11 P.M.: ONE SATURDAY NIGHT IN APRIL, BRINGING THE SHITSHOW When you see the entrance to Marquee at 11 P.M. on a Saturday, you know why the promoters call this process "bringing the shitshow." Massing
intense fear businessman ... Worry is a relational phenomenon. If other people in a group are unwilling to share the burdens of that group, then the person who does identify problems and try to solve them has to bear the weight of those problems alone. Anxiety gets bad press but identifying problems…
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This is a response to a recent blowup over a grad student discovering and examining a group of Twitter users. The mere existence of this post will piss someone off. I think. Maybe they’re just joking. Whatevs. What is Weird Twitter? “Weird Twitter” is, simply, a loose group of Twitter users who…
They live in a different state and aren't involved in the day-to-day of your life which makes things difficult. You begin to dread these catch up sessions because not only do they take forever but there's this underlying tension you are both trying so hard to avoid. The more you try to pretend the…
So Terry here tells me you want to learn how to comment on the internet. You want to get involved “in the conversation.” Sit down. How old are you? Seventeen, huh. I gotta say, you’re a little late to
Though there are many moments that construct a friendship over years, through all kinds of shared experiences and emotions, there are 10 in a best friendship that make you realize, whether in the moment or with the perspective of time, how lucky you are to have them. 1. Telling a secret and knowing…
I don’t remember the missionaries’ names, only that one was blond and one was dark, one was from Oregon and one was from Utah. They arrived at our house on secondhand bicycles carrying bundles of inspirational literature. They smelled, I remember, of witch hazel and toothpaste. The blond one, whose…
Drug dealers from the future look a lot friendlierScoring drugs is one of life’s great pains in the ass. Either a friend knows some guy who lives in some dodgy neighborhood full of people sharpening t
When you’re putting one of these issues together and shuffling through stacks of manuscripts and your eyeballs are about to stage a coup against your brain, everything becomes 100 percent better when you come across something like what Seth sent us. He’s 25 years old and will soon have stories…