Whenever I’m in a bad mood or having a crummy day, I search out two internet sites: The Onion and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. The Onion, is the funniest fake newspaper around, and McSweeney’s is…well, it’s odd.
The brainchild of Dave Eggars’ who exploded into the literary world several years ago with A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, a memoir about the death of his parents and his subsequent guardianship of younger brother Topher, McSweeney’s is an online literary magazine that goes mostly for laughs. One of the most consistently off the wall, but hilarious bits is Lists which is a list of lists. Everything ranging from “Mildly Disturbing Greeting Card Messages” to “Other Names Sting Could Go By, as Suggested by my Thesaurus” (my favorite is ‘pique’).
Sometimes too abstract, sometimes groan inducing, McSwys “Lists” is never boring. And if you’re having a bad day, trying to figure out which list item is a Metal Band, and which is a Prescription Drug might be just the pick me up you need!
Happy laughing!
The CL
"You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians." --Monty Python's Flying Circus
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