The Proper Response
by Aaron Stoker-Ring (2/27/2002)

List: Baby Names for an Expected Sister Suggested by Nathaniel Watson, Age Six
by Sarah Brown (2/26/2002)

List: Crate and Barrel Tableware Style + U.S. President = Fictional Delta Blues Singer
by Josh Michtom (2/26/2002)

List: Introducing the New Cereals
by Adam Weitz and Amy O'Leary (2/26/2002)

List: Actual Notes I Took During a Showing of Paris is Burning in College, Discovered Four Years Later
by Jason Fagone (2/26/2002)

List: Actual Police Calls from Fayetteville, Arkansas, as Reported by the Fayetteville Police Department
by John Mark Boling (2/26/2002)

The Way Things Are Now
by Bryan Charles (2/26/2002)

Spicing Things Up
by Dan Kennedy (2/25/2002)

Cruel and Unusual, An Interview With Connie Williams, An Inmate At Marysville Reformatory For Women
by Aimee Bingham (2/22/2002)

Zoom
by Grant Bailie (2/21/2002)

Daylight Savings Tim
by Alysia Gray Painter (2/20/2002)

List: Actual Answers to the Question “What or Who Is the Greatest Love of Your Life?” That Were Not, to My Surprise, “You”
by Michelle Orange (2/18/2002)

List: Names of Squash That Also Make Good Terms of Endearment
by Laura Belous (2/18/2002)

List: Characters Available for Singing Telegrams from Babaloons, a Northern California Company, with Prices
by David Roth (2/18/2002)

List: Variations on the Spelling of ‘Vehicles,’ Submitted By My 6th Graders Attempting to Earn Extra Credit on a Weekly Spelling Test
by Andre Theisen (2/18/2002)

Further Reading
by Mike Topp (2/18/2002)

Notes from the McSweeney’s Representative: February 15, 2002
by The McSweeney's Representative (2/15/2002)

A Modern Instrument, An Interview With Robert Pastorek, About His New Bass And The Houston Symphony’s New Season
by Whitney Pastorek (2/15/2002)

What I Should Have Said To The HR Manager Of A Telemarketing Firm
by Tim Maly (2/14/2002)

My “Take Our Kids To Work Day” Diary
by Christopher Orlet (2/13/2002)

List: Names of the Most Popular Colors According to the Color Marketing Group’s 2002 Color Forecast
by Jason Kottke (2/12/2002)

List: Alternative Winter Olympics
by Dominique Ritter (2/12/2002)

List: How Many Members of Each of the Following Religions It Takes To Screw in a Lightbulb
by Matthew Prins (2/12/2002)

List: Tips from Jokes and How to Tell Them, Published in 1963
by R.J. White (2/12/2002)

When Pterodactyls Attack
by Nicholas Danforth and Steve Simon (2/11/2002)

Store Items Sold: February 4-7, 2002
by Store Manager (2/8/2002)

Being the Janitor, An Interview With Dan O’Donnell, About Cleaning Up
by Elizabeth Miller (2/8/2002)

Editorial
by Kurt Luchs (2/7/2002)

How “Um” Could Have Changed History
by Ken Budd (2/6/2002)

Letters from Elizabeth Miller’s Dad, Who Fights Fires While Flying a Helicopter: Letter Eleven
by Elizabeth Miller (2/6/2002)