What To Say When People Ask Why You’re Still Single

Don’t answer, just clutch your large copy of Pride and Prejudice and begin wailing. I find wailing always works quite well.

A. Nugent is the creator and writer of the The-Frenemy.com, a female-centric comedy blog for girls, and is also ...

If Rappers Were NBA Players

The question is, what if Lil’ Wayne were reincarnated as a basketball player? Who would he be? Answer, in case you’re wondering, is Marquis Daniels. Here are some other projections. Feel free to chime in with suggestions.

He likes Legos, Mobb Deep and Raymond Carver and contributes to pirateapprentice.com. He always wondered what it ...
 

The Quarter-Life Anti-Crisis

The funny thing about the assumption that 25 is a threshold into quarter-life is that it’s only true if you live to be 100, and really, who wants that? Besides, 25 is middle aged in some places–Uganda, Ethiopia, and my own broken home-nation of Somalia to name a few. But whichever way I slice it, a good chunk of my life is gone.

Safa is a lover of language, but chooses to express herself in English. She writes fiction and non-fiction and ...

Why I Love Strangers

I’m staring at Orestes when I realize my stranger is standing behind me. I don’t see him initially, I just feel him. My body tenses up and I feel excited by the idea that we’re looking at the same thing at the same time and seeing something different. I want to ask him what he thinks, but I stay quiet instead. I don’t want to ruin it.

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

What Happens To You When You Go On The Internet

Whenever we take a break from the Internet, we expect there to be hours of things we need to catch up on. In reality, we’ve made our rounds in ten minutes. It’s always a disappointment. We always seem to forget that, at the end of the day, there’s not much to actually do on the Internet.

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