How to Prepare for Your Winter Body
It finally dipped below 70 degrees in my city and I’m taking it as a sign from our Father Nature Al Gore that it is officially winter. Winter is an underrated season, overshadowed by its polar opposite, summer, but let me tell you — winter has PERKS. First of all,… [Read More]
Examining Spotify’s “Falling in Love” Playlist
I’ve spent the last few hours listening to a series of love songs. More specifically, the Spotify playlists titled “Falling in Love” made by the Romeos over at Spotify. Why? Maybe because I’m a masochist, but also because there 24,606 people subscribed to this playlist, meaning that these 17 tracks… [Read More]
Grumpy Cat Won’t Steal Christmas (or Your Heart)
Remember 2012? I almost do. It was the year of the London Olympics, Facebook’s IPO, Gangnam style, Obama Part 2, and most importantly, the year the world met a sour-faced little Siamese Snowshoe cat named Tardar Sauce. The internet knows her, affectionately, as Grumpy Cat. The meme exploded during April… [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]
Football Celebrations Are Doomed By Hubris
One of my favorite characters from Greek mythology is the hubristic adventurer Icarus. As the tale goes, Icarus’ father, a master craftsman, fixed him wings composed of wax and feathers so that he might experience the sensation of flight. The only warning Icarus received from his father was to not… [Read More]
Watching ‘The Wire’ Ten Years Too Late: A True Struggle
When the first season of The Wire hit TV in 2002, I was a doe-eyed high school sophomore who cared a lot about glitter eyeshadow and the Luke/Lorelai dynamic on Gilmore Girls. (Exactly one thing has changed since then — I’m not telling you which). I didn’t even become aware… [Read More]
Why I Haven’t Requested a Standing Desk at Work
I work at an online media and advertising agency, which like so many other new or startup companies, features an open office floor plan. When you enter through the double doors from the lobby, everything and everyone is in front of you, which can be a bit intimidating if you’re… [Read More]
Strangers on a Train…Until There Was a Video Game
I was already five hours into my journey traveling across England – from Newcastle to Cardiff, for those of you in the British geography know – when I walked into the packed train carriage at my final connection in Birmingham. A voice came over the loudspeaker. “This train is overcrowded…. [Read More]
Album Cover Art and Seeing the Music We Hear
The above featured image is the album art for Blood Orange’s Cupid Deluxe, released last year. In it stands a rather androgynous figure in heels, and bikini, and a mask – appropriate given the album was praised for its accessibility to the LGBT community. What’s interesting about this art if… [Read More]
Honor Thy Tailgate
Like most football fans, when I make the trek to see a game live, I do so in pursuit of a successful dichotomy. The perfect day means that of course, my team won. But equally important and entirely under my control is the unbridled fun that comes with properly tailgating…. [Read More]
