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NYC: Come To The Distraction LIVE On October 4

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Live Event

Alex Sujong Laughlin

The author holding a chestnut she found on the street

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Chefector

That’s What I Get For Trying To Honor My Ancestors With Chestnuts I Found On The Street

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Life Lessons

The Only Depressed Adult At The World’s Largest Indoor Ropes Course

Luis Paez-Pumar

The Cyclone Roller Coaster at Coney Island

Reflections From An Aging Roller Coaster Fanatic

<div>Rick Paulas is a writer in Brooklyn who made <i><a href="http://www.theladyingreenpoint.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.theladyingreenpoint.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1693673714100000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3mdrn4_mwbI7boyzf49u2G">The Lady in Greenpoint</a></i>, a 3-mile walking audio ghost story starting at the Pulaski Bridge, and <i>The Palmer Hotel</i>, a collection of spooky short stories set over a century in a downtown hotel, of which there are like 50 copies left for sale.</div>
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Rick Paulas

An overhead shot of the Williamsburg-Greenpoint waterfront area in Brooklyn, New York. Taken from a plane or helicopter or maybe one of those new tall buildings on the waterfront.

I’ll Always Have Rec League Softball, Until I Don’t


<p>charismatic megafauna (they/them)</p>


Sabrina Imbler

Jonquel Jones #35 of the New York Liberty accepts the MVP trophy after the team's 82-63 victory over the Las Vegas Aces in the 2023 Commissioner's Cup Championship game at Michelob ULTRA Arena on August 15, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

How A Fat Baseball Ass And Four Lesbians Turned Me Into A Sports Fan

Kathryn Xu

Abigail Segel

Computer room and workers ca. 1980. (Photo by: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Why Call When An Oblique Email Will Do The Job Of Making A Prospective Intern Spiral Into A Panic?

Dave McKenna

Consider The Mystery Delivery Cake Dilemma

On The Meaning Of Going Back For More J.T. Realmuto Highlights At 11:47 P.M.

Chris Thompson

Red rambling rose plant climbing the wall of a pink thatched cottage, Shottisham Suffolk, England.

So You Want To Grow Climbing Roses

<p>Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including <em>Point B</em>. Handsomest man in the world.</p>


Drew Magary

How Much Shit Should You Have In Your Wallet? An Investigation