The first person I met at the Bar & Chill was a bald guy in a black T-shirt, black drawstring shorts, and flip-flops, with a Harley-Davidson tattoo on his right arm and a claddagh ring on his left han
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It’s-a me, Mario! I was-a working as a plumber in New York when I fell-a down a pipe and landed in the Mushroom Kingdom. Pretty soon, I was-a having all kinds of super-fun adventures, crushing Koopas,
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Thirteen years ago, a man was sitting at the Denver airport. Bored, he turned his attention to his favorite website: “I see a lot of people on laptops around using the free wifi,” he wrote on the popu
It’s over. Facebook is in decline , Twitter in chaos . Mark Zuckerberg’s empire has lost hundreds of billions of dollars in value and laid off 11,000 people, with its ad business in peril and its meta
For the first time this century, the Cavaliers are building an identity without LeBron James. It started slowly. First, the drafting of Darius Garland, a dynamic guard. Then a trade for Jarrett Allen,
Getty Images/Ringer illustration Mike Leach had a philosophy on everything. Pirates were a favorite topic, as was romance , but he was willing to go on tangents about pretty much anything: candy , whi
Black Twitter isn’t running from Elon and the trolls he inspires. They’re staying and fighting. Here’s why it matters Image: Elon Musk, Flickr, caricature by
Free Speech from the not-a-great-start dept Fri, Oct 28th 2022 09:42am - Last night, Elon Musk closed his on-again, off-again, on-again deal to buy Twitter, and his very first order of business was to
T he flood of images is inescapable. Pick up your phone or surf the web and you will be immersed in pictures of war-torn cities and grinning politicians;
You fucked up real good , kiddo. Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself, and there is no possible way to grow users and revenue without making a series of enormous c
For the first time since the early days of the pandemic, no cars were rolling through Las Vegas Blvd. But the scene was much different this April than it was on those quiet days two years prior. In pl
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While Joe Pera isn’t a brand, his name is evocative of a particular style. One that’s kind and quiet, unhurried and thoughtful. His show Joe Pera Talks With You was recently canceled after three seaso
It’s late in the evening, and I am watching along on my computer as a jovial-looking cartoon man named Beezerly lives out many peoples’ worst nightmare, confidently honking for a crowd on a brass inst
Shaquem Griffin Aug 24, 2022 So, I’m at a brunch at this fancy hotel in Los Angeles during Super Bowl week having a conversation with Roger Goodell, and that’s where I have to stop the story before I
In a first for The Present Age, today’s edition will be a guest post. Michael Hobbes co-hosts Maintenance Phase , a podcast debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams, and nonsensic
Fifteen minutes from the Las Vegas Strip, into a tranquil gated community, up a red-brick driveway, past the palm trees that touch the Mojave Desert sky, through the veil that separates the astral pla
Getty Images/Ringer illustration It’s the time of the year when grainy videos of teenagers playing basketball creep across the Twitter feeds of basketball fans, like young hooping Sasquatches. And one
Photo: Zachary Scott In 2009, when the comedian Nathan Fielder first moved to L.A., he learned to tell his managers not to send him to meetings. Why bother? If the point was to charm people into givin
Explaining why I embarked on a quest to consume as many different flavors of Mountain Dew as possible is not an easy task. Why am I voluntarily drinking a beverage whose ad campaigns seem to vaguely s
Programming note: Ugh, here we are again, huh? Oh Elon I think it is helpful to start with the big picture. Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, and, like many other rich people, he has some
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On my last evening in Spokane, after I had wandered Riven’s caves and forests, after I had turned a dozen animated valves and seen a dozen Mysterious thrones and eaten of the five-lobed…
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f Of all the things that surprised me at OXO headquarters, the Tiffany box had to be at the top of the list. The kitchenware company’s head engineer, Mack Mor, had dug through the archives to find som
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Nearly 14 years after his death, his provocative humor has been embraced by people across the political spectrum. What happens when comedy outlasts the era it was made for? Send any friend a story As
A ccording According to Kevin Hart, “your clothes are a clear virsitation of who you are.” That’s the closest I could translate from his interview on First We Feast’s Hot Ones in 2016, after host Sean
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The actor, best known for his starring role in “The O.C.,” has become an outspoken critic of a volatile market driven by speculation. Who’s listening? Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have
The Nineties: A Book , by Chuck Klosterman, is out now. Chuck Klosterman, center. Photo-Illustration: Max-o-matic; Photos by Alamy, Shutterstock and Getty Images This article was featured in One Great
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