Shouts & Murmurs


Realistic High-School-Yearbook Inscriptions

“You will read this once this afternoon and not again until you’re in your fifties, but, by that time, I will have already died, alone in my apartment, totally nude, except for my ankle monitor.”
By Jason Roeder and Mike Sacks

Senior-Discount Disneyland

Get your coupons ready. Here comes Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride to the Urologist and the Tunnel of Nap.
By Ian Frazier

Ava’s Life List

Spring is here, and with it sightings of the Great-Breasted Hausfrau, the Potbellied Galoot, and the Common Nanny.
By Garry Trudeau

Escape Rooms for Middle-Aged People

Work as a team as you and other dads chat about pro sports, college sports, kids (and their sports), while avoiding eye contact, politics, and any hint of vulnerability.
By Charles Yu

When It Gets Warm . . .

I will wear the perfect amount of sunscreen so that I don’t look like clown-faced Mark Zuckerberg on that surfboard or red-faced Mark Zuckerberg at a Senate hearing.
By Zach Zimmerman and Blythe Roberson

Our Mom-and-Pop Data Center

Mornin’, tech brothers and sisters! Come take a walk on our information super country road.
By Jed Feiman and Nehemiah Markos


Schools to Root for After Your Bracket Fails

To keep March Madness interesting, why not go with your mom’s alma mater? Or the college with a celebrity’s kid?
By Talib Babb

Rolling Out Our New A.I. Tools

Internal memo: Meet our new suite of A.I.-optimized losers and douche bags. Although they are fully agentic, we’re sure they will annoy you in all the ways you’re accustomed to.
By Lizzie Widdicombe and Paige Ferrari