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‘In the middle of a desert of boredom, an oasis of horror.’ — BaudelaireNovember 28

Let’s say you took a baby and insulated the kid from all knowledge of advertised products for the first twenty years of life. Somehow the person still walks through daily life on an otherwise normal basis, it is just that the kid cannot see, hear, or feel the ads. The kid also can’t ask his [...]

This journey to the center of your heartNovember 28

General “Buck” Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn’t that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned? Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to [...]

I never meant to buy such an enormous tamponNovember 28

For years we’ve been reading about a patch of garbage the size of Texas floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ingeniously dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Basically, any trash that gets dumped in the water rides the currents to this one spot and joins an ever-increasing flotilla of crap. { Vice | Continue [...]

Down a long lonely road I’ve been cryin’November 28

{ Tom Dale, Western Negative, 2007 | TV Broadcast monitor/still image burned into screen of monitor }

Looking for love at a speed-dating event may leave you feeling unlovableNovember 28

Earlier this year, Lynda Boothroyd of the University of Durham, UK, and colleagues published a study showing that the majority of men and women were able to accurately judge whether a person would be a good bet for a committed relationship or were more interested in a fling, just by looking at a photograph of [...]