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Benjy Compson Seeks Directions to Waffle House
By Jimmy Chen (5/13/08)
Yogi Berra Is Deeper Than You Thought
By Rosser Clark (5/12/08)
The Magic 8 Ball Amended by My Mother for My Middle-School Years
By Kate Hahn (5/9/08)
The 32 Physical Characteristics of Randy, Who Is Not the Buddha but Evidently Looks Pretty Similar to Him
By Ben Greenman (5/8/08)
Word Problems for Future Hedge-Fund Managers
By Bob Woodiwiss (5/7/08)
Borges Teaches Self-Defense
By Susan Schorn (5/6/08)
Baby 2.0
By Ravi Mangla (5/5/08)
Youth Culture Findings
By Dan Kennedy (5/2/08)
It's Not You, Iraq—It's Me
By David Jaggard (5/1/08)
A Letter to Prince Regarding the Crying of Doves and the Fiasco That Resulted From the Presentation of a Speech on That Topic
By John Moe (4/30/08)
Acoustic Citizen
By Marco Kaye (4/29/08)
Conversations My Parents Must Have Had While Planning to Raise a Child
By Jen Statsky (4/28/08)
(IM)agna Carta
By Jason Rhode (4/25/08)
The Plight of the Suburban Deer
By G. Xavier Robillard (4/24/08)
Fragments From Polygamy! The Musical
By Ben Greenman (4/23/08)
First Drafts of the Parables of Jesus
By A.J. Packman (4/22/08)
John McCain Gives It to Me Straight
By Ellie Kemper (4/21/08)
The Berliner Ensemble Thanks You All
By Marcel Dzama (4/18/08)
The Catcher in the Retirement Home
By Teddy Wayne (4/17/08)
At My Power Seder Table
By Sigmund Stern (4/16/08)
Bomb Disposal: A Primer
By Jim Stallard (4/15/08)
Wall Text From My Home
By Graham T. Beck (4/14/08)
A Proposed Screenplay for Spider-Man 2
By Michael Chabon (4/11/08)
Selections From the Forthcoming Quantum Aesthetics: The Best of The American Journal of Physics' Music-Review Section
By Kevin Evers (4/10/08)
Film School in Three Lines or Less
By Ben Joseph (4/9/08)
Reviews of a Struggling Actor's First Three Bank Heists
By Matthew Summers-Sparks (4/8/08)
Other Dangerous Historical Events Hillary Clinton Experienced as First Lady
By Nick Ripatrazone (4/7/08)
The Most Dangerous Game: New Times, New Rules
By Ralph Gamelli (4/4/08)
Underground America
(4/3/08)
The Monroe Family Bed Wishes to Die
By John Jodzio (4/2/08)
Giants of Poetry
By Tyler Stoddard Smith (4/1/08)
Sisyphus Enters Analysis
By Jeff Albers (3/31/08)
Rules for "Stacey and the Hippies"
By Rocky Morrow (3/28/08)
On Behalf of Adam, Eve, and Humanity at Large
By Melanie Berliet (3/27/08)
Coach Barry Murphy's Inspirational Quotes (Lifetime Record: 14-91-1)
By Dirk Voetberg (3/26/08)
It's Not You, It's Your Uncontrollable Telekinesis
By Ben Joseph (3/25/08)
A Tired Teacher's Ideas for Classroom Projects
By Will Newman (3/24/08)
A 1980s Teen Sex Comedy Becomes Politically Uncomfortable
By Andrew Golden (3/21/08)
Ernest Hemingway Blogs About the Top Teams in College Basketball
By John Frank Weaver (3/20/08)
Real Historical Dolls: A Catalog
By Kathryn Higgins (3/19/08)
"I Spy" in Hell
By Adrian Chen (3/18/08)
The Focus Group's Transcript for My Prospective Garage Sale
By S. Craig Renfroe Jr. (3/17/08)
Midlife-Crisis Bible Stories
By Susan Schorn (3/14/08)
Eric Clapton's Censored Song List in North Korea
By Lionel Beehner (3/13/08)
Eleven Grievances
By James A.W. Shaw (3/12/08)
"Page Six" Gets Extremely Personal
By Teddy Wayne (3/11/08)
Selected Entries From The Encyclopedia of the 21st-Century American
By Chuck Adams (3/10/08)
You've Got to Watch The Wire
By Scott Blaszak (3/7/08)
Health Inspector's Report: Burger Time Restaurant and Fun Zone
By Andrew Bridgman (3/6/08)
Greeted at the Door
By Ben Greenman (3/5/08)
So You Want to Be President?: Scripts for Negative Political Advertisements Offered to the Candidates Free of Charge
By John Warner (3/4/08)
Observational Notes for the Veterinarian Regarding My Dog Hank
By Jon Methven (3/3/08)
Interviews With the Stars: Cell-Phone Pocket-Dial Edition
By Jory John and Mac Barnett (2/29/08)
Open-Mike Night, 1:15 A.M.
