by Matthew J.X. Malady
People drop things on the Internet and run all the time. So we have to ask them — in this case, Esquire writer Tom Junod.
by Alan Hanson
My freshman year roommate took all her clothes off to poop. She had no idea this wasn’t normal. I think about this a lot.
— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) December 5, 2013
One day she mentioned something…
by Mark Bibbins, Editor
Consider Yourselves All “Debbie”
Dear Debbie, why is it so hard to understand? The accident was me. It was in me, it was on me, it keeps getting written all over my face. Watch your tongue, you might say, or…
“Knowing how the Moon was made is central to understanding Earth and the formation of other planets. Since the 1980s, work on lunar origins has focused on the ‘giant-impact’ theory. This proposes that the collision of another planet-sized body with the…
If you can read a couple of sentences such as “The success of viral geniuses like Zimmerman shouldn’t be dispiriting to more traditional outlets, though. Rather, it’s evidence that social media is something that actually can be figured out — and, given the traffic at play, there’s a tremendous…
★★★★ The ordinary sky over the routine walk back from preschool had, if you looked straight up, a…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhgYg_ktRdE
So far all anyone has to say about the Manhattan District Attorney charging a crazy man with assault because two cops opened fire on him (while he was unarmed) and shot…
“Netflix believes it has a powerful factor in its favor as it tries to change viewers’ habits. ‘Human beings like control,’ says Sarandos. ‘To make all of America do the same thing at the same time is enormously inefficient, ridiculously expensive, and most of the time, not a very satisfying…
“The U.S. release of Morrissey’s long-anticipated Autobiography downplays the Smiths singer’s two-year-long…
“What the artists were attracted to in the Garden State wasn’t horse country, hot-air balloons, Jersey tomatoes or the suburban good life. The salient words in the exhibition’s handsome and readable catalog, describing what fascinated artists about the state, include…
“A large, single-family home in Jackson Heights’ historic district recently sold for close to $1 million — more than $300,000 above the neighborhood’s average asking price, according to the realtor.” — If news like this makes you despair of ever owning a place here in town (or out there…
We are a couple of days late to this but we should pause here to note the passing of Dick Dodd, lead singer of The Standells, whose scuz-rock classic “Dirty Water” was a shining example of American ingenuity in the field of sleaze music right up until 1997, when it was appropriated by Red…
Britain is a nightmarish hellhole where existence is a pitiless struggle in even the calmest of times, so it is heartbreaking to watch this remarkable footage of its wretched denizens forced to contend with heavy wind. Scroll down here for an even more remarkable graphic…
“In a city where the technocratic mayor prides himself on making decisions based on the evidence, the proposed ban [on electronic cigarettes] produced one of the most scientifically vague and emotionally charged health committee hearings in…
