All right, gather around, pseudo-misogynistic post number three in what seems like just as many months. I never thought I’d write something like this, but I’m truly out of content and craving clicks. Recently, I helped a friend set up a dating profile and gave him a few pointers based…

Theo first saw Charlene at a café downtown on Saturday. It was a ritzy café, one opened by an apparel retailer in Yorkville serving mediocre coffee, with a dizzying array of milk substitutes atop gold and green furniture with marble accents. Standing out between the girls in oversized puffer boots…

It’s been nearly a year since the last lockdown, the omicron variant wreaking havoc over holiday social plans. I took my first international trip since March 2020. I caught COVID-19. I got my booster shot. I resumed international travel right where I left off, starting with a trip to Paris…

I now have slightly over two years of weekly writing experience with this blog, and another year and a half of monthly writing experience. I had intentions of going daily a few weeks ago, writing reviews on every one of the passages recommended by Dr. Eliot from the Harvard Library…

And it’s done. Not half a year after bragging about using the same phone for five years, I have bought a new one, with a ten-gigabyte data plan to boot. …

First Incel Elegy, and now defending the sigma Male. I am a free thinker! Free Kanye! Within educated neoliberal circles, it’s common practice to mock incel ideology. The sigma male is one of stock characters that has recently garnered such notoriety. The theory is that the sigma male sits outside…

Over the last four years, I’ve completely reversed my position on travel, amongst other things. When I was in college, I believed that travel was an inefficient use of time, that the only way to properly experience another culture and country was to live there. I believed that travelers were…

Almost two years ago, I wrote about how I haven’t made any new friends since college. I had seen this as strictly negative: not only did I like my friends a lot, I also liked meeting new people. Meeting new people was also indicative of new experiences and new ideas…

Recently I had a surprising experience with my friend, T. We were in a rush for some early lunch and tried many cafes and restaurants after not having a lot of sleep. By the time we found one that was open and had an acceptable line, it was a quarter…