Kneeling Bus
The 2000 Onion article “Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn’t Own a Television” captures a familiar trope from that era, complete with the perfect protagonist: a goateed Chapel Hill resident who works at a frame shop and wears all black. The joke feels anachronistic now: The…
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Here’s the top comment on the YouTube video for “Heaven or Las Vegas” by the Cocteau Twins: “The vibe of this song makes me feel like I’m a high school…
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On July 13, 2011—ten years ago yesterday—I moved to New York City. I arrived, parallel parked the U-Haul I had driven down from Boston, carried all my …
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I don’t really play video games anymore but I’ve become increasingly fascinated by speedrunning in recent years. A speedrun, if you’re not familiar, is…
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Sean Monahan (who has a great newsletter) recently wrote an essay about what he calls the “Tinderization of the internet,” describing a sea change he h…
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Two decades ago, before social media existed, Zygmunt Bauman articulated a perfect description of how it would soon shape our behavior and frame our re…
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Kevin Roose published a piece in the New York Times this week about the waning of what he calls the “millennial lifestyle subsidy,” an arrangement that…
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In the early 1940s, essayist Joseph Mitchell spent more than a year in pursuit of an eccentric New York character named Joe Gould, “a blithe and emacia…
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