Archive - Write, Liam!

Great Comedy Advice for Beginners and Experts

A new regular column!

Mar 23 • Liam McEneaney

HIllbilly Heroin in the Year of Health Insurance

A Strange Story from the Far-Off Year 2000

Mar 19 • Liam McEneaney

Questions I Asked the Internet Instead of a Doctor

Being sick opens a whole new world of self-pity

Mar 16 • Liam McEneaney

THE ROMAN SENATE’S OFFICIAL TALKING POINTS FOLLOWING THE ASSASSINATION OF JULIUS CAESAR

Mar 12 • Liam McEneaney

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…

Mar 9 • Liam McEneaney

A story from the mid-2000s when I lived in New York City

Mar 5 • Liam McEneaney

The Nine New Circles of Hell

Punishing sins that Dante never imagined

Mar 2 • Liam McEneaney

February 2026

Things That Trump Promised in His State of the Union Address

or The Speech That Broke Satire

Feb 26 • Liam McEneaney

The Last Action Zero

aka Fool Hand Luke

Feb 23 • Liam McEneaney

James Bond Won't Save Us

We'll have to handle the Epstein issue ourselves.

Feb 19 • Liam McEneaney

A 19th Century Courtship Conducted Entirely by Telegraph

NEW WESTERN UNION STATION WHO THIS FULL STOP

Feb 16 • Liam McEneaney

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Going Negative Early (2004)

Paid for by the committee to preserve classic material

Feb 12 • Liam McEneaney

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