So apparently, we’ve decided death needed a software update. Enter the “grief bot.” An AI-powered, eerily chipper digital version of your dead loved one which is ready to text you back, remember your birthday, and maybe even say the things they never quite managed to say while alive. […]
Researchers have discovered something deeply comforting about human connection. We don’t actually bond over shared values, hopes, or dreams. No no. We bond over what we can’t stand. This explains a lot. You’re at a party. You could try to ask someone “What brings you joy?” Or you […]
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” There’s something almost quietly defiant about that line from Maya Angelou. Not loud. Not performative. Just steady. Because let’s be honest, defeat shows up. Regularly. Uninvited. Sometimes dressed as rejection, sometimes as loss, sometimes as the slow […]
There is a very specific kind of existential betrayal that happens sometime between 1:12 a.m. and “I definitely didn’t mean to fall asleep.” You’re watching a show.Something dependable. Structured. Predictable. Let’s say Law & Order. There are rules here: 1. There is a crime2. There are detectives3. There […]
New York is on fire. Not the chaotic, sirens-in-the-distance kind. But the electric, collective heartbeat of a city that has waited. And waited. And waited. And now? The Knicks are champions. This wasn’t a story of dominance. It was a story of claw-backs. Of almosts. Of “are we […]
I watched yet another true crime documentary this week, which is starting to feel less like a casual viewing choice and more like a personality trait. This time it was The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story on Hulu. Three parts. And like so many of these […]
There is something deliciously cinematic about a 21-year-old university student casually stepping in to play piano for La La Land in Concert when the scheduled pianist falls ill. I mean, of course it happened during La La Land. Of course. Life sometimes has the subtlety of a Broadway […]
At approximately 2:00 a.m., which, clinically speaking, is the hour when good decisions go to die, a group of six individuals reportedly emerged from a manhole in Brooklyn. Let me repeat that. They didn’t open the manhole and go down. They came up. Like a plot twist.Like a […]
I recently fell down a very specific internet rabbit hole, courtesy of a quick, suspiciously casual blurb about something called “alpine divorce.” The premise? One partner takes the other on a scenic hike and gently (or not so gently) bumps them off a cliff. We’ll, dumps them. Let […]
And just like that May is over. My birthday month. My personal New Year. My annual, slightly delusional belief that the universe revolves, briefly but meaningfully, around me. May, you were glorious. You showed up like a main character that was blossoming, dramatic and slightly unhinged in your […]
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