cautionary-tales
Video Proves That Angry Beavers Are No Joke, People
Adam Weinstein · 04/11/13 12:27PMIt's spring, and you want to get out into nature, and take deep breaths of the forest's cold sweet damp, and commune with the wildlife, and maybe snap a few pics or a Vine to remember the life-affirming majesty.
Dutch Teen Forgets to Make Facebook Event Private, Incites Riot
Louis Peitzman · 09/22/12 02:29PMYou Should Really Buckle Your Seatbelt in Cabs
Louis Peitzman · 03/11/12 03:36PM
Yeah, yeah, who wants to buckle up in a cab? Most of us are content to slide around in the back and hope for the best. But you may want to reexamine that policy: the NY Daily News offers the story of Jane Lee, a woman who had to get 50 stitches after her face smashed into the cab partition during an accident.
Homeland Security Does Not Understand British Slang
Nell Jensen · 01/31/12 12:27AMHere's a good tip for foreign travelers hoping to visit the United States: no matter what the words "destroy America" might mean among your hometown folk, you may want to keep that phrase off your Twitter feed. Emily Bunting and Leigh Van Bryan, a pair of tourists from Great Britain, found this out the hard way after they were detained by Homeland Security for twelve hours at Los Angeles International Airport because Bryan had earlier tweeted "Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America." Bryan tried in vain to explain that "destroy" is just a quirky Brit way of saying "going out and getting drunk," but the humorless DHS agents presumably had not heard of partying, either. So they were deported.
What $200,000 in Student Debt Looks Like
Hamilton Nolan · 11/22/10 02:34PMHow to Earn and Blow $2.5 Million Before Your 22nd Birthday
Maureen O'Connor · 10/14/10 05:11PMWoman With World's Largest Fake Boobs Now Has No Boobs at All
Maureen O'Connor · 09/10/10 10:21AMGrad Student's Thesis, Dreams on Stolen Laptop
Max Read · 08/30/10 12:58AMVoicemail from the Lamest Pickup Artist Ever
Maureen O'Connor · 06/02/10 12:18PMNicole lives in Manhattan. She met Stu at Soho House, a members-only meatpacking district club catering to overgrown frat boys, strivers, and i-bankers. Stu seemed "normal, funny, and nice." So she gave him her phone number. Hilarious horror ensued.
Oops, I Let My Media Diet Become Media Anorexia!
Emily Gould · 12/27/07 10:25AMToday's Thursday Styles section has that profile of Ivanka Trump, who apparently likes looking at herself in the mirror. But that's all I know about that, because not only do I refuse to read any of the words in that part of the newspaper, it's like I actually physically cannot! I can't and haven't read any part of the Times except the front page, any other newspaper, or any magazine for more than a week now. I haven't read any blogs, including this one, either! It's a real problem, or it would be, if my last day at this website wasn't Monday. Anyway, instead of writing little jabby synopses of things and trends and people in the news for the next few days, I have no choice but to just tell you about the books I read and thoughts I had while I was on vacation. It'll be like the time I mused about how we should all stop hating and start focusing our energy and we would all own Park Slope brownstones someday—except less delusional.
Michael Cera Must Not Become The Next Zach Braff
Erica · 11/07/07 04:15PMThe date: November 4, 2007
The place: Greenwich Ave between 13th and Jane
Sighted: This adorable Michael Cera walking down Greenwich Ave... wearing a somewhat geeky dark-green wool toggle coat. Taller than I expected, slim.....my 41-year-old ass wanted to tackle him to ground and give him a raspberry. Oh yeah, he was with some guy, taller, probably older, but who cares.
Michael Wolff And Newser: No Contract, No NDA
Joshua Stein · 10/31/07 02:35PMLast night Graydon Carter's Waverly Inn was host to a party for Napeolonic media mufti Michael Wolff and former New York mag honcho Caroline Miller's new project Newser, the web 1.0 news aggregator. Ten years ago, Michael Wolff wrote Burn Rate; it chronicled the spectacular failure of his first web venture, NetGuide. Along the way, Wolff seriously burned his backer Alan Patricof and nearly everybody else he worked with. So when if Newser fails, will there be a Burn Rate II?
Rocco DiSpirito Is Now A Purveyor Of Frozen Dinners
Choire · 08/01/07 11:20AMWhen we last left Rocco DiSpirito, star of "The Restaurant," a reality show about a failed restaurant opening, he was a lusty man about town, popular in the gossip columns for man-handling whatever hot young thing was nearest. Last year, there was allegedly an A&E reality show pilot; there was to be an autobiography film and a turn on Broadway. But those crazy ideas fell by the wayside as he followed his bliss. So now he's lending his name to TV dinners.
Julia Allison's Bachelorette Pad Is Full Of Singlefiers!
Emily Gould · 07/26/07 01:40PMRemember singlefiers, those telltalle signs of a lady's self- and other-unlovedness that clutter up her apartment? Well, it turns out that something-or-other At Large Julia Allison can tick quite a few of them off the list we all made yesterday. Is our Julia having a bit of a dry spell? Any eventual gentleman callers should be forewarned: Julia's fridge contains "5 month old 'beer for guests' because I don't really drink, and when I do, I definitely don't drink beer." Opt for a wine cooler to avoid staleness issues! That bed does look mighty inviting, though—aside from the dreaded bear.
Bachelorette Living, Sans Cat [Julia]
'Cocktail' Editor Is Really, Truly Sorry About Everything
Doree Shafrir · 07/11/07 01:42PMAs the staffers of Bauer's ill-fated launch were picking up the pieces of their short-lived careers in Englewood Cliffs, they received an inadvertent forward from the mag's editor-in-chief, Maria Lissandrello, that was meant for the eyes of one staffer only. Some context: Lissandrello, unlike many of her staff (several of whom had started only on Monday, when the magazine shut down), was quickly installed at Women's World when Cocktail folded; she had been at First for Women before. Yeah, we get them confused too. The correspondence after the jump. (Later today, we'll have more on why you should think twice about accepting a job offer from Bauer. But for now, enjoy!)