2015 (Millisecond Attention Span)
We ask a lot of our readers here at Thelma. 500-700 words is a lot. A lot, a lot, a lot. We live in a world where six second vines, 10 item picture lists, and one-off articles that barely contain anything but sure as heck get clicked reign supreme. For… [Read More]
Using Drake Lyrics as Photo Captions Part 2
Yesterday I described how Drake’s lyrics work particularly well as Instagram and Snapchat captions. Here is Part 2 in which I break down the rest of the lyrics in If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, in order to find the best potential captions. Visit Part 1 and add me on Snapchat: andy_verderosa… [Read More]
Using Drake Lyrics as Photo Captions Part 1
With his new mixtape, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, Drake has provided the world with 17 new songs to consume, digest, and vomit back into original content. For me, each of these tracks are a treasure trove of lyrics that I can use as Snapchat and Instagram captions…. [Read More]
What Has Turd Ferguson Been Up To?
The SNL 40th anniversary special was Sunday night and it was a reminder that if you take all of the most entertaining people on the planet and put them in one building, you have a puncher’s chance of making a few hours of good television. Of all the iconic SNL… [Read More]
All The Single Ladies: A Guide for Men and Women
February 14th, 2015 will mark my first Valentine’s Day as a single woman since 2011, so it’s safe to say I’ve been a little preoccupied with the alien feeling of being unattached. While trying to act cooler than I feel has more or less been my M.O. since the age… [Read More]
How ‘Girls’ and ‘Broad City’ Channel the Gawd Larry David
Larry David is the king of living out his fantasies on screen. Not sexually—well, then again he probably did once fantasize about having sex with a Palestinian woman—but primarily with respect to telling people when he thinks they’re being assholes. In line at Starbucks, in traffic, playing golf, eating dinner…the… [Read More]
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]
