AFTER John Burroughs senior Greg Toumayan trudged through a series of near all-nighters, his parents were asked to meet with the high school principal and a teacher. Administrators were concerned that Toumayan's droopy eyes and sluggish manner signaled drug use.Toroian, Diane...
I feel like I'm just old. I'm 28, I'm finna be 29 now, man. I'm not the same young boy that grew up in Chicago on 54th and 61st. I guess you can call it growth. I still got some stuff on there like the regular Sosa — the turn up, the fight-in-the-club or whatever...
But I'm nauseous feeling woozy like I'm in the twilight zone the movieHow did I do it how did I get through itand I wondered if anyone knew what I was doingSat down and clicked on the tubeFlipped to the news I'm trying to get answersWhose blood is this on my hands and how ...
1, a vessel with a curious-looking, bulbous bowl that flares out toward the bottom. I remember raising an eyebrow and muttering, “Do I need a glass with this shape? Does anyone?” The answer came quickly enough. The First Encounter: Riesling in the Josephine No. 1 The Josephine No. ...
It’s positively tropical in Chicago today: Here’s the temperature in Fahrenheit, which is -17° C. With the wind, the temperature equivalent is -24° F, or -31° C. The flight out of Chicago have largely been canceled or delayed, but what do I care? I ain’t going nowhere. ...
It wasn’t complex math: I was drinking 28 drinks a week—an amount I’d never consumed in my life. I had just gotten into this routine, thinking that I deserved a bit of relaxation at the end of the day.” As with any habit, the more you do it, the easier it is—and the ...
" Stipe toldThe New Yorkerin 2021. "There's nothing any of them could ever do that would change that. And I know that that's reciprocal. But, no, we did the right thing. We needed to not drive it into mundaneness, and that's where it was going to go, I think. Everything has...
To read or write is the opposite of living, which is why Nietzsche had so much scorn for people who could read a book in the morning. When you read, you are not in motion, you’re not in your body, you’re barely in your own head. You are displaced. You are also alone. ...
Reader Steve called my attention to an article I wouldn’t have otherwise seen, as it appeared atThe Daily Maverick,a South African news website. It’s about the recurrent and polarizing problem of what to do about transgender women, born as biological men, who want to compete in women’...
All set? I don’t really feel like I should have to say all that, but I don’t want some bicyclist popping off in the comments about how I’m endorsing distracted driving. I’m not. Keep your phone in your fucking pocket. All that said, if you ARE going to use your phone, doin...