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tweenage wasteland
Next Generation Of Hollywood Starlets Is Starting Very Young
A recent post on ONTD begins, "This is exactly what you think it is: Miley's sista." Right. The taller one with the darker hair is Noah "Noie" Cyrus. On a red carpet. In a swimsuit. Noie was born June 14, 1999. She is nine. The caption on these photos reads: [Jezebel] -
trends
Today Investigates High School Hug Madness
Oh, good, Today covered the teenage hug menace. "High school hugging has turned into a cultural phenomenon, studied by sociologists, and written about in The New York Times." A phenomenon studied by bullshit pseudo-scientists and written up as a trend in the Times? Hugs are the new hipster farms! More »
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By PareeneComment by Richard Lawson: So the ideal America would be a place where no one ever touches or looks at each other or likes... 15 Responses | Other threads
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hugs!
The Lamest Teen Moral Panic Ever
In the good old days of the culture wars, your teenagers, after years of being raped by Satanist daycare workers, were all organizing "Rainbow Parties" and smoking weed three times more powerful than the stuff you smoked all the time in high school. Now they are just hugging?
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By PareeneComment by misslinda: I would have never survived high school circa 2009. I find hugging unnecessary when a wave or a simple "hey"... 11 Responses | Other threads
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kids today
What Do Rich Kids Want to Do With Themselves, These Days?
Vanity Fair asked that pressing question, and they all want to GIVE BACK and BE CREATIVE ARTISTS, even though artists are all leeches, obv. More »
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By PareeneComment by Mount_Prion: Heirheads? Sorry! It's almost the end of the week, I'm running on fumes. 8 Responses | Other threads
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kids today
So Let's All Hate This Kid Now
Hey, New York wants you to know about this little budding interior designer kid, a senior at Drew College out in Jersey. He is a treat, if you're into really precocious youngsters. And aren't we? More »
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By PareeneComment by i'm a bottle: God, who wasn't utterly pretentious in college, in one way or another? -- Be it our hipsterish-ironic taste in music,... 7 Responses | Other threads
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coachella
Coachella: An Illustrated Nightmare
This weekend, a bunch of lame kids saw a bunch of lame bands (and a couple good ones) out in the desert. We thought we'd try to figure out what the deal is with a little trip through Flickr. More »
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By PareeneComment by pmarble: Coachella is awesome. If you haven't ever been to it, you have precisely no basis on which to judge. 10 Responses | Other threads
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bullies
Judith Warner: Calling Kids 'Gay' Has Nothing To Do With Gays
Times internet family columnist Judith Warner has determined that when kids call other kids "gay" or "fag" they are actually enforcing outdated codes of masculinity, not actually accusing that kid of being a homosexual. More »
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By PareeneComment by Wrapitup: Very interesting. Also I just learned that all the people who keep calling me a 'fucking asshole' don't actually believe... 9 Responses | Other threads
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family feud
Palin Camp Accuses Levi of Acting Like Sarah Palin
Do you like irony? Sure, we all do! Here is a statement Sarah Palin's flack gave to People regarding the recent Tyra appearance by campaign prop and real-life boy Levi Johnston. More »
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By PareeneComment by morninggloria: I can't say I blame Bristol for wanting a piece of Levi. He's quite a strapping young lad. The Gaston... 5 Responses | Other threads
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kids today
Littlest Entrepreneur Tanner Leuellen Gives Us Hope for Future
CNN anchorlady Tamron Hall just goes bonkers in this clip of 8-year-old businesskid Tanner Leuellen, who patrolled the halls of a Chicago trade show looking for a job as "apprentice creator." More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Baroness: Wow, it really is a Depression, people. Look for modern Shirley Temples and Lil Rascals soon. Maybe when adults... 5 Responses | Other threads
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politics
That 13-Year-Old Conservative Pundit? Already A Kingmaker
Remember the name "Jonathan Krohn." At the 13-year-old's apparent rate of mental development, he'll soon move on from speaking at a conservative convention to launching the next National Review or Fox News. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by theMoJo: I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop and for him to do the inevitable GOP thing: Get caught having perverted... 8 Responses | Other threads
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kids today
Being a Conservative Pundit Is So Easy, Even a 13-Year-Old Could Do It
Meet Jonathan Krohn, age 13. He spoke at the Republican orgy-fest CPAC today. He wanted to show that he is just at good at spouting nonsense as your average Fox News guest. He'll go far!
