An Interview With The Year 2012

You know how much crap I’ve gotten for being 2012? When I was chosen to be this year, all the other years were snickering and taunting me, saying things like, “Oh, good  luck with being 2012! That’ll be a real blast!” But it’s BS! Do you even know how much opium the Mayans smoked? Jesus…

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Extremely Loud And Incredibly Coldplay

If you asked my mother, she’d say she was first and foremost a crusader for fundamentalist Christianity (a belief system believed so necessary to society that it required her constant defense), but I don’t believe that was ever really the case…

Jack Cazir is definitely not one of those people who moves to Brooklyn to attend an MFA program and then ...
 

Who You Used To Be

Memorizing the lyrics to a song used to be an accomplishment, just like writing your name without inversing any of the letters. Tying a shoe. Walking three steps. Reciting the alphabet.

Steph is a former editor at Thought Catalog and a current writer at Gawker Media. Her work has been featured on ...

How I Gave A Semi-Famous Person’s Pet Away

Sarah McLachlan had a pet rabbit named Mr. Buns that she’d found hopping down the street one day and somehow managed to capture. I say “somehow” because he was not the nicest critter.

Jamie Peck is a contributing editor at The Gloss and Crushable. She also collaborates with Debbie Allen on a ...

I Will Never Sing Aloud My Favorite Song Of 2011

Maybe I like this song so much because I don’t have any money. I am pretty broke. I owe more money in student loans than I will make in 10 to 20 years. I will never rob anyone no matter how broke I am, but I think it’s still okay for me to appreciate raw, extreme, and brutal (artistic) assessments of criminalistic money-making.

Elliott lives in West Philadelphia and writes for various publications, mostly about music. Sometimes he Tweets.
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