May 2013
38 posts
7 tags
8 tags
6 tags
8 tags
7 tags
7 tags
The Best Entries from Harvard’s Class of 2003... →
VF.com answers the urgent question on everyone’s mind: what has Harvard’s Class of 2003 been up to? Here’s an excerpt:
Creating jobs: I’m looking forward to catching up with everyone. Anyone interested in babysitting, we pay generously.
Visiting London: “She’s a cool mistress, this wondrous London: ever forgiving but never one to forget.” Picking up hobbies:
“I’ve recently taken up...
7 tags
7 tags
8 tags
6 tags
7 tags
8 tags
5 tags
8 tags
8 tags
9 tags
7 tags
7 tags
8 tags
7 tags
7 tags
8 tags
6 tags
6 tags
7 tags
Inside the Alien-Abduction Support-Group Annual... →
In this excerpt from the VF.com exclusive Alien Nation by Ralph Blumenthal, an “experiencer” describes her encounter with an extraterrestrial:
Also present was Barbara Lamb, a tanned and gold-coiffed psychotherapist and family counselor from Claremont, California, who studies crop circles, the enigmatic patterns left in fields, often in England, and practices regression therapy, treating...
5 tags
6 tags
The Late Christopher Hitchens on F. Scott... →
“Fitzgerald’s work captures the evaporating memory of the American Eden while connecting it to the advent of the New World of smartness and thuggery and corruption. It was his rite of passage; it is our bridge to the time before “dreams” were slogans. He wanted to call it Among the Ashheaps and Millionaires—thank heaven that his editor, Maxwell Perkins, talked him out of it. It was nearly entitled...
7 tags
7 tags
89 Percent of People Vote Mrs. Doubtfire Hotter... →
“Jesus Christ on a juice cleanse!” —Knorth Kardashian West
Read more from Knorth, VF.com’s newest blogger.
10 tags
6 tags
Jerry Seinfeld and Jimmy Fallon Discuss Tattoos at...
Seinfeld: Yeah. I don’t watch the N.B.A. now, because I don’t want to read that much.
Fallon: That’s why I stopped going to see Maroon 5. Same exact thing. It’s too much.
Seinfeld: Yeah. It’s a lot of reading.
Fallon: Bieber, the same thing. It’s just too many tattoos. But I’m figuring it out now, and I think, Uh, well, how punk rock can we get?
Read more from their conversation here.
8 tags
7 tags
8 tags
April 2013
56 posts
7 tags
8 tags
Why Mad Men Got the Martin Luther King Jr....
That the show asked us to view the tragedy through the prism of two ad executives arguing about how sad to be within their Madison Avenue office was actually perfect. What a relief that the series did not take an unearned or clunky turn away from the upper-middle-class white world that is 98 percent of its focus. How easy would it have been to use Dr. King’s death to precipitate a Very Special...
9 tags
8 tags
9 tags
This is a person I’ve never seen before. So I didn’t want to be seeing her for...
– Manti Te’o explains the infamous girlfriend hoax.
1 tag
7 tags
7 tags
9 tags
Benjamin Harrison: Benjamin Harrison himself forgot “Benjamin Harrison” was a...
– What Happens to the Records of Presidents Who Don’t Have Presidential Libraries?
6 tags