MEET him on Third and Market at the smoke shop where he works. Barter a handful of sweaty quarters and a shy predatory smile for…
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THE TICKETS were booked in March, back when the idea of summer—leaves on the trees, sun on your skin, sweat trickling down your sides—seemed altogether impossible.…
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PICTURE if you will, a scenario in which you have only been out on a few dates with somebody. There was the “let’s get drinks”…
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A DEAR FRIEND of mine has just gone through a very rough break-up. She alternates between different levels and forms of devastation, and the ways in…
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The Luggage at the Crash Site There were sunflowers in a field Just beyond the crash site Where the red white and blue of…
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SHOCK ME, shock me, shock me with that deviant, or rather, totally absurd behavior. Because a recent study published in the journal Science found that most…
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TO BE a freelance writer is not all cool, calm, and collecting checks. To succeed you need Drive (like Ryan Gosling), old-fashioned American Hustle (like Jennifer…
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EARLIER this month, Jen broke the news that she was kicking her candy habit (for a couple of days, at least) and had made the drastic…
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I WANT a good one who looks bad. That’s what I said to my mother as she passed me a napkin and knife with a laugh…
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IT starts innocently enough. You engage with a stranger in the comment section of a website about whether Tom Selleck is good at Ultimate Frisbee…
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JULY 2ND marked the very middle of 2014. Yep, as scary as that sounds, we’re halfway through the year already. My first thought when I…
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Warning: Do not read on your lunch break. You may throw up. Last June, VICE ran a piece on “rosebud,” a recent trend in mainstream adult…
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