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Comment by uninspired: In five years, this kid is the basis for the villain in every college movie...the president of the Young Republicans/Tight-Ass... 3 Responses | Other threads
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school daze
Let Us Consider The NYU Twerps
What leads kids from urban-suburban/indie music settings to get their SDS on and "take over" a cafeteria with a list of demands? Should we mock them, or pity them? Well, we should mock them, yes.
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By PareeneComment by PrettyNotPretty: I'm as mocking as the rest of you all, but frankly, I only met one person in my 4 years... 26 Responses | Other threads
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politics
Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
Hey, an Onion story came true. All these kids who became activists this year and spent hours volunteering to get Barack Obama elected? Now they have no purpose in life, and they are confused and adrift. 13 million email addresses and hundreds of thousands of trained volunteers, and nothing for them to do. These kids were trained in activism by political campaign, and post-election, the campaign has no use for them. Sad, really. Community organizers are disappointed. More »
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By PareeneComment by drinkyrose: Oh, Parnee! You've broken the lost 31st commandment! Thou shalt not poke fun at Obama or his Historic Campaign. You may... 5 Responses | Other threads
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kids today
New Rose Kennedy Schlossberg Photos Tell Shocking Tale Of Smoking, Drinking, Famous College Student
Two whole years have hurried their way by since last we saw "scandalous" images of Rose Kennedy Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of John Fitzgerald. Back in 2006, our former sister site Wonkette posted wine 'n hookah partaking photos of the then-18, Obama-supporting Harvard student (hello, past Pareene!) Now, in the still of the afternoon, someone has sent us more photos, from sources unknown! In which the heiress to the great mantle of the American Democratic Party gets jiggy in various poses! Some are dated from two years ago, others are not dated at all. Cobble together your own timeline, as we've gone against Luke Russert's wishes and posted a gallery after the jump.
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Comment by SinisterRouge: Are all college kids this up their own ass? Or is it the young ones in general? I mean with... 11 Responses | Other threads
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how to sell out
How Tao Lin Made A Quick Twelve Grand Selling A Novel He Hasn't Written!
Tired? Poor? Starting to wonder if you'll be a creative underclassman forever? Sick of feeling like the answer to the question "What do you?" is "Self-loathingly ask 'What do you do' at increasingly low-budget social events I used to think were the 'fun' part of doing this job?" Break the cycle! India, law school, teaching yoga… don't think it couldn't happen to you!
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By MoeComment by Mister-Snitch: @mindbling: "You should hear what my exboyfriend, Matt Drudge, did once to personally antagonize me." Yes. We should. Well? more » | Other threads
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intern horror stories
What Not To Do When Anna Wintour Falls On Her Face
Shortly after hearing the scuttlebutt (yeah) yesterday about the summer intern who took her new TV network employers and shat all over them (no literally shat all over them) yesterday we put a call out to some of our most cherished sources for "nightmare intern" stories that might gratuitously expand upon the "Kids today: My they are insubordinate and entitled in just that infuriatingly unabashed way that will probably totally work in their favor!" meme. And wow, did the stories we heard totally play to our stereotypes in ways we could not even ourselves imagine! But they also helped to contour our cartoonish notions of "clueless lazy entitled youth" with hints of "well, their parents' generation is obviously to blame"-ism. Take the case of this hapless Vogue-ette!