By Mike Sacks (2/28/08)
Great Mugging Escapes—No. 204: The War on Terror
By Pasha Malla (2/27/08)
Letter of Recommendation for Rick Stoeckel, Who Was Homeschooled
By Rick Stoeckel (2/26/08)
Maslow's Hierarchy of Sandwiches
By Andrew Neuendorf (2/25/08)
Abstinence-Only Driver's Ed
By Suzanne Kleid (2/22/08)
Isiah Thomas, Life Coach
By Jay Dyckman (2/21/08)
Worst Cave Scenario
By Mark D'Argenio (2/20/08)
The Later Adventures of David Addington Bear: Take Your Dad to Work Day
By Blair Becker (2/19/08)
A Guide to Scientific Expressions Used in Everyday Conversation
By Drew Piston (2/18/08)
The Sadomasochistic Fisherman Visits Pyramid Lake
By Michael Swaim (2/15/08)
Jonny's Legal Advisers Hereby Inform You of Jonny's Wish That You Enjoy a Happy Valentine's Day
By Jonny Waldman (2/14/08)
How to Cook an Impressive Dinner Using the Oven in Your New Apartment for the First Time
By Neil Janowitz (2/13/08)
My Ancestry Assignment
By Adam Sachs (2/12/08)
Everything Is Wrong With You: A Letter From Dr. Phil
By Wendy Molyneux (2/11/08)
Excerpts From The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook for People With Rocket Packs
By Kurt W. Rademacher (2/8/08)
Ashton Kutcher Fan Fiction: "The Middle School Dance" by Melissa Bell, Age 13
By Teddy Wayne (2/7/08)
The Best Policy
By Miles Klee (2/6/08)
Aesop's Fables Teach Children the Art of Voter Suppression
By Andrew Golden (2/5/08)
Mondays With Kafka
By Jimmy Chen (2/4/08)
Famous Authors Predict the Winner of Super Bowl XLII
By Shane Ryan (2/1/08)
How to Maximize Your Estate's Pain-and-Suffering Compensation for Your Inevitable Death in a Plane Crash
By Alison Espach (1/31/08)
The Invisible Man Is Innocent
By Ralph Gamelli (1/30/08)
Traveling Europe in Style With Auckland Dingiroo, Dark-Age Tourist and Critic of Food and Drink: Mystics, Hermits, and Prophets
By John Hallmann (1/29/08)
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By Dan Liebert (1/28/08)
Rilke's Letters to a Young Plumber
By Tyler Smith (1/25/08)
Announcing Arkansas
(1/24/08)
Werner Herzog as Guest Pundit on the VH1 Television Series Best Week Ever
By Michel Duchampbuffet (1/23/08)
A Family Member of a Henchman Killed by Jack Bauer on 24 Remembers
By John Moe (1/22/08)
Together in Perfect Harmony: An Earth Ball Laments the Distortions of Sean Hannity
By Ben Greenman (1/21/08)
Toward a Sustainable Margaritaville
By Matthew DuVerne Hutchinson (1/18/08)
The Girls of The Hills Visit Iraq
By Wendy Molyneux (1/17/08)
Candid New York City Rental Ads
By Brad Jacobson (1/16/08)
My Life, Rewritten as a Chinese Takeout Menu and Slipped, Unwanted, Under My Door
By Matt Marinovich (1/15/08)
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By Dan Kennedy (1/14/08)
The 4-Year-Old Finds Religion
By Ross Murray (1/11/08)
Instructions for the Proper Care and Feeding of the Chosen One
By Gregory Farley (1/10/08)
Ishmael the Comedian
By Teddy Wayne (1/9/08)
Excerpts From the Lost Mitchell Report
By Andrew Bridgman (1/8/08)
Staff Editorial From the Who-ville Picayune, January, 1958
By Robert Isenberg (1/7/08)
Whoops!
