Plus 1 Alternatives
In the event that you were raised in a Newtonian universe, Plus 1 Alternatives is not a euphemism for outsized, it is a euphemism for… Read More
Culture
Pop culture dissection with a rusty scalpel. We have mocked trends, movements, and moments since 2004 because someone needs to tell society it is wearing no clothes. Spoiler: society does not care, but we persist anyway.
Class in American Society
(Class in American Society presents the kind of profiles you’d find in a field guide annotated by a disillusioned anthropologist with a flair for satire… Read More
The Starbucks Ordering Ritual in Four Movements
In a culture starved of significance and drunk on seasonal syrups, there arises a sacred arena–half marketplace, half monastery–where one’s very choice of milk becomes… Read More
Kingslymanship: Or The Subtle Art of Living Up to One’s Name
There exists a peculiar branch of Lifemanship–little studied, rarely mastered–known as Kingslymanship: the lifelong game of appearing equal to the grandeur of one’s own first… Read More
The Twelve Shortest People In US History
History measured not in inches, but in impact, entropy, and the number of DMV employees they have hexed. A surreal, unhinged, and ludicrous archive of… Read More
Five Netflix Shows That Are Better When You’re High
(Because reality is overrated and your snacks aren’t going to eat themselves.) Sweet Tooth … Post-apocalyptic Bambi on ‘shrooms. A gentle, feckless deer-boy wanders through… Read More
Sustenance and the Rise of Gastro-Penance
(✨ The following appeared in County Culture magazine. By a former food columnist who now identifies as an “epicurean confessor.”) Philadelphia has birthed many trends—moral… Read More
Morgan Wallen Secretly Married
Morgan Wallen might have traded in his barstool for a wedding band – at least if the internet’s rumor machine is accurate. Whisper campaigns, blurry… Read More