On Leave Terrence Malick Alone
@Tray Tray@twitter So cute to misspell someone's name while you're saying she's the stupid one!
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On 'Bridesmaids': Am I Doing Being A Woman Wrong?
@melis Anna Faris makes her own career decisions. Nobody forced her to be in The House Bunny or Observe and Report. I'm so sick of her being fawned over as the future of women in comedy, when she seems to care a lot less about the harmful message her roles send than someone like Maya Rudolph.
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On My Five-Part Plan For Fixing New York's Bike Problem
@City_Dater Yeah, agreed. I think the common law of transportation courtesy should be to be mindful of things that are smaller than you are: trucks should watch out for cars, cars should watch out for bikes, bikes should watch out for pedestrians, pedestrians should watch out for puppies. (Oh, and do I ever!)
I walk to work every single day, which is actually the single eco-friendliest option, and every time I have the right of way to cross an intersection, I have to wait for all the fixed-gear jerks who are crossing illegally and can't be bothered to slow down.
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On Bolt Bus v. Fung Wah: Which Cheap Bus To Boston Is Least Annoying?
It's actually easy peasy to become an A rider; you just go through the free registration on Bolt Bus's website and remember to log in before buying tickets. You also gain punches on a like virtual punch card thing and eventually can get a free ride. I used to be a C and those were dark days!
I am a Bolt Bus devotee, but I am also a Philadelphia to NY person, so the ride's only half as long.
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On How To Split A Check At A Restaurant
Does anyone have any advice for what to do when eating with That Person? It's always just a couple more bucks he/she needs to put in, so it sounds petty and Dinner Police to ask him/her to put more in, but also like, shit adds up.
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On Whiskey In A Juice Box?
Wine in a juicebox exists already! The pinot grigio is pretty decent, and the one-liter serving (about $9 at the liquor store near my apartment?) contains one-and-one-third times as much wine as a bottle does. They are great for when you are planning to go to a movie with one other person.
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On How Scratch-Off Lottery Tickets Have (Not Yet) Changed My Life
This was really beautifully written! I hope you win soon.
As for anecdotes, a childhood friend won something like $10K on a scratch-off her parents gave her when she was five years old; they invested the money for her and it ended up financing a decent chunk of her college education.
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On Five Years in New York: To the Class of 2010 from the Class of 2005
Thank you very much for writing this! For a class-of-10er, it has been a rough six months on the internet -- people are telling us to leave New York all the time! (Sometimes on this very blog, and sometimes forcefully.) This was lovely to read, and not only by comparison.
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On The 45 Greatest Teen Titles You Have Never Heard of From the Era When They All Mentioned "I," "Me," "You" or Some Other Key Person That Are Not 'Are You There God? It's Me Margaret'
Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush? was a good one. Also, Adorable Sunday, which was about a teen model whose teen-model friend tried to kill herself Virginia Woolf-style when she developed acne. Reading it was the first time I ever heard of Virginia Woolf!
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On The Five Stages Of Grief, In Order Of Persistence And Intensity
This is clearly just alphabetical