Pop Culture Winnows Out the Chaff
I have this friend* who, in response to anything she finds extra, vehemently asserts, “girl, do less. Just do less.” Though our friendship is rather nascent—we originally became friends drunkenly bonding over Kanye and grapefruit beer Homecoming weekend, as one does—she has had a sizable effect on both my Weltanschauung† and vernacular…. [Read More]
Irreconcilable Love or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Kanye and Taylor at the Same Time
I love Venn diagrams. I’m serious. Ever since I was a little girl, I have been fascinated by extremes, poles, definitives, bests/worsts, and blacks/whites. Never mind the emotional and personal challenges this all/nothing paradigm has created in my life—what is this “gray area” you speak of, pray tell?—focus instead on… [Read More]
High Art: Weird is the New Good
I’ve always been a fan of the absurd. I spent most of my high school Saturday evenings sprawled across living room floors with friends watching terrible ’80s horror movies like House IV and kids movies like Going Bananas. Whether it was a woman fighting a demon-posessed talking pizza or a… [Read More]
#Best #Day #Ever
A few days ago I experienced what I’m sure will forever be one of the most important and exciting moments of my life. Something I’ll tell my grandchildren about when they sit on the floor in a circle around my armchair to patiently listen to the wisdom I have to… [Read More]
Spritz Will Change the World Forever
Spritz is a new technology that allows you to read faster. Up to four times as fast as you used to be able to. According to this Yahoo answer, the average human reads at about 250 WPM (words per minute). Spritz says most people read at 220 and that through… [Read More]
Katniss Everdeen Sucks and Why “Catching Fire” Was Better Than the Book
Sorry for the sensationalist title, I should have said, “I think Katniss Everdeen is okay.” If you haven’t seen Catching Fire, the second installment of the Hunger Games franchise, here is everything you need to know about the movie: It’s a dystopian world of twelve districts that serve the Capitol,… [Read More]
E3 for People that Don’t Really Care
You may or may not know that the massive gaming event of the year is happening right now at E3. The Los Angeles based conference which launched on Monday with Microsoft’s exhibition of the newest games for their upcoming console, the Xbox One. Video game publishers, developers, and nerds flocked… [Read More]
Nobody is that Cool, Facebook
Over the last 10 years, the internet as a whole has drastically changed the way human beings communicate. Twitter allows us to rapidly share and re-share tidbits of information, Yelp can tell us the exact address and relative quality of the service at a given business, and Reddit aggregates all… [Read More]
21st Century Forms of Expression
I think we all know Etsy is the best place to get your anti-establishment girlfriend Valentine’s gifts. Especially long-distance girlfriends. But did you know that Etsy is also the best place for all twitter-related screen printing? And they say guys are hard to shop for? In all seriousness how different is… [Read More]
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