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I'm probably the only person to go from working in a gold mine to working at MTV six months later (back when MTV was a thing). I was 18. And then: while at MTV, I somehow stumbled into an internship at ABC News, and at 19 ended up as a red carpet reporter at the Golden Globes.

When I was 25, I decided to move from NYC (and after a year of teaching in Iraq) back to LA. I knew I'd need a car in LA - so thought "might as well buy a VW Bus." I scoured eBay, found a '72 Bus in absolutely piss-poor condition...AND in Iowa. Still, I threw up a hail mary,

Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.

If you are happy someone was publicly executed because they don’t share your beliefs congrats you’re the Taliban

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Me seeing this graphic

This one especially hurts. Your voice and leadership will be dearly missed, Rev. Baucham.

What's the mood on the NYT Slack channels today?

"You call hamburgers steamed hams?" "Yes, Dave. It's a regional dialect." "What region?" "Uh, upstate New York, Dave." "Really? Well, I'm from Utica, and I've never heard anyone use the phrase 'steamed hams.'" "Oh, not in Utica, no. It's an Albany expression." "I see."

Whoa, whoa. Easy with the spoilers, there.

I for one would love to see a Netflix crossover series called “The Floor is Lava…or Is It Cake?”

If you read the article itself, you'll see the "has been ranked" verbiage is rather misleading. Thriller, simply (and amazingly) enough, was not initially a Billboard juggernaut in 1984. Wasn't even intended to be a single! MJ asked the label to release it near the end of the

Just got an email with the headline "It's Giving Tuesday," and for a solid minute I was really, really confused. Clearly I've spent too much time around my Gen-Z friends.

Funny to me that Brits say “Happy Christmas” and Americans say “Merry Christmas,” because it feels like those should be flipped.

Boy would the Reality Police prefer that you focus on any act of rebellion but this one -- the kind that truly threatens long-established power and actually changes things.

Me: hey, you know that app on my computer that I use every day? Here, I'll type it out for you so you can quickly find it and open it for me. MacOS search: gee, uh, not ringing a bell. Are you trying to look up a Wikipedia article about it?

I'm always hoping for a classy Olympics opening ceremony and it's never that, it's always some weird Illuminati thing and Hoda tries to make it seem normal like "And now Klaus Schwab is going to sacrifice that goat to appease the deity" and Al Roker is like "wow that's great."

Can confirm. I visited in 2000 and would regularly see big signs celebrating the new 'mireniumu' (ミレニウム). Even just reading it made me feel uncomfortable.