May 2012
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11 hyperbolic things you could say about Detroit’s... →
“Young people moving to Detroit in droves” is one of my favorite media-created memes. If you you read any national media outlet that covers the movements of new adults, you’ve probably read about the quote-unquote “trend”; Hip, motivated, young people have been re-populating the desolate post-industrial wasteland of Detroit an unlikely pace, buying abandoned homes for nothing, building urban...
On growing up apathetic →
Two things happened on screens that I was looking at in the past few days:
First, I saw the documentary “Inside Job,” which is about how the financial crisis/great recession was caused by the greed of decision-makers at the top of America’s financial institutions, which was enabled by the lax regulatory oversight of our government. The film makes a compelling argument that system has been rigged...
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Did I outgrow all-day shit-show drinking parties? →
Yesterday, in the fair city of San Francisco, on a gloriously warm sunny day, an annual tradition called Bay-to-Breakers was observed by thousands. I don’t know the history of the event, but I will briefly explain its present incarnation, for readers outside of California. At 7:00am, on the third Sunday, the event begins with a 12k footrace on the east side of the city (the bay), which winds...
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Am I too old to get into the Beatles? →
As kids come of age, and get into music, there are all kinds of different paths they take to define their palette as music listeners. Some are influenced by their parents’ musical tastes, which provide the foundation for their nascent musical development. Others follow the lead a cool older sibling, who feed their musical appetites with cassette singles of whatever cool older siblings were...
What’s it like to live in the Yukon? A Q&A with... →
Tom Witte is an old Montreal friend, a Canadian, a savvy drinker and talented raconteur. When I knew Tom, he was a city guy, who knew the best Montreal microbreweries, the fastest bike routes across the city and which weird experimental electronic music shows to go to. Nowadays, Tom is a bushman, having spent the last five odd years in Dawson city (population 2000), deep in the Yukon territory....
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Rapping adulthood: a Q&A with rapper/producer... →
Rapper/singer/producer/adult K.Flay has been garnering a modicum of buzz in Bay Area since graduating from Stanford, but she first really caught our ear with the release of last year’s I Stopped Caring in ’96. The project was an eclectic mix of electro-rap bangers about growing up and individuality, with a small dose of existential despair mixed in. If yr an adult were an FM-radio station in an...
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How to deal with having, like, a ton of back hair →
Holy shit, is Hank really going there? I am, shocked reader, I really am. Some of you will never have to deal with the sprouting of hair in unwanted places. Some of you are only now starting to notice emerging new follicle pastures in the heretofore-bare patches of your adult bodies. And some of you started sprouting early; perhaps a unibrow or thick, lycanthropic zones of hair on your forearms....
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Study shows owning an electric toothbrush makes... →
And by ‘study’, I mean my own personal experience. Background: The electronic toothbrush came of age around the same time we did. Granted, they’ve been around a lot longer than we have. The original electric toothbrush, the Broxodent, was born in 1954, making it a part of our parents generation. However, it never caught on, and in the new millennium, a younger, sleeker, more social, electric...
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6 stickK.com commitments I’m thinking about making... →
stickK is a website, founded a by a couple Yale professors, that helps people reach their goals, usually weight-loss or exercise related. Their method to motivate the unmotivated-able is as old the putting money in the swear-jar; you don’t stick to your commitment, you pay. You can set it up so that if, say, you don’t go to the gym three days out of the week, your credit card gets charged and the...
