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Lisa Borders
Lisa Borders is the author of the novels The Fifty-First State and Cloud Cuckoo Land. Her third novel, Last Night at the Disco, will be published in 2025. Read more of her humor and other writing at lisaborders.com.
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January 15, 2025Signs You Are a Gen-Xer Who’s About to Turn Sixty
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November 13, 2024Sure, I Voted for Someone Whose Policies Might Kill You, but Now’s the Time to Put Aside Our Differences
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June 5, 2024We Are the Spiders of This House
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February 13, 2024The 25th Annual Conference of Women Mentioned in Rock Lyrics
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January 25, 2023Food from The Great British Bake Off or Song by The Cure?
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November 11, 2022It’s Me, Your Thin Friend and Oh My God, I Feel So Fat
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July 13, 2022“Your (Aging) Body Is a Wonderland”
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March 9, 2022Come Work at Our Nonprofit Where We Treat Employees Like Family—a Toxic and Dysfunctional Family
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June 2, 2021Coming in 2040: No Future, the First Punk Rock Nursing Home
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April 21, 2021House Hunting in 2021 Bingo
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March 3, 2021It’s Me, Your Former Junior High School Bully, and I’m Sorry to Inform You That Karma Hasn’t Caught Up With Me Yet
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April 8, 2020Unfollow, Unfriend, or Block: A Pandemic Guide
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March 18, 2025Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
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March 24, 2025Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
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March 10, 2025As an American Jew, I Feel Completely Reassured for My Safety Now That Trump Has Targeted the Epicenter of American Antisemitism, Columbia University
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March 13, 2025It’s a Shame We Have to Betray Our Allies, Starve the Poor, Halt Scientific Progress, Destroy the Environment, and Eliminate the Freedoms Enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but at Least My Investment Portfolio Is Also Tanking
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March 28, 2025Although I Voted for You to Be Turned into Soup, There’s No Reason We Can’t Be Friends Before You Are Liquefied
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March 28, 2025Brutally Honest Emails from Academia.edu
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March 27, 2025We Are the People Who Buy Red Delicious Apples
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March 27, 2025A Letter from Believer Editor Daniel Gumbiner