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McSweeney's McSweeney's Internet Tendency en-us http://www.mcsweeneys.net McSweeney's http://www.mcsweeneys.net/src/tmcs_RSS.gif http://www.mcsweeneys.net 72 95 Feature: "Respectful Yo Mama Jokes" by Lucas Klauss (5/8/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/5/8klauss.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/5/8klauss.html Letters to McSweeney's http://www.mcsweeneys.net/letters/ http://www.mcsweeneys.net/letters/ Feature: "It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Their Head Stuck in a 3,600-Year-Old Sumerian Pot" by Ian Wood (5/7/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/5/7wood.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/5/7wood.html Interviews With People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/unusualjobs/7wingwalker.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/unusualjobs/7wingwalker.html Feature: "My Pitches for Political-Satire Skits Playing on President Obama's Foibles Keep Getting Shot Down" by Teddy Wayne (5/6/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/5/6wayne.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/5/6wayne.html Dan Liebert, Verbal Cartoonist http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/danliebert/ http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/danliebert/ Feature: "The Tom Tom Club Catechism" by Maureen Miller (5/5/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/5/5miller.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/5/5miller.html Lists http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/ http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/ Feature: "Jokes for People With Body-Image Problems Tied to Low Self-Esteem" by Dan Kennedy (5/4/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/5/4kennedy.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/5/4kennedy.html Dispatches From the Wings at the Ballet http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/ballet/4dispatch1.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/ballet/4dispatch1.html Feature: "Scrabble Letters Explain How They Are Coping in the Economic Downturn" by Kate Hahn (5/1/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/5/1hahn.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/5/1hahn.html Dispatches From Manila http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/manila/1dispatch6.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/manila/1dispatch6.html Feature: "Angry Farewell Notes From Runaway Dogs" by Dave Donovan (4/30/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/30donovan.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/30donovan.html Feature: "The John Wooden Pyramid of Success Meets THE_REAL_SHAQ Twitter Feed" by David Hart (4/29/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/29hart.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/29hart.html Your Money, Your Job ... Your Life, With Alison Rosen http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/yourmoney/29column3.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/yourmoney/29column3.html Feature: "Word Problems for the New Economic Landscape" by Natalie Edwards (4/28/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/28edwards.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/28edwards.html Kids' Letters to President Obama http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/obamaletters/2.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/obamaletters/2.html Feature: "A 419 New Yorker E-mail Scam" by Rupinder Gill (4/27/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/27gill.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/27gill.html Teddy Wayne's Unpopular Proverbs http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/proverbs/ http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/proverbs/ Feature: "A Performance Review From My Boss, the Inebriate" by Kent Woodyard and Joel Bobbett (4/24/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/24woodyardbobbett.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/24woodyardbobbett.html Short Imagined Monologues http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues/ http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues/ Feature: "My Reading-Tour Rider" by Ben Greenman (4/23/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/23greenman.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/23greenman.html Feature: "Manifest Destiny Wagon Pool" by Jimmy Chen (4/22/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/22chen.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/22chen.html Feature: "Stigmata and You" by Dustin Christensen (4/21/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/21christensen.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/21christensen.html Feature: "Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview" by Robert Lanham (4/20/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/20lanham.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/20lanham.html Feature: "Characters From 'Hamlet' Comment on the Fish Odor Coming From the Office Microwave" by Julia McCloy and Travis Tyler (4/17/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/17mccloytyler.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/17mccloytyler.html Feature: "Excerpts From My 2008 Tax Return, Form 1040EZ" by Christopher Mah (4/15/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/15mah.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/15mah.html Feature: "'B.O. Is for Blood Orange': An International Spy Thriller" by Pasha Malla (4/14/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/14malla.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/14malla.html Feature: "A Day in the Life of a Supply-Side Economist" by Samuel K. (4/13/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/13k.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/13k.html Feature: "Classic Nursery Rhymes, Updated and Revamped for the Recession, as Told to Me by My Father" by Jen Statsky (4/10/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/10statsky.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/10statsky.html Feature: "Corporate Folktales: An E-mail to God" by Grant Munroe (4/9/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/9munroe.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/9munroe.html Sarah Walker Shows You How To http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/sarahwalker/9taunt2.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/sarahwalker/9taunt2.html Feature: "Four Cups" by James Sturz (4/8/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/8sturz.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/8sturz.html Feature: "Meth-Lab Feng Shui" by Colin Nissan (4/7/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/7nissan.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/7nissan.html Feature: "A-Rod on Opening Day" by Ben Greenman (4/6/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/6greenman.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/6greenman.html Feature: "The Assets at United States Treasury - Enter a World of Financial Indulgence" by Chris Marcil and Sam Johnson (4/3/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/3marciljohnson.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/3marciljohnson.html Advice From a Person With a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/advice/5.