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This summer's buzzword implies that sitting on your couch can be an adventure. But even the smarmiest euphemism can't turn Paris Hilton into Paris, France.
By Billy Frolick
September 1, 2008
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Is this comedy about a heavy-metal wannabe a Gen X rock 'n' roll fantasy?
By James Hannaham
August 20, 2008
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What's so funny about Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly whacking each other in the head? Everything.
By Stephanie Zacharek
July 25, 2008
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The president has used "awesome" to describe everything from dead soldiers to the pope. How did a slang word trickle up to the highest office in the land?
By Andrea Higbie
July 23, 2008
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Who invented jokes, and why do we laugh at them? Jim Holt discusses the history of funny.
By James Hannaham
July 21, 2008
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The blogosphere's reaction to the New Yorker cover proves that the Bush era has killed a lot of liberals' sense of humor. And that's not funny.
By Gary Kamiya
July 15, 2008
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Forget Wii Fit and Perfect Pushup suction cups. To get in shape, I went back to the original fitness guru -- "the world's most perfectly developed man."
By Todd Levin
July 15, 2008
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The author of "Stuff White People Like" skewers the sacred cows of lefty Caucasian culture, from the Prius to David Sedaris.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
July 5, 2008
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I know a mother is supposed to accept her children as they are. But my son has one painful flaw -- he's straight.
By Sarah Bird
June 25, 2008
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Jogging bras can save your life!
By Kate Harding
June 23, 2008
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To avoid humiliating a once-great party and subjecting America to more painful glimpses of McCain's ideas and teeth, the mercy rule must be invoked now.
By Gary Kamiya
June 17, 2008
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From Darth Vader to Pete Doherty, Salon presents a lighthearted list of the 10 worst fathers ever and the presents they deserve.
By Steve Almond
June 14, 2008
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Fans of the culty animated TV show that inspired this movie may giggle and guffaw -- but will anyone else?
By Stephanie Zacharek
April 13, 2007
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In the forthcoming issue of Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens explores one of life's great questions.
By Page Rockwell
December 6, 2006
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Since I was a kid I've shunned men's bikini briefs. But now I'm one of the guys with a shiny marble bag -- strutting poolside, liberated.
By Oliver Broudy
August 15, 2006
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Working with your phone company, skilled NSA operatives are rounding up evil terrorists who speak Islamofascist jive.
By Evan Ratliff
May 12, 2006
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At age 7, I exploded onto the pop/minimalist scene playing the first eight notes to "Star Wars." Note how "Barnaby Jones" swells as I leave to eat fish sticks.
By Jason Roeder
January 24, 2006
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Two Beverly Hills plastic surgeons showed me the promise of a perfect face. So why am I keeping this shabby old one?
By David Rakoff
November 29, 2005
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"Arrested Development" reinvents Scott Baio as a no-nonsense lawyer
By HH
November 28, 2005
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We have fans at the New York Observer.
By R.T.
October 26, 2005
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The Bush/Kerry debate in translation.
By Joyce McGreevy
October 1, 2004
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Mean boys. Badass girls. Your worst first-day-of-high-school nightmare, to the millionth power ... and in Marin County, Calif.
By Cintra Wilson
September 17, 2004
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An exclusive look at George W. Bush's nomination speech.
By Joyce McGreevy
August 27, 2004
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This hilarious memoir by a McSweeney's contributor chronicles a lifetime of false starts and big mistakes with honesty, wit
and lots of appalling details.
By Heather Havrilesky
September 17, 2003
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Vocabulary list
March 28, 2003
Staycation Nation
"The Rocker"
"Step Brothers"
George W. Bush: "Awesome!"
The good humor man
Rush Limbaugh was right
Charles Atlas will make a man of you!
The unbearable whiteness of being
How gay it would be
SOS double-D
Election 2008: Declare a forfeit
Bad Dad Gift Guide
"Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters"
Speedo freaks
O say, ma, been laden forever!
My life's liner notes
Whatsizface
Chachi, reimagined
Liza's horrible so-called life
"Let's turn a corner, any corner"
"Loser Goes First" by Dan Kennedy
Lynda Barry
GigaOM Network
War Room