Blog Profile / The Awl
| URL : | http://www.theawl.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Society & Culture | |
| Posts on Regator: | 10486 | |
| Posts / Week: | 84 | |
| Archived Since: | December 31, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
The Adults Kids Fear
"To adults, services like Facebook that may seem “private” because you can use privacy tools, but they don’t feel that way to youth who feel like their privacy is invaded on a daily basis. (This, btw, is part of why teens feel like Twitter is more intimate than Facebook. Show More Summary
Ask Polly: I Desperately Need Everyone To Like Me!
Appearing here Wednesdays, Turning The Screw provides existential crisis counseling for the faint of heart. "Because it's all been a pack of lies." (Cue drum solo.)
Dear Polly,
This is probably far from an original advice-seeking topic, but I need an original answer. Show More Summary
'Gatsby' Is Really About the Housing Crisis
The Great Gatsby got a modern upgrade last week thanks to Baz Luhrmann’s directing, Leo’s acting, Jay-Z’s soundtrack, and Prada’s costumes, but those aren’t the only reasons the film should resonate with a 2013 audience. Gatsby’s Roaring...Show More Summary
Everyone Secretly Hates "Snow Fall"
Cody Brown, of Scrollkit, made a replica of the ballyhooed New York Times "Snow Fall" story—in about an hour. Naturally, the Times made a copyright complaint: he was, after all, using their images and whatnot! So he removed it. Then they insisted that he "remove any reference to the New York Times" from his website. Show More Summary
Record Shopping With Carrie Brownstein
You know her as a sketch comedy master on TV. Watch Carrie Brownstein portray one of the many faces of membership from American Express, this time as a vinyl-obsessed shopper. Even as an avid consumer (literally) of records, her character...Show More Summary
Is Your Addiction To Sour Clumpy Milk Killing The Environment?
"Greek yogurt is a booming $2 billion a year industry — and it's producing millions of pounds of waste that industry insiders are scrambling to figure out what to do with." --- See more posts by Alex Balk 0 comments
Bear Frightens Horses, Roams L.A.
If you started off your day in a state of depression because of that bear-milking story, hang on:"A bear is wandering through a residential area Wednesday morning in Sun Valley. The bear has been climbing fences and roaming through residences' back yards. Show More Summary
Terrible Region Between Herald and Time Squares Shut Down Due To Alleged Jumper
Gotta jumper next door. Police putting up air bag in case he leaps! Don't do it! twitter.com/bbyrdi/status/… — Brian Byrd (@bbyrdi) May 22, 2013 Midtown South has a jumper problem. This morning New York commuters found themselves tangled...Show More Summary
Transit Plans Of The Once And Future Mayors
"When I become mayor, you know what I’m going to spend my first year doing? I’m going to have a bunch of ribbon-cuttings tearing out your [expletive] bike lanes." — Anthony Weiner to Mike Bloomberg, June 2, 2010 "Come January 1st, when...Show More Summary
Go Find Your Hot Pants Because It's Gonna Be Hot Today
Mark Doty, David Chang, Of Montreal, Darin Strauss, Lucas Hnath. --- See more posts by Choire Sicha 0 comments
The Decrepit Beauty of Dallas
On a recent walk through downtown Dallas, I stopped to admire an old light fixture attached to an abandoned building. The streets around me, lined with weedy lots and architectural wreckage, were deserted enough to feel vaguely menacing. Show More Summary
New York City, May 20, 2013
??? The morning fog was thick and forbidding, but the pavement was merely damp. The mistrustful kindergartener, preparing to go out the door, could be shown that people were down there without umbrellas. Soon enough, the worst had burned away, leaving only a lingering mist on the river and haze in the streets. Show More Summary
What Will You Be Thinking As You Die?
If am somehow conscious while it is happening, I think my first thought when I am about to die will be, "Jesus, finally." But I'm pretty sure my second thought will be, " What an idiot," no matter what the circumstances. Hopefully there won't be time for a third thought. --- See more posts by Alex Balk 0 comments
Talking to Gabe Liedman About A Bunch Of Stuff
Beloved as half of the fantastic comedy duo "Gabe and Jenny" with Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman co-created the amazing New York standup show Big Terrific with Slate and standup Max Silvestri. Though he now lives in LA, I caught up with him...Show More Summary
Rooster Tall
Is this the world's tallest rooster? Sure, why the hell not. --- See more posts by Alex Balk 0 comments
The Best First Sentence Of A Novel This Year (So Far!)
"The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women's Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity, my father decided that there was no choice but for him to quit his despised job and take me...Show More Summary
Working at 30,000 Feet on Your Ultrabook™
"Before I had to be on a flight at least twice a week for work, I’d rather have stared quietly at the seatback in front of me for two hours than muster up the enthusiasm to get anything productive done on an airplane. Now that I’m racking...Show More Summary
How (And Why) My Parents Paid For My College Education
When I was 18, my parents sent me 600 miles away to Northwestern University for a journalism degree worth nearly $200,000. Minus $50,000 in loans and grants, they paid for the whole thing out-of-pocket. I've never understood why. As far as I knew, my family was well-off, but never rich; we had necessities, but rarely luxuries. Show More Summary
What Side Of Your Brain Are You Giving Cancer To?
"A new study suggests that people with left-brain dominance tend to listen to their mobile phones with their right ear, and vice-versa." --- See more posts by Alex Balk 0 comments
The Alien Mysteries of Easter Island
The caption above, selected from a pool of hundreds in the New Yorker's caption contest #378, and then voted to the top of the pile by New Yorker readers, is reasonably witty on the surface, insofar as Cadbury Creme Egg commercials are witty. Show More Summary