By Dylan Emmons Just a Monday night, but the Sideline Bar and Grill was lively. Not jumping by any means—half the tables were empty and the average age of a patron that night had to be at least 40—but lively it was, in its own sort of way. I’d always thought that about the Line; [...]
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For The Love Of Dracula!
He’ll Suck Your Sanity By Catherine Fisher Vampire: a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, which is said to suck the blood of sleeping people at night. Obsession: the domination of one’s thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire and so on. If we put these two together we can [...]
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By Adam Polaski For some families, Sunday mornings are a sacred, time-honored tradition: you wake up, you get dressed up really nice in your – duh – Sunday best, you go to church, and then you eat a big breakfast as a family. Things are a little different with my family. On Sunday morning, from [...]
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“Boy, why you so obsessed with me?” sings Mariah Carey in her most recent single, echoing many previous songwriters’ thematic preoccupations with obsession. But obsession is more than just fodder for lyricists—obsessions are prevalent among individuals and institutions. With the advent of the Internet, people are given new forums for indulging in their obsessions. Some [...]
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(And other questions for Furries) Imagine you are on a hot date with someone you’ve been admiring for quite a while. After the dinner, the excited dancing, the moonlit drive home, they invite you up into their room. “I usually don’t even kiss on a first date,” you may think, but you go along anyway. Once you’re sitting on the couch, maybe with a drink, they deliver cliché lines like, “I’ll go slip into something more comfortable.” You lean back while they disappear into the bedroom, and images of lingerie or silk boxers form in your mind. “I’m ready…” you hear slyly from the room. Then the door swings open and instead of a desirable body, there’s a life-sized fox mascot staring at you with its arms open wide.
By Keith Hadad
Nobody’s Perfect, You Better Work it
In capitalistic America, the Dream has always been wealth, power, beauty and fame. But how far is too far in pursuit of this?
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Europeans, South Americans, Asians and other citizens of foreign countries idolize American culture. So why do they care about McDonald’s, U.S. pop music and Friends?
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Working hard in life is good for you. Working so hard you miss out on happiness…arguably not so good for you.
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Superstitious people get a bad reputation for being crazy and fixated on the negative. But they’re not hurting anyone, so really, haters back off.
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Seek the truth, inform the public and tell both sides to every story, even if the other side is bullshit: these are the tent poles of news journalism. Here’s why that foundation is illogical.
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