I'm Streeter. I'm a comedian, writer, actor and cheeseburger enthusiast. I edit CollegeHumor.com. Contact me at Streeter.Seidell @ Gmail.com.
This SNL sketch cracked me up. I was extra excited when Pat showed me the source material. This is so hard to accept as real but I have to trust Amanda - our resident Juggalo expert - that it is.
Side Theory: At some point in their career, every comedy writer will find an excuse to write a list a funny band names.
Poor-O-Vision. You may Digg it here.
Illustrated by Caldwell in this, the second helping from C+C Comedy Factory.
Doing the weekender is always cool, but doing the weekender on the 10th anniversary of CollegeHumor is especially rad.
Loved this.
CH was registered on December 5th, 1999. We thought it’d be fun to see what the site would look like if the design was never updated.
Hey! I wrote a new article. It’s the second installment of my Employee Manuals…Probably series. There is at least one mroe to come but if you like this, how about a birthday digg?
The powers that be at BustedTees have made me a birthday coupon code, which doesn’t do anything for me but does do something for you! From midnight tonight till 11:59 tomorrow, you can get 10% off with coupon code ‘happybirthdaystreeter’. And if you really want to give me a happy birthday, buy one of my shirts!
When you have an odd name like I do you tend to look into your family history. Since my first name is my Gandmother’s maiden name, I’m related to almost everyone with the last name Streeter. Now, there is a section of Chicago called Streeterville and, naturally, I wanted to know how that came to be. I looked it up on Wikipedia a while ago and this is what it said…
In the late 1880s, an American Civil War Civil War veteran named George Streeter claimed that his boat hit a sandbar just off the Chicago shoreline during a storm, which he and his wife made their new home. The Streeters encouraged dumping in the area, which after several years, built up to became solid land. Eventually, the lake currents and garbage created a landfill. Since an 1821 government property survey stated that the Chicago municipal boundary terminated at the shoreline, Streeter claimed his ‘new land’ formed of silt and garbage as an independent territory called the District of Lake Michigan.
Neat!
But then I went back to see if I could learn more and found this passage had replaced the neutral one above.
In the late 1880s, George Streeter began his efforts to steal shoreline land from its rightful owners. He persisted in these efforts for decades, lying, stealing, forging and killing in his scheming. He claimed that his boat hit a sandbar just off the Chicago shoreline during a storm. That he and his wife made the stranded boat their new home. Meanwhile, landfill dumped in an effort to create land on which to build Lake Shore Drive by the Lincoln Park Board created 186 acres (0.75 km2)s of new land along the lake front, which Streeter attempted to claim. Streeter clearly lied about his discovery of the “District of Lake Michigan”.
I’m not saying my ancestors were perfect people and, yes, maybe old Uncle George wasn’t completely honest in his acquisition of the land, but come on! This kind of obvious bias is really not in the spirit of Wikipedia. Hitler’s page doesn’t say ‘Hitler was one of the worst people to have ever lived,’ because an encyclopedia is not a place for opinions, it’s a place for facts. So screw you, Marshmallowbunnywabbit! Besides your strange hatred for a man who died in 1921, you are not playing by the rules of Wikipedia.
Same goes for you, MZMcBride, the Brit who deleted my page for not being notable. I may not have a piece of Chicago named after me but I wrote a book, goddamn it! I earned my page! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, MZMcBride?! YOU’VE DONE NOTHING! NOTHING!
UPDATE: LOL
DOUBLE UPDATE: I was wrong it seems. It was not MZMcBride who deleted my page. It was user Caknuk based off a discussion started by user Ocatecir, the same dude who deleted Amir’s. I wonder what this dude has against us.
Woah just found out this existed after that last post. People who like promotional fliers with artistic interpretations of me, Streeter, Jake, and Amir - today is your day.
Well spoken, Jeff.
