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Timothy McSweeney

Austin, TX, United States

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Past:
  • Timothy McSweeney
  • Paste Magazine
  • Splitsider
  • HuffPost

Past articles by Erica:

This Is Not a “Breakup,” It’s a “Pivot Toward Life Without Denise”

TO: Tanner Connors FROM: Denise Overton SUBJECT: Our Product/Market Fit Dear Tanner: Due to changing projections in my quarterly emotional needs mo... → Read More

Monologue: I’m the Tech Venture Capitalist Giving You the Freedom to Barely Scrape By

My venture capital firm invests in companies that are disrupting established industries, but what hasn’t changed is how much we care about worker w... → Read More

Taco Detox: How to Find Something Green and Un-Fried at SXSW

After a couple days of straight tacos, SxSW attendees with stomachaches might desire some healthier fare. Try these seven locally-owned and run eateries -- luckily enough there are even healthy tacos! → Read More

List: What Your Favorite Piece of Furniture Says About You

$15 IKEA desk lamp: You attend graduate school in Linguistic Anthropology. 1992 Goodwill futon with dog bite marks: You wish people would stop aski... → Read More

List: What Your Myers-Briggs Type Says About Whether You’ll Take the Myers-Briggs Test

KEY: I/E: Introvert / Extrovert N/S: Intuitive / Sensing F/T: Feeling / Thinking P/J: Perceiving / Judging - - - INTJ: “The Nerd Emperor” – Inste... → Read More

5 Reasons to Watch Please Like Me

Please Like Me remains funny and heartwarming even when dealing with serious personal tragedies. → Read More

Going Back to ‘Another Period’ with Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome

Another Period returns to Comedy Central for its third season tomorrow night. The early 20th century comedy created by and starring Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome follows sisters Lillian (Leggero) and Beatrice (Lindhome) Bellacourt in their quest for Edwardian-era fame. The hilarious period comedy sends up both Kardashian-style reality shows and British period dramas like [...] → Read More

5 Reasons to Watch Silicon Valley

From its satire of the tech industry to the great performance by Zach Woods, here are five reasons to watch HBO's Silicon Valley. → Read More

‘Great News’ Will Fill the ’30 Rock’-Sized Hole in Your Heart

In this era of “peak TV” it’s easy for genuinely great comedies to fly under the radar. But as more and more streaming shows create tons of edgy buzz or controversy, network sitcoms can feel far more ignored than they used to be. So maybe that’s why it took a friend’s suggestion for me to [...] → Read More

Inside Season 2 of ‘Lady Dynamite’ with Ana Gasteyer

Maria Bamford’s Lady Dynamite returned to Netflix with its second season last Friday, and it’s turned up the absurdity on Maria’s world even higher. Now with flashes back to 1987 Duluth and flash forwards to Maria creating a meta version of Lady Dynamite itself, audiences get a deeper look into the various personalities in Maria’s [...] → Read More

Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson Are on a Mission

When standup comic Corinne Fisher’s boyfriend waited for her to buy his lunch at Panera Bread and then promptly dumped her, her heartbreak became oddly fortunate. It inspired the idea for her podcast, Guys We Fucked, which she hosts with her comedy partner, Krystyna Hutchinson. With the subtitle “The Anti Slut-Shaming podcast,” episodes of GWF [...] → Read More

Getting ‘Lady-Like’ with Stephanie Simbari

You may have caught standup Stephanie Simbari on @midnight or in the ensemble of Oxygen’s 2015 reality series Funny Girls, or heard her co-host her popular wellness podcast That’s So Retrograde. The New York native has a lot of projects right now, including a role on Jay Pharoah’s Showtime series White Famous. And now Simbari’s [...] → Read More

5 Reasons We're Excited for You're the Worst's Return

You’re the Worst resuscitates the rom-com genre by pairing two terrible people afraid of emotional intimacy. → Read More

On the Verge: Maggie Maye

Welcome to our series On the Verge, where our contributors highlight comedians they feel are ready for their next big break. Whether they’re already working in television or still waiting to land their breakout gig, these are just some of the comedians we’d like to see more of over the coming years -- ideally with a show, film, or [...] → Read More

Netflix’s ‘GLOW’ Is an Ensemble Comedy Triumph

GLOW (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling) opens on a close-up of Ruth Wilder’s (Alison Brie) face at an audition giving a rousing speech that makes her look like a shoe-in for the role. The punchline, of course, is that she’s actually been reading the man’s part. Her line? “Sorry to interrupt, but your wife is on [...] → Read More

A Sojourn Abroad and a Plate of Spaghetti: Pasta and Master of None

To Americans it looks like the most gorgeous lifestyle porn available, but in Italy much of it is just par for the course. → Read More

Five Reasons to Watch Netflix's Dear White People

Each reason more reasonable than the last. → Read More

The Gig Economy in ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt returned to Netflix on Friday with season 3 picking up for the most part where it left off. At the start, Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) is deciding whether to pursue college and taking her opportunity to make the Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (Jon Hamm) miserable by refusing to sign his divorce papers. [...] → Read More

List: The Rest of Nordstrom’s Manual-Labor-Chic Summer Lineup

This week Nordstrom debuted their new clothing line for entitled rich people who enjoy working-people cosplay. Here’s a sneak peek at other items t... → Read More

Sweet Ritual’s Vegan Ice Cream Ain’t Too Cool for School

In recent years vegan ice cream retailers across the country have begun filling in that market gap with a variety of excellent ice cream in exciting flavors, thanks in large part to Austin's Sweet Ritual. → Read More