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The Undead Will Always Be There For You
Enter DayZ, the ultimate zombie survival horror game, which is unlike every other zombie survival horror game.
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The First Names of Every Tom Cruise Role
Or how to name your white, male baby.
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Recommendations, 4/26
This week: improv comedy, underrated period films, comparing NBA players to obscure Playstation games.
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Andrew Johnson, or How I Put Myself Back Together
Sometimes the cure for heartbreak is the biography of a disgraced president.
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An Illustrated Guide to Louis Armstrong’s House
The Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens, New York preserves the tricked out domestic trappings of one of America’s most influential jazz musicians.
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Call Girl: What I Learned During My Year as a Customer Service Representative
“If you think you’re talking to an expert when you call a customer service center, you’re probably not.”
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The Cruelest Month: Reading William Wordsworth
Can a poetry skeptic appreciate the most dreaded of all verse: a high school English classic?
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How Arrested Development Saved My Relationship
If there’s no I in Teamocil, then there’s no I in “long-distance relationship.”
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Plan B From Outer Space: Touched Screen
The first installment in a new serial time-travel romance. This one involves a sex tablet.
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Close Up: Georgia Webber
Comics artist Georgia Webber talks about crowd-funding her comic series DUMB, her process, and being unable to talk for six months.
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Rhetorical Wrestling
Little-known fact: the first wrestlers modeled their moves on Greek rhetorical devices.
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The Cruelest Month: Reading Frank O’Hara
For National Poetry Month (and to celebrate Mad Men‘s return), editors Darryl and Jonathan discuss a poem by Frank O’Hara.
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Recommendations, 4/12
This week, our staff suggests new comics, Kickstarter’d magazines, and the practicality of life-size replicas of science-fiction spaceships.
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Does Give Up Hold Up?
The Postal Service’s Give Up is ten years old. How does the album sound today?
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The Six Months I Worked in a Brothel
Prostitution is legal in Canada, but working as a booking girl isn’t.
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Manic Pixel Dream Girl, Part 3
What happens when you take the games away from a gamer?
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The Cruelest Month: On Being a Failed Poet
For one afternoon long ago, Jonathan Gourlay was a poetic genius.
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Mad Women
It’s been 50 years since the time of Mad Men. How are today’s Peggy Olsons faring?
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This Is a Public Safety Announcement from the MTA
“Please do not use any kind of vacuuming device to suck up items that may have fallen on the track. Please do not give such devices vulgar nicknames.”
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Meme of Thrones
Game of Thrones owes much of its success to George R.R. Martin’s image macro-ready language.
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For All I Know About You
Would you want to know your Craigslist roommate’s deepest, darkest secret? Or are these things better left unsaid?
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The Cruelest Month: Introducing the Reluctant Reader
What better way to celebrate National Poetry Month than making someone who doesn’t like poetry read a lot of poetry?
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Recommendations, 3/29
This week, we love classic samurai movies, boy bands, roast chicken, and sock garters.
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To Infinity and Beyond
Or how a ten-hour loop of Daft Punk signals the coming post-scarcity economy.
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Uneasy Rider
Traffic in Vietnam’s capital is a chaotic mess of strange, haphazard beauty.
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Tiny Brad Pitt
“Angelina took the kids, yeah. She said it was for my safety, she was worried one of them was going to put me up their nose or sit on me.”
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How I Fleeced a Little Kid Out of the Hottest New Magic: The Gathering Card
Step 1: Find awesome wizard in booster back. Step 2: Show awesome wizard to nerd child. Step 3: Profit!
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The Circle of Life
“All things die. Your grandmother, she’s going to die. Soon. All your friends? Dead, eventually.”
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Killing It: A Defense of The Walking Dead
Why have critics turned on one of television’s most ambitious series?
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Is the Harlem Shake Offensive?
The Harlem Shake and the dangers of cultural appropriation.