Daquan is a White Girl

and black twitter is dead

First off, let me get the one thing out of the way: the person behind most of these Daquan tweets is probably a white girl.

This Is Forty: When You’re Too Old to Marry A Man Who’s The Same Age

A month ago I broke up with the guy I had been seeing for six months. I used to be able to dust myself off and skip over to bigger and better (literally). But I’m older now; actually I’m just plain old. When…

Maybe Black Women Don’t Need Friends Like You

And I have a feeling a lot of white gay people aren’t so…

Naked

“It’s not that I don’t like being naked,” I had explained. “And I’m a big fan of bathing. Personal hygiene is one of my all-time favorite hygienes. It’s just that spending the afternoon showering with my eight-year-old student and her mother makes me a bit uncomfortable, if you know what I mean.”

Entourage: 10 Years Later

Can spot-on pop culture references stand the test of time?

When the cable guy was late, I did the only thing a person can do. I negotiated my way into free HBO. Well, at least three months of free HBO. Through various…

Robin Thicke, You’re Done.

When I was thirty-two, I survived a breakup of a long-term relationship that felt like what I’d imagine a divorce would be. The details of the breakup are largely inconsequential to the rest of this story save the fact that I was 200% wrong, and that, yes, like Taylor Swift’s 2012…

MH 17 Left Amsterdam

An American writes from the Dutch front

The New Wave of Mindlessly Forced Mindfulness

I was out to dinner with some new friends in the Mission, a San Francisco neighborhood known for its hipsters and hoodies. We had all just arrived and were quietly browsing our menus when the guy to my right slid his cell phone into the middle of the…

Exercises in Self-Erasure

what Google remembers, what Google forgets

When Writing Hurts 

Celebrating my 150th post with a little self-flagellation 

Writing is motherf—king hard. It seems really simple. You sit down somewhere, anywhere really, pick up a pencil or open your computer, and write words. Those words…