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Becky Lang

is a creative at Zeus Jones, a former entertainment editor for the Minnesota Daily and a life-long TV watcher. She has quit several sports in her life, including soccer, dance, tennis, swimming, ice skating, volleyball, speedskating and taekwondo. Now she likes to draw pictures of wild animals, hipsters and dangerous weapons, go to happy hour with other writer types and forget several foreign languages, little by little, every day. You can check out her exploits on Twitter and Tumblr.

Unsurprising Pop Culture Correlations

Unsurprising Pop Culture Correlations
-If you “like” Darque Tan on Facebook, there’s a 20% chance your fake tooth has fallen out during oral sex. -If  you work in advertising, there’s a 40% chance that you have a really long explanation for why you prefer Coke Zero to Diet Coke. -If you took a class in Semiotics there’s an 80% chance that the letre être something or other? Also that you hate Lacan. -If you know what an API is there’s a 20% chance that your girlfriend you met on WOW...

In Defense of Glee

In Defense of Glee
I don’t watch Glee regularly, in the way that people obsessed with Mad Men watch Mad Men, but when the option to watch Glee arrives, I always do. As a part-time viewer, I’ve watched the development of its cheerleader lesbian relationship, the reveal of Puck’s taste in “non-traditional” women, and the triumph of cute redhead teacher over germophobia. And from my slightly remote view of the show, I have to say that it is special. Here’s why: 1. It’s funny I remember the first episode,...

Free Advice Courtesy of My Mom

Free Advice Courtesy of My Mom
“Never, ever say you’re not thin enough to be an E! News anchor.” “How many notches do you have now … ? You should only have one notch on your belt, you know.” When I opened my 1st bank account: “You’re only going to be young with disposable income for a tiny portion of your life. Spend what you make on fun stuff and worry about saving later.” “It’s easy to come off arrogant on a blog like yours. Young people think they know everything.”...

Steps to Saying Goodbye to Your College Self

Steps to Saying Goodbye to Your College Self
1. Learn to go to bed before 1 and wake up early In college, you get to go to the  bar every night and stay till the late night taco deals expire, then go watch Spanish TV with your roommates and angrily text someone until 4 a.m. Then you slowly wake up the next day and watch daytime TV until you’ve had enough Gatorade to bike to class. This is awesome, and it’s not real life. Once you get a job, you start feeling embarrassed...

Hunter Gatherer Me’s Equivalents of Modern Day Comforts

Hunter Gatherer Me's Equivalents of Modern Day Comforts
Tumblr: My creative outlet would have been carving inside jokes on the trees I walked by and imagining people trying to decipher them later and thinking, “Whoever made these had an important message – but what is it?” At night I would eat frogs, lizards or birds of paradise and stare at the sky until it looked like a GIF. One-a-day contact lenses: Hopefully if I lived in an era that didn’t involve staring at a screen for ~13 hours a day, my vision would...

5 Things We Learned from Maurice Sendak

5 Things We Learned from Maurice Sendak
1. Children are mysterious, and childhood can be dark. When I worked at a daycare, I watched High School Musical to see what the kids were so excited about. After seeing that the conflict was basically that the stars were good at too many extracurricular activities, I was disappointed. What were kids going through real problems supposed to learn from this? Editing out conflict is becoming far too common in media, especially when it’s aimed at children and women. Where the Wild Things Are changed the game in children’s...

Graphic – The Spectrum of Different Levels of Human Confidence

Graphic - The Spectrum of Different Levels of Human Confidence
-Becky Lang needs 2 drinks to dance

A Critique of Generation Names

A Critique of Generation Names
People are struggling to figure out how to name the next Generation in a way that will live up to generation names of yore (both descriptive and aspirational). But before we assume that existing generation names are ideal, let’s take a hard look at them. The Lost Generation: This one has a lot of drama and cynical glamour. Coined by Gertrude Stein’s car mechanic, it has a poetic/blue collar origin story that makes it less annoying than when New York Times columnists use it to...

Contemporary Authors’ Fragrance Names

Contemporary Authors' Fragrance Names
Jonathan Franzen – Book Must Bret Easton Ellis – Boredom Zadie Smith - Private School Sex Scandal Tao Lin – I Have a Fragrance E.L. James – Bitten Lip Jonathan Safran Foer – Precocious Haruki Murakami – Mysterious Ears Chuck Palahniuk – Booger Colon Sapphire – Strife Dave Eggers – Mr. O’Toole’s Mystical Life-Changing Myst Chuck Klosterman – Dead Metal Nick Hornby – Ex-Girlfriend -Becky Lang    

Everything You Need to Know About the Supermoon

Everything You Need to Know About the Supermoon
What is the Supermoon? It’s when a full moon gets as close to the earth as it’s going to be all year. Certain years the moon gets insanely close to the earth, like last year. This is called “evening of the extreme Supermoon.” That’s a real thing. What is the mystical meaning of the Supermoon? There are many meanings. First of all, you may not know it but the moon and the earth are in a sort of Electra complex battle that goes on every...

An Interview with the Writers of Bon Iver Erotica

An Interview with the Writers of Bon Iver Erotica
  Part of what makes Bon Iver Erotica so magical and addictive is that the writing is just plain good. Specific, meaningful and oddly beautiful, while still being hilarious. I managed to get an interview with the minds behind the project. Update: Those minds are – Anna Sawyer, Alice Warren-Gregory and Alex Finkel. You called yourself an “us.” Are there many people writing Bon Iver Erotica? Can you reveal your identities? We are a very fun trio of 20-somethings who were friends before this and who,...

Pros and Cons of Dating Young Barack Obama, According to Ex-GF Testimonials

Pros and Cons of Dating Young Barack Obama, According to Ex-GF Testimonials
Pros Drinks something “stronger than wine,” letting you feel like a girly girl w/ your pinot Hates “bourgeois liberals” so probably not above McDonald’s breakfast Looks cool near pot Will cook dinner in order to get you to sleep over Keeps his bedroom door closed instead of being like, “come in, roomies and play my bongos.” Does crosswords shirtless Has good poker face Cons Love letters kinda sound like B+ level cultural studies papers Uses umlauts – who has the time? Not great at dirty...