All posts tagged mcsweeney’s

February 1, 2010 · No comments

Dream On

By: Kurt Luchs “What a piece of work is a man!” said Shakespeare; and while it’s possible he was merely gazing into the mirror and feeling his own biceps, he was probably referring to the human mind. A mysterious thing, …

Mr. BIV and all his Friends: A Word on Mnemonic Devices

July 30, 2009 · No comments

(Note: The mnemonics listed below first appeared on McSweeney's Internet Tendency and are now part of a bi-weekly series called "Non-essential Mnemonics. You can view them in all their

An Infant Ponders the Tabula Rasa

May 20, 2009 · 2 Comments

Gaze upon my beauty and tremble, oh fallen humanity! Look down on my naked form writhing in this sink you call a bathtub and ponder

Famously Unsuccessful Closing Arguments

May 5, 2009 · No comments

By: Frank Ferri THE "HICCUP DEFENSE" Show me someone who has had the hiccups, and I'll show you a person who asked -- no, demanded -- that someone

A Performance Review From my Boss, The Inebriate

April 24, 2009 · 4 Comments

There has been another minor victory in my ongoing war to increase TTM's interests in foreign lands. McSweeney's has published another of my moderately humorous pieces. Some see

And Now, For a Bit of Shameless Self-Promotion…

January 14, 2009 · 18 Comments

The kind people at McSweeney's have finally allowed their editorial standards to sink low enough to consider my writing. They have consented to publish one