Questions I Have For Bicycles
What are gears? Are they a real thing? Are they like when I felt sick when I was younger and my Mother would give me a chewable vitamin and tell me it was medicine and it would make me feel better? And so, if I am told that you have gears, and I’m all, ‘Gears, yes!’ it is understood that I can ride up ridiculous hills, and it will be like, what hill? Placebo gears, yes or no?
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Scarlett Cayford is 23, born in London, raised in Auckland, currently living in North Japan. An amateur writer ... 
Dubious Advice For College Freshmen
My freshman year, I didn’t drink at all. One of my best friends got blackout drunk on his way to a theme party, to which he was wearing a leather skirt and no underwear. He passed out and had to be taken to the hospital. The EMTs refused to move him until his roommate wrangled him into some boxers. Is his life richer and more nuanced for having that experience? Probably not. He has a story now, but you know who else also has that story? Everyone else.
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Josh Gondelman is a writer and comedian who incubated in Boston before moving to New York City. His writing has been ... 
5 Things You Should Remove From Your Closet
I hate looking at old pictures and realizing that 60% of the clothes I was wearing have since disappeared into thin air. I know that a good portion of them were borrowed by friends whom I no longer talk to and/or can’t remember so I’m not even able to ask for anything back.
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Great Songs To Cry To
If there’s a better way to spend my time other than forcefully making myself cry via tearjerking musical marathons, I don’t want to know what it is. (JK – send help.) Everyone should cry once in a while. It’s cathartic and fun, even! Here’s a brief guide to listening to my favorite cry jams, in no particular order. Take a listen if you’re trying to feel feelings or whatever.
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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 ... 
The First Time I Heard About Myspace, Facebook, And Twitter
I remember telling him that Myspace seemed like an embarrassing joke. “I would never get one. It’s for scene kids and baby prostitutes!” At the time, I was committed to my Livejournal after having taken a brief sojourn to Friendster, and had no intentions of deviating ever again.
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