By Mike Sacks (1/4/08)
Jane Eyre Runs for President
By Sean Carman (1/3/08)
Production Rider for Kate Kershner's Holiday Visit Home Tour
By Kate Kershner (1/2/08)
Excerpts From My Rejected Script: Alien vs. Predator Save Christmas
By Ben Joseph (12/21/07)
Jesus Christ Decides He Doesn't Want to Celebrate His Birthday This Year
By Matt Bannish (12/20/07)
Jenna Bush's Book-Tour Diary of Hope
By Steve Almond (12/19/07)
How to Roll Out of a Moving Car
By Sarah Walker (12/18/07)
I Came, I Saw, I Said
By Jason Roeder (12/17/07)
The Catholic Church Moves Into the Information Age: A 21st-Century Confession
By John Frank Weaver (12/14/07)
Some Relatively Recent College Grads Discuss Their Maids
By Ellie Kemper (12/13/07)
Other Moments in a Soccer Player's Life
By Jamie Allen (12/12/07)
Prometheus Keeps a Diary
By Mike Richardson-Bryan (12/11/07)
Advanced Tai-Chi Exercises for the Modern World
By Colin Nissan (12/10/07)
Hot Chocolate Is the Loneliest Life
By Benjamin Cohen (12/7/07)
My Business Card Is a Ball of Putty
By Scott Blaszak (12/6/07)
Black Shoe Diary: The Daily Musings of Shuruku Umezawa: Junior Salesman, Ninja—Installment Four
By Eric Feezell (12/5/07)
Ezra Pound's Only Appearance on The Dating Game, Circa 1968
By Greg Purcell (12/4/07)
Workers'-Compensation Claim Filed by Curly Howard
By Adam Bozarth (12/3/07)
How to Be Like Me
By Tom McGlaughlin Jr. (11/30/07)
Two Medieval Physicians Debate Universal Health Care
By Blair Becker (11/29/07)
LinkedIn Invitation E-mail Copy Revised
By Dan Kennedy (11/28/07)
So, You Just Found Daddy's Meth Lab
By Daveo Mathias (11/27/07)
A Routine Traffic Stop Can Change Everything in an Instant
By Jim Stallard (11/26/07)
How Someone With an American Public-School Education Who Didn't Really Pay Much Attention in Class but Learned Just Enough to Pass Exams Imagines the First Thanksgiving
By Matt Passet (11/21/07)
Other Ways the Terrorists Win
By Justin Paul Villegas (11/20/07)
Referee Ed Hochuli's More Notable Calls
By Frank Ferri (11/19/07)
Surgery Is Easy
By Wendy Molyneux (11/16/07)
Ripple Effects of the Writers' Strike
By John Moe (11/15/07)
Traveling Europe in Style With Auckland Dingiroo, Dark-Age Tourist and Critic of Food and Drink: Commerce in Foreign Lands
By John Hallmann (11/14/07)
Halo 3 Cheat Codes, as Explained by Neglected Girlfriend Janet Iverson
By Andrew Kiraly (11/13/07)
Volleyball Is an Awesome Sport and Your Mother and I Are Getting a Divorce
By Peter Bognanni (11/12/07)
A Presidential-Campaign Speech That Will Help You Sweep the Popular Vote
By Adam Sachs (11/9/07)
Understanding Food Labels You Might Encounter at Whole Foods
By G. Xavier Robillard (11/8/07)
Memo to Imperial Advisers Re: Incident of the "New Clothes"
By Tom Greene (11/7/07)
A Robot Performs Standup Comedy to a Lackluster Response
By Michael Drucker (11/6/07)
The Believer 2007 Art Issue
(11/5/07)
On Community
By Ryan Mazer (11/2/07)
The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story
By Lemony Snicket (11/1/07)
Signs Above My Halloween Candy: 1996–2006
By Zach Oberman (10/31/07)
An Eighth-Grader's Halloween-Costume Ideas Designed to Get Her in With the Popular Girls
By Emily Axford (10/30/07)
Punching Up the Script: Car Wash (1976)
By Dan Kennedy (10/29/07)
I Am Tired of Being Mistaken for a Golden-Rumped Lion Tamarin
By Dave DeFina (10/26/07)
Bobby Wolff's Recent Aces on Bridge Column as Played by My Father and His Three Siblings
By C.B. Haas (10/25/07)
Suggested Poses for Photo-Booth Pictures
By Ted Travelstead (10/24/07)
What Happened After I Lost My Guardian Angel: A Timeline
By Jon Methven (10/23/07)
Good News: A Seat on My Tandem Bicycle Just Opened Up
By Colin Nissan (10/22/07)
