Tessera
Folgen

Lisa Borders

@lisaborders.bsky.social

Massachusetts-based writer, cat lover, alt rock fanatic. New novel, Last Night at the Disco, out now. Humor in McSweeney’s & more. I run the Novel Reactor workshops. Pro-science, anti-fascist. https://www.lisaborders.com/

339 Posts6100 Follower912 Folgt
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 3mo ago

"I’m not speaking ill of the dead when I say that the senator was like an unguided missile. You never knew where he would land or who or what might be destroyed in his wake, but gosh darnit, he sure created a lot of light as he helped to decimate huge swaths of the Middle East."

As a Democratic Member of Congress, I Don’t Wish to Speak Ill of the Dead

“I would never speak ill of the dead, especially a man I considered a friend. My fondest memory of the senator is how he always had a twinkle in his eye when...

buff.ly

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 3mo ago

"I don’t wish to speak ill of the dead, so I’ll tell you my favorite thing about the senator: his quick wit and sense of humor. The way he voted for cuts to both the ACA and Medicaid and then claimed he’d done no such thing had me in stitches!"

As a Democratic Member of Congress, I Don’t Wish to Speak Ill of the Dead

“I would never speak ill of the dead, especially a man I considered a friend. My fondest memory of the senator is how he always had a twinkle in his eye when...

buff.ly

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 3mo ago

"I don’t wish to speak ill of the dead, so I think it’s important to put the senator’s passionate defense of Brett Kavanaugh in context: Both men came from a different time—a time when the concept of consent wasn’t even a glimmer in a preppy douchebag’s eye."

As a Democratic Member of Congress, I Don’t Wish to Speak Ill of the Dead

“I would never speak ill of the dead, especially a man I considered a friend. My fondest memory of the senator is how he always had a twinkle in his eye when...

buff.ly

Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud)@iddybud.bsky.social · 3mo ago

👍 via Lisa Borders @mcsweeneys.net: "I’ll tell you my favorite thing about the senator: his quick wit and sense of humor. The way he voted for cuts to both the ACA and Medicaid and then claimed he’d done no such thing had me in stitches!" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/as-...

As a Democratic Member of Congress, I Don’t Wish to Speak Ill of the Dead

“I would never speak ill of the dead, especially a man I considered a friend. My fondest memory of the senator is how he always had a twinkle in his eye when...

mcsweeneys.net

Lisa Borders@lisaborders.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What a blast I had on the Gold Coast Book Fair’s “I ❤️NY” panel today discussing LAST NIGHT AT THE DISCO with the great Joan Silber, Cynthia Weiner, and our mighty moderator Jessikah Chautin.

BildBild
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 6mo ago

"We got married and bought a little yellow house, marveling at how much more expensive it would have been in LA, and my husband promised he’d paint it pink. Four decades later, and this split-level ranch is still the color of morning urine."

I’m the L.A. Doll in John Cougar Mellencamp’s “Small Town,” and I Hate This Godforsaken Shithole

Picture it: Los Angeles in 1985. I’d moved there two years earlier to make it as a model, but all I had to show for it was a couple of car shows, o...

buff.ly

Lisa Borders@lisaborders.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Channeled my suburban night-driving angst into this humor piece for Slackjaw - one of two pieces I’ll be reading at Slackjaw Live in NYC on April 26. It’s Me, A Short Woman With A Long Dark Commute, And I Love It When Your Big Bright Headlights… medium.com/slackjaw/its...

It’s Me, A Short Woman With A Long Dark Commute, And I Love It When Your Big Bright Headlights…

I imagine you and your big-truck-energy boys to be as interchangeable as you likely think all women over the age of fifty are

medium.com

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 8mo ago

I went home to face yet another lonely ol’ night with my husband, only to learn that he had lost my entire month’s tips in a poker game. As I started to lay into him, he waved me off. “Rain on the scarecrow, blood on the plow,” he muttered cryptically as he headed to the bathroom.

I’m the L.A. Doll in John Cougar Mellencamp’s “Small Town,” and I Hate This Godforsaken Shithole

Picture it: Los Angeles in 1985. I’d moved there two years earlier to make it as a model, but all I had to show for it was a couple of car shows, o...

buff.ly

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 8mo ago

"Maybe I could have tolerated the location if our relationship was great, but once the first bloom of romance wore off, he started talking about wanting it to hurt so good. That’s really not my thing."

I’m the L.A. Doll in John Cougar Mellencamp’s “Small Town,” and I Hate This Godforsaken Shithole

Picture it: Los Angeles in 1985. I’d moved there two years earlier to make it as a model, but all I had to show for it was a couple of car shows, o...

buff.ly

Lisa Borders@lisaborders.bsky.social · 8mo ago

If you’re old enough to remember John Mellencamp’s mid-80s hits, perhaps you’ve wondered whatever happened to that L.A. Doll in “Small Town”? My latest for McSweeney’s. #johnmellencamp #smalltown

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 8mo ago

"When I met this guy with the most perfect curly mullet who promised me a little pink house in one of the flyover states, it sounded pretty good. Forty years later, I’m still not even sure what state we’re living in." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...