Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.
Once people decide they want you to do something, they don't really care what your qualifications are.
Nothing can be appreciated in a vacuum.
Nora Ephron accidentally ruined a lot of lives.
Leadership is a word people use to reconcile any kind of charisma that was impossible to otherwise explain.
It will come to be seen as the persecution of a culture. This makes football akin to the Confederate flag, or Christmas decorations in public spaces, or taxpayer-supported art depicting Jesus in a tan...
Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.
If you aspire to be truly open-minded, you can’t just try to see the other side of an argument. That’s not enough. You have to go all the way.
But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.
As recently as the grunge era, there remained a bohemian cachet in casually mentioning that you didn’t own a TV. But nobody thinks like that anymore. Today, claiming you don’t own a TV simply means yo...
And when they finally demanded that I had to stop keeping score and that I needed to play every future contest as an exhibition, I casually made the kind of statement sixteen-year-olds should not make...
And if something is only itself, it doesn't particularly matter.
Machine powering the modern world is too complicated for the average person to fix or calibrate. And they know this. This is what makes an IT guy different from you. He might make less money, he might...
[...] outlining how certain fans of ’NSYNC like to imagine Justin Timber lake getting fisted by Lance Bass. Glenn Dixon surmised that much of the Contemporary Christian genre is driven by artists who...
Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless… I never have any idea how other people feel; they always appear fine to me. But if somebody had pointedly played Pat Benatar’s Love is a Battlef...
Within these strangely specific conditions, everything is perfect. We are perfect.
What are the things that make adults depressed? The master list is too comprehensive to quantify (plane crashes, unemployment, killer bees, impotence, Stringer Bell's murder, gambling addictions, crib...
We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.
There are things we cannot control about ourselves. One of these things is the degree to which we find something to be funny. It
The past has happened, and it can only happen the way it happened.