On I Have Thoughts About Commenting Systems!
Commenter numbers are part of what makes the Awl a fun community. That seems like a good enough reason to keep them around.
Not that I... care about my number or anything.
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On The Tiny Drunk Machine
I don't like this. You would get drunk, and then you would sober up while you were right in the middle of doing the thing you started doing because you got drunk.
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On How to Blow Through Airport Security for Only $100
@Tricia Cannon@facebook I recently had a pair of Levis on that had some little studs on the back pockets? And they swabbed my hands for explosives. That happened. It was fun.
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On Abandoned Listicles Without Commentary, In Order Of How Close They Were To Completion
@scrooge Austin Scarlett has to be before Nietsche.
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On Abandoned Listicles Without Commentary, In Order Of How Close They Were To Completion
I am OFFENDED by this list. Pure poppycock. How dare you not finish Famous Mustaches?
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On A Treasury of the World's Worst Online Dating Stories
He spent one-third of the time telling me about the musical he was writing about raccoons, one-third of the time talking about C++, and one-third of the time demonstrating the plot of Othello using the salt and pepper shakers.
One woman's trash is another woman's treasure.
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On 'Downton Abbey' and Sympathy for the Rich
@ohpioneer Downton Abbey spoilers are, in general, a very big issue on the internet right now.
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On Survey Says! The Complete Online Dating Advice Guide for Men
@Bittersweet "I will never want that wagon wheel coffee table."
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On Some Advice for Young People
In These Uncertain Times, if you do quit your job, be sure to have a well thought-out plan. I quit a job I hated years ago, and I was all, "the universe will provide a path for me" or some Tobias Funke shit like that. LOL, no. You have to make your path. Try to have some pragmatism, is what I'm saying.
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On Robert Hughes, 1938-2012
@laurel YES. And that remains one of my most cherished books.