All stories published by The Awl on December 10, 2013

All Stories published by The Awl on December 10, 2013

The Awl

Dec 10, 2013

No We Are Not Joking About The Great Mind-Wasting Horror That Is The DMV

by Matthew J.X. Malady

People drop things on the Internet and run all the time. So we have to ask.

Went to the Herald Square DMV this morning at 9:45 to…

The Awl

Dec 10, 2013

Diversion Tactics

by C. D. Hermelin

1. Back in May, at around 2 o’clock in the afternoon, a man stopped me on a busy…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Dec 10, 2013

Fucking Masterfulness Of Movie Appreciated

“The way information is doled out in this film is fucking masterful, an absolute clinic in implication and inference — none of the key events that drive the story forward and fuck with the main character occur onscreen — and the math of plotting is…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Dec 10, 2013

Even Cold Weather Is No Defense Against Trend-Sucking Idiocy

“As New York’s Cronut craze enters its first winter”

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Dec 10, 2013

Two Terrible Takeaways From The ‘Times’ “Dasani” Story

1.

Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life http://t.co/vnpNilKw5a Why is it that only black & brown parents are described as “dysfunctional”?

— Oneka LaBennett (@OnekaLaBennett)…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Dec 10, 2013

New York City, December 9, 2013

★ The darkness made it possible to imagine that the week hadn’t really started yet, and crushing to…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Dec 10, 2013

Pannonica

Alex Balk in The Awl

Dec 10, 2013

Gestures Elucidated

This GIF gallery of hand gestures for critical discourse is good but it lacks the [right hand moving up and down an imaginary shaft to suggest disdain for tedious wankery, a.k.a. “the jerk-off”] motion. Hopefully they will add that soon. [Via]

Alex Balk in The Awl

Dec 10, 2013

Time Lapses

“David Peterson edited a time-lapse video using photos from the International Space Station publicly available from NASA” is the explanation for this and yes, it sure is mesmerizing, the ineffable majesty of the universe captured and conveyed in the form of a time-lapse video etc. but my question to you is…

Alex Balk in The Awl

Dec 10, 2013

Santa The Hut I Don’t Know Either

If you ever wondered what a combination of Santa Claus and Jabba the Hut would look like you are a sick fuck and here’s a photo.

Alex Balk in The Awl

Dec 10, 2013

Soul-Crushing Anguish Of Television-Watching After Midnight Acknowledged

“Is there anything lonelier and more depressing than watching Roseanne late at night when you can’t sleep?”
— This terrible truth was buried in the back of Jonathan van Meter’s recent Julia Louis-Dreyfus…

The Awl

Dec 10, 2013

What Are You Reading? Part 6

by John Shankman

Over the next week for a sponsored project on behalf of Byliner, The Billfold’s Mike Dang and our publisher John Shankman will be selecting stories from the Byliner platform and chatting about them.

December 09, 2013

December 11, 2013

No We Are Not Joking About The Great Mind-Wasting Horror That Is The DMV

Diversion Tactics

Fucking Masterfulness Of Movie Appreciated

Even Cold Weather Is No Defense Against Trend-Sucking Idiocy

Two Terrible Takeaways From The ‘Times’ “Dasani” Story

1.

Where The Snark Is

Swervedriver, “Deep Wound”

How Do You Want To Die Today?

Mountain Goats Good At Not Dying

New York City, December 9, 2013

Pannonica

Gestures Elucidated

Time Lapses

Santa The Hut I Don’t Know Either

Soul-Crushing Anguish Of Television-Watching After Midnight Acknowledged

What Are You Reading? Part 6