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By MoeComment by unicorns-exist: @IShouldBeFamous: Interns are supposed to work hard for nothing. An internship is something people do to get real life experience,... more » | Other threads
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fashionology
Rich Hollywood Moms Bank On Shopaholic Tweens
The August issue of Harper's Bazaar has a feature on Elizabeth Wiatt and Jamie Tisch and their "concept store," Fashionology L.A. Elizabeth, 41, is the wife of Jim Wiatt, CEO of the William Morris Agency. She's also on the board of the Natural Resources Defense Council. She is described as a "brainy beauty," maybe because she is brunette. Jamie, 39, the "blonde bombshell," was married to film producer/NY Giants chairman Steve Tisch, and also raises money for the Women’s Cancer Research Fund. There are so many vomit-inducing moments in the story about their store, described as "a real-life version of Cher Horowitz’s computerized closet in Clueless meets a Build-a-Bear Workshop," that it seemed necessary to compile them all. (Not included: When the writer tries the store and designs a hoodie that ends up costing $95.) You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll lose your lunch, after the jump. [Jezebel] -
kids today
Family Blogger Struggles With Privacy Concerns, Posts Family Photos to Internet
Yes it's fine to post a photo of your adorable child on Flickr, why not? The dangers are: a) perverts will get off on these photos, b) predators will, who knows, decide to kidnap your adorable child because she is soooo cute on the internet, or c) your child will be targeted for online abuse by bloggers somewhere, for some reason. The first two are bullshit. Perverts will masturbate to everything, who cares. You are more likely to abuse your child than a stranger. And finally, as we've tried to explain, all this online abuse of innocent kids is actually directed at their over-sharing parents. So rest easy, Wall Street Journal mommyblogger! Or, like, make the pictures friends-only, as your friends have suggested. Either one. Christ. [WSJ]
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By PareeneComment by CaptainFantastic: @WretchedGnu: Yes, the content on Flickr and YouTube can be posted without the name and address of the subjects. more » | Other threads
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kids today
You Enable Us to Hate Your Kids
Slate's family correspondent Emily Bazelon was relieved recently to learn that her 8-year-old son has no hits on Google. Not for lack of trying! She writes about her young son, Eli, occasionally, but obviously she doesn't want her child to be an Internet Persona, Fair Game for bloggers and commenters. But then, she's writing about him in Slate. And her husband's name, which is presumably her son's last name, is readily available on Wikipedia. She's dangerously close to crossing into the territory of the chronic familial oversharers whose crimes against their children she ponders in her essay. Like remember Neal Pollack? "His young son Elijah's bathroom habits are fair game for Pollack's blog, but his son's discovery of his sexuality, Pollack says, is not." Jesus, Neal, you just did it again. Dear internet: blogging about your children is child abuse. More » -
superdelegates
Embarrassing Facebook Photos of the Nerds Who Will Decide the Presidency
Barack Obama won another caucus last weekend. Did you even notice? He holds a pledged delegate lead over Hillary Clinton, and it is looking increasingly unlikely that that lead will shrink as we approach the Democratic National Convention. Nor does it seem likely that either candidate will surge ahead in the upcoming primaries enough to clinch the nomination with pledged delegates alone. Which means that it comes down to Superdelegates, the party bigwigs named by the DNC to make sure we don't end up without another Jimmy Carter. They are beholden to no one, they may align themselves with whomever they wish. And while we know many of them as our elected representatives, some of them, like members of the College Democrats and the Young Democrats of America, are just some drunks on Facebook. A Gawker operative compiled this charming gallery of the youngest Superdelegates (we're reasonably assured of their accuracy) demonstrating their superiority over you, the lowly voter, in this grand democratic experiment. Also they are singing karaoke and smiling happily before the grave of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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By PareeneComment by acrosstheocean: if i'm not suffering from mistaken identity, I went to school with the girl featured in at least 4 of... more » | Other threads
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college
"Students Prefer Easy Courses and 'Hot' Professors" [TaxProf Blog]
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new york magazine
'New York' still keeping us posted on how the rich are doing
"In a sample of 314 tenth-graders in a wealthy suburban community, the rate of 'clinically significant anxiety' was 5 to 9 percent higher than the national average, and among girls, the rate of 'clinically significant depression' was three times the national norm. Drug use exceeded not just national averages but that of low-income high-school kids she followed in a parallel study." [NYM]
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By PareeneComment by RustyDendrite: @Shinjukuace: I'm a sophomore at a liberal arts college and, come exam time, the atrium in the library becomes an... more » | Other threads
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By Joshua SteinComment by hageesheart: @crookedE: nono, not weird. you kids, you're too mean. this is what people do in too big a world. he's a... more » | Other threads
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the bard sublime
Hipsters Can't Love
Bard College, the liberal arts school located 120 miles north in Annandale-on-Hudson, "puts the 'liberal' in 'liberal arts,'" according to the 'Princeton Review.' It has a 600-acre campus and nearly 1500 undergrads. This is their story—as told by a student who would like to be known as Stephan K. Names have been changed to protect the guilty.
