Parenting is so hard we can’t (or don't know why we should) do it sober—#sendwine tops nearly 17,000 posts on Instagram, most of them starring a wild-eyed mom and/or child. The joke is everywhere, and it’s totally messed up. How did we get here? Pan out a few decades, ...
“A Short, Swampy History of the Florida Man Meme,” by Phillipe Thao (Netflix,2023). “Who Experiences Scams? A Story for All Ages,” by the Federal Trade Commission (2022). “The Scams Among Us: Who Falls Prey and Why,” by Yaniv Hanoch and Stacey Wood (Current Directions in Psych...
Though the phrase quickly became a meme across the web, it failed to ensnare Dakota's attention—subsequently leading to another meme-able moment when she later expressed her confusion over its popularity. "Why did that go viral?" she stoically asked an interviewer who mentioned t...
I did this type of thing when I began editing books, and there were some pretty angry “authors” who came at me when I would not review their book on my other blog page. I mean, trust me, you do not want me putting up a review of what I thought about your “book”. I don’...
Tristan would have agreed that something was truly and disturbingly wrong with his attraction to other boys. “For a while, I did think that I was sick. I thought my brain was messed up, and I was thinking about going to ask my mom to take me to the doctor or something and get medi...
Megan did not name Minaj or Petty in her song, but Nicki certainly thought she was talking about them. She went on Instagram Live and teased a verse of a song called “Big Foot,” which was pretty clearly a Meg diss. Nicki Minaj previews a new track on Instagram live: ...
no violent revenge done in the name of Yusuke's wounded pride, no answers to why his wife did what she did. Instead, "Drive My Car" hones in on the timid friendship between Yusuke and his female chauffeur Misaki (Tōko Miura), a stoic young woman with demons of her own. In Misaki...
It never did occur to me, That you would become mortal, even in my mind. In this sleep-bitten senselessness I manifest of you, An empty portrait, Almost empty, As you reduce in intensity, Like the waning Sun, Even if I try all in my power, ...
about perfect crimes that failed literally at the last momentdue to the slightest accident or because the criminals didn't take something into account, let's do one very important thing, as it seems to me: let's make a reservation.
LEWIS: Yes. Totally. But what I did, and I did very intentionally, was I let the characters in the book investigate him, rather than me. I mean, it was made-to-order for narrative nonfiction. I had the chief operating officer of the company, who’d been there from the beginning, wh...