iOS 8 Poetry
In Apple’s endless quest to make typing on a tablet 1/39th as easy as typing on a keyboard, they’ve released QuickType, otherwise known as..
Your First 10 Days with a Puppy
1. Day One: Getting the Puppy
The minutes leading up to picking up your puppy are some of the slowest in your life. Every car you s..
Manly vs. Not-Manly in The Sopranos’ Universe
Manly
Telling your male friends you love them.
Hugging and kissing your male friends.
Having a feminine nickname like Chrissy..
Your Lana Del Rey Problem
Lana Del Rey’s new album Ultraviolence is excellent. With songs like “Fucked My Way Up to the Top” and “Money Power Glory,” she lays d..
Obvious Child Proves You Can Have an Abortion and Still Be a Rom Com Heroine
Quick – name all the times you can remember characters in movies or shows having abortions. Is it zero times? Maybe one if you wa..
Let’s Retire the Word Evil
Not a lot of words are more damaging and less useful than the word “evil.” It doesn’t hold up to modern methods of explaining human behavi..
More Details About The (Still Mysterious) Minneapolis Taco Delivery Service Taco Cat
This week in Minneapolis-is-kinda-Portlandia-ish news, word started spreading about a new bike delivery taco company called Taco Cat (..
Questions I Have for People Slightly Younger than Me About Snapchat
I really like technology. I grew up playing Ski Free and Crash Bandicoot. I even had a Pikachu pedometer in the fifth grade. I want to..
A Not Very Definitive List of Emoji that Need to Exist
My favorite Emoji is the Edvard Munch “Scream” emoji, which is both very referential to old art and incredibly useful. It is perfect f..
Lift and Reporter: 2 Apps That Track My Life and Make Me a Better Person
When I was younger, I used to journal a lot. I had this idea that someday I would want to go through all my journals and learn th..
Why Can’t We Cast Actors That Play Their Own Nationality, Race or Sexual Orientation More Often?
The Oscars are tomorrow, so this seems like as good a time as any to talk about this. Why is it that in the year 2014, we can’t m..
The Age of The Anti-Hero
When I watched Breaking Bad, I kept wondering who I was supposed to root for. From internet chatter, I knew that people generally idolized..