April 2012
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What am I doing wrong? An interview with Dr. Meg... →
Nothing I’ve written about in yr an adult has freaked me out as much as a little link I posted to New York Times op-ed by Dr. Meg Jay, about how moving in with your significant other (without a marriage commitment) is a bad idea. Dr. Jay is a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Virginia, who specializes in twentysomethings and recently published “THE DEFINING DECADE WHY YOUR...
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What’s the deal with this ‘Summer Commune’ thing?... →
Joshua Heller is a writer, humorist and internet-meme-maker, based out of Southern Calfornia. Heller is currently working on his most IRL-based project yet, helping to coordinate “Summer Commune” , what is described as a “temporary, intentional community”, sort of a cross between adult life and a summer camp (Heller refrained from calling himself the “Leader” of the project, as it is, in his...
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Wait, should I go to grad school?: a discussion... →
Like many new adults, adrift in a sea of undesirable career options ,with a lack of firm real-world skills, you may have asked yourself, “Wait, should I go to grad school?” We know that we have, usually while toiling away at our dayjobs, and so we decided to ask people who are actually in grad school, what it’s actually like. First up is Allison Davis, an old friend, who left a successful career...
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14 things you could say about HBO’s ‘Girls’ (if... →
I really didn’t want to write a “thinkpiece” about TV’s latest internet meme, HBO’s new comedy series Girls,which has been over-exposed in the blogosphere while underexposed in real-life. However, the idea of the show, about four early-twentysomething women in Brooklyn, has clearly struck a nerve with people who write about things on the internet. And being one of those people, I reluctantly admit...
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Quote of the Day →
“I think that the number one thing that I didn’t understand when I was younger was that everything would change constantly. I think there was this misconception that the moment is forever and therefore when things weren’t going well, I was just in a state of active despair and I feel like I suffered more than I needed to during years when, in fact, I was unfettered and should have been having the...
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3 Ways to Get a Job With a Humanities Degree →
via @policymic
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10 rules for visiting your significant other’s... →
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Why can’t you be more like this guy: David Simon,... →
I found out this morning that one of the most exemplary writers and journalists of our time has decided to open up his laptop and produce a thoughtful (though infrequently updated) weblog, titled “The Audacity of Despair.” The writer I’m referring to is, of course, David Simon, who is best known as the creator and show-runner of The Wire, a show that has already entered the cultural canon as one...
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Recent discovery: the ability to buy comic books... →
One of the very first posts I wrote for yr an adult, before I even knew that, literally, hundreds of people (I know! Hundreds!) might be interested in reading what I had to say about how weird I think adulthood is, was about my recently returned love of buying comic books. If you weren’t with me since the beginning (don’t worry, that doesn’t make you a poser), I’ll summarize: I’m dork, I like...
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A complete inventory of things I thought about... →
My girlfriend and I don’t fight very often, and when we do, it’s either about whether or not I’m using sarcasm appropriately (which I take EXTREMELY seriously) or about how often we should clean our apartment (which I rarely ever think about, unless forced). This last weekend, several days out from our last big argument, where we bickered about exactly how gross our bathroom was, exactly how often...
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Does ‘Party Down’ get adulthood right? →
Does this get adulthood?’ right is a blog series where a yr an adult writer watches or re-watches or reads a cultural work about adulthood and consider whether it’s depiction of adulthood is reflective of real life.
What’s the thing called? Party Down
When was the thing made? The show consisted of two ten-episode seasons produced between 2009 and 2010 and ran on the Starz premium cable network.
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Interview with Marley Marotta, co-founder of... →
by Henry Goldman
A while back, my old hometown friend Marley Marotta, and a couple of his friends started a business, on a lark, that makes furry hood-slash-scarves, called “Spirithoods.” When I, like most people I know, first heard about it, we were like, “That’s a business?” Well, apparently it is, as the brand has blown up, turning from what was essentially a side project into a full-time job....
