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May 26, 2005

Upcoming and Much-Needed Thomas Frank Titles

by Kevin Shay
September 10, 2003

McSweeney’s Brain Exploder: A Name-Tag Snafu at the Annual Spice Girls/ Smurfs/ Seven Dwarfs Convention

by Carlton Doby and Kevin Shay
August 20, 2001

One Morning, At The Office

by Kevin Shay
November 23, 2000

The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and The Twelve Steps of Creating a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon (as Listed on the MacyParade.com Web Site), Head to Head

by Kevin Shay
October 24, 2000

Searching for Orthographical Consensus by Counting Search Results on Google.com, Part One: The Leader of Libya

by Kevin Shay
June 14, 2000

Pirate Riddles for Sophisticates

by Kevin Shay
March 14, 2000

My Dogme95 Confession

by Kevin Shay
January 17, 2000

Percentages of Internet Users Genuinely Engaged in the Action in Column “A” While Typing the Abbreviation in Column “B.”

by Kevin Shay
January 10, 2000

Terms That Corporate America Should Consider Using in Place of “Going Forward.”

by Kevin Shay
December 3, 1999

Hypothetical Transcript of the Discussion Leading to the Decision to Euthanize Hsing-Hsing the Giant Panda

by Kevin Shay
September 24, 1999

Fake Memo about Superman’s Vision.

by Kevin Shay
July 14, 1999

Plath or Gabrielle?

by Kevin Shay

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