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Comment by DoboshGonzo: @temporary: Uh...everyone...including the 73 yr. old CEO of Bear Stearns. I'm sure he has a whole new perspective on... more » | Other threads
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kids today
Meet Michele A. Hernandez, a former admissions officer at Dartmouth who is now the most expensive college coach in the country. "Few of the 4,000 independent college counselors now scattered around the country can match Hernandez' influence or earning power. Early on, she began offering college-admissions counseling for students in eighth grade—yes, eighth grade—an approach that is becoming more common. Since 2005, she has run application boot camps in Manhattan and Santa Monica, Calif., which this summer cost $9,500 and are sure to attract imitators. Hernandez says she earned almost $1 million last year." [BusinessWeek]
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By ChoireComment by urbanraconteur: She's not the most expensive. Not even close. I'm an SAT tutor (yes, I'm very expensive) and do some counseling... more » | Other threads
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tabloid media
Child Sweatshops In The TMZ Age: The Indentured Paparazzi
Our decrepit and vacuous society has given birth to one of the more disturbing trends we've seen in awhile. The city of Los Angeles' most recent victims are junior varsity photogs 14-year-old Austin and 15-year-old Blaine, who runs Pint Size Paparazzi, with the help of thousands of dollars in equipment from their totally fucked-up parents, who don't seem concerned by Blaine's statement to Sunday's Times Style section: "I'm going to let this go as far as it takes me,'said Blaine, fidgeting with his V800. 'I want to be friends with the celebrities more than take photos of them. I kind of wish I was going to the parties with them.'" More »
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By MaggieComment by CassionIII: @ MediaHoHoHo: If you ever find a "cheap" Leica, give me the heads up. And good luck with the fetus. more » | Other threads
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don't you ever crave to appear on the front of the daily mail?
Prince Harry, third in line to the crown of England, enjoys snorting vodka shots with shirtless pals. [Towleroad, News of the World]
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By ChoireComment by GinaRomantica: I saw "After the Fox" on late night tv in 1983 and have used Gina Romantica as a nom de... more » | Other threads
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begging for it
Save The MFA Students!
Did you give already all you could to charities like those Harvard brats' anniversary hotel room, but you still have that uncomfortable pockets stuffed with money feeling? Well, here's your chance to purge your wallet! A group of second-year MFA students in the Critical Studies program at Cal Arts wants to go to the annual AWP conference in New York, and you're their only hope. They've set up a donation website in order to amass the $4400 they "need" for "AIRFARE, Lodging, Conference Registration, Food." And you will be rewarded, not just in karma, but with a special gift! "All donors who give more than $25 to this incredibly worthy cause will be recognized for their generous contributions in the chapbook of student writings, to be distributed during the AWP conference and afterwards in the Los Angeles area." That settles it: Fuck Darfur!
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By Emily GouldComment by YeahRightBuffy: Amusing little thread, but seems too fulla the usual cavalier dumbshit chatter from a lot of from people who don't... more » | Other threads
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house party
A Kegger In Williamsburg
There are parties in New York not run by publicists, parties that don't promote perfumes. Tracie Egan (the artist formerly known as "Slut Machine") and Nikola Tamindzic went out in the field this weekend to a real party: A raging kegger in South Williamsburg. There, they discovered oddly-shaped hickeys, uptight douchebags and a lack of alcohol. And we learned a lot about the way we live now. Or did we?
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kids today
NYU Students Forced To Take Unreliable Transportation!
How bad are things for the beleaguered scholars of New York University? This bad:It takes more than a caffeine fix at Starbucks for Tisch junior Priya Shelly to make it to class. As a resident of Water Street residence hall, Shelly relies on university buses—the vital link between faraway residence halls and the Washington Square campus in operation since the late 1990s—in order to get to class. But buses that are crowded, frequently late and take convoluted routes have made Shelly's commute a constant inconvenience. "Sometimes, the bus doesn't show up at all," she said.
Nooooo! But it gets worse! More »
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By abalkComment by fortqueenmean: Geesh--is it so rough to waddle up John Street three short blocks to get to the train station? I guess... more » | Other threads
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cut the cord
Nation's College Freshman Face Trauma Of Redecoration
Poor Maeve McGilloway! On her first visit back home after spending three weeks at college, the Middlebury freshman made a horrifying discovery.The room where she'd spent the first 18 years of her life was unrecognizable. Her 'N Sync poster was gone. So was the collage of her high school friends. What she found instead was the new guest room, a "Martha Stewart bed and breakfast," as her mother described it. The walls had been repainted, the carpet had been changed and the happy clutter of her childhood had been replaced by about 40 bone china butter dishes that her mother had purchased on eBay and mounted on the wall. "The first question I asked was, who lives here?" Maeve McGilloway said, "and she said, 'You do,' and pointed to this really little vintage Middlebury postcard on the wall, like this little Middlebury postcard was supposed to represent me."
