I Knew a Guy Who Was LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ

RICHMOND, Va.—I meet a lot of people. I meet a lot of people at horror conventions and other pop-culture gatherings. Therefore I’ve witnessed every kind of tattoo, every ...

Who Cut the Balls Off San Francisco?

MONTREAL—So now San Francisco is banning e-cigarettes, because a City Council member discovered there are still people making personal decisions about what to do with their ...

This Guy Really Needs a Lawyer So Let’s Not Give Him One

KANSAS CITY—If you asked any American in, say, 1963 what he thought of the right to legal counsel, you would have gotten a 99 percent response: Hell yes, everybody is entitled ...

Baristas Are Slowly Going Insane

JACKSONVILLE—First Starbucks had that incident in Philadelphia where two guys were arrested, in handcuffs, for loitering in a Starbucks, raising the philosophical question: Is ...

If You Don’t Shut Up, I’m Gonna Blockchain Your Ass

PITTSBURGH—Guys, you’re probably wondering what you get for your five mil when you buy into Whistlestop Zulu, and the answer is Blockchain On Steroids. We’ve gone so deep ...

J. Frank Dobie

Goddammit, Don, Too Soon. Too Soon.

PHOENIX—The last time I saw Don Graham, we were talking about all the Canadian students at the University of Texas who come down to Austin and “don’t know who Dobie is—I ...

My Byline Is Joe Bob By-God Briggs

CHICAGO—We used to make fun of anybody who would be so arrogant as to put a byline on his own article. In fact, it was sort of the definition of weirdos in the newsroom: effete ...

I Could Have Been Such a Charming Serial Killer

CLEVELAND—Back in my acting days, I always wanted to be cast as the boyfriend/husband/charming-stranger-from-out-of-town in a Lifetime Movie of the Week. Who wouldn’t want ...

So Now Amsterdam Hates Tourists? Fine.

NEW YORK—The goddamn foreigners are trampling the tulips in Bollenstreek. Yes, that’s what I said. Amsterdam has decided to stop advertising itself as a tourist ...

Stop Lying and Eat Your Salad

HOUSTON—If it doesn’t come from an animal—or, I guess, if you wanna get technical and include Soylent Green in our definition, an animal or a human—then it’s not ...

Is There a Vaccine for Vaccine-Haters?

NASHVILLE—If you go to Trenton, the capital of New Jersey, and you look around the streets behind the Capitol, you might stumble upon a curious little museum called the Old ...

No Thanks, I’ll Skip the Asian Raccoon Feces in My $75 Espresso

SYRACUSE, N.Y.—Over this past weekend there were exactly five places in Southern California where you could show up to exercise your Insane Hipster Street Cred. You could ...

When You Can’t Hold Your Horses

DALLAS—Millions of two-dollar bettors became experts on the rules of horse racing over the weekend after Maximum Security, a handsome bay colt with a white stripe down the ...

Samsung Sero

You, Too, Can Live Inside Your Phone

LONDON, Ontario—The great thing about living among Canadians for a few days is that they don’t have an app for everything. They still answer their phones. They still ...

Graceland, Memphis

Heartbreak Luxury Hotels

CHARLOTTE, N.C.—The lawyers and CPAs who run Elvis Presley Enterprises have been threatening the city of Memphis for the past two years with plans to dismantle Graceland—the ...

Jack Ma

The Joe Bob Briggs 168-Hour Workweek

MADISON, Miss.—Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, is a big believer in the twelve-hour workday and the six-day workweek. He’s basically a guy who forgot to read Charles Dickens in ...


Sign Up to Receive Our Latest Updates!