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Now available for preorder:
The San Francisco Panorama
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MY THERAPIST
THINKS I DID MY
VISION BOARD WRONG,
BUT I'M PRETTY SURE
I NAILED IT.

BY DAN KENNEDY

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Charcoal sketch made by prisoner, featuring a naked woman reclined on a motorcycle with a huge python draped around her. (From article on prison culture in '80s issue of Rolling Stone.)

Phrase "My denial" written in glue and sprinkled with silver glitter.

Picture of cocaine and money with American flag in background from Time magazine with the headline "How to Make Millions" from article in Harvard Business Review pasted above it.

The wrapper to a pack of Marlboro Lights cut up to spell out "bro Might."

Newspaper headlines and ad from back of Penthouse cobbled together to read: "President Bush Sexually Aroused by Outsourcing of American Jobs."

Morrissey looking dapper and reserved.

Snapshot of obese people eating fast food.

Charles Manson mugshot with CNN logo pasted onto forehead. Headline from gossip magazine put above it reads: "Let the Fame Games Begin!"

Picture of graying executive. Small pictures of: Ferrari, leather shoes, money, steak, watches, yacht—all pasted together to look like they're crammed into the executive's mouth.

File photo of bank-foreclosure signs on a whole street of new houses.

Newspaper headlines:

"Famous Star Was Worth Millions, Died Alone in Friend's Apartment"

"Renegade Trucker Who Lived Life as Loner Is Mourned by Millions"

Nineteen-seventy-six photograph of Big-O skateboard park in Anaheim, California.

Still frame from James Dean screen test for East of Eden.

Nine dollars plus change, a piece of gum, and a receipt from a parking garage in Los Angeles, all glued to center.

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Dan Kennedy's
Other Features.

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OTHER McSWEENEY'S FEATURES:

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My Therapist Thinks I Did My Vision Board Wrong, but I'm Pretty Sure I Nailed It By Dan Kennedy
Fragments From Edwards! The Musical By Ben Greenman
Selections From H.P. Lovecraft's Brief Tenure as a Whitman's Sampler Copywriter By Luke Burns
The Talk By Julia Weiss
Jean-Paul Sartre's Script for Without a Trace By Bob Woodiwiss

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GLOBAL WAR ON BEDBUGS: LETTERS FROM BEDBUG CITY

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SEAN MICHAELS LISTENS TO MUSIC IN MONTREAL

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ABOUT THE WILD THINGS

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FLAG-FOOTBALL TEAM


TRAVELING EUROPE IN STYLE WITH AUCKLAND DINGIROO,
DARK-AGE TOURIST AND CRITIC OF FOOD AND DRINK


JOHN MOE'S POP-SONG CORRESPONDENCES

INTERVIEWS WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE INTERESTING OR UNUSUAL JOBS

FLIP: A COLUMN ABOUT SKATEBOARDING

OPEN LETTERS TO PEOPLE OR ENTITIES WHO ARE UNLIKELY TO RESPOND

DISPATCHES FROM A PUBLIC LIBRARIAN

MICHAEL IAN BLACK IS A VERY FAMOUS CELEBRITY

DAN KENNEDY SOLVES YOUR PROBLEMS WITH PAPER

STEPHEN ELLIOTT'S POKER REPORT

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