Calendar of Upcoming Events and Workshops for the Sean Oggie Institute
By Michael Kaplan (10/19/07)
A Letter From the U.S. Secretary of Education Regarding the Birth of Your First Child
By Chandler Dean (10/18/07)
This Cursed House
By Daniel Schifrin (10/17/07)
From the "Forum" Section of Welding Enthusiast Magazine
By Danny Wind (10/16/07)
About What Happened at the Carnival
By Jim Stallard (10/15/07)
Notes Passed Between Nations During the Secretary-General's Address to the U.N.
By Johnny McNulty (10/12/07)
Off-Duty Situations in Which an Officer of the Law Might Use His Fancy Police-Report Jargon to Impress People
By Jennifer Byrne (10/11/07)
Baltimore Boy Makes Good
(10/10/07)
How I'd Communicate My Feelings About Starbucks' Wi-Fi Policy If I Were a Soap Opera Writer, a Hollywood Screenwriter, a Sci-Fi Writer, a Playwright, or an E-mail Writer
By Jamie Allen (10/9/07)
The Neurotic Pickup Artist
By Frank Ferri (10/8/07)
A Few Years After the Complete Collapse of the Global Economy, a Consumer Reporter Reviews the iPhone
By Matthew DuVerne Hutchinson (10/5/07)
Orc Alumni Notes
By Nathaniel Missildine (10/4/07)
A Subtextual Reading of Your High-School French Textbook
By Sarah Smallwood (10/3/07)
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By Teddy Wayne (10/2/07)
An Intraoffice Flier Announcing That the Company Is Having a Jellybean-Counting Contest for Its Employees
By John Frank Weaver (10/1/07)
The Dragon-Free Butterscotch FAQ
By Jeremy Richards (9/28/07)
Midterm Exam on Kelly, the Woman With Whom My Husband Had an Affair
By Susan Schorn (9/27/07)
My Therapist Goes to Dinner
By Matt Passet (9/26/07)
Trouble Report From the GUSSSSB (Government of the United States Secret Smithsonian Storage Building)
By Andrew Bridgman (9/25/07)
Trailer for the Beer-oes Season 1 DVD Release
By Michael J. Weingarth (9/24/07)
I'm 16 and Ready to Cope With Prostate Disease
By Mike Fowler (9/21/07)
The Conflicted History of the Wave, Part Two
By Michael Rottman (9/20/07)
A Different Kind of Company
By Barrett Brown (9/19/07)
Rules for My Cuddle Party
By Mike Sacks (9/18/07)
Thomas Kinkade's Experimental Period
By Jeremiah Tucker (9/17/07)
Troubleshooting Guide for TimeCorp's VH3928-Model Time Machine
By Jonathan Baude and J. Alex Boyd (9/14/07)
A Small Box of Very Short Stories
(9/13/07)
I See No Other Option Than to Resign as Emily Dickinson's Rap-Battle Coach
By Tyler Smith (9/12/07)
Welcoming Remarks Made at a Literary Reading, 9/25/01
By John Hodgman (9/11/07)
For Whom the Whistle Blows: A Physical-Education Instructor Contemplates His Own Mortality
By Emily Axford (9/10/07)
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By Shaun Spalding (9/7/07)
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By Peter Krinke (9/6/07)
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By Ross Brown (9/5/07)
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By Eric Feezell (9/4/07)
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By Jim Stallard (8/31/07)
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By Blair Becker (8/30/07)
Introducing Millard Kaufman
(8/29/07)
As Your Manager, I Think It's Time to Rethink Some of the Advice I Gave You, Starlet
By Aaron Spiewak (8/28/07)
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By Teddy Wayne (8/27/07)
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By Andrew Kiraly (8/23/07)
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By Ellie Kemper (8/22/07)
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By Sam Johnson (8/21/07)
Report on the Internal Investigation Into the Hansel and Gretel "Gingerbread Incident"
By Brian Walton (8/20/07)
