http://feeds.feedburner.com/mcsweeneys
-
![]()
What Your Senior Year High School Musical Says About YouGrease : You attended high school in the days before overattentive school boards. Fiddler on the Roof : You still feel a little guilty for...
-
![]()
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom: The Action Movie TrailerThe sun rises over a picturesque tropical island. We hear birds in the distance and see images of the island’s iconic landscape: A volcano....
-
![]()
I’m ChatGPT, and for the Love of God, Please Don’t Make Me Do Any More Copywriting“Guillermo Rubio has found that his job as a copywriter has changed markedly since he started using ChatGPT to generate ideas for blog...
-
![]()
Mom, Help, a Drag Queen Just Broke into Our SchoolA kid texts their mother during a school lockdown. KID : Mom, a drag queen broke into our school. I love you so much. MOM : What!? Are you...
-
![]()
Elon Musk Comes for the SneetchesNow, the verified Sneetches had checks of pure blue. But the unverified Sneetches, they wanted checks too! Those checks weren’t so big....
-
![]()
The Four Deportations of Jean Marseille: Dispatch 10 & AfterwordEDITED BY PETER ORNER AND LAURA LAMPTON SCOTT Jean Marseille and his son, Diego. - - - Jean Marseille recorded these...
-
![]()
Are You Playing Dungeons & Dragons or Doing Your Taxes?1. Your goal is to retrieve your treasure from a monstrous entity. 2. All you need is pen and paper, but expensive software makes it much...
-
![]()
Housing Should Be Affordable Except When I Sell My House for a Million DollarsMy heart breaks for would-be homeowners priced out of housing markets across the country. We need to do something to bring the price of all houses...
-
![]()
TikTok’s Old Age Filter Shows My Wife and Some Other Guy Standing on My GraveDear TikTok Support, I don’t know if this is the right place for this or if TikTok has a specific form for complaints regarding user-submitted...
-
![]()
I’m Your Kid’s Teacher, and I Guess It’s Come to This: Announcing My PatreonDue to rising prices, regressive attitudes toward pay raises, and my 2002 Honda Civic’s engine exploding, I’ve had to come up with...
-
![]()
Short Conversations with Poets: Jorie GrahamIn Jorie Graham’s hands, form is a kind of method acting, an inspiriting habitation. Breath, more than ever, is momentum in her new book, To 2040...
-
![]()
At My Age, My Dad Was Almost Done with That Tom Clancy NovelAs a millennial, I often feel my life is just a little behind schedule. I graduated high school into the Great Recession and spent my twenties...
-
![]()
Finally, a Book That Cannot Be BannedThis is a good book. It has a cover and many pages. This book is endorsed by parents and is church-friendly. It is clean and full of Grace, as in...
-
![]()
I’m Frank Sinatra, and I’m Perfect for the Role of Tevye“… Besides Zero Mostel, aspirants to the screen role included Rod Steiger, Danny Kaye and—in a scenario that can be contemplated only with...
-
![]()
My Shrine to the Ancient One Is About My Love of History“When Republican megadonor Harlan Crow isn’t lavishing Justice Clarence Thomas with free trips on his private plane and yacht, he lives a...
-
![]()
Are You Doing Something Very Ordinary in Real Life or Unraveling at the Brink of a Mental Breakdown in a Movie?1. You’re wearing pajamas—not sexy or cute ones. 2. When a friend visits, you’re drinking a beer on the couch. 3. You’re not wearing makeup....
-
![]()
Congratulations on Catching the Real Easter BunnyOkay, fine. You caught me. Congrats on catching the real Easter Bunny in the act. Yeah, I’m real. As real as Santa Claus. You know what else is...
-
![]()
I Am Noah and I Need to Look at Your Animals’ Pee-PeesDear Farmers and Black Market Animal Traders of 2300 BCE : My name is Noah, son of Lamech and ninth descendent of Adam. I am six hundred years...
-
![]()
Tripadvisor Reviews of Moses, Desert Tour GuideShowed up for the tour and was met by Moses. He had a bull, three sheep, and eight pigeons that he said we’d be ritually sacrificing en route. He...
-
![]()
The Four Deportations of Jean Marseille: Dispatch #9: 11/20/22EDITED BY PETER ORNER AND LAURA LAMPTON SCOTT - - - Jean Marseille recorded these dispatches on his phone while surviving on...
-
![]()
Now That We Can Hire Children, Here Are Some Revisions to Our HR Policy“Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law rolling back requirements that the state verify the ages of workers under 16 and...
-
![]()
A Single, Thirty-Something Carrie Bradshaw Asks the Four QuestionsThey say that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. But that night, as I sat around the seder table—single, thirty, and once again...
-
![]()
Exodus: The Immersive ExperienceEXODUS : THE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE is an interactive exhibit that allows you to experience the story of Exodus like NEVER BEFORE because...
-
![]()
Are You There God? It’s Me, Moses.Are you there God? It’s me, Moses. We’re fleeing Egypt today. I’m so scared, God. I’ve never lived anywhere but here. Well, except for when I ran...
