Conversational Anxiety And Alienation Via “Musical Passion”

Maybe we should just appreciate the fact that everyone listens and contracts something positive from it. Tastes and knowledge shouldn’t need to be validated or shown off, regardless of the potential conversational euphoria that might entail musical common ground.

Louis Scuderi studies economics at St. Lawrence University. He can be contacted at ljs102(at)gmail(dot)com.

What Happens When You Get Into A Relationship

When you get into a relationship, you’re going to be a lot fatter? You’ll be eating spaghetti and meatballs every night, which will be topped with I’m In Love sauce. Every dollop of I’m In Love sauce contains 3,000 calories though. In fact, every time you tell your significant other “I love you”, you go up a waist size.

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How To Deal With A Mess Like A 20-Something: Kitchen Messes Edition

Survey the fridge. Chinese take-out from two weeks ago: not edible. Mustard: edible. Cheese: edible? It looks okay. You scan the island and spot a heel of bread left over that’s sort of wrapped up in plastic. You’ll risk it.

Her hobbies include patronizing, condescending, and occasionally picking a random subject she determines to become ...

This Week On Planet Internet: Bloggers

As the brain starts to rewire itself, the Blogger begins to concoct memories of events that never occurred, such as traumatic breakups, excommunication from the church post-tattoo, and the time it almost died in a tragic elephant riding accident at Six Flags Great Adventure.

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

Psych 101: The Ways New Yorkers Cope With Weather

The cycle tends to go like this: mid-winter when we’re clad head-to-toe in black, wading around in the grey slushy that has been thrown Glee-style in the face of our city; all we can do is long for the long days of summer.

Marion is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. While studying advertising, she ...
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