The 10 Most Wonderful Internet Films of 2010
Here are ten videos, culled from the neverending stream of Internet things that pass by my face each day, ten videos that will make you feel good about the world. They’re all from this year, a year...
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The Year In Crying At Your Desk
Enough about how technology is changing us, for now. It’s the end of the calendar year, and we’re consumed with the attendant complicated feelings of the holiday season, as well as settling accounts...
View ArticleThe Twelve Days Of Awlmas
Good morning! And welcome to our 265th annual holiday extravaganza. Here’s how it’ll work. In the mornings we’ll be “resurfacing” (LOL) some delightful things that perhaps you have or haven’t seen...
View ArticleThe Top Ten Least Annoying Metal Albums Of 2013
In a taxi after the High on Fire show a few weeks ago, I accidentally listened to “Sound Opinions,” the radio skit show where Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis say platitudes about rock and roll to each...
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SoulCycle SoulCycle SoulCycle
Twenty-thirteen was the year I got super into SoulCycle. It’s gross but I don’t care because I need it and I love it (ha ha so gross). Actually, wait, that’s completely misleading because I only got...
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Notes On The Celebrity Backdoor Porn Industry
We were watching the first minutes of a pornographic film: the part where the actors both begin to do and yet coyly dance around the reason we’re all here. “We” was me and someone in another borough...
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Topless Geraldo
I don’t habitually spend time looking at topless men. I’ll see them at the gym and sometimes, if I’m not careful, catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror. But generally, this diversion doesn’t...
View ArticleThe Year In Lesbians
On January 3, Tammy Baldwin assumed office as the first openly gay person ever elected to the US Senate. She didn’t think it was a big deal, though, and kept repeating in interviews that “I didn’t run...
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This Restraining Order Expires On Tuesday
The first time “Misty” broke into the backyard to pound and scream at the bedroom window, the police handcuffed her and said—her face pressed to the hood of the idling black and white—that she was not...
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My 11 Favorite Interviews With Creative Men (And One Woman!) In 2013
Anti-procrastination. If there is such a thing, it’s distracting yourself in a way that makes you want to get back to work. My anti-procrastination is reading interviews with creative people. I read a...
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The Year In Cats Getting Stuck In Ridiculous Places
Just a few days after we turned our calendars from 2012 to 2013, NBC Bay Area posted a story on its website under the bizarre headline “Fat Cat Rescue Highlights Cathood Obesity.” The cat referred to...
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Our National Box Office Nightmare
The bulk of this year’s action and sci-fi films did clever violence better than in previous years but generally failed to develop minority characters. I mean the frequently derided popcorn fare such as...
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Places I Parked In Los Angeles In 2013
ArcLight Hollywood, roof level. Grade: A+ The predominant strategy for parking in Los Angeles is to find the closest available space to the entrance of wherever it is you’re going. This is flawed...
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You Can And Should Judge A Culture By Its Fan Fiction
The first truth of fan fiction is that a good chunk of it is terrible. The second, third, and fourth truths all involve sex. But the fifth truth of fan fiction is that it is often the best way to...
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Russian Sky Explosion Maximum Power
In Chelyabinsk the men are tough. So tough there is a meme among Russians depicting the tough men from Chelyabinsk acting out their audacious toughness: shouldering a dead horse through a peat bog,...
View ArticleThe Twelve Days Of Awlmas
https://medium.com/media/30265b32800accfb79f5f7ea750cf8e7/href Good morning! And welcome to our 265th annual holiday extravaganza. Here’s how it’ll work. In the mornings we’ll be “resurfacing” (LOL)...
View ArticleThe Only Thing I Remember About the Internet in 2015 Is the Baby Covered in...
2015 started. Then what? I don’t know. I know that a few months ago I saw this: https://medium.com/media/3707f00cd75e447cd904eb67d8d86d28/href Now the year is over. What else happened in the great big...
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> A few nice things happened this year:
From Everything Changes, the Awl’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Image: Richard Grandmorin Last week, I shared my best of 2016 and asked you for yours. A few below, all here. I hope all of you had at...
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