Since 2010, I’ve written original humor and satire at McSweeney’s, a site that helped shape my sense of what smart, strange, sharply constructed comedy can do. The work ranges from political absurdism and pop-culture sabotage to literary parody and historical grievance, often beginning with the familiar before barreling somewhere unstable and ridiculous.
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The US Constitution Is for Simple Folk Still Burdened by the Belief That Words Have Meaning
An Open Letter to the Dead Duck Seen Floating in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
“NEWS MAN BAD”: A Personnel Memo from Animal, Your Editor-In-Chief
I, Sisyphus, Am Ninety-Five Percent of the Way There
Instead of Losing Democratic Elections, What If We Just Stopped Having Them Altogether?
Congratulations to Me, a Kamala Harris Voter, for Getting Exactly What I Voted For
Richard Scarry’s “What Do People Do All Day in Fascist Busytown?”
The Democrats of the Seven Kingdoms
Thanksgiving’s Going to Be a Tough One This Year, Charlie Brown
“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief
Ignorance Isn’t the Absence of Knowledge; It Is the Presence of Maximum Comfort
America Now Really Does Run on Dunkin’
The Zen of Dying Quietly, and Other Teachings by Senator Joni Ernst
“This Will Be Good for You”: A Few Words from the Iceberg That Sank the Titanic
A New Hope Spreads Across a Galaxy Far, Far Away—Here’s Why That’s a Big Problem for the Republic
I’m Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, King of the Frickin’ Sea
Denny’s Research & Development Team Leader Doesn’t Have Time For Your Sh*t
The Washington Post Inadvertently Publishes My Online Dating Profile with the Editor’s Notes Still Included
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A humor site with some serious tenure. Since 2000, Points In Case has entertained and indulged more than 50 million readers through all sorts of literary humor styles and forms—including something silly of mine.
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Everyday Objectifications
Just for fun, a silly series of songs and unrelated genres that reimagine everyday objects I find around the house.
