Any sot with a few thousand dollars laying around can take a vacation. Bradley Prouse demands more of you roustabouts: when you vacation -- Nay! Travel! -- you must adventure. It's easy for a sluggard to turn a sabbatical into a smashing success.

We must work, says the Wastrel. Not only because work gives us money, which we need for top-shelf Scotch and vacations, but because work fuels the soul. You just don't have to take it so goddamn seriously, people.

It's hard to say what the Wastrel has been up to for the last six months, but he's back and more committed to your leisure than ever... right after his nap.

The Home Issue continues with an important lesson: home can be a vacation, too. Bradley Prouse tells us all about what a few days of self-enforced idleness can bring. You know, stuff like a wine rack and an answer to the question "If we’re all good and want to be productive, why are people shitty and lazy?"

The Wastrel, Bradley Prouse, has always had a suspicion that ostriches were horrible creatures. McSweeney's has proven it for him, and he's ever-grateful.

The Wastrel looks forward by looking back -- at old campaign commercials from better/worse days.

By now we mostly understand the pleasures of throwing hours into the time-hole 'lolcats', but did you know that that kitty content extends far past the realm of simple captioned photos. To prove my point, here are some videos.

Sorry EMT, I can't answer/understand that question, but what I can say is that they made a good friend in FreddieW. FreddieW makes awesome videos, and that is why people watch them. That and you get to see the guy punch himself in the face.

Have you seen anything ridiculous today? What about awkward and creepy? The 80's and 90's brought us cheap consumer video recording with VHS. They also contained some of the most hilarious moments of human sincerity.