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The Golden Era Of Spam Comments Has Ended

by Brendan O’Connor

Alex Balk in The Awl

The Cascade Of Emptiness And You

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So when you are home the week after next for the holidays are you planning to discuss the recent…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Janet Malcolm v. Francine Prose

BRONTE SHADE

A reader writes: “what is the long game here????” He refers to this letter, in the New York Review of…

A Week So Bad That An Actual Superhero Had To Come Save Us From It And Ourselves

by Alan Hanson

Do you remember what happened this week?

Beyoncé

Alex Balk in The Awl

‘Times’ Gets Its Fuck On

“With that one rant against her spunky daughter, Chanel has left her mark in the annals of American journalism.”

Alex Balk in The Awl

Fuck Laughter

“A review of the benefits of laughter in patients by Oxford University has found that far from being the best medicine, it can lead to heart ruptures, asthma attacks and incontinence.”

Tom Scocca in The Awl

New York City, December 12, 2013

★★★ Scarves were ubiquitous in the hard, bright morning — scarves with matching hats, scarves in loose…

Choire Sicha in The Awl

Did You Buy An Album In The Last Nine Hours?

YES INDEED. YOU SHOULD.

Alex Balk in The Awl

Wampire, “Giants”

Alex Balk in The Awl

Little Boy Did Not Have Little Gun

“A picture caption on Thursday for a special report about Americans’ relationship with guns referred incorrectly to the gun that an 8-year-old boy used to kill his first turkey. It was a 20-gauge shotgun, not a .20-gauge.”

Alex Balk in The Awl

Weather, There Will Be Some

I have been trying to find any kind of upside in the coming onslaught of weekend snow and rain but the only thing I can come up with is that it will at least make things a little more unpleasant for the battery of urinating Santa kids flooding in from Paramus and Ronkonkoma. I guess that’s something.

Alex Balk in The Awl

New Flu Review: Coming Right At You

“Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai reported that a virulent new strain of influenza — the virus that causes the flu — appears to retain its ability to cause serious disease in humans even after it develops resistance to antiviral medications.”

Alex Balk in The Awl

Guess Who’s A Hipster Icon Now?

“Bush has, quietly and wholly, ingeniously refashioned himself into an Internet-friendly, cat-loving, ironic-hat-wearing painter-cum-Instagram savant. Lately, George W. Bush is a hipster icon, and the Internet, unofficial Fourth Estate of the youth of America, is totally buying it.”

Tom Scocca in The Awl

New York City, December 11, 2013

★★★★ Litter levitated and swirled chest-high, or went tumbling end over end. The thin wires and tiny…

Alex Balk in The Awl

We Have To Take Our Shoes Off To Fly But Woman Is Shocked That She Can’t Carry A Tiny Gun Onto A Plane

“I think we could summarize it with the hashtags,” is the takeaway from this news story that proves we are well within the stupid season of holiday stories…

Alex Balk in The Awl

The Year-End Couple Review: Supposedly A Thing

“My husband has a stack of year-end reviews on his desk — reviews from his bosses, reviews by his peers, reviews of his staff. And then there’s one from me. What started as a joke between us 10 years ago — over piles of socks left on the floor — has become a yearly tradition: our year-end review as a couple.”

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