The Believer Deluxe Retro ClassyPak includes: the 2004 Visual Issue (Mike Mills, Guy Maddin, Raymond Pettibon, a DVD); the 2006 Music Issue (Calexico, the National, Paul Collins, Rick Moody, a CD); and the 2006 Visual Issue (Matthew Barney, Shelley Jackson, a removable stack of paintings by Kehinde Wiley affixed to the cover). All this for just $10. - - - -

THREE LISTS INVOLVING MUSICAL ARTISTS. - - - - NEW RADIOHEAD MATERIAL TO BE DEBUTED AT A BENEFIT SHOW TO PROTEST PRIVATIZATION OF THE POSTAL SECTOR. By Jez Burrows and Michael Jenkins "You and Whose Parcel Force?" "Life in a Sorting Office" "Subterranean Homesick Postmaster" "I Might Be Wrong-ly Addressed" "Recorded Delivery ... I Wish I Was" "Packt Like Parcels in a Crushd Post Bag" "I Can't (Stress Enough the Importance of Clearly Printing Postcodes)" - - - - FROM THE PROG ROCK ICE CREAM SHOPPE: FLAVORS INSPIRED BY A CERTAIN CANADIAN POWER TRIO. By Matt Bull Vanilla Strangiato A Rocky Road to Bangkok Chocolate Chip Xanadough By-Tor and the Sno-gurt Cookie 'n' Red Barchetta Cygnus X1 Book: Fudge New World Mango Limelight Sorbet Distant Early Praline Tom Soy - - - - SELECTIONS FROM THE BEATLES' CATALOG, HAD THE BAND EVOLVED NOT TOWARD THE ADOPTION OF A MORE EXPERIMENTAL SOUND IN ITS LATER YEARS, BUT INTO RORQUAL WHALES. By Eric March "She Loves You" "Love Me Do" "Please Please (Don't Harpoon) Me!" "I Should Have Known Better" "Kelp!" "Day Flipper" "Oh-Bla-BARRRUUUUMMMMMMM, Oh-Bla-BARUMMMMMMMMMMMMM" "Yellow Submarine (Filled With French Tourists Pointing and Taking Pictures of Us)" "She's So Heavy" - - - - OTHER McSWEENEY'S FEATURES: - - - - Three Lists Involving Musical Artists Thursday and Empire: or, How a Typical Workday Can Seem More Important When Modeled As a Great Era in Western Civilization By Vince LiCata An Open Letter to Shrink-Wrap By Christopher Dazey Bit Bit, Speak!: A Monologue From the Canine Companion of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline By Kathy Cacace The Settings That Would Be On a Blender Today If the Blender Had Been Invented, Say, 100 Years Before Its Actual Invention Date of 1922 By Steve Schneider

- - - - MAIN PAGE   |   ARCHIVES   Memories of Amanda Davis   Red dot denotes content that is new today. Black dot denotes newish content. McSWEENEY'S STORE SUBSCRIBE TO: McSWEENEY'S THE BELIEVER WHOLPHIN FUTURE McSWEENEY'S BOOKS THE AMANDA DAVIS HIGHWIRE FICTION AWARD INVITE A McSWEENEY'S AUTHOR TO SPEAK IN YOUR TOWN OR COLLEGE THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING McSWEENEY'S MONTHLY MAILING LIST McSWEENEY'S-RELATED EVENTS AND VARIOUS TOUR DATES ORDER INQUIRIES AND ADDRESS CHANGES SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: FOR BOOKS FOR THE QUARTERLY FOR THE WEBSITE FOR WHOLPHIN McSWEENEY'S INTERNSHIPS CONTACT US - - - - LETTERS TO McSWEENEY'S LISTS McSWEENEY'S PREDICTS McSWEENEY'S RECOMMENDS NEW WHOLPHIN FILM DAN LIEBERT, VERBAL CARTOONIST JOKES BY BRIAN BEATTY REVIEWS OF NEW FOOD DISPATCHES FROM MOSCOW SO YOU WANT TO BE PRESIDENT? DISPATCHES FROM THE ANACOSTIA THE WINNER'S CIRCLE WITH ERIC FEEZELL BEN GREENMAN'S FAKE CELEBRITY MUSICALS DISPATCHES FROM A HUMANITARIAN JOURNALIST DEB OLIN UNFERTH'S SICK OF THE REVOLUTION DISPATCHES FROM IRAQ SHORT IMAGINED MONOLOGUES PHILIP GRAHAM SPENDS A YEAR IN LISBON STAINED TEETH: A COLUMN ABOUT WINE DISPATCHES FROM THE NAPOLEONIC WARS AT THE MET KEVIN DOLGIN TELLS YOU ABOUT PLACES YOU SHOULD GO IN EUROPE SONGS OF ENEMIES AND DESERTS: LIVING WITH THE SUDAN LIBERATION ARMY LAWRENCE WESCHLER'S EVERYTHING THAT RISES: A BOOK OF CONVERGENCES THE CONVERGENCES CONTEST ABOUT WHAT IS THE WHAT ABOUT BOWL OF CHERRIES ABOUT COMEDY BY THE NUMBERS ABOUT JOHN BRANDON'S ARKANSAS ABOUT MICHAEL CHABON'S MAPS AND LEGENDS ABOUT UNDERGROUND AMERICA ABOUT DEB OLIN UNFERTH'S VACATION LETTERS FROM AN EARTH BALL TO, OR CONCERNING, SEAN HANNITY DISPATCHES FROM ADJUNCT FACULTY AT A LARGE STATE UNIVERSITY ADVICE FROM A PERSON WITH A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN PSYCHOLOGY DISPATCHES FROM THE NBA ENTERTAINMENT LEAGUE JOHN MOE'S POP-SONG CORRESPONDENCES B.R. COHEN'S ANNALS OF SCIENCE INTERVIEWS WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE INTERESTING OR UNUSUAL JOBS OPEN LETTERS TO PEOPLE OR ENTITIES WHO ARE UNLIKELY TO RESPOND DISPATCHES FROM A PUBLIC LIBRARIAN MICHAEL IAN BLACK IS A VERY FAMOUS CELEBRITY DISPATCHES FROM ROY KESEY, AN AMERICAN GUY MARRIED TO A PERUVIAN DIPLOMAT LIVING IN CHINA DAN KENNEDY SOLVES YOUR PROBLEMS WITH PAPER STEPHEN ELLIOTT'S POKER REPORT - - - - ADDITIONAL MATERIAL