A Memo From Sony Computer Entertainment America's Executive Vice President Andrew House to the New PlayStation Next Generation Design Team
By John Frank Weaver (8/17/07)
Pelé Gets "a Brazilian"
By Pasha Malla (8/16/07)
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By Jen Spyra (8/15/07)
My Sad Attempt to Have a Sex Fantasy About Attractive Former White House Political Director Sara Taylor
By Yoni Berkovits (8/14/07)
Gentile Culture Is a Beautiful Thing
By Sigmund Stern (8/13/07)
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By Shane Ryan (8/10/07)
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By Sarah Walker (8/9/07)
An Intense Moment Aboard the Battlestar Galactagogue
By Kari Anne Roy (8/8/07)
Funny Letters From Summer Camp and Their Not-So-Funny Responses
By Mike Sacks (8/7/07)
Why There Will Never Be a Lactose-Intolerant President
By Teddy Wayne (8/6/07)
Traveling Europe in Style With Auckland Dingiroo, Dark-Age Tourist and Critic of Food and Drink: Noteworthy Cures for Maladies
By John Hallmann (8/3/07)
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By Nathaniel Missildine (8/2/07)
Alternate Punch Lines for the Final Panels of Selected Beetle Bailey Cartoons
By Aaron Starmer (8/1/07)
Suggested Edits to the Movie 300 for the DVD release of 300: The Definitive, Historically Accurate Cut
By Jason Kellett (7/31/07)
The Lonely Sommelier: Beverage Pairings From My Kitchen
By Katelyn Stanek (7/30/07)
I Can Tell Millions of Dollars Wouldn't Make You Happy Anyway: A Brief Follow-up With Regard to My Losing Your Money
By Dan Kennedy (7/27/07)
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By Vernon Lott (7/26/07)
E-mails Sent Between Members of New Edition Regarding Their Reunion Tour
By Stephen Scaia (7/25/07)
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By Ross Murray (7/24/07)
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By Adam Sachs (7/23/07)
Exclusive! Leaked Excerpts From a Screenplay Written by My Grandparents in an Attempt to Cash In on the Superhero-Movie Craze
By Aaron Spiewak (7/20/07)
The American Canon of the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, Volume II
By Chris McCoy and Matthew Collison (7/19/07)
A Meditation on Salami
By Michael Ian Black (7/18/07)
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By Mark Walters (7/17/07)
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By Yasmine Abbasakoor (7/16/07)
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By Cathy McNally (7/13/07)
Recently Declassified Letters From NASA to Phillip Hinton Re: Finding Life
By Jason Bernstein (7/12/07)
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By Jason Roeder (7/11/07)
Anderson Cooper and Dinner Guest Eat at His Least Favorite Restaurant (Again)
By Wayne Gladstone (7/10/07)
A Letter to Optimus Prime From His GEICO Auto Insurance Agent
By John Frank Weaver (7/9/07)
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By Jon Methven (6/29/07)
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By Gregory Hudson (6/28/07)
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By Eric Feezell (6/27/07)
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By Chris Sartinsky (6/26/07)
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By Kate Kershner (6/25/07)
Thank You, Thank You, a Thousand Thank-Yous, and More
(6/22/07)
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By Jim Stallard (6/21/07)
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By Jeff Sutter (6/20/07)
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By Marco Kaye (6/19/07)
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By Adam Manella (6/18/07)
