All stories published by The Awl on November 18, 2009

Stop Being a Wuss: How To Make Pie Crusts the Easy Way

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City Island

As I turned on to City Island Avenue, the first thing I noted was a series of magnificent trees, all eviscerated so as not to interfere…

Worn Out: How Much Does it Cost for Gareth Pugh to Get You Gaybashed?

Designer Gareth Pugh really is wonderful because he makes really messed-up things for ladies to wear, hence why you see the Space Vampire Rihanna putting that business on. But the biggest problem in fashion (of…

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Horror Chick, with Melissa Lafsky: The 10 Most Terrifying Unintentional-Horror Movies (Part One)

What makes a movie horror? There are the obvious indicators: chainsaws, spurting viscera, genital smashing and other tricks in the bloody menagerie of unapologetic…

Mary H.K. Choi in The Awl

Cosmonaut Even Cooler Than That Diaper-Wearing NASA Chick

Mary H.K. Choi in The Awl

Ethnic Dong and 55 Other Chinese Flavors

I’m not really into Chinese people because I blame them for stealing Hong Kong from me…

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Neil Patrick Harris Is The Best Person

So I am obsessed with Neil Patrick Harris on Twitter. Now, he’s no Black People when it comes to the sheer awesomeness of the topics or as suspiciously organized as Mommy Bloggers but him and his majorly adorbs Dr. Horrible avatar has been on there for a day and…

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New Video: Girls, “Substance”

You never want to go for the flavor of the month-but I’m predisposed to like current indie-scene hero Christopher Owens of the San Francisco duo Girls because he reminds me of Jason Mewes, who plays the lovable doofus Jay in the Kevin Smith movies. And then the guy can also…

Dave Bry in The Awl

Warren G Takes Credit For Something Not Worth Taking Credit For

This seems to not quite qualify as a great stroke of genius. Producer and former rapper Warren G tells XXL that he came up with the name for his step-brother Dr. Dre’s classic 1999 album Chronic 2001-which was a…

Booze, Booze, It’s Good For Your Heart

Here is some excellent news: “[R]esearch reported today in the journal Heart found that men who consume large or very large amounts of alcohol are least at risk of developing [coronary heart disease], which kills more than 90,000 Britons a year. Men who drink…

Look Out! Joan Didion at Your 10 O’Clock!

For each person that lives in New York, there eventually comes the day when he or she runs into Joan Didion on the street and it is always a moment for reflection.

Reader Mail: Why Are We Destroying America With Our Recipes?

Another country heard from! From the inbox: “I cannot endorse your reckless pie crust methods. Granted, pie crust is stupid easy, but it should be made in a cuisinart. As much salt as sugar? A TBSP of salt? A CUP of water…

Roth’s Bad Sex

“This was not soft porn. This was no longer two unclothed women caressing and kissing on a bed. There was something primitive about it now, this woman-on-woman violence, as though in the room filled with shadows, Pegeen were a magical composite of shaman, acrobat, and animal. It was as if she were…

Rape Rape Rape

Whoopi Goldberg thinks “rape-rape” is bad, but if her reaction to this rape joke is any indication, even regular rape is not so amusing.

Awl Commenters on the Radio!

Awl pal and commenter Josh Fruhlinger stars in a The Story radio segment, based on his experiences in the dot com boom. It is hilarious and also totally worth getting through the segment on marijuana farming in New Mexico that precedes it.

1 In 5 Americans Still Cool

“One in five Americans smoked last year, down from almost one in four a decade earlier. But the declines in smoking have recently stalled, with virtually no change in smoking rates since 2004 and even a hint of an increase last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

Confused Cow, Jersey Turkey, And You

Palin: Here Come The Jews

“I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is going to grow. More and more Jewish people will be flocking to Israel in the days and weeks and months ahead. And I don’t think that the Obama administration has…