Author: Steve DiMatteo

Some of the Robot Butt team resides in Ohio. In December, Macaulay Culkin’s Velvet Underground tribute band, The Pizza Underground, will be playing in Columbus. We have to go, right? Though the group was recently booed off-stage, their demo really doesn’t sound all that bad, though it’s hard to tell what, if anything, is being made fun of here. Maybe they’re just out to confuse and/or scare people. It’s also possible that we’re witnessing a rich person simply doing whatever the hell he wants. Regardless, it’s hard to fathom anyone booing a band that is spreading the message of pizza. A…

Starting tomorrow, Robot Butt is going to celebrate all things pizza. For the next week, we will give you nothing but pizza-related content, from 10,000-word essays to videos, comics and more, along with a few guest appearances by big-time celebrities!* We have know that, above all else, pizza is a unifying force in our world, a tremendous vehicle for our relationships and everyday life. Without it, we would be all soulless vessels floating through life without a purpose. But pizza gives us a reason for being here, and for continually trying to improve ourselves. For that, we need to give it…

Diet trends seemingly come and go every week, but the one that might stick around on the basis of actually being viable is the paleo, or caveman, diet. From my understanding, this is purely a meat, vegetables and fruit diet that cuts out all of the crap we eat without sacrificing actual nutrients and essential vitamins. In essence, the paleo diet is a return to the basics, a strategy for eating exactly what we need to not just survive, but to improve ourselves. It’s all about remaining as pure as possible. So are boogers paleo? It’s not a ridiculous question. Boogers…

Though Weird Al is obviously not gone from our consciousness, he is the product of another generation. In that respect, The Lonely Island has done a good job of carrying the torch for modern comedy music acts. Though maybe just a little bit polarizing depending on your overall attitude towards rap, the group has a great following gleamed from their days of utilizing Saturday Night Live’s built-in audience. And now, the group, in its musical form, will be coming in some capacity to the big screen, with a Lonely Island movie in the works. I don’t care what it’s about or…

It’s relatively safe to assume that, at times, celebrities act like normal human beings. As far as I can tell, they’re made the same way as us. They certainly speak and pretend to act like us. So that means they might do things we all do when the cameras aren’t rolling and the paparazzi hasn’t found them, right? Think about it. What are you doing right now? Sitting at your computer reading this, or maybe you’re on the couch using your tablet or phone and you’re waiting for that entire box of macaroni and cheese to finish cooking so you…

Now that “Weird Al” Yankovic has secured the first No.1 album of his career in Mandatory Fun, what is there left to conquer for the musician who has enjoyed a 30-year career and earned the respect of every human being on the planet? Perhaps it’s the Super Bowl, the biggest single event in the world. The push for him to perform at Super Bowl XLIX and truly cement his legacy as the greatest artist of all time is in full force, and it’s being aided by an online petition that, at the time of this writing, has more than 8,200 supporters…

It’s very possible that I am completely blinded by my overwhelming desire for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie to be good that I’ll think anything related to it is fantastic. That could be – it has to be – the case with the movie’s official song, “Shell Shocked,” right? Like Vanilla Ice’s “Ninja Rap” from The Secret of the Ooze, this newest reboot of the franchise features its own accompanying tune, but I somehow doubt Juicy J and Wiz Khalifa are going to show up and hang out with the turtles at a club. But if they do, you’ll need…

Last weekend, a man bit part of another man’s finger off at the Beyoncé and Jay Z concert in Pasadena, California at the Rose Bowl. The biter – 25-year-old Roberto Alcaraz Garnica – was the rambunctious instigator of the incident, as he was groping a woman during the show (a sexually charged show, one can imagine), and that woman’s boyfriend got all indignant about it. A physical altercation ensued, resulting in Garnica biting off part of the other man’s finger. The man was taken to the hospital and is presumably fine, other than wondering what he did wrong in life…

Chances are, you’ve read a Thought Catalog article or two or thousand about how you need to smile through adversity. Or a study somewhere that outlined the positive effects of maintaining a sunny disposition, which is to mask whatever numbing pain you’re feeling. Or, God help you, you’ve taken the advice of some linkbait garbage from Upworthy that promised to “restore your faith in humanity.” And for some reason, you’ve decided that you would take your quest for happiness to Instagram or Twitter or Facebook. Your ratio of selfies to actual pictures becomes 10:1 as you find every reason to force a…

Well that was fun, wasn’t it? Thanks in large part to a brilliant marketing strategy that included releasing eight music videos in eight consecutive days, Mandatory Fun was the first Weird Al album to debut at No. 1. So where do we go from here? In the myriad of interviews Weird Al has done in the past few weeks, he has alluded to the notion that Mandatory Fun would likely be his last traditional album. Of course, that doesn’t mean he’s done producing music by any means; he’ll just be searching for new ways to distribute it. In the interest of being…