Hold Your Fire

On buying a cool vintage t-shirt.

Poison

“When it was over, there had been a small amount of poison left that Lucy kept on a cocktail napkin on her shelf.”

Day 3 of the RNC: If We All Have Shows, Who’s Left to Watch Them?

“I hate you, America. You’re boring and uncomfortable.”

Prologue: Me and the GOP

Bridget Callahan is in Cleveland covering the scene surrounding the Republican National Convention. The story continues here. The week before coming to the Republican National Convention,…

Grilling USA

“I laughed nervously as I imagined all the ways I was going to die. How many bodies have been thrown into the Mississippi?”

5 Thoroughbred Drinks for Derby Day

Drink yourself into a hatted spectacle beneath an awful Kentucky sky with thousands of your wealthiest friends.

What’s the Deal with those Apple Articles on McSweeney’s?

When I first saw “J.K. Applegate’s” article on McSweeney’s, “Decision Chart,” a graphic designed to help the reader decide whether or not he or she should work…

All the Advice I Can Think Of

The other day I got run off the highway by a truck and while it wasn’t really a big deal it did scare the shit out…

Instagrams and Possibly Life Lessons from a Trip Across the U.S.

Here is a collection of the best posts, which I don’t think will amount to some super-meaningful piece, but maybe I can get some kind of pretentious commentary out of it.

“Jaws” and America

Thirty-nine years in, Jaws is still the best and most prescient movie about American life ever made.