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/advice/5.html Jokes by Brian Beatty http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/jokes/ http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/jokes/ Feature: "The Sexually Fluid Person's Guide to a Seamlessly Uneventful Coming Out" by Amy York Rubin (4/2/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/2rubin.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/2rubin.html Feature: "Mongo: The Animal That Taught Me Things and Changed Lives" by Jennifer Kahn and Evan Ratliff (4/1/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/1kahnratliff.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/4/1kahnratliff.html Feature: "Truly Groundbreaking Marketing Research: Understanding Twitter" by Dan Kennedy (3/31/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/31kennedy.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/31kennedy.html Reviews of New Food http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/newfood/ http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/newfood/ Feature: "Executives-Only Version of Recent AIG Security Memorandum" by Eric Feezell (3/30/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/30feezell.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/30feezell.html Feature: "I Am Not on a Roll" by Ellie Kemper (3/27/09) http://mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/27kemper.html http://mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/27kemper.html Dispatches From Manila http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/manila/27dispatch5.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/manila/27dispatch5.html Feature: "Chip Tusken: Road-Sign Writer" by Kenny Byerly (3/26/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/26byerly.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/26byerly.html Feature: "Cover Stories From the Most-Requested Back Issues of 'The American Prognosticator' (1853-1987)" by Curtis Edmonds and Ryan Garcia (3/25/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/25edmondsgarcia.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/25edmondsgarcia.html Feature: "Emotional State 3A" by Stephen Dau (3/24/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/24dau.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/24dau.html Feature: "Saved by the Bell: The Grad School Years" by Teddy Wayne (3/23/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/23wayne.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/23wayne.html Dispatches From the Capital http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/capital/23dispatch1.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/capital/23dispatch1.html Feature: "Traveling Europe in Style With Auckland Dingiroo, Dark-Age Tourist and Critic of Food and Drink: Bad Omens" by John Hallmann (3/19/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/19hallmann.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/19hallmann.html Feature: "Script Notes From the VP of Programming Following the Inevitable Purchase of the Spice Network by GE / NBC Universal" by Stephen Scaia (3/18/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/18scaia.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/18scaia.html Feature: "'The Wrestler': A Cinematic Analysis in a 1989 Volvo Station Wagon 240 DL" by Tyler Stoddard Smith (3/16/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/16smith.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/16smith.html Feature: "Marvel Comics Backs Out of My Publishing Contract" by Jon Methven (3/13/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/13methven.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/13methven.html Lists http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/ http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/ Feature: "Why Not Let the Crew of the Pequod Host Your Child's Next Birthday Party?" by Nathaniel Missildine (3/12/09) http://mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/12missildine.html http://mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/12missildine.html Dispatches From Moscow http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/moscow/12dispatch6.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/moscow/12dispatch6.html Feature: "Dr. Mario Weighs In on Universal Health Care" by Marco Kaye (3/11/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/11kaye.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/11kaye.html Feature: "'Keeping Up With the Cardassians' Episode Guide" by Rupinder Gill (3/9/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/9gill.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/9gill.html Feature: "Round and a Bout: An Earth Ball Gets Into It With Hannity, Limbaugh, and Steele" by Ben Greenman (3/6/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/6greenman.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/6greenman.html Feature: "I Feel Like You Should Have a New Opinion of Me" by Mikael Awake (3/5/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/5awake.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/5awake.html McSweeney's Recommends http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/recommends/ http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/recommends/ Feature: "From My Unfinished Doctoral Dissertation on Breakfast Cereals" by Dave Frye (3/4/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/4frye.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/4frye.html Feature: "This Recession Is Awesome!" by Lucas Kavner (3/3/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/3kavner.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/3kavner.html Feature: "Selected Personals From the American Psychiatric Association's Dating Website" by Frank Ferri (3/2/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/2ferri.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/3/2ferri.html Dan Liebert, Verbal Cartoonist http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/danliebert/ http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/danliebert/ Feature: "A Questionnaire Regarding the Phenomenon of the Snuggie, the Blanket With Sleeves, for Testing Your Understanding of American Home Economics and Your Own Personal Desires, Written in the Style of Walker Percy's 'Lost in the Cosmos'" by Stephanie S. Gehring (2/27/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/27gehring.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/27gehring.html E-mails Sent to the University of Alabama English Department Flag-Football Team http://mcsweeneys.net/links/football/1.html http://mcsweeneys.net/links/football/1.html Feature: "A Monster-Truck Announcer Breaks Up With His Girlfriend" by Michael J. Weingarth (2/26/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/26weingarth.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/26weingarth.html Feature: "Be a Nose!" (2/25/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/25beanose.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/25beanose.html Feature: "Voice of Witness Needs Your Help" (2/24/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/24vow.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/24vow.html Feature: "An Honest Acceptance Speech" by Mali Perl (2/20/09) http://mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/20perl.html http://mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/20perl.html Feature: "Roomba FAQ" by Dan Moreau (2/19/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/19moreau.