If you're an avid reader of McSweeney's Internet Tendency, or find yourself gravitating to humor pieces in magazines, you're probably familiar with the archly absurdist writings of Mike Sacks, a prolific contributor to a number of publications in the ghettoized world of prose humor. On the editorial...

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is how some Swedish phony named Fredrik Colting wrote an unauthorized sequel to J.D. Salinger's famous bildungsroman, The Catcher in the Rye, under the pen name J.D. California, and how his lawyers, who...

In an infamous 2005 interview with NBA player Kevin Garnett, then on the stumbling Minnesota Timberwolves, the perennial All-Star was asked what drives him. He choked back tears and four times responded, "I'm losing," before concluding, "I won't ever accept losing, ever. No one ever'll be able to call...

During the Democratic primary, a popular analogy was casting hip, youthful Barack Obama as a Mac and establishment workhorse Hillary Clinton as a PC. The evaluation may have said as much about the effectiveness of Apple's sardonic commercials as anything about the candidates, and the computerized comparisons have vanished...

Indie Film Boy and I were bickering at the campus store over whether to buy hummus for our marathon night of French New Wave movies for our class on postwar directors. He wanted it--extra-garlic, no less!--and I took that as a clear sign that there would be no "breathless" make-out...