I Don’t Relate To My Friends Who Don’t Have Full-Time Jobs

It’s competitive out there in the job market. This we know. But it’s also competitive between friends. It’s largely unspoken, of course, but the desire to usurp your peers is very real. Unspoken resentments fester that lead people to drift.

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If You’ve Seen Me Dance, I’m Sorry

I imagine that people who see me dancing immediately understand how excruciatingly self-aware I am about it. Then they start to reflect on their own technique. “Do I look like that?” they wonder. “Could I just be jerking around spastically and no one is telling me? How can I ever really know myself? Am I leading a shallow, unexamined life?”

Josh Gondelman is a writer and comedian who incubated in Boston before moving to New York City. His writing has been ...
 

Husband Material, Vol. 2: Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Drawbacks: You will be kissing the lips that once kissed Zooey Deschanel. All the Clorox in the world won’t be able to scrub the twee off you.

Chelsea Fagan is a writer living in Paris. It's less pretentious than it sounds.

Why Are The Kardashians So Popular?

What separates Kim Kardashian from all the other ladies who came to being known via a sex tape is that she’s managed to parlay it into a career that has NOTHING to do with sex.

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The Best Embarassing Rock Music Of The Early 2000s

2000-2004. My high school years. They also coincided with the release of some of the most embarrassing awesome!! rock music of my lifetime.

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