Culture

I promise this will not be a blog post beating of a recently deceased horse. The other day my friend Becca e-mailed me an article about the unfortunate collection of student issues that have arisen at Duke University over the past few years. It was ingeniously titled, “The Hazards of Duke” (note: if you include a pun in the title, I will read it). The …

My friend Mark e-mailed around this op-ed by writer Tim Kreider earlier this week. “Brilliant read,” he said. The Referendum(new york times, September 17th) Brilliant read was right. I strongly encourage you to peruse it yourself, but for purposes of maybe-you-have-a-lot-of-work-to-do-at-work-today, it’s about a man’s thoughts on how we personally choose to move through life, and how we view the choices of others relative to …

I developed this fairly well-rehearsed speech right before I moved to L.A. – partly out of necessity, though I only just figured out who exactly needed it. Everyone I encountered wanted to know why I was moving, how I was feeling, and when I’d come to this decision. By the time I was ready to move I’d perfected my lines to the point of answering …

Keeping it simple today with a round-up of interesting tid-bits, news stories, and new sites across the Internets. Miss Dani Rosen is visiting L.A. this week, so I’m otherwise occupied trying to prove that I know where I’m going, and how to park once I get there. The New York Times highlights the trend of niche online dating. – Compatibility is rooted in like interests, …

You may have heard about this “How to be a 20-something” article making its way around the Internets. The source is the blog Thought Catalog, a clean and simple site that publishes essay-style thoughts from accomplished writers across all genres. “How to be a 20-something” is written by Ryan O’Connell – one such 24-year-old, East Village-based contributor whose bio reads like this: Along with creating …

I usually meet articles that pretend to understand the 20-something condition with a little bit of skepticism and a lot of defensiveness. No matter how broad a look they take or how many people our age they interview, it always feels like being shown a picture and told you’re third from the left when you absolutely know you’re third from the right. I’ve developed a …

This month marks the 50th Anniversary of the birth control pill- a fact that feels like remembering that when my Mom was in grammar school there were “white” and “colored” bathrooms. Only 50 years ago all that the pill changes about the way women and men behave, reproductively speaking, took effect. The effects, though, extended far beyond the way women and men behave when speaking …

Every once in awhile I like to provide a little summary of the brilliant, terrifying, hysterical and/or fascinating things I’ve recently found across the world wide web. In editorial speak this is what’s called a “listicle” – as in an article in the format of a list. Yes, I agree that the combination of those two words is ridiculous. Unfortunately, that doesn’t stop me from …

This one might get me in trouble… I’ve been in LA for either 9 or 10 weeks (depending on how subtraction works) and remain in constant assessment of the differences between this town and my former. There’s no shortage of differences. From the work culture (again, stay tuned) and attire (all things are far more casual here) to the hours people keep (it’s more like …