your favorite mcsweeney's essays

[billi vanilli]

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/

some of my favorites:
An Art-History Professor Explains to His 4-Year-Old Daughter Why the Fair Market Value of Her Picture Is Actually Far Less Than That of a Thousand Words (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/4/5ryan.html)
Possible "Surprise" Endings to the New Samuel L. Jackson Film Snakes on a Plane (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/4/10keinathnuske.html)
A Rejected Submission to NPR's "This I Believe" (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/4/4may.html)
Famous Palindrome (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2005/7/18belz.html)
A Serial Killer Explains the Distinctions Between Literary Terms (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/3/24anders.html)

i dunno, those are all really recent, but i just got into the site. it's really really funny... anyone else like it?

[My Little Needle]

Every Sha La La, Every Oh No (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2003/01/15orange.html)
My friend sent me this one, I thought it was great.

Awesome site, can't remember any other articles in particular. Dave Eggers is one of my favorite writers, by the way.

[caribou]

Stumbled upon this at Borders tonight:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1400076854.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Total greatness.

[billi vanilli]

holy crap, i want it! i'll have to check out barnes and noble soon.

[Dr. Spirograph]

NIHILIST JOB RÉSUMÉ (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/4/3fezzell.html) -- Absolutely hilarious.

[mr. broom]

Your Best Guy Friend Is Me (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2005/4/20confalone.html). Guy who wrote it is a friend of a friend.

How to Talk to Your Kids About Almost Anything (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2005/3/14molyneux.html).

[My Little Needle]

my friend sent me a couple that I thought were great:

Diseases I'm Glad Aren't Sexually Transmitted (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/26ScottDomansky.html)
Three Lists Involving Musical Artists (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2005/5/6lists.html)
Unused Audio Commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky for the Fellowship of the Ring (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2003/04/22fellowship.html)

[caribou]

Unused Audio Commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky for the Fellowship of the Ring (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2003/04/22fellowship.html)
That one's in the book I bought, as is this piece of genius:

On the Implausibility of the Death Star's Trash Compactor (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2002/01/10deathstar.html)

[matt]

pretty much all the "history's great persons reconsidered"