Delightful!

Simply existing in 2023 is a pretty big deal. It feels like almost everyone I know is feeling some degree of crappy, whether due to their financial status, mental illness, or seasonal depression. But sometimes, you just…get used to it. And sometimes, the pain can transform you. For example, do you ever feel so crappy that the misery seems to transcend into a sort of dark humor ? If not, then we're sorry for you. You see, sometimes when life becomes so cosmically crappy, it can feel a lot like t…

It's almost always impressed me that the internet has a special place for pretty much everyone. It has the power to bring people together, and not just thanks to our most popular social media platforms, like Facebook or Instagram. Because of meetup sites and meetup apps, people are making real connections with individuals who have similar interests - people they almost certainly wouldn't be acquainted with otherwise. See, it's no easy feat to fight the crippling loneliness that hangs over many…

Happy hump day, y'all. I used to think that the phrase “hump day” was created by Camel cigarettes as part of some stupid marketing campaign, but it turns out the phrase has been used since the 1950's. It seems that despite what your Boomer family members might say, people have felt the burden of the 5-day workweek for a very, very long time. And they started using psychological tools like “hump day” to try to make themselves feel better about all the drudgery. Knowing you're at - and joking abo…

Time travel media often portrays every choice you make as intrinsically connected to how your future life will go down. Every day, you make a million little choices, and if you don't make one in a particular way, your future self is irrevocably changed. I feel like this is true for very few minor choices you could make, like the first time you hang out with your future best friend or the time you decide not to jaywalk and save yourself from becoming the victim of vehicular manslaughter. I doubt…

We laughed so hard, we cried.

It's true: Not everyone can be a brain genius. But despite what Rick and Morty fans might tell you, IQs don't mean much if you don't do anything with them. Take me, for example. My mother made the mistake of telling me my IQ when I was younger (it's the same as Snoop Dogg's, do with that what you will). She had high hopes for me and placed me in gifted programs. Unfortunately, due to my rebellious nature, I ended up dashing her dreams and getting straight Bs throughout my education. Fast forwar…

I was not a cool kid. Up until high school, my experiences with friendship generally started with convenience and were maintained by mutual interests. But because I was not cool, these interests were a bit unorthodox. I was obsessed with reading ultra-bleak history tomes, as well as even bleaker fiction. Much of my choices surrounded World War II , and in particular, the Holocaust. I had learned at a young age that my grandfather's family was all but exterminated in their home in Ukraine, for t…

Not sure if it's just me, but life is feeling a little bad. The whole damn universe is feeling a little bad. And when things feel bad, it's to be expected that we might want to drop all our money on clothing and bric-a-brac we probably won't even like for more than a week. But don't feel too guilty. We're here to support you in the quest to fulfill your most frivol ous, time and money-wasting urges. Because it is actually okay to treat yourself to that greasy breakfast every once in a while, ev…

Not all memes are created equal. Some thrive for a short period just to get beaten to the ground like the dead horses they are. Others can sail on forever, generally accepted by the meme-consuming population as “good." The following memes are none of those things. These memes were rotten from the first time they were posted on the world wide web.

Happy Tuesday, y'all. I don't know about you, but I'm nowhere near recovered from the festivities, gluttony, and all-around insanity that occurred between Christmas and New Year's Day . Despite having yesterday off, I still feel as bloated as I did the day before. Let's just say it's not a good week for trying to fit into jeans, but it's an even worse week for trying to focus. Fortunately, this job involves some duties that don't require much in the way of agonized toiling, and collecting the w…

Whoa there

What up, fools? I guess we've survived yet another holiday season. Now we are tasked with somehow getting through the weird week between Christmas and New Year's Day. I, for one, am feeling bloated, dazed, dehydrated and very, very dumb. I'm sure many of you feel similarly, if not hungover from alchohol, hungover from social interaction or excessive amounts of sugar and sodium. When we feel a bit “under the weather,” metaphorically or physically, we find the internet has a way of coming through…

Ah, the dark, dreary and joyless days of winter. Here on the East Coast, the cold (and accompanied deep, deep depression ) render us into mopey blobs with little to no energy or motivation. Big old blobs that are incapable of making good on their promises to finally cook some food for themselves instead of ordering expensive takeout. Blobs that can barely find the strength to lift the remote control to change the channel. Blobs that can hardly find the ambition to seek actual joy through hobbie…

Brrrr! Baby, it's cold outside. And we don't want to do anything. It's true that there are definitely some winter enjoyers out there, doin' their winter things. Emmy from Memebase just went ice skating in Central Park on an evening that boasted temperatures well below freezing. I know people who will go on bar or food crawls in a January chill. Then there are the true psychos, who do the whole Polar Bear swim on January first. While I cautiously respect and fear these people, I just can't join…

Greetings, nerds. Not sure if I'm alone in this, but I've been feeling a disturbance in the force. It's a strange feeling, almost like a void that was created over the past couple of weeks, a void that gets larger every day. I search and search through the Disney+ menu for some sort of comfort, and it's nowhere to be found. I tried watching the Eternals , utter garbage. I tried rewatching the Mandalorian . I even tried to distract myself with the insanity of Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Mad…