What Virgins and Cookies Can Teach Today’s Dramatic TV
I have a confession to make. I have recently overdosed on DDD. You know the drug, even if you don’t recognize the street name. It has kept you up until the early morning hours: you not even noticing how much time has gone by until you turn toward the sunrise,… [Read More]
Are Ross and Drake the Same Person?
If Drake is the guy from Tinder you stopped dating after one too many double texts, Ross Geller is the college ex who rings after one too many drinks. Two men, one cloth — a fabric tempered by an excess of emotional sensitivity and longing for love. Ross, we know, was… [Read More]
Falling in Love with Drake, Myself, and You
It might come as a shock to you — it’s shocking to me, at least — that I am currently not dating anyone. I know! I don’t get it either. But the life of a single woman has left me with a lot of free time on my hands that… [Read More]
3 Concepts That Only Exist as Subreddits
Not everyone understands the deepest inner workings of the internet rabbit hole known as Reddit. People do know that things from the web tend to aggregate there. They know that while not all memes are born on Reddit, many of them go through their adolescence there before they enter the… [Read More]
Frankenfoods: Disgustingly Real or Disgustingly Fake?
Frankenfood: a revolutionary creation that mixes outrageous and unexpected ingredients in delicious and unique flavors. or Frankenfood: taking something delicious on the inside and disguising it with something deceptive on the outside That’s one way to put it. Another potentially less flattering way to describe a Frankenfood is: Frankenfood: a… [Read More]
What Is Trunk Club and Why Does It Seem Mostly the Worst?
Recently, at a bar in Manhattan I made conversation with someone who worked at a startup called Trunk Club. Trunk Club, as it was explained to me, is a company that connects men to a personal female stylist, who then, upon speaking with you, will go online shopping while you… [Read More]
God, Russell Wilson, and Super Bowl XLIX’s Divine Ending
Well that was without a doubt the craziest end to a Super Bowl I’ve ever seen. Pundits on every sports outlet are going to spend the next week poring over the game parcel-by-parcel, yard-by-yard, trying to explain a fourth quarter that was basically inexplicable. So many stupefying plays in such… [Read More]
Celebrity Altruism: The New Standard
When it comes to celebrity stories, nothing ever seems to trump the fables of a Bill Murray sighting. He hops in your Uber car and insists on driving. You throw a house party and suddenly find him in your kitchen. You’re walking down the street and before you realize it,… [Read More]
Wale, Kanye, and the Design of Things
Back in November, the Washington Wizards announced that D.C. native (and grandmaster of the sports reference) Wale would be the team’s creative liaison for the current 2014-2015 season. While the rapper’s FG% has been questionable over the last year or two when it comes to rap relevancy, that’s neither here… [Read More]
Let’s Figure Out Which Songs Katy Perry Will Play at Halftime
As the resident Katy Perry expert (apologist?) at Thelma, I’m tasking myself with predicting what songs KP will perform this Sunday when the world collectively gathers around their Super Bowl halftime livestream to gaze upon The One With the Blue Hair. Actually, I don’t know if she’ll have blue hair…. [Read More]
