All stories published by The Awl on August 28, 2009

What’s Wrong with “People of Wal-Mart”

I went home to think about this new “People of Wal-Mart” blog overnight before I went off half-cocked. In the end: I’m not a fan, I think! And that’s a hard and maybe slightly indefensible thing to say, coming from someone who, essentially, thinks Cintra Wilson…

My Summer Of Death

I have held my tongue thus far, but a man can only stand silent for so long while others pillage the fruits of his labor for…

Melanie Berliet got up on that cheating-on-wives website Ashley Madison (don’t you feel bad for all the 8-year-olds name Ashley Madison?) and met a bunch of guys and wrote about it.

Lady With Ulterior Motives Meets Married Men Who Want Something Simpler

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Global Warming Deadheads’ Fault After All

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Managed Expectations, Part 13 of 14: Ambivalence at the Milk Bar

by Marisa Meltzer

Another 50-Minute Hour — The Problem With Jared (The Second Time Around) — Watching a Couple — Pros and Cons — Well, the Dog is Happy? — An Unexpected Merger and an Invitation!

[Insert New Techonology Here] Is Destroying [Insert Generation Younger Than Your Own]

“We live in a culture where young people-outfitted with iPhone and laptop and devoting hours every evening from age 10 onward to messaging of one kind and another-are ever less likely…

Lev Grossman, I Think I Have Feelings For You

Oh, so this is what falling in love is like. Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians, which I am now going to buy and read during Tropical Storm Danny this weekend: “There was also a whole chapter about a dragon that I cut out. I didn’t cut it out; my…

Aug 27, 2009

WWII Not So Similar to Plot of Popular Movie, Claims Historian

Vanity Fair tummler Jim Windolf would like you to know that Hitler wasn’t actually killed by a marauding gang of American Jews. Just in case you’re confused, you pishers.

Don’t Use Dead Kennedys To Pass Legislation, Say Compassionate Conservatives

Republicans are outraged that Democrats may “inappropriately politicize” the death of Senator Ted Kennedy to advance the passage of health care reform. And they’re right to be, because there is…

You Love Dave Eggers Sooooo Much

Ooh, a good old-fashioned comments brouhaha is taking place regarding Maurice Sendak, Dave Eggers and the Where the Wild Things Are remake. Our concerns were pretty much about the editorial pimping policies of the New Yorker? But you can have at it, Spike Jonze fanboys…

Say Hello To My Friend Danny!

You know what I like to say on Fridays, before I leave you for the weekend: don’t do any drowning out…

Grossest Story Ever?

Is this the Times of London’s most disgusting story ever? I haven’t been through the entire archives, so I can’t say, but it is pretty nasty. On the other hand, it ends on a happy note, in that butter was not being made out of human waste, so there’s that, I guess.

DJ AM Dead At 36

According to TMZ and NBC New York, Adam Goldstein, known as “DJ AM,” and described by NBC as a “celebrity disk-jockey,” was found dead in his New York City apartment. And now back to your regularly-scheduled summer of death.

Coroner Rules Michael Jackson Still Still Dead

“Michael Jackson’s death was a homicide caused by ‘acute propofol intoxication,’ the Los Angeles County coroner rules,” says the CNN BREAKING ALERT. Didn’t this already happen? Are we in some kind of terrible Groundhog Dayesque nightmare where this summer continues on infinite loop? Because I will not abide it.

CNN Claims Billionaire No Superman

I don’t know. Really?

The Year Of Palin

It was a year ago tomorrow that Sarah Palin burst forth on the national scene. There are many things one might say about this, but the most important is: Really? A year? That’s it? It feels like we’ve been living with this lady forever.

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