All stories published by The Awl on September 05, 2013

All Stories published by The Awl on September 05, 2013

Heather Havrilesky in The Awl

Sep 5, 2013

Ask Polly: My Best Friend Is A Lunatic Who Owes Me An Apology!

Polly,

The Awl

Sep 5, 2013

The Stupid Online Marketing of Stupid Books

by Adam Plunkett

Kathy Andersen, author, 'Change Your Shoes, Live Your Greatest Life.'

The Awl

Sep 5, 2013

A Poem By Josh Bell

by Mark Bibbins, Editor

If not Princess, then Warden

Things start off well: I’m the warden and no one’s writing on the walls in shit. I encourage all inmates to grow a mustache like mine, a bit of sculpted punctuation curling beneath the…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Sep 5, 2013

“To Hell With You”: A Massive Online Comedy Of Reading

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Sep 5, 2013

Oh My God They Redesigned The ‘New York Post’

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 5, 2013

Norman Rush, “Subtle Bodies”

I am someone who is no longer well-disposed toward most literary fiction, having reached an age where there is very little left for me to learn about life from every fucking arrogant introvert who thinks the made-up people into whose mouths he puts platitudes and funny things he…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Sep 5, 2013

Remembering Elijah Wood’s Greatest Performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17WbK61SMZw

Do you remember this? Brian Feldman does, God bless, delivering an almost frame-by-frame recap of MTV’s launch of the Xbox 360. Why does eight years ago look like 15 years ago?

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 5, 2013

Polls Garbage

I know you may find this hard to believe, but polls for municipal races are not exactly bastions of precision, particularly when it comes to the preferences of minorities.

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 5, 2013

Meteorological Summer’s End

“Meteorological summer, the period from June 1 to Aug. 31, is over and the Northeast Regional Climate Central (NRCC) has released provisional data from these three months. The NRCC reports that every state in the Northeast except West Virginia experienced a summer that was warmer…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 5, 2013

This Was The “Adventure Time” Of 1927

And it came out on a September 5th not so very long ago.

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 5, 2013

Thing Used To Be Better

Remember when Slate’s counter-intuitive takes on news and culture were as intricate and considered as they were infrequent? Now it seems like every day there are at least two or three pieces like “Cancer Is Actually Pretty Great,” “Cory Booker: Too Liberal For New Jersey,” or “Blowjobs…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 5, 2013

Oysters Bad

Add eating raw oysters to the list of things climate change is fucking up for everyone.

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 5, 2013

Chicken Washing Discouraged

“Stop washing your chicken. Not only is rinsing your poultry before you cook ineffective at killing germs, it can actually spread them, Drexel University researchers say.” There is video, for some reason.

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 5, 2013

The Clean, “Dunes”

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 5, 2013

Really, “Prankvertisement”?

I have been kind of distracted for most of 2013, so let me ask you a question: Did “prankvertisement” become a word people use at some point during the year and I just didn’t notice? It is okay to answer yes, you will just make me feel that much more at peace with my impending demise, which apparently cannot come quickly enough.

Tom Scocca in The Awl

Sep 5, 2013

New York City, September 4, 2013

★★★★ The sparkling morning was almost as good as it had looked from the windows: the color of the sky…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 5, 2013

Deep Fried Soup

Deep fried soup? Yes, deep fried soup.

September 04, 2013

September 06, 2013