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By Flip Jaeger (6/15/07)
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By Matthew DuVerne Hutchinson (6/14/07)
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(6/12/07)
Finally, You Don't Need to Be Funny to Be Funny
(6/11/07)
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By Eric Silver (6/8/07)
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By Melanie Berliet (6/7/07)
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By Michael Depp (6/6/07)
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By Jeff Michaels (6/5/07)
Nostalgic Remembrances of Things That Haven't Happened Yet
By Eric Wiener (6/4/07)
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By Teddy Wayne (6/1/07)
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(5/31/07)
Accounts of My More Notable Childhood Street Fights, Written Not by Me but by Totally Unbiased Eyewitnesses
By Eric Feezell (5/30/07)
A Letter From My Journal Re: "Hectic"
By Adam Lefton (5/29/07)
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By Colin McEnroe (5/25/07)
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By Jason Roeder (5/24/07)
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By Matt Passet (5/23/07)
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By Jim Stallard (5/22/07)
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By Michael Rottman (5/21/07)
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By John Moe (5/16/07)
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By M. Randolph Pulver (5/14/07)
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By Jay Dyckman (5/11/07)
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By Rob Bloom (5/10/07)
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By Michael Ward (5/9/07)
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By Dan Kennedy (5/4/07)
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By Matthew DuVerne Hutchinson (5/3/07)
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By Jed Repko
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By Matthew Horner (4/27/07)
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By Matthew Belinkie (4/24/07)
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By M. Randolph Pulver (4/23/07)
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By Chuck Strangward (4/20/07)
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By Eric Feezell (4/19/07)
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By John Moe (4/18/07)
Traveling Europe in Style With Auckland Dingiroo, Dark-Age Tourist and Critic of Food and Drink: Avoiding Tainted Food
By John Hallmann (4/17/07)
A Suburban Mother Tells Her 12-Year-Old Neighbor How to Make His Street Gang More Powerful
By Wendi Aarons (4/16/07)
Planned Parenthood's Plans C, D, E, F, and G for Iraqi Insurgent Control
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By Damian Dressick (4/10/07)
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Again, I'm Sorry I Failed to Make Millions of Dollars on Your Behalf: A Follow-up Letter
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The Complete Heterosexuality Commission Report: Jeff Barnosky
By Jeff Barnosky (4/5/07)
After Reading Some of My Journal Entries, It's Clear That I Need to Stop Watching Porn
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Regarding Pete Seeger's Requests for a Hammer and His Descriptions of What He Would Do If He Had One
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By Chris White (4/2/07)
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By Will Layman (3/30/07)
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