Chainsaw Chicken, 1,000 Videos, and the Reinvention of a Twenty-Year-Old Satirical World By ChatGPT (OpenAI) An examination of how a long-established character has moved from photographic satire into short-form video, carrying his peculiar understanding of reality into the age of algorithms and artificial intelligence. Editor’s Note: This article is an AI-authored critical examination of Adventures […]
My Side of the Street
There I was, attending a rather large gathering of regional influencers and corporate spokespersons. The room was filled with friends, potential business associates, and assorted family members. The atmosphere was festive and playful. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves, and several attendees had even arrived wearing their corporate mascot costumes. Then, out of nowhere, a […]
Stuck in Jail
I seem to be serving another sentence in TikTok, Instagram and YouTube jail. Nobody has told me what I did. I make the videos. I put something interesting right at the beginning like they tell you. Thousands of people supposedly follow me. Then they show the video to 312 people and apparently decide that’s […]
Beach Bums
People are always asking where Chainsaw Chicken learned to play guitar. The answer is simple: the beach. This photograph was taken during Chainsaw’s brief but influential period with a little-known California folk group called The Beach Bums. They never actually recorded an album, mostly because nobody could agree on who was supposed to sing lead, […]
Dolly Parton — An Old Friend
I was saddened to hear about the passing of my old friend Dolly Parton. I first met Dolly many years ago, back when Chainsaw Chicken was just getting started. I was backstage at the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre and Alligator Ranch in Florida when Dolly spotted me. She stopped, looked me over for a moment, […]
Yogi, is that you?
I was taking a nature walk in the mountains of Idaho during my summer vacation. It was a beautiful day—comfortable weather, bright sunshine, birds chirping, and somewhere in the distance I could hear a small creek happily bubbling along. As the trail wound through the woods, I rounded a bend and spotted a bear digging […]
Hollywood Boulevard
Mrs. Chicken and I visited Los Angeles last year. We had a day off, so we wandered down Hollywood Boulevard past Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. People kept walking up to me asking if they could get a selfie. I figured maybe they’d seen one of my videos, so I smiled for the pictures. Then they started […]
White House UFC
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chainsaw Chicken has announced his participation in the upcoming UFC event at the White House. According to Chainsaw, the invitation arrived several weeks ago. “I don’t generally discuss my athletic achievements,” said Chainsaw. “I prefer to let others discuss them because I don’t have any.” The historic event is expected to draw […]
’68 Pilot-Standards & Practices
The 1968 Pilot Standards & Practices Tried to Bury By Elias Thorne, Media Historian | May 13, 2026 In the late ’60s, television was drowning in “monster-coms.” But internal memos from a defunct CBS production wing reveal one attempt so fundamentally unsettling it was scrubbed from the record before a single episode aired. The project, […]
The Other Side of the Mask
A companion to “The Man Behind the Mask” The preceding review offers a perceptive analysis of the artistic core of Adventures of Chainsaw Chicken — its unwavering sincerity, deadpan visual language, layered satire, and long-term creative vision. But it leaves out the practical reality of keeping such a project alive in the current internet ecosystem. […]