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  • Matt Manser
    1

    Matt Manser is a writer/comedian based in Los Angeles.  He is the head writer for "Big News," a weekly topical sketch show at IO West, writes sketches for shows at the UCB Theater, and writes videos for UCBComedy.com.  Oh, and he has also written for CMT's "Trick My Truck."

  • Snuffy Johnson
    2

    Snuffy Johnson was born the son of poor parents in Queens, then opened a chain of dry-cleaning stores on the East side of Manhattan.  He has been married to his wife Weezy for almost thirty years, and they have a son, Lionel, who disappointed him by marrying the daughter of the honky next door.

  • Worm Miller
    3

    In 1957, Worm tragically drowned at camp while counselors were inconsiderately having sex. Or so everyone thought. Ambiguously undead, Worm vengefully returned decades later and has been happily killing sexy idiots ever since. He's fought Corey Feldman and Freddy Krueger and gone into space. He hopes someday to fight Michael Meyers and a Predator.

  • Clem Rorsch
    4

    Clem Rorsch aka Ryan Sandoval is a writer and comedian based in Los Angeles, with articles published in Hustler, Slap Skateboard Magazine, and Surf Shot Digital Magazine, for which he also acts as copy editor. He contributes regularly to Mad Atoms, and writes and directs videos for the online sketch collective weaknights.com

