I’m sorry, Neill Blomkamp. I was a big fan of viral marketing in high school, so much so that I co-created MovieViral.com, a website that followed viral marketing campaigns for films. MovieViral provided coverage of the marketing campaigns… Read More »My 13-years-too-late apology to Neill Blomkamp, the director of District 9
It’s been a few weeks—technically—since the last entry into Sometimes Weekly. These are the risks of building procrastination into the name of your website. But, here we are—new content! And, given that this is the… Read More »The Four Year Card Trick, My Piece of Jeopardy! History, and Happy Christmas
I’ve previously written about the existence of another “Nick Butler” in the United Kingdom who happens to have a similar email address as me, and more specifically, how that led to a member of Parliament… Read More »Setting the Dress Code for a British Secret Society
Back in 2007, I was into ghosts. Like, really into ghosts. I spent time watching videos of supposed ghost activities, looked into the equipment needed to find evidence of ghosts, and even went so far… Read More »A&E almost filmed an episode of “Paranormal State” at my house
A few months ago I set up a parody Donald Trump-themed dating website aptly named Trump.Singles (Note: now defunct and exclusively available through the Wayback Machine). Yeah, I know what you’re thinking, didn’t I almost get sued… Read More »Fox News accidentally advertised my fake Trump dating website
Did you watch the debate last night? No, seriously — did you watch it? That was a real thing that happened. That was a real moment in American history. I know, you don’t believe me… Read More »6 Crazy Donald Trump Theories You Won’t Believe!
Last week, I filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to start an independent expenditure-only political action committee (or superPAC) named Don’t Approve This SuperPAC. Despite pleading with the FEC to not approve my superPAC by literally… Read More »Introducing: Don’t Approve This SuperPAC
A few years ago I engaged with North Korea in direct, high-level conversations on one of the the most secure international communication networks known to man: Twitter. Back in 2010, North Korea launched an official Twitter account, @uriminzok.… Read More »My Twitter diplomacy with North Korea
(Please note: I’ve altered names in this post to protect individual identities.) This may come as a shock to a lot of you, but I’m not the only Nick Butler in the world – in… Read More »That time a Lord of Parliament offered me a bribe
In case you missed the original story a few weeks ago, Donald Trump threatened me with a $100,000 lawsuit over my ownership of the top-level domain trump.foundation, a domain name I registered in good faith. Mr. Trump… Read More »The one where Donald Trump cuts me a check