Leon Saint-Jean
Leon is the fake name of a guy who works in buzzword-buzzword-buzzword. Yet another person who helps people use the magic of technology to sell stupid crap. He also likes to get drunk and claim he has quit smoking, and attempt to cook far fancier dinners than is reasonable to attempt.
On Things I Didn't Get To Eat (Or Drink) At The Great GoogaMooga
@Mr. B - Donald Glover is going to sit on the stoop to talk to everyone on the first day of next year's festival, don't worry.
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On The Great GoogaMooga Aftermath of Subway Hippie Horror
@NotAndersonCooper - I dunno, there were about 45,000 great people doing a very nice thing all at once in Central Park yesterday morning.
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On Frozen Food Critic Disappointed By Garlic Dipping Sauce That Comes With Digiorno Pizza Dipping Strips, For Which He Had Surprisingly High Hopes
Setting matters. Much like one would never review Per Se or Bouchon based on a doggie bag, I find it horrifying that this product is not being reviewed while flipping between Judge Judy and "Brazilian Butt" Infomercials, sort of crying, sort of stoned. The computer toggling between Craiglist job postings and...that incognito window. That is when the flavor of frozen pizza really shines.
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On Privilege Explained
I'm always kind of bummed when I read a good article on straight white male privilege, because I don't have anything to really add to the discussion and I was hoping to get into an interesting intellectual conversation.
I guess the upside of SWM privilege is that, so far, this has been my biggest nuisance of the day.
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On Cilantro Dissidents Identified
It must be weird at the big genetics conference or whatever when Sally is all "Oh, I'm trying to find possible markers for a higher risk of cancer" and Donald, while he munches a celery stick tells Dale that he is working on genetic therapy for Alzheimer's, and Robbie is all "I wanna find out why 1 out of 20 assholes don't like my salsa."
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On Playwright Mediocre
I'm struggling right now to think of anything I thought was brilliant at the age of sixteen which I still think is brilliant at the age of 30, other than maybe making out, The Clash, and smoking a cigarette on long road trips.
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On Two Poems By Megan Amram
these are great, but i'm still demanding audio files.
Also, thank you The Awl for having killer monkeys named after corleones and beautiful poetry on the same day. This makes up for the fact that now I have to go hide the body of a coworker (well, ex-coworker.)
Not the first time I dug a hole. I'll fuckin' dig a hole. Where's more poems?
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On I Have Thoughts About Commenting Systems!
I am aware that this has nothing to do with the commenting system, but could we maybe get the poetry section to sometimes include audio of the poets reading their poems aloud?
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On I Have Thoughts About Commenting Systems!
Also, there should be a system where each month some commenter gets some cheese or a mango or something. Maybe just annually. And random, but no lameasses.
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On Why Can't Nigel Spell?
I've always been unable to properly spell successful. The red squiggly lines always appearing under that word are like some sort of evil devil in the machine, mocking me, as if to say "you are not fit to use this adjective, let alone be described by it."