We do not deserve the magnolia tree. It is too beautiful; we are too wicked. Its trunk and twisting branches are pleasant to behold even when bare and covered in snow, and its springtime buds build anticipation for new life — love, happiness, warmth. Its blooms, of various colors and shapes depending on the species, […]
I Think About This a Lot is a series dedicated to private memes: images, videos, and other random trivia we are doomed to play forever on loop in our minds. When I was 13, I was obsessed with the end of the world. This wasn’t just because I was a miserable teen with one large eyebrow […]
The month was August; the year, 2017. Taylor Swift’s Instagram had been wiped clean, and suddenly, cryptic snake videos began to pop up. Some wondered if she was merely reclaiming snakes after her social accounts were bombarded by detractors commenting with reptile emojis around the time of her feud with Kim Kardashian West and Kanye […]
Two years ago, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie dropped a bombshell: the Hollywood power couple was splitting up after two years of marriage but roughly 12 years together. What followed were months of back and forth between the (former) couple in the press. There were leaks about custody battles and Pitt’s reported drinking and weed […]
“I remember picking up the phone and telling my friends, ‘I did something crazy — but let’s do it together,’ ” says artist Izhar Patkin. This was 1994, and he had hastily put a down payment on an abandoned East Village public school that was newly up for sale. It took some convincing, but Patkin assembled […]
If you’ve made it all the way to season eight of Game of Thrones, then you know by now that there’s a level of violence and gore to be expected. Still, there was one moment in last night’s premiere episode wherein my husband Tormund Giantsbane and my other husband Beric Dondarrion stumbled upon a particularly […]
A fire has broken out at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris Pictures and video emerged Thursday showing smoke billowing from the medieval Catholic cathedral. Firefighters in France confirmed the blaze to Reuters. The cause of the fire was not immediately clear, but officials suggested to the BBC that it could be related to renovation work. […]
Zara Barrie, 32, a writer, editor at GO magazine, and self-described “mascara lesbian,” thought she’d never get married. But after she met Meghan Dziuma, 39, head of creative brand experience at Samsung, she started to rethink her plans. Less than two years later, Meghan proposed on Zara’s weekly Facebook live show, in front of thousands […]
If there’s one thing that really gets my goat, personally, it’s being “punked” by my own words, “pranked” by having the things I said reproduced verbatim, online, in full context, so that I can then be clowned and held accountable for them. Like … wow? Okay. So, I understand what American Psycho author Bret Easton […]
Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar says she has received an increase in death threats against her since President Trump tweeted a misleading video of comments she made at the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) last month, juxtaposed with images of the September 11th attacks. “Since the President’s tweet Friday evening, I have experienced an increase in […]