An Open Letter to My Local Newspaper With Advice for When It Runs Its Next Two-Page Photo Spread on the Beautiful Colors of the Season - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

Internet Tendency

Daily humor almost every day since 1998.

Daily humor almost every day since 1998.

The Believer Magazine

Subscribe today to climb aboard this unstoppable train of a literary journal.

Dear Editors,

Print the photos in color.

Sincerely,
Frank Ferri

Please help support our writers and keep our site ad-free by becoming a patron.

Become a patron

Subscribe to McSweeney’s Internet Tendency’s Substack

Suggested Reads

February 1, 2000

Vignettes That Won’t Make It Into the New York Times’ “Metropolitan Diary.”

by Tom Ruprecht
June 24, 2002

Appalled in Albuquerque: Recent Uses of “Appalled” in Letters to the Weekly Alibi, Albuquerque’s Weekly Newspaper

by Noah Masterson
February 12, 2002

Names of the Most Popular Colors According to the Color Marketing Group’s 2002 Color Forecast

by Jason Kottke
March 20, 2024

I Am the New York Times’ Paywall, and If I Let Any Non-Subscribers in, They’ll Kill My Family

by Mike Langley

Trending 🔥

November 8, 2024

Updates on the Arc of the Moral Universe

by Amanda Lehr
November 6, 2024

Here’s Why a Second Death Star Won’t Be That Bad

by Carlos Greaves
November 6, 2024

I Don’t Hate Women Candidates. I Just Thought an Erratic and Vindictive Criminal Was Worthier of My Vote Than a Woman Candidate

by Devorah Blachor
November 8, 2024

Finally, the Elites Have Been Defeated by the Billionaires

by Eli Grober

Recently

November 21, 2024

Linda McMahon Is Ready to Pile-Drive the Department of Education

by Riane Konc
November 20, 2024

The Sirens Are Unionizing

by Andrew Patrick Clark
November 20, 2024

Is It a Red Flag?: Romeo and Juliet Edition

by Amy Greenlee
November 19, 2024

The Story of the First No-Nut November

by Pat Cassels