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The Five Types of Friends Everyone Should Get Rid Of
You like the party friend, but you actually don’t know a lot about them. Sometimes you wonder if they do normal things during the day like go grocery shopping or…
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Unemployed? Try Sleeping All Day!
Stay up late watching TV. Since you can’t afford HBO or Netflix, you’re going to have to endure a lot of commercials unless you use my trick of checking out…
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How to Live in Los Angeles
Go to a coffee shop at 3:00 in the afternoon to apply for jobs and find it packed. Wonder how people actually make a living here. Everyone always talks about…
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Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami
Almost Transparent Blue (1976) was written by Ry? Murakami (b. 1952) while he was a student at Musashino Art University, where he was enrolled in the sculpture program. It was…
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Why The Internet Chose Cats
Popular themes for internet cat pictures suggest that the cat is perplexed by his/her environment; the cat is demanding of something in a regal fashion [cats may often be implied…
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You Should Date An Illiterate Girl
A girl who reads possesses a vocabulary that can describe that amorphous discontent as a life unfulfilled—a vocabulary that parses the innate beauty of the world and makes it an…
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Dating a Privileged White Girl
She was immersed in things I’d only heard of before, like Debutantes, season tickets to the Orange County Performing Arts Center, new Volvo sedans, Pescetarianism, Whole Foods, art show openings,…
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The Evolution of A Typical Long-Term Monogamous Relationship
Such moments become fiercely guarded, protected and cherished memories and subsequently, the recall of such memories is often the precursor to small mental breakdowns, large mental breakdowns, and evolution-of-a-relationship montages…
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Five Emotions Invented By The Internet
During this time the individual will have several windows open, generally several browser ‘tabs,’ a Microsoft Word document in some state of incompletion, the individual’s own Facebook page as well…
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10 Clichés About Relationships & Sex That Are Worth Questioning
Sex involving two partners shouldn’t have anything to do with Victoria Secret catalogs, Penelope Cruz, or any TV/movie love/romance/sex scene that once impressed you so deeply that it’s actually become…
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20 Ways To Be Popular At An Expensive Liberal Arts School
Take over a building. Why not the library? All you need to do is show up and then refuse to leave. It is the most effective way of getting your…
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I Have An Irrational Fear Of HIV
I get tested every three months not because I need to, but because I have a sick fear that is obviously rooted in some other mental disturbance. HIV just gets…
