McSweeney's Lits
Here is a subset of McSweeney’s lists:
- Random Passages Culled from Novels I Edited While Working at a Vanity Press
- Grammatically Incorrect Sentences in the Space of Four Paragraphs in One Lesson of the Indiana Aware Driver Hoosier Ez Course Online Traffic School
- Eight Ways to Not Get Hit in the Face with a Brick
- Things Editorial Assistants Should Never Say to Senior Editors
- Major Hollywood Productions that Kill Off the Only, or Only Important, Black Character in the Film
- Reasons You Should Not Place Your Foot onto the Street When a Car Is Coming, Even If You Are Curious About How It Would Feel If a Car Ran over Your Foot
- Quotes from Either President of the United States George W. Bush or Senator/Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine from the Star Wars
- My Attempt to Further Depress a Particularly Unfunny List, Sent to Me by Someone at Work, by Making Random Remarks
- Famous Predictions
- Popular Pickup Lines Used by Serial Killers
- Things I Told Customers While Working at a Starbucks, in a Mall, in the Baltimore Suburbs
- Things For Which I Was Either Reprimanded or Outright Suspended Without Pay When I Was a Teenage Universal Studios Hollywood Tour Guide In The Late Eighties
- Comments My Father Made to the TV
- Actual Phrases from My American History Textbook
- Subjects My Dad Doesn’t Like and Will Discuss at Length If Raised
- Regrettable Puns I’ve Used as Headlines at the In-Flight Magazine for Which I Work
- Frequently Asked Questions at the Office
- Lessons Learned from My Study of Literature