I recently learned there’s a name for something I’ve been doing for about twenty years. Whimsy-maxxing! Of course there is. Leave it to the internet to take a perfectly organic personality trait and give it a hashtag. Apparently, whimsy-maxxing is a decor trend where you intentionally add joy […]
I don’t know when my morning commute turned into an armory run, but here we are. Some people find pennies on the sidewalk. Others find feathers, “signs from the universe,” or if they’re especially curated heart-shaped rocks. I, apparently, find weapons. Not metaphorical ones. Actual, honest-to-goodness, sharpened pieces […]
Apparently, somewhere in Spain, a physicist woke up and chose chaos. How so? By proving that humans, across cultures, ages, and continents, cannot for the life of us walk in a straight line. We drift left. Universally. Our feet drift left. Like some subtle, collective lean toward mischief […]
There is a new trend out of South Korea that feels both deeply innovative and slightly existential. They are called dopamine sites. You browse. You select. You add to cart. A courier accepts your order.You can even track the delivery in real time. And then nothing arrives. It […]
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 […]
You really can’t make this stuff up anymore. Or rather, you can, and apparently people are doing so with admirable commitment and a suspicious amount of PowerPoint. This week’s dispatch from the “Is This Real Life or Did I Fall Asleep on the Remote?” files includes a story […]
There is a word (because of course there is a word) for when life doesn’t just happen to you, but slowly organizes against you with your quiet, unknowing participation. It’s called zemblanity. Which sounds like a country you don’t want to vacation in. Or a skincare condition. It […]
It took 15 seconds. Fifteen. Seconds. For a 2-year-old named Cooper to go from “standing near a claw machine” to fully inside the claw machine, living his best life like a tiny, giggling prize no one could win. Toddlers are chaos in human form If you’ve ever spent […]
I would like to begin by saying that I do not endorse eating your coworkers. Let’s just get that out of the way. However. When I read that a female shark in a Seoul aquarium ate a male shark after he repeatedly bumped into her, I felt something […]
There are weeks when the world feels like it’s unraveling at the seams and then, like a fuzzy, lumbering gift from the universe, bigfoot re-enters the group chat. Not since the Minerva Monster sightings have Ohio residents been quite this collectively side-eyeing the woods. And now, just as […]
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