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WCW: let’s celebrate Kate (woman crushing with a purpose)

Posted on February 19, 2015

Ehhhh, so what if I’m a day late? Let’s break the rules! Take the hashtags to the blogs! Celebrate #WCW twelve hours late! It’s Woman Crush Wednesday…. On Thursday morning! Ya know, what makes fantasy fodder so much fun is the same thing Hugh Hefner experiences IRL and Matt Mac’s character eloquently explains in “Dazed and Confused”: “I get older and they stay the same age.” That means that as.. Read More

You spin me right round like a wrecked-car, baby.

Posted on February 19, 2015

I’m in love with this prank… (Thanks dude at 2:11 for bringing my lockjaw back with your goddamned infectious cackle) …but I have to wonder: what in the world possessed these dudes to get in the car with a perfect stranger? I tend to think it’s that poorly executed flow of convo that happens when people who are kinda nervous and maybe kinda into themselves go on a first date.. Read More

How d’ya survive a 21 day ab challenge? Put your trainer and time on mute.

Posted on February 19, 2015

I caught myself saying that annoying thing the other day. “I wish I had a tighter tummy…” Not out loud – mind you. Can’t let my entourage that doesn’t exist think for even a second that my self-confidence is wavering whatsoever. Rather, it was one of those annoying self-talk things that speaks to you in such a subconscious whisper that it makes your brow furrow in discontent and your breathing.. Read More

This tile job is money

Posted on February 19, 2015

Can you guess what this tiling is made out of? None other than honest Abe himself. Indeed, every last little speck of this “tile” is made out of pennies – the shinier ones making up that cool little center border and the other shittier ones interspersed with each other to create a kind of bronze-y looking Heinz 57 variety of copper coloring. It was initiated by this guy and his.. Read More

What “fake it till you make it” really means for the mentally-tough confused

Posted on February 19, 2015

Ah, Psych Today delivers again. And this time it’s with a refreshing take on this whole “mental toughness” deal I touched on a few days ago. In that last article (speaking on that OG viral piece about what mentally tough people don’t do), I was a bit annoyed with the negative language and how little the author brought in the more human elements and tendencies to her advice. While I.. Read More

Dict-claimer

Posted on February 19, 2015

Irony is fun – but only when people “get it”. Herein lies a problem I’d like to address here and now. Trendy articles of language are a fantastic means to foster your ironic style; but if you’re chronically sardonic like myself, then that means you may employ the genre of words-born-on-the-web terminology a good deal. And that means those who don’t know you, can’t literally hear the sludgy sarcasm dripping.. Read More

Is food-reducing the fountain of youth?

Posted on February 16, 2015

Not long ago, I wrote about how detoxes are alright – if you do ‘em naturally. They’re a waste of money when you fork out a buncha funds to buy them which you could instead be acquiring electronics and lattes with. Why? Because you can basically just mimic the same effect by doing a fast-lite thing on your own. Though I argued the selling of it is just as bad.. Read More

If I ever relapse, it’ll be on something like this…

Posted on February 16, 2015

Though I’m living a clean life, I still get curious about mind-altering substances. Funny thing is, though, in my past they’d have been the subduing sorta stuff – the anxiety reducers, the sedatives, the things that wrap you up in a nice emotional fleece and tell you the lie that everything’s alright even though you’re failing to meet life or any of your goals halfway while half a decade passes.. Read More

Got life-hack advice? Then put it in plus-sign terms, ya negative Nancy.

Posted on February 16, 2015

I’m mentally mixed over this “mentally strong” article I’ve seen a few times now. The author of it’s this psychotherapist who went through hardship (just like the rest of us) and came out of it with fodder for a book that’s made her a lotta money. As the book’s been selling, however, the Cliffs Notes version of it has been circulating through my social media feeds with the top 13.. Read More

Does winning the lotto make you as unhappy as it makes me that I didn’t?

Posted on February 16, 2015

Now that a person who won millions of dollars just made news, it’s time to start comparing our smile-ometers. Ya know, so that we can carry on living without murdering ourselves spontaneously for being poor. So let’s consult the retro-experts on jackpot happiness: “Levels of overall happiness spiked upon winning, but returned to normal levels within a few months, and that long-term happiness for winners wasn’t significantly different from those.. Read More