Scenesters are the worst

It’s opposite writing. Great writing tells you what happens and lets you infer how people feel. These examples tell you exactly how you should feel and forces you to guess what happened. The writers know they’re only supposed to do one of the two things but they keep guessing incorrectly.

I just assume with ALL of these pieces, that the Bad Thing was “cheated on wife.”

I spent the last few weeks thinking of a tree that we used to have in the backyard of our old house. All those hours I spent under that tree looking up as the sunlight dripped like honey through the leaves. When the thin cold wire of time wasn’t pressing pushing tight against my neck. There was time back then. There’s…

I’ll just go ahead and say it: the emperor has no clothes.

Blame Candida

I knew I liked that kid.

In other news, I want a photo of the two of them, side by side, while she’s in his designs. They would make a fun pair.

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Even though Trevor Noah probably didn’t have anything to do with the tweet, this post still reminds me of how downhill the show has gone since John Stewart left. It’s cringe inducing.

Donald Trump, irl.

Somebody surf on a van, stat.

Has anyone in the Teen Wolf outfit tried surfing on a van?

His expression is one of such, ahem, otter delight.

It would be horribly tragic if my ability to protect myself or my family were to be taken away, but that’s exactly what Democrats are determined to do by banning semi-automatic handguns.

Except I am white with a big ole butt, from Oakland and was the appropriate age when the song came out. That song changed my attitude towards my butt, at least when it came on the radio or in the club. I was totally ashamed that I did not have a little butt that fit into waist 27 Levis, but this made me feel…

Originally the Jezebel article about it didn’t reference that it was a Sir-Mix-a-Lot line and so they’re still leaning hard into outrage that no one else feels.

LOL I remember that post—what a mess. Just checked it out and it doesn’t even look like the correction is acknowledged, even though Jez had to Frankenstein’s Monster a measured take.

Fuck Russia.

Vin Scully isn’t for everybody. That would be socialism.

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