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I’m sorry to be this particular type of asshole but ... all chess is 4D chess, you fuckin nerds truly it is I who is the fuckin nerd etc Can

A thing I think about a lot is that in 1980, Chuck E. Cheese sued Showbiz Pizza for ripping off their concept and won, and then in 1984 Chuck E.

"'Bruce’s way of finding that out [if we were underage] was by asking us, ‘What college do you go to?’ only to be told that we were still in high

For @newyorker, I wrote about the fallacies of NYC's return to indoor dining, and the lies we've been convinced to tell ourselveshttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-uncertain-promises-of-indoor-dining-in-new-y

my torrential executive dysfunction says what’s good, friendohttps://twitter.com/qiuetstormin/status/1311218403886223362 I’m sorry for negatively amplifying a rando but it’s genuinely enraging when people make assumptions about others

I’ve made a lot of “x is my Super Bowl” jokes over the years but the Princess Bride zoom is actually for real my Super Bowl Cannot WAIT until everyone

Ana Gasteyer deserved Will Ferrell's career or better today is a day for goddamn truth telling Watch her incredibly controlled-yet-twitchy body language here (my fave of this entire series of

A while back I was contacted by a journalist who was writing a profile of Bari Weiss. I was surprised! I’ve been publicly critical of BW, but only incidentally, a

My business idea is a food truck that only operates for three weeks every August and sells tomato sandwiches (tomato, mayo, salt, white bread) wrapped in wax paper, two for

Today in therapy we talked about how (for those of us currently healthy and taking isolation seriously) right now we live in an infinite present. No future plans, no anticipation

There’s so much anxiety-release and serenity in outsourcing the work of identity-creation to someone else. If I let someone else decide what’s cool, what’s worthwhile, what’s correct, then I don’t

I have a lot of thoughts about the construct of the “cool girl” and how it’s basically a commodified collective narcissism, and the currency is the cool girl’s gaze —