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/19moreau.html Feature: "Suggested Scenarios for Howie Mandel's 'Howie Do It'" by Benjamin Kumming (2/18/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/18kumming.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/18kumming.html Feature: "Commentary by David Simon, Creator of 'The Wire,' for the 'He's Just Not That Into You' DVD" by Maureen Miller (2/17/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/17miller.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/17miller.html Feature: "Addressing the Followers the Day After My End-of-the-World Prophecy Failed to Come True" by Brian Dunn (2/16/09) http://mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/16dunn.html http://mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/16dunn.html Feature: "I've Cooked You a Recession-Friendly Valentine's Dinner" by Christopher Mah (2/13/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/13mah.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/13mah.html Kevin Dolgin Tells You About Places You Should Go in Europe http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/dolgin/13london.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/dolgin/13london.html Feature: "Ways Charles Darwin Could Jump the Shark" by David Ng (2/12/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/12ng.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/12ng.html Feature: "'Adeus, Lisboa': Philip Graham's Final Dispatch From Lisbon" by Philip Graham (2/11/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/11graham.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/11graham.html Feature: "Personnel Policies for Our Household" by Russell Bradbury-Carlin (2/10/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/10bradburycarlin.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/10bradburycarlin.html Dispatches From a Public Librarian http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/librarian/10avoid.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/librarian/10avoid.html Feature: "Excerpts From the Collected Answering-Machine Messages of Lyricist Tim Rice" by Julie Klausner and Rachel Shukert (2/9/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/9klausnershukert.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/9klausnershukert.html Feature: "What Parents Must Assume I'm Saying to My Youth Soccer Team" by Ben Joseph (2/5/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/5joseph.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/5joseph.html Feature: "The 4-Year-Old Crash-Lands in the Andes" by Ross Murray (2/4/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/4murray.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/4murray.html Feature: "Excerpts From the Most Popular Selections in the Superhero Library" by G. Xavier Robillard (2/3/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/3robillard.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/3robillard.html Feature: "Rod Blagojevich Writes 25 Things About Himself on Facebook" by Sean Carman (2/2/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/2carman.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/2/2carman.html Skateboarder: An Interview With Writer Bret Anthony Johnston http://www.mcsweeneys.net/skateboarderinterview.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/skateboarderinterview.html Feature: "US Airways Flight 1549: It Just Doesn't Add Up" by Miles Kahn and Stuart Miller (1/30/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/30kahnmiller.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/30kahnmiller.html Dispatches From the Anacostia http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/anacostia/30dispatch15.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/anacostia/30dispatch15.html Feature: "Nathaniel Hawthorne's Profferings of Wisdom Concerning the Adversities of Butterface Dating: The Lost Fragments" by Fortunato Salazar (1/29/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/29salazar.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/29salazar.html Feature: "A Naturalistic Observation of the Selection of an Office Manager" by James Prince (1/28/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/28prince.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/28prince.html Feature: "My Ideas for Staged Photos Set Me Apart From Other Wedding Photographers" by Frank Ferri (1/27/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/27ferri.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/27ferri.html Feature: "We Have Some Advice for You, President Obama" (1/26/09) http://mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/26advice.html http://mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/26advice.html Dispatches From the Napoleonic Wars at the Met http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/met/26dispatch12.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/met/26dispatch12.html Feature: "People Say I've Changed" by Micah Cratty (1/22/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/22cratty.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/22cratty.html Feature: "George W. Bush: The End-of-the-Administration Slide Show" by Scott Jacobson and Mike Sacks (1/21/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/21jacobsonsacks.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/21jacobsonsacks.html Feature: "One More Handful of Letters From 'Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country: Kids' Letters to President Obama'" (1/20/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/20onemorehandful.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/20onemorehandful.html Feature: "A Few More Letters From 'Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country: Kids' Letters to President Obama'" (1/19/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/19afewmore.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/19afewmore.html Feature: "More Letters From 'Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country: Kids' Letters to President Obama'" (1/16/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/16moreobamaletters.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/16moreobamaletters.html Feature: "Crisis-Aversion Index Cards That Get Me Through a Normal Day" by Ted Travelstead (1/15/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/15travelstead.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/15travelstead.html Feature: "A Literary Critic Reviews My Resume" by Kent Woodyard (1/14/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/14woodyard.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/14woodyard.html The Winner's Circle With Eric Feezell http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/winnerscircle/14cranium6.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/winnerscircle/14cranium6.html Feature: "From The Clog: Manchester, Vermont's Insider Gossip Blog for Plumbers" by Teddy Wayne (1/13/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/13wayne.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/13wayne.html Feature: "I Am the King of Household Design" by Rosser Clark (1/12/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/12clark.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/12clark.html Feature: "Loosely Based Characters" by Stacey Landowne (1/9/09) http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/9landowne.html http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/1/9landowne.html Feature: "Thanks and Have Fun Running the 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