Stay cool: 10 rules to follow with all your... →
by Abbe Ertel Magid
So the main problem with getting older is that a lot of people tend to get way less cool. We all know about it and fear that it can “happen” to us. In contrast to these types though, we also all know a handful of people who defy the odds and actually get cooler as they age. These are some of the things they do, which you can do, too, if that’s something you’re into.
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Ok, so I guess we’ll be the “Couchella” generation →
by Henry Goldman
Well, I’ve already gone on the record as not being interested in going to Coachella, not because the lineup of bands wasn’t exciting but because I wasn’t interested in the discomforts involved in the crowds, heat, overpriced food, lines for port-a-potties, mobs waiting to get on shuttles back to the expensive motel/condo and general fatigue involved with spending 8 hours a day...
Andrew Brown invites people to his birthday, like... →
In our older age, nothing is more demoralizing than not having people show up to help you celebrate your birthday. What. That was hyperbole. There’s a whole ton of things that are more demoralizing; vaving your less talented peers make way more money than you, clearly not being good at the thing you most want to do, the 40% chance (according to Nate Silver) that Mitt Romney might be the next...
ATTN: commitment-phobic future boyfriends – I’m... →
by Irina Katz
For the past five years, I’ve been convinced that I was a succubus, only existing to slowly ruin my boyfriends’ fun and dreams. Here’s how that happened.
I moved to Manhattan in 2006, freshly excited to start a whole new life where I could do whatever I wanted. I was 23 and I was ready to have fun. I spent my first year of living in New York seeing as many sites and smoking as much...
Things I feel entitled to for my next fulltime job →
by Henry Goldman
Since leaving my production company last year, I haven’t had anything approaching a full-time gig. I’ve had quite a bit of very fun freelance work, I’ve traveled and I’ve gotten to work on my own things, which has all been pretty great. However, the fact is slowly dawning on me that I may, someday in the not too distant future, need to go back and get another fulltime job.
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Come visit the all new yranadult.com!!!
Hey tumblr fans, wanted to let you guys know that from today on, we’re going to no longer be using tumblr as the primary domain for yr an adult. We’ve officially transitioned to yranadult.com!!!!
We still love tumblr, and love the community and our (literally) dozens of followers, but, as you’ll be able to tell from our new site, tumblr was a little too limited in terms of...
A few reasons why you're too old to 'sext' anyone →
A couple years ago, when news stories of the kids these days, with they’re newfangled camera phones, texting each other grainy pictures of their bits and pieces, taken with their cell phone cameras, I was like, “Yeah, that’s not reeeaaallly a thing.” I just thought it was one of those things that happen a couple times and then the media blew it out of proportion. To quote The Roots song, ‘Rising...
New York City's parents are fucking children →
Like most performers who’ve made their way in the big city, I’ve had many side jobs. While the majority of my peers seem to wait tables, I prefer dealing with whiny children as opposedto whiny adults. I babysit.
I’m the eldest (isn’t ‘eldest’ much more prestigious than ‘oldest’?) of three and my mother worked providing child-care, so it comes naturally. I’m excellent at imagination games and...
10 rules for visiting your superhome →
These are rules to follow when you go home to your childhood birthplace or where you pretty much grew up or as some put, it your “superhome”. My father is hacking and coughing in the background as I write this because, yes, he is turning 70 and yes, that’s what they do. If/when you are coerced into visiting your parents I find these things to be very helpful. Not kidding he’s still coughing and he...
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Obscure buzzbands are terrible for dance parties...
by Emily Pinkerton
Not too many years ago, I was what you might call a pretentious music snob. I bought imported vinyl from new bands, and out-of-print pressings from those long disbanded (Modern Lovers b-sides, anyone?) Not only did I DJ at my college radio, I had the top listenership. And I was on the board of directors.
I took great pride in knowing more about music than any of my friends....
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On being held hostage by the highest rent in the...
by Henry Goldman
A couple weeks ago, news stories started to come out around a report that announced that San Francisco, the fair city where I’ve live for the past four years, has the highest rent in the country. No one I know was shocked or even surprised. First of all, San Francisco is (arguably) one of the most livable cities in North America. Our fair burg boasts beautiful...