  • LIVING THE DREAM
    SO YOU’VE DECIDED TO GO TO WORK HIGH
    22 January 2009 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Stefan Söderström
    Tips and hints no employed stoner can do without.
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    I AM AN ANGLOPHANBOY
    10 September 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Vladlena Shevelova
    Dude, you got to check out this one British show.
  • HIP TODAY GONE TOMORROW
    MEET GERRY, THE MORBIDLY OBESE HIPSTER
    07 April 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Magdalena Sikora
    My friend Gerry is 841 pounds, and knows the drummer from Vampire Weekend.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    KNOW YOUR WEED DEALER
    09 April 2009 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Picols
    You're not just buying drugs, you're buying an experience.
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    NERD TITTY
    14 August 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Sarah Dvojack
    Comic Con’s other rare find.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    JACK FM IS MAKING ME DUMBER
    11 September 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Cansu Tastan
    If I hear Boston's "More than a Feeling" one more time, my brain will shut itself off.
  • ALL FOR ROFL
    I WILL LEGALLY BUY THE DARK KNIGHT ON DVD
    22 December 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Simon Cowell
    It's the right thing to do.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    JACK MORMON
    14 January 2009 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Edwin Servaas
    Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
  • ALL FOR ROFL
    THE WACKY WORLD OF RACIAL SLURS
    28 January 2009 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Aji Bekti
    Racism is officially ridiculous.
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    WHY OLD PEOPLE LOVE THEATER
    15 October 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist:
    Our man on the inside investigates.
  • HIP TODAY GONE TOMORROW
    INSTANT INDIE
    26 September 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Marek Haiduk
    How to create your very own indie scene...
  • ALL FOR ROFL
    WORDS I NEVER WANNA SEE ON CRAIGSLIST AGAIN
    25 July 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Marek Haiduk
    Chill. Drama. 420 Friendly.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    YOU’RE NOT GANDHI, YOU JUST RIDE A BIKE
    09 September 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Doug Chang
    Sometimes bike riders are arrogant assholes.
  • SPLOOGED
    COCK ROCK
    23 July 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Deniz Uzunoglu
    Classic rock heroes release sex tapes.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    GHOST SHITS
    31 October 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: David G. Osnaya
    Why Halloween is the greatest holiday...
  • ALL FOR ROFL
    FAKEBOOK
    02 January 2009 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Karolina Bajda
    [your name here] has uploaded a fake ass photo.
  • ALL FOR ROFL
    NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC TO DIE TO!
    31 July 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Edwin Servaas
    Prisoners on death row get one last listen.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    SO YOU’RE GOING TO A FAMILY FUNCTION HIGH
    01 April 2009 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Luke Fontana
    Because there's no other way to be around your family unless you're high.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    SUBMIT YOUR SCRIPT, GRAND PRIZE $100,000
    30 June 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Jonathan Jacobsen
    From our counter correspondent at Kinko's...
  • THUG LIFE
    GANG BANGIN’ GREEN
    06 August 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Edwin Servaas
    Whether you're a Grape Street Crip or a Witmer Street Loco, the fact remains, global warming effects every hood. If Los Angeles gangs were to adopt a more eco-friendly approach to crime, then the city could guarantee a sustainable, thriving arena for turf wars well into 2060.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    LUNATIC ATTACKS WORKPLACE WITH SUPERSOAKER
    05 August 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Michael Borja
    A fun alternative to that classic chestnut, the office-wide killing spree.
  • ALL FOR ROFL
    ENDANGERED SPECIES BESTIALITY SMUT
    26 September 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Dee Dee Cheriel
    Maybe the Dodo was fucked to extinction.
  • ALL FOR ROFL
    PISSING PEOPLE OFF WITH EMAIL
    22 July 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Andrew Grimm
    I like to reply to every email i receive with "what?"
  • THUG LIFE
    TODAY’S PIRATES SUCK
    05 December 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Sean Metcalf
    Batten down the hatches, ye land lubber!—oh wait, not that kind of pirate.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    HOW (NOT) TO LOSE YOUR JOB IN TEN DAYS
    14 April 2009 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Bogdan Zwir
    Leave your morals at the door.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    STAN LEE IGNORNED ME WHILE I WAS HIGH ON HASH
    27 March 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Frozi
    Production assisting is my Anti-Drug.
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    HOLLYWOODL LONELY HEART DR#: 01-0612603
    10 April 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Luiza Konczyk
    Los Angeles can be a lonely city for the lovelorn. Spring has sprung, so let your love flower blossom with this week’s sexy single!
  • THUG LIFE
    REAL STORIES FROM THE L.A. TRANSIT SYSTEM
    05 September 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Heinz Rookwood
    Ride the bus, get shit all over your neck: ask me how!
  • THUG LIFE
    SHOW ME YOUR SWASTIDOODLE
    28 October 2009 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist:
    With apologies to Elie Wiesel...
  • HIP TODAY GONE TOMORROW
    OH SHIT, ART!
    30 July 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Jimena Amaral
    An everyman’s guide to getting your rocks off in the art scene. Because beauty is as beauty does.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    YOU HAD NO HAND IN THE LEGACY OF THIS FILM
    13 August 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Mathiole
    Just because you like a movie a lot doesn't mean you were somehow responsible for it.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    COPING WITH MUSICAL THEATER MAJORS
    25 September 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Mikel Marton
    It's a big part of my job.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    PLEASE STORE YOUR COCK RING IN THE OVERHEAD
    09 April 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Kamryn Behee
    Putting the T&A in TSA.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    I WAS NOT THAT GOOD AT EATING MUSHROOMS
    17 June 2009 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Thom Julian Hume
    Step #1: Do not vandalize Blockbuster rentals and shout at imaginary wizards.
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    NOBODY CARES, FANBOY
    01 August 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Vincent Bornen
    Stop gasping in the movie theater when you recognize small details of comic book adaptations.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    MOTIVATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SPEAKERS
    19 April 2010 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: J.R. Baldwin
    Making a full time job of stupid shit they did in their past.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    OLYMPIC WITHDRAWALS
    29 August 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Brandy Eve Allen
    Now that the Olympics are over, what do I get high to?
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    MORE FUN WITH THE HOMELESS AND COMEDY
    20 August 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Vincent Bornen
    In which the drug-dealing host of an open mic insults an L.A. vagrant...
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    ROOMMATE, WHERE ART THOU?
    07 July 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Bo Kaier
    A staple of finding new digs in this town is the potential roommate meet-and-greet. This is my story…
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    GETTIN’ HIGH WITH KITTY
    17 April 2008 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist:
    In which I smoke out the poster pet of the Internet.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    I AM HAVING A SECRET WEED AFFAIR WITH MY BOSS
    02 November 2009 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Manuel Rebollo
    I’m a weed hooker, only I get paid in good times.
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    THE FUTURE OF BROMANCE CINEMA
    15 July 2009 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Marek Haiduk
    Like a couch rash, it will spread broey dudeness into other genres…
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    WHAT WE’RE DOING ALONE AT THE PARTY
    03 May 2010 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Sean Metcalf
    Anything but socializing...
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    GET FREE CRAP FOR YOUR BLOOD
    13 February 2009 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Zachary Zezima
    No blood for oil. Yes blood for movie tickets.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    THREE STEPS TO WINE TASTING SUCCESS
    23 November 2009 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Jordan Monsell
    It's not just about getting as smashed as possible. Ok, so maybe it is.
  • THUG LIFE
    ONE FUCKED UP GUIDE TO GROCERIES
    20 October 2009 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: J.R. Baldwin
    It's about time we dabbled in grocery store humor.
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    I’M SORRY MEGAN FOX
    20 August 2009 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Simon Han
    It just isn't working out.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    CELEBRITY BOX OFFICE TALES
    16 August 2010 / Writer: Clem Rorsch / Artist: Sean Metcalf
    How I've touched the lives of the stars.
  • Hillel Aron
    5

    Hillel enjoys playing racquetball, eating steak, and reading about the American civil war. You can follow him on the twitter, or find him on the facebook and tell him how funny he is.

  • Becky Bain
    6

    Becky likes to scuba dive, sky dive, make movies, drink fancy wine and travel. But all of those hobbies are pretty expensive, so she usually just sticks to writing. Words are cheap.

  • Katie Ward
    7

    Katie F. Ward has lived in a bunch of places so, she roots for several different football teams and has a ranking system only she can understand. She tries to eat organic food, but hasn't ruled out Restylane. She loves Jay-Z, Jeff Buckley, and Celine Dion equally. Oh, and she's a hott mess. Seriously.

  • Kirk Pynchon
    8

    Kirk Pynchon was born a poor black child. He enjoys skinny-skiing and going to bullfights on acid. He also listens to Tito Puente albums until four in the morning.  In his spare time Kirk enjoys ripping off lines from movies and pretending they are his own.

  • Bob Schriner
    9

    Stories of Bob Schriner conjure images of a man whose pranks and scams are a blend of crime, audacity and high comedy. For years people debated whether he was a fictional character. MadAtoms has found him and given him a safe house in the Hollywood hills.

  • Alex D. Reid
    10

    Alex D. Reid flosses every night and likes reading about serial killers.  Contact him here.