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By abalkComment by oneninesevenfour: The flip side to this is that your parents insist on keeping your room just the way you left it... more » | Other threads
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breaking up the band
CollegeHumor Founder Hits The Road
The adorable scamps of CollegeHumor haven't let The Man break their spirit: They're still living the life of hard-partying sophomores, even though they've got jillions of dollars and ostensibly real jobs. Sadly, some folks aren't so amused. A note from their building's manager cites complaints about liquor bottles left in the men's room, "Drunk people hanging out the window," and, the most serious charge, "Spinning around the revolving doors over and over again." Juvenile, sure, but they're simply following in the footsteps of mentor and owner Barry Diller, who once took a shit on a QVC executive's desk "as a lark." (Kidding, Mr. Diller!) More » -
college
Admissions officers reveal what anyone who's ever applied to college already knows. Those interviews don't mean jackshit: "It would be a rare interview faux pas that could disqualify an applicant, such as wearing a bathing suit to the interview, saying the school is only a fallback option, displaying bigotry, or admitting to patricidal fantasies, the admissions officers said. Catastrophes aside, they said, an interview bears little or no say in the race for top-college acceptance." Sorry, kid! [NYS] -
kids today
Stupid College Freshmen Need Stupid Advice
The New York Times has taken upon itself the responsibilities of in loco parentis. Or maybe, in loco retardis, because the New York tips they're publishing for new college arrivals are WOW IDIOTIC. "Don't try to swim in the rivers. Drownings are all too common" for one. There's a reason people die like this; it's called God's vengeance. Also: "Don't spend money on condoms. The city gives them away" for another. Yeah, at the gay bathhouse. But to the Metro section's credit, over on the Metro blog, all the Times commenters have much worse advice—except for one. More »
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By ChoireComment by queenbozaki: Watch every episode of Felicity. Then, do the exact opposite. more » | Other threads
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the hamptons
The East Hampton Townies
After trying to buy the Blue Book at Bookhampton in East Hampton (they were "out" of the social register, but they'd take my number), we ran into this kind of scary bunch of kids hanging out outside of Starbucks. The ringleader—we'll call him Brian—sported an Iron Cross tattoo on his arm. Above it was written "Race..." and "Culture..." Underneath it, he said, he was planning to get "History..." added on. He had carved "FTS" into his calf. It stood for "Fuck the System," he explained. His friends, who ranged in age from 13 to16, nodded. "I was part of the system," said one sullen girl. "Me too," volunteered a younger boy named Justin, who turned out to be Brian's brother. The system, it turned out, was the juvenile detention system. Couples clad in short white Ralph Lauren shorts and salmon polo shirts looked at me and Amelia Bauer as we chatted with the locals. The kids stared straight back. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by the earl grey: whatever the reason Im glad the eh beach overseers have prevented this punkish riffraff from ruining the amazing natural beauty... more » | Other threads
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kids today
After an exhausting seven months of polling, MTV and the Associated Press have finished a survey of America's youth. (Those aged 13-24, at least.) Turns out, kids are happy! Especially white kids, who apparently love their parents, believe in God, want to make gobs of money, and think technology "makes people happier." Half of them never turn off their cell phones. Just wait until you're WORKING with these freaks. You'll be the unhappy one! (P.S. Did you know MTV has "an esteemed research pedigree"? Yeah, us neither.) [MTV]
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Comment by adminslave: @demetria23: I miss the 1830s when mild opiate addiction and hat-related mercury poisioning were par for the course and suicide... more » | Other threads
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By ChoireComment by Gadgetgirl: God, I hope this isn't the bulk of the *plot* of the next Dane Cook movie. He's too old for... more » | Other threads
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caricature
Wesleyan Strikes Back With An Ironic Comic Strip
We called them "the most annoying liberal arts school in the U.S." And then, boy, they sure showed us! More »
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By Emily GouldComment by exleysdavenport: spy was the best magazine ever. before graydon went over the edge. more » | Other threads
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literary business
'n+1' To Poison Slightly Younger Minds
n+1—the most important literary journal of your slightly younger brother's time—is making a pamphlet for college freshpeoples! This one is, say the editors, "about what we wish we'd known when we were college freshman, and what books we wish we'd read. 'What We Should Have Known.' Is that too cumbersome? We'll be slipping it under the doors of incoming first-years at select universities this September. Really." Mmm, "select" universities. (Good youngster recruitment technique! Just like the free Times Select for college emails!) Anyway, not having been to no college, I'm mystified by what this pamphlet might contain. How to sleep in class—or sleep around in class? Advice to skip Chinua Achebe for Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o? Illustrations of scabies v. crabs? More »
kids today
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