All stories published by The Awl on September 25, 2013

All Stories published by The Awl on September 25, 2013

Heather Havrilesky in The Awl

Sep 25, 2013

Ask Polly: I’m Dating A Girl, But I’m Falling In Love With a Man!

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 25, 2013

Once You Stop Worrying About Sex Your Brain Can Focus On Everything Else

“Older age may slow the body but the process of aging may sharpen the wit as a new study finds that older adults have superior decision-making skills.”

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 25, 2013

Art Demystified

“I kept noticing instances where internet memes — planking, old me, new me, etc — and collaborative online video projects were really not so dissimilar from early conceptual art and its contemporary predecessors. There are numerous examples in art history of artists giving themselves or others…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 25, 2013

Migos, “Chinatown”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww7CuHTcNh0

There are probably several things that are problematic about this song, but as a white man born into privilege in the United States of America in the second half of the 20th century I am almost certainly prohibited from…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Sep 25, 2013

“They Did An Art”: Life After Horse

Now more than ever, giving a follow to the New York Review of Bots might be handy to your…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 25, 2013

Fries, In Order

Yes, yes, I moonlight as a stock photography model

13. Crinkle-Cut

12. Wedge

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 25, 2013

The New American Dream

The promise of this country used to be if you worked hard and played by the rules you would be okay and your kids would be a little bit better off than you were. Now we live with the hope that maybe we’ll find free money in a box of junk food. Oh well, we had a good run.

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Sep 25, 2013

Have You Checked Yer Obamacare? Here’s How!

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 25, 2013

Denied Service, Bear Exits Bar

“A black bear walked into the bar at the Alaskan Hotel in downtown Juneau on Monday night. Bartender Ariel Svetlik-McCarthy says she freaked out and yelled, ‘No bear! Get out! No! You can’t be in here!’ The bear complied, leaving the bar within seconds.”

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 25, 2013

Parrot Welsh

“Basil the African Grey launched his first verbal volley within hours of being given a new home with the Fisk family. He announced himself with a polite ‘hello’ to mum Sarah Fisk but when she replied he promptly told her to ‘ — — off’ with an accent straight from his previous home in Wales. The bird then…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 25, 2013

You Never Know With Those Skeletons In German Attics

“For weeks, experts have been trying to determine whether a mysterious mummy found by a German boy in his grandmother’s attic is authentic. The answer appears to be: yes and no. It has a real human skull, but a plastic skeleton, the news agency DPA reported Wednesday.”

Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 25, 2013

Donald Glover Is 30

Tom Scocca in The Awl

Sep 25, 2013

New York City, September 24, 2013

★★★★ The guy in the knit hat and flip-flops wasn’t wrong, thermally, though it was maybe a…

The Awl

Sep 25, 2013

A Stranger for Life: The Jenna and Maxine Story

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Alex Balk in The Awl

Sep 25, 2013

Genius Declared

Once you get over the fact that some 32-year-old is a MacArthur Genius and you’re not (yes, yes, except for you, Tarell McCraney), why don’t you go back and read this interview with newly-designated Genius Karen Russell. Maybe there are some secrets in there about how you can turn your brilliance into a pile of cash. Maybe not. Either way, it’s worth a read.

September 24, 2013

September 26, 2013