All Stories published by The Awl on June 11, 2013

Infinitive Split

Where do you stand on split infinitives? Do you feel that a rule is a rule, and no matter how awkward or unpleasant a construction appears, the infinitive must remain unsplit? Or are you of the opinion that it doesn’t make much of a difference anyway since of all the things to worry about in the…


Please Shut Up About Cronuts

Am I the only one who thinks that the constant drumbeat about “cronuts” is exactly the kind of celebration that happens around a non-story right before something serious and terrible actually occurs? It feels like one more article and we’re due.


Eyes Expanding

Is this how the human face might look in 102013? Who cares, we’ll all be long dead by then, and even if we weren’t life would still be a grim slog through boredom and despair from which something as unimportant as physical appearance would provide little relief — I mean, sure, why the hell not.


What Wine Goes With Global Warming?

What wine will be drinking during our future of fire and flood? If you said, “Who cares, life is but a grim slog through boredom and despair, what does it matter which varietal we choose to blot out the pain with?” you are essentially correct but you do sound a…


Tick Makes You Like Tofu

If the threats of obesity, E. coli and ass cancer aren’t enough to get you to cut back on your consumption of red meat, maybe you can get yourself bit by this bug, which causes allergic reactions to the stuff. Perhaps responses from “vomiting and abdominal cramps to hives to anaphylaxis” will help you switch over to chicken.

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