December 2011
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Top 25 Thought Catalog Articles Of 2011
To close the year out, we’ve created a list of 25 of our favorite articles we ran in 2011. They’re in no particular order. Enjoy.
10 Things 90s Kids Will Have To Explain To Their Children by Chelsea Fagan
Dating A Privileged White Girl by Ryan Chang
Reflections On Seeing My Ex-Lover’s Novel For Sale At The Mall by Oliver Miller
How Many Cats Is Too Many Cats? by Brad Pike
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philosophy for the win: Deconstructing Anna... →
philosophyforthewin:
Here’s the post: http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/using-emoticons-isnt-sexy/
Anna makes this an issue of IQ, maturity, and age, critiquing emoticons based on their (lack of) intent. In relation to her ‘I know this is exhausted rhetoric to complain about technology,’ is it not more exhausted to…
“A man started vomiting very hard, making ‘demon-like’ noises. I listened to the...”
– I Woke Up In a Hostel Around 7AM by Brandon Scott Gorrell (via muumuuhouse)
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“There is a performance to this sort of confessional writing — the performance...”
– Kate Zambreno, All The Sad Young Pretty Girls on Thought Catalog
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“I don’t argue that there is an ethics for writing the autobiographical. However,...”
– Kate Zambreno, All The Sad Young Pretty Girls on Thought Catalog
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One Sentence Love Story, by Nick Cox
Sometimes when you think you love something what you really love is not the thing itself but just some small and inessential part of it: you think you love banana splits but really you just love the maraschino cherry on top and you think you love autumn but really you just love getting a Pumpkin Spice Latte at Starbucks and you think you love Shrek but really you just love that montage near...
Hey maybe Writers Of Their Generations should... →
heheheheheheheeheheheehehe:
I’m not sure what you feel I should learn about metaphor (re “Hey maybe Writers Of…”). You’re not being direct. If I made a mistake about something simply tell me and I can say “I see, thank you, I didn’t know that” or something like that. I would appreciate learning something and I would definitely want to fix my mistake so that no one would be negatively affected by...
UNBORN WHISKEY: What is being billed as a... →
heheheheheheheeheheheehehe:
Hey, this is Tao Lin. I haven’t “congratulated” anyone (re “It is in this peculiar…” quote below) for honesty and I haven’t said anything to anyone about the misuse of “laid” until I read about it on blogs like yours. The sentence you typed about me that I quoted below isn’t true. I don’t know where you got it from. Feel like you probably didn’t read the story, then...
No One's Real Anymore →
narcissime:
Brandon Scott Gorrell, Thought Catalog, Nov. 17, 2011
” It is thought that having an awareness of self at the level of consciously knowing you’re Trying To Be [Identity] brings with it a level of self-doubt and self-monitoring that will, ironically, indefinitely, prevent you from earnestly ever becoming [Identity].
What’s really bothering me is this pervasive feeling of not...
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“I understand why someone would lie about cheating. I understand why someone...”
– Ryan O’Connell, I Hate Liars on Thought Catalog
Ben Smith Is BuzzFeed's New Editor-In-Chief! →
buzzfeed:
We mostly picked Ben because of his keen horsemaning ability.
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“There is yourself and there is genius, and there is the distance between you,...”
– Shalene Gupta, On Jealousy on Thought Catalog
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“I live in a basement. There are no windows. Occasionally, the lights go out due...”
– Brad Pike, How To Be Nocturnal on Thought Catalog
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“I’m no stranger to the wasted first date. You wake up the next morning...”
– Ryan O’Connell, Five Things You Shouldn’t Do If You Plan On Hooking Up With Someone on Thought Catalog
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“Whoa, it’s getting kind of Franco all up in here, am I right?”
– Oliver Miller, I’m James Franco on Thought Catalog
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“‘Why is he scurrying around?’ you wonder. ‘Why won’t he let me go to sleep?’...”
– Brad Pike, The Inner Monologue Of The Rat In My Ceiling on Thought Catalog