Jordan Carr
Most Recently: On That Terrible TV Show About Girls Having Sad Sex!
I'm a reporter for The Awl. I am a native of the Bay Area--an alumnus of Woodside High School--and a student at Stanford studying Political Science and History. I am a former writer for the Stanford Daily, and has served as both a staff writer and as the blog editor for the Stanford Review. I'm interested in cultural goings-on, sports and competitions of all kinds, books, movies, music and general good times. I am left-handed. Email me at jordan@theawl.com with comments, questions, suggestions or riddles.
On That Terrible TV Show About Girls Having Sad Sex!
I hate to be the 8-millionth person to jump on the bandwagon, but we need to talk about that show about young women on TV! In it, a group of young women have awful, degrading sexual relations due to their economic circumstances, and try to convince themselves that it’s anything but degrading. The characters are desperately struggling to make ends meet, but nearly every problem can be solved with a man ejaculating to an incongruous indie music soundtrack. And our heroine, with her back against the wall and not a dollar to her name, does what any woman in her situation would: get a job at a sensual massage parlor and start handjobbin’ so her kids can have Christmas and/or a house to have Christmas in. Right. We are not talking about "Girls," though we will have to talk about "Girls." READ MORE
Where's the Ground Zero Terror Mosque? 39 Experts Explain!
39. "three blocks from the Ground Zero site in New York" – John Nichols READ MORE
Their Eyes Were Watching Porn
Considering that you are on the Internet right now, the odds are that, if you're not in an open-plan office, either your previous or next visit will be to a porn site. And when you do so, you may do it in your browser's "privacy mode," in order to cover your digital footsteps. But maybe you should hold off for a minute on that. A very important new study explains that the authors "show that many popular browser extensions and plugins undermine the security of private browsing." The long and the short of it? If you are on the internet looking at porn, you are not safe. And worse, the study details exactly what portion of you people in private browsing are looking at porn. With bar graphs. We spoke to an author of the study to get more vital information about porn safety. READ MORE
A Brief Tour Of Defenseless Ground Zero
When it comes to the Cordoba House / Park 51 project, better known as GROUND ZERO TERROR MOSQUE, it really is not worth discussing with people down in Lower Manhattan. That is because they do not really want to talk about it. READ MORE
How to Cheat and Plagiarize Your Way Through College
I think for a while we've all had a sense that there was a problem in our schools. Poor test scores, failing public schools, achievement gaps, all that bad stuff. We know that the Internet has made it impossible for young Americans, people barely eligible to vote while playing the lottery in a strip club, to "grasp that using words they did not write is a serious misdeed." In other words, we are not good at cheating anymore. READ MORE
Let's Meet 'Charlie St. Cloud' Author Ben Sherwood All Over Again
If you've been out and about lately, or even if you've stayed in-you really can't hide from this-you've probably noticed a media blitzkrieg for something called Charlie St. Cloud. But before it was a movie, it was a novel. Originally titled The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud, any copies you find of it now will likely be of the NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE variety and have Zac Efron dreamboating the hell out of the cover. READ MORE
Why Doesn't Barack Obama Wear Shorts?
Barack Obama just about never wears shorts. So far as I can tell, there were two instances at a beach in Hawaii, one time when he went golfing, and another when he was playing basketball, that he has been photographed wearing shorts. (And yes, "board shorts" are swimsuits and they don't count.) READ MORE
Ernest Hemingway Stories As Told By George Plimpton
Since we're talking about Ernest Hemingway today, as it would be his birthday-here are a few stories from George "And a hot plate!" Plimpton about the man. READ MORE
