by James Ramsay
by Matthew J.X. Malady
People drop things on the Internet and run all the time. So we have to ask. In this edition, writer Cord Jefferson tells us more about his new job.
Kevin Roose’s Young Money, in which he spend a couple years with the bright young things from fancy schools who end up populating the analyst desks at Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs and the other sad and storied firms of Wall Street, is out today, and you may enjoy it! It is a…
“There’s a recent strain of rap music that has the purists up in arms just as much, if not more, than Macklemore does. Influenced by experimentalists like Kanye West and Lil Wayne and Gucci Mane, a new wave of artists from Chicago and Atlanta have been pushing…
“Nothing in life matters quite as much as you think it does while you are thinking about it” except loud noise and chronic pain. Everything else is details.
“On the Internet, complaints about the click-bait garbage published by, well, basically everyone are usually made with the understanding that the click-bait garbage is necessary to juice numbers, even if the publication’s ‘brand’ is built on smarter stuff.” — But now…
“I didn’t leave the house for almost five months. And then I got pneumonia. With my pneumonia and my mother’s death, I watched the entire first season of Game of Thrones. That certainly took my mind off everything…. I would love to write some music for the show. I’ve written a bunch of poetry about it…
“Arguments at weddings can be caused by a variety of reasons: From drunken uncles making a scene and distant cousins unhappy at being on a table by the door, to best man speeches that reveal a little bit too much about the stag do and almost anything to do with the bride’s sister. But now a new source of…
Is this the world’s weirdest hotel, asks the Telegraph? Normally in these cases the procedure is for me to answer with a simple, “Sure, why the hell not,” but I believe today it is time for you to come to your own conclusions. Do bear in mind that the hotel, “designed to resemble a giant human colon……
“Immersive Storytelling” would be a good name for an album by a terrible band.
“Mavis Gallant, the internationally celebrated Canadian short story writer who lived and worked for most of her life in Paris, has died, according to her publisher. She was 91.”
“Americans ramped up their borrowing at the end of last year as their confidence improved, posting the largest increase in household debt since before the recession.”
Do you have one of those friends who, half the time they are talking you’re all, “Wow, this person is completely right,” and then the other half of the time you’re like, “Wow, this person is fucking insane”? (A harder question to answer: Are you that friend to someone else?) Anyway, Bret Easton…
“Surfing is Hawaii’s gift to the world, it’s like true happiness, and that’s what this guy does: Everywhere he goes he makes people smile and laugh. He just brings joy to the world.” — Think about the last time someone said that about you. (If you are a woman, change the hes to…
