Created in darkness by troubled Americans : the best of McSweeney's, humor category / edited by Dave Eggers [and others] ; with introductions by Harry Magnan and Dave Eggers.
A selection of humorous pieces from the popular literary magazine includes "Circumstance Under Which I Would Have Sex with Some of My Fellow Jurors" and "The Ten Worst Films of All Time, as Reviewed by Ezra Pound over Italian Radio."
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Table of Contents:
- A brief parody of a talk show that falls apart about halfway through / Tim Carvell
- The spirit of Christmas / Kurt Luchs
- The briefing: a play in one act / Stuart Wade
- On the implausibility of the Death Star's trash compactor / J.M. Tyree
- Preview of summer camps / Jeff Johnson
- Comments written on evaluations of my speech on needle-exchange programs / Andy Rathbun
- The newest from Jokeland / Brodie H. Brockie and R.J. White
- Excerpts from my speech on forest-fire prevention / Arthur Bradford
- As a porn movie titler, I may lack promise / John Moe
- I know what you did two moons ago (the revenge) / Brian Kennedy
- Words that would make nice names for babies, if it weren't for their unsuitable meanings / Stephany Aulenback
- Reviews of my daydreams / T.G. Gibbon
- Insomniacs! I bring words of hope and wisdom / Jason Roeder
- The ten worst films of all time, as reviewed by Ezra Pound over Italian radio / Greg Purcell
- Group mobilization as a desperate cry for help / Christopher Monks
- Fire: the next sharp stick? / John Hodgman
- Not very scary movies / Joshua Watson
- Candle party / Alysia Gray Painter
- It's not actually a small world / Tom Ruprecht
- Unused audio commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, recorded summer 2002, for The lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring DVD (platinum series extended edition), part one / Jeff Alexander and Tom Bissell
- Canceled regional morning TV shows / John Moe
- A letter from Ezra Pound to Billy Wilder, 1963 / Greg Purcell
- Journal of a new COBRA recruit / Keith Pille
- A logic puzzle and hangover cure / John Hodgman
- Some people don't like celebrities / Michael Ian Black
- Tips from Jokes and how to tell them, published in 1963 / R.J. White
- How important moments in my life would have been different if I was shot in the stomach / Jake Swearingen
- No justice, no foul / Jim Stallard
- Actual academic journals which could be Broadway shows if they had exclamation points added! / T.G. Gibbon
- My beard, reveiwed / Chris Bachelder
- The name game / Stephany Aulenback and Sean Carman
- Circumstances under which I would have sex with some of my fellow jurors / Peter Ferland
- The bet / Arthur Bradford
- The dance lesson / Tim Carvell
- Attack of the fabulons! / Mark O'Donnell
- Pirate riddles for sophisticates / Kevin Shay
- A short fictional passage entitled "Drift nets," in which several enterprising characters troll the high seas, exploring abandoned trade vessels for "pirated" goods, and learn to cope with distinct personalities in a close-knit, high-stress environment / Todd Pruzan
- Ineffective lines deleted from final revisions of violent box-office hits / Dan Kennedy
- A Graceland for Adolf / Zev Borow
- Trinity / Neal Pollack
- Pop quiz / Sean Condon
- Bad names for professional wrestlers / Jeff Johnson
- Evidently, it was live then / Dan Kennedy
- Upcoming titles from Gavin Menzies, author of 1421: the year the Chinese discovered America / Paul Tullis
- Good westerns, not porn / Ross Barnes
- Norse legends reference pages / Kevin Guilfoile
- Goofus, Gallant, Rashomon / Jim Stallard
- Not-good titles for romantic films / Tim Blair
- Black, gray, green, red, blue: a letter from a famous painter on the moon / Ben Greenman
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