I just want to kill myself when my parents send me forwards like this.
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Reality TV is nothing like looking in from the outside of high society—even the depths of high society.
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Here's surfing: feeling small in the natural world, which is always healthy for the individualistic humanoid; feeling awe, which is tied into feeling small but with the kind of reverence that the atheist can't find in churches and shouldn't find in vague notions of "Eastern mysticism"; or it's a reaffirmation for the believer, in...
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What literary agents do/Vampire PR/Save the Words!/Decision-Making Tips
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"Yeah, you put a little Jagermeister in and you get a little bit of nice Jagermeister out."
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Matt Erickson is counting down his top 100 songs. These are his picks 60 through 56. "Shit! I left the tape recording!"
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The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz is a Pulitzer Prize winning book that teaches you as much about Dominican history and the human condition as it does comic books and funny Spanish swear words. Meant especially for anyone who gravitates towards the rhythms of spoken word or who likes...
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When the more avid lit fan thinks of David Sedaris, they tend to think of writing that floors them with laughter, products of his caustic wit and sophisticated humor, traits that people have started to take for granted in Sedaris’s work, especially when they review his book “Me Talk Pretty One Day” as “his most sidesplitting work...
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Deadly ice cream/Agatha Christie/Harry Potter's sex life/Lady Gaga, camp and drag/Survival guides/Overrated writers/Vitriolic Retorts/Magic 8 Balls/Music for nerds or heroes/Chinese Carrie Underwood/Darwin v. Baramin
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Apparently I never knew the correct spelling of the Berenstain Bears.  I always thought it was “stein.”  My family always pronounced it “stein,” not “stain.” It comes as something of a shock now to find out that those bears were gentiles. I guess it makes sense.  I don’t know any Jews who make all...
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