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Hold It Right There, Sean Murphy
A sketch.
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My Supervillain Origin Story
The following is 100% true and 1000% embarrassing
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Wedding Vows for the 21st Century
From the Apocalypse Vow Department
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A Skeptic's Guide to the Supernatural
Out-of-body experiences as they happened to someone too smart to believe in them.
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Great Comedy Advice for Beginners and Experts
A new regular column!
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HIllbilly Heroin in the Year of Health Insurance
A Strange Story from the Far-Off Year 2000
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Questions I Asked the Internet Instead of a Doctor
Being sick opens a whole new world of self-pity
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THE ROMAN SENATE’S OFFICIAL TALKING POINTS FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION OF JULIUS CAESAR
Colleagues,
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A Head Cold for Telepaths
A bad cold, a trip through my early-2000s blog archives, and the uneasy feeling that becoming a better writer might mean losing the messy voice that…
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LOCKBLOCKED
A story from the mid-2000s when I lived in New York City
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The Nine New Circles of Hell
Punishing sins that Dante never imagined
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Things That Trump Promised in His State of the Union Address
or The Speech That Broke Satire
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