Michael Swaim
I write here sometimes. Also make videos. I also do that one (the videos one) at my own site, Those Aren't Muskets! (www.thosearentmuskets.com). I also do a lot of other stuff, but it's not as directly applicable to the Internet, and I feel like that's what you're probably most interested in. I often shave.
6 Real Bible Verses We're Hoping God Gives Us A Pass On (Ft. Michael Swaim) (VIDEO)
Michael Swaim returns to Cracked's YouTube channel to look at some Bible verses that really should have been cut.
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- By Michael Swaim, Winston Rowntree
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Vonnegut Book Club: A Man Without A Country
Just when Kurt thought he was out, George W. Bush pulled him back in.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Michael Swaim
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Vonnegut Book Club: God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian
Who knew a string of fictional deaths would bring Kurt Vonnegut back to life?
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- By Alex Schmidt, Michael Swaim
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Vonnegut Book Club: Bagombo Snuff Box
It's the rare author who digs his past up, puts it on display like a fossil, AND includes rad stories about sports cars.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Michael Swaim
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Cracked Movie Club: Planes, Trains and Automobiles
John Hughes month continues on Cracked Movie Club!
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- By Tom Reimann, Michael Swaim
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Vonnegut Book Club: Timequake
I don’t want my final book to be a piece of crap. At the end of his life, Mark Twain was writing mostly crap.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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Vonnegut Book Club: Fates Worse Than Death
Following 1981's Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut wrote his last major stretch of novels.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Michael Swaim
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Vonnegut Book Club: Hocus Pocus
By 1990, Kurt Vonnegut had a pretty good grasp of what he was doing.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Michael Swaim
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Which City Is The Number 1 Movie Setting Of All-Time?
New York. Paris. Tokyo. Miami.
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- By Michael Swaim, Cher Martinetti, Brett Rader, Alex Schmidt, Daniel Dockery
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The Terrifying Truth About Why We Love Apocalypse Stories
From Mad Max to The Road to the illustrious career of Roland Emmerich, it's clear that the modern pop-culture consumer loves apocalypses.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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Vonnegut Book Club: Bluebeard
Have you ever been to a modern art museum and seen a piece that's just a couple splatters of paint on a blank canvas
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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15 Real Science Stories That Would Make Great Sci-Fi Movies
If you're a movie fan in 2017, you're hard pressed to find many original sci-fi films.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt, Brett Rader
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11 Graphic Novels That Should Be Turned Into Movies
Another summer in the books, another summer of somewhat pleasing comic book movies.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Michael Swaim, Randall Maynard
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Galapagos: Vonnegut's Study Of Evolution And The Afterlife
Kurt Vonnegut's 1985 novel Galapagos is a day after tomorrow story of the world ending, but also not ending, told from one million years in the future.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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Cracked Book Club: Deadeye Dick
Kurt Vonnegut's 1982 novel, Deadeye Dick plays out like a sort of greatest hits version of a Coen brothers movie.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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D&D Is So Cool Now, Prisoners Are Playing It
Thanks to those plucky kids in Stranger Things and the larger proliferation of nerd culture, we're happy to announce that Dungeons and Dragons is officially cool now.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Michael Swaim, The Sixler
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Kurt Vonnegut Explains All of Literature in 6 Graphs
Kurt Vonnegut once said of his novel 'Slapstick': This is the closest I will ever come to writing an autobiography.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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20 Unheralded Geniuses Who Basically Invented Modern Movies
For many people, filmmaking begins and ends with the director.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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Vonnegut's Shot At Nixon, Capitalism And Corporations
The 70s were a weird time.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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Our Editor-in-Chief's 4 Most Mind-Blowing Podcast Moments
Serious Talk. It's Jack's last episode.
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- By Michael Swaim, Daniel O'Brien, Mandy Rusin, Soren Bowie, Jack O'Brien, Alex Schmidt, Jason Pargin
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