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The Internet Is Eating Itself

Diablevert — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:55:05 -0800

When McSweeney's posted "Suggested Buzzfeed Articles," Buzzfeed replied, "Challenge Accepted." Behold: 84 Things That Aren't On An Everything Bagel. And many, many more. Jack Shafer has a interesting aticle at Slate on how buzzfeed does their lists and whether they're scuzzy or not. And here's a Storify rundown of the Twitter back-and-forth over the McSweeny's list.

It's Decorative Gourd Season

mikeand1 — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:11:03 -0800

Because it's Fall, f*ckfaces. Realizing that McSweeney's is disfavored on MeFi, and that many will have seen this before, I offer this nonetheless. Because it's that time of the year, and goddamit, it's funny.

The Book That Tried To Kill Me

philip-random — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 09:50:29 -0800

Why Do Writers Abandon Novels? “A book itself threatens to kill its author repeatedly during its composition,” Michael Chabon writes in the margins of his unfinished novel “Fountain City” — a novel, he adds, that he could feel “erasing me, breaking me down, burying me alive, drowning me, kicking me down the stairs.” And so Chabon fought back: he killed “Fountain City” in 1992. Inspired by Chabon's recent publication in McSweeney's of the first four chapters of the long ago abandoned Fortune City ("complete with annotations that in turn bemoan and belittle the book"), NY Times' Dan Kois weighs in on the phenomenon of the novel that had to be killed before something horrible happened to the author responsible.

Balls Out

jnaps — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:17:12 -0800

"Casey Plett is a twenty-something dude who has dressed in women's clothes with gently increasing frequency over the last six years. He is taking estrogen and testosterone-suppressers, and will probably transition to being a woman in the next year or so. Barring unforeseen circumstances, we're going to put about a 90% probability on this one. Casey's genitalia is not the focus of Balls Out, but it does perennially show up uninvited and eat all the Nutella."

A short imagined monologue from Comic Sans

The Devil Tesla — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:13:37 -0800

I'M COMIC SANS, ASSHOLE

Chick was fucking messed up, dudes. But she could scan like shit.

l33tpolicywonk — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:55:26 -0800

Dudes! Did you see the library they've got here? Dude, they've got the latest computerized catalog system—just roll right up to a terminal, type in your search terms, and it gives you a list of titles and call numbers, plus a little map to show you where they all are. Fucking Dewey decimal, man. It's tight. (SLMcSweeney's)

McSweeney's help for spam authors

bystander — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:07:28 -0800

THE ELEMENTS OF SPAM (single link McSweeney's post)

Death By Chocolate

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:22:09 -0800

Selections from H.P. Lovecraft's brief tenure as a Whitman's Sampler copywriter.

Dear Metafilter,--Wait, you'll definitely respond.

milestogo — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:18:22 -0800

Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond. start anywhere.

McSweeney's Needs Your Help

KokuRyu — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:04:53 -0800

McSweeney's is holding a big sale and auction to make up for $130,000 lost in a distributor bankruptcy. Soon we'll be adding one-of-a-kind pieces from Michael Chabon, Sarah Vowell, and Marcel Dzama—and every single thing we've got is on sale, cheap.

Rising Up and Rising Down

Prospero — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:31:36 -0800

When is violence justified? I am now the proud owner of one of 3,500 copies of William T. Vollmann's 3,299-page study of violence, Rising Up and Rising Down, published by McSweeney's. The book (if you can call something that's seven volumes a "book") has gotten mixed reviews that lean toward positive: Scott McLemee, writing in the New York Times Book Review (reg. req.), called it a "flood of logorrhea," while Steven Moore (a literary critic notable for his work on another long-winded writer, William Gaddis) wrote in the Washington Post that it is an "achievement beyond the realm of mere mortals," comparing it to Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough. This oral history tells the story behind how the book came to be published at McSweeney's, and is an interesting look at what needs to happen for a difficult-to-market work to make its way from its author to the general reading public, in a publishing industry that's unfriendly to this kind of thing, to say the least.

a log flume through your lower intestine?

jonson — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:40:57 -0800

Lost Disney Memo Found. McSweeney's posts a posthumously uncovered memo from the Disney board to Walt regarding his initial plans for a radically different "Disney-Land."

On the implausibility of the Death Star's Trash Compactor.

adrober — Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:11:30 -0800

On the implausibility of the Death Star's Trash Compactor. [From McSweeney's]