In Defense Of The Emoticon
How, in an age where we earnestly refer to ourselves as “plugged-in” and “wired,” are we taking ourselves so seriously that we bemoan the use of a smiley face now and again?
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Steph is a former editor at Thought Catalog and a current writer at Gawker Media. Her work has been featured on ... 
All You Need to Know About Fireworks
I don’t know about you, but the New Year’s resolution I make most often while watching the fireworks is that I need to watch more fireworks. They are so absorbing that I completely ignore whoever I’m standing with, and if someone even dares to talk to me, I simply mutter, “Please, shut up.”
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Chason Gordon is a writer whose work has appeared in Nerve, City Arts Magazine, Seattle Weekly, and The Capitol Hill ... 
Reality TV Shows I Wish Existed
Formatted similarly to Jon and Kate Plus 8, this show would follow a 25-year-old version of myself and whoever lives with me at that point in my life as we struggle to keep up with our careers and relationships while attempting to raise eighteen cats in a small studio apartment.
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Karim Kazemi (b. 1996) is a teenage boy and future proprietor of a jetpack.
The Hardest Parts Of Quitting Smoking
By most measures, I was never a heavy smoker. Even after seven years, a typical day of home to work to home would entail at most only six or seven cigarettes. This may be why the process of quitting, which I undertook two months ago, has gone smoother than I imagined.
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Arvind writes articles, essays and short stories, mostly about the dumb things he's done. His work has appeared on ... 
An Approximation Of The Most Terrifying Phone Call I’ve Ever Had
“Hi, this is Sean from Debt Collection Unlimited, or DCU. While you’re shooting daggers at your boyfriend for handing you the phone even though I asked for you by your full name, which should have been a tip-off that this call was of the nefarious, debt collecting nature, let me tell you how your life will change for the worse from here on out.
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When she's not reading or writing she's at the bar telling people about the time she saw Queens of the Stone Age ... 
