#mcsweeny's

[ravedeath1990]

[mercurygray]

If Your University’s Administration Ran a Polar Expedition

To Our Esteemed Officers and Everyone Else, As we begin this new year, we would like to take the opportunity to update our party’s Strategic

@calamity-bean, @jamesknoxpolka , I feel this speaks to you.

[the-spaztic-fantastic]

Self-Quarantined: The Adult Activity Book

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[roughtradesaint]

My Coming Out Story, Sponsored By Bank of America

Since I was a kid, I’ve always known something about me was… different. Sure, my parents would look at me funny when I’d play with Barbies, but the...

[snortleme]

yep.

[fuckyeahdialectics]

Why did the chicken cross the road? It had been crossing so long it could not remember. As it stopped in the middle to look back, a car sped by, spinning it around. Disoriented, the chicken realized it could no longer tell which way it was going. It stands there still.

, John MacNamee (2014), from ‘Kafka’s Joke Book’, McSweeney’s.

[his-quietus-make]

Hamlet: The Prince accepts that his uncle Claudius is a killer, but, what Denmark is so innocent? Denmark has a lot of killers. NOTE: Audiences are instructed not to read too heavily into the fact that the entire play takes place in a gilded castle, utterly cut off from the rest of Denmark, and ends with the unopposed invasion of the country by a northern strongman, fresh from attacking Poland.

Richard III: Richard demands, “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!”, and gets the best horse, a fabulous horse, believe me, this horse, what is maybe important is, this horse is really big. His promise of a kingdom in exchange is neither literal nor serious, played well in the campaign didn’t it, but now we don’t care.

The Tempest: Minor changes. Prospero’s brother, the usurping Duke, is now the hero. Caliban’s role has been reduced, as in Act I a wall is constructed across the island to keep him out. Ariel is forced to pay for the wall. Relationship between Prospero and his daughter still uncomfortable.

Measure for Measure: Probably fine.

The Taming of the Shrew: Thumbs up, tame that shrew. No longer even pretends to be a comedy. Obsession with women’s dress now oddly ahead of its time.

Macbeth: The same, though no one is destroyed by guilt for their crimes against a living country. A golf course is expanded.

Othello: No

[ruthstruths]

Selected Negative Teaching Evaluations of Jesus Christ

“Very inconvenient class! Always holds lectures on top of mountains, in middle of the Sea of Galilee—but never close to the main campus.” “I