigarette dangling from his mouth, the one given the boot in 2001 before the release [...]

This past college basketball season, Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin had as good a year as someone can possibly have.  Averaging almost twenty-three points and fourteen rebounds a game, he carried his modestly talented team to the Elite Eight, where they lost to eventual champion North Carolina.  He achieved thirty double-doubles, one shy of the NCAA [...]