This year, New Year’s Eve doesn’t have the same frenetic, must-find-an-epic-party energy. Just surviving 2020 feels monumental enough. While the Times Square crowd already held limited appeal, the prospect of being around thousands of other people has completely lost its luster. There have been fun ways to celebrate the new year in the past that …
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More like bored-games, amiright? But for real, in a year where there was nothing left to do but clear off the dining-room table and go back to good ol’ fashioned fun, board games are having quite the resurgence. They’ve come a long way since the cut-throat tedium of Monopoly and the board-flipping frustration of Sorry. …
When you think of dangerous jobs, roadside zoo operator and underwater welder are the first things that come to mind. But shockingly, they don’t rank in the top ten most dangerous jobs in America, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The jobs where most people die are a little more mundane. These are …
Nothing says boujee like a fancy cheese board. They’ll set you back a fair amount in a restaurant, but you could invest that same money in blocks of cheese and have cheese boards for a week at home. Plus, it gives you an excuse to talk to the cheesemonger at the upscale grocery store or …
It’s probably just nostalgia fumes leftover from childhood. Still, it seems like a little extra brightness imbues the world with cheer every December. Which – hear me out – makes it the perfect time to dig into horror that you’re usually too scaredy-cat to watch or read. It’s easier to shake off the unsettling feeling …
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You’re not alone if you’re stuck in a time-loop reliving the week after Thanksgiving. Maybe you’re under the very misguided impression that you have loads of time to get your Christmas shopping done. You don’t. In fact, you shouldn’t trust Amazon’s Prime shipping at this point, since the dismantling of the postal service is still …
The American obsession with true crime shows no signs of stopping in 2021. Everyone and their brother has a podcast these days, and at least half of those people are doing them about true crime. It’s a booming industry, and it’s only gaining momentum. Netflix is getting in on the action by churning out new …
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Things got a little wild this year. COVID, the election, wildfires, murder hornets––it all added up to people turning to social media and internet message boards for answers. The internet, long may she reign, is exceptional at making us feel smarter than we are. Type a question into Google; 90 seconds later, you’re an armchair …
There was a lot to take issue with during the 2000s. Low-rise jeans, Hot Topic as a cultural phenomenon, the rise of reality TV, and such a dearth of quality programming that we thought Avatar was something. It was a post 9/11 world, and no one had the rules for how we were supposed to …
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One of the best parts of reaching the end of the year is rewarding yourself. Maybe it’s a new gaming console, a bigger TV, or it’s just allowing yourself more – and better – desserts than you do the rest of the year. And they seem to be everywhere. At work, at home, even at …
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