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[Seth Says] I won the National Press Club Humor Award!
June 30, 2024
No burying the lead here -- we wouldn't want it to get into the groundwater! Yes, I am delighted to say that I have won the National Press Club's 2024 Humor...
[Seth Says] NOW That's What I Call Madness!
June 14, 2024
If you remember the 80s, which were a mere 20 years ago, 20 years ago, you may remember an avalanche of TV commercials for music collections. Before everyone...
[Seth Says] Bonus Content!
May 31, 2024
I mean, arguably, the whole newsletter is bonus content. (Or malus content, depending how much you enjoy it.) But my column this week comes with some bonus...
[Seth Says] A Delicious Bowl Of Wrong Flakes
May 16, 2024
Because breakfast is too early in the morning for eating humble pie. Yes, I make various pronouncements in my newsletter to the best of my knowledge, but I'm...
[Seth Says] The Most Dangerous Game
May 2, 2024
As protests rage across college campuses, some administrations are threatening to expel the student leaders of the protests, while in other locations police...
[Seth Says] National Poetry Month!
April 19, 2024
There's something that I may have threatened to do,and will actually do it this time.And that's for this newsletter, all the way through,I'm writing the damn...
[Seth Says] Clippy's Revenge
April 13, 2024
Tonight we feasted on various kinds of frozen (well, unfrozen and then steamed) shumai, and it occurs to me that dumpling should be a gerund. Dimpling sort...
[Seth Says] Ready, Set, Godot!
March 22, 2024
Wait for it... Although if you're waiting for actionable advice, go do something. INDEPENDENT THOUGHT Confession time: Thought Leadership is a style of...
[Seth Says] March Times On
March 8, 2024
How is it March already? I'd already lost my time sense years ago, but now it's completely gone. Of course, it's also true that I have nothing approaching a...
[Seth Says] This Is Perfectly Normal
February 23, 2024
So the other day I'm walking around my house talking to myself in a menacing voice while introducing myself like I'm some sort of movie henchman, you know,...
[Seth Says] Good Vibes Only
February 11, 2024
Hello Friends, In an attempt not to actually turn this newsletter into Sad Times Monthly, I'm aiming for good vibes only in this issue. There is, admittedly,...
[Seth Says] Apocalypse Number Five
January 26, 2024
Because at times like these, who can mambo? A little bit of covid in my life,A little bit of climate change causing strife,A little bit of fascism every dayA...
[Seth Says] Oft Given, Rarely Taken
January 12, 2024
Hello Friends! Welcome to the Bob Newhart Sh-- I mean, the Buttondown mind of-- I mean, my new Buttondown newsletter. Which, okay, is basically the same as...
[Seth Says] Short and Sweet
January 6, 2024
The Peter Dinklage of emails. (well, he was sweet in Cyrano.) This is early because it's not a real newsletter, it's just a test email to see if you can...
[Seth Says] I'm OK - You're ????
December 14, 2023
Happy Holidays, Friends. By which I mean that it is the holiday season, and I hope this timespan contains some happiness for you. (One might well ask why I...
[Seth Says] Gratitude: The Lonely Journey
November 29, 2023
A weird thing about gratitude is that it sounds like "Grrr, attitude!", which is sort of the opposite of what it means. But that's not really what I had on...
[Seth Says] Never Don't Not Stop
November 15, 2023
You can tell I'm not an optimist because I use a quadruple negative. (Clearly I need one more negative, making it quintessential.) (Hi Five!) There's a joke...
[Seth Says] Sponsored By No One!
October 28, 2023
Hello Friends, Welcome to another exciting edition of this newsletter, which is not sponsored by anyone, and is written entirely by me. I can't promise that...
[Seth Says] Create Yourself By Your Own Bootstraps
October 14, 2023
An interesting thing about the phrase "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" is that it is mostly used today to mean "Put in the hard work and effort and...
[Seth Says] License To Kill -- sort of
September 30, 2023
I have a license to kill. I mean, I guess it's not technically a license to kill, but in some sense the end result is the same. Just like a license for a...
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