Tumblr has its own brand of sweet sometimes. It’s the kind of sweet that can go from extremely gentle to the toughest love at the drop of a hat, but then it will kindly pick your hat back up, brush it off, and hand it to you with an interesting, probably inaccurate factoid about haberdashers. What I’m saying is that it’s a place...
What are you gonna get when you open up Tumblr? Nobody knows. Could be literally anything. Imagine a thing so weird that it couldn’t possibly show up. That’s what you’re going to find. Imagine something so mundane that you can’t even think of it. That’s there as well. It’s a marvelous random crap shoot and I...
You know who’s the best? Animals. You know who’s the worst? People. Unless those people are talking about animals, then, in my opinion, they’re slightly elevated and may even be briefly tolerable. The people on Tumblr are known to frequently talk about animals, which makes it a pretty decent place to be. But you never know...
Every once in a while you’ll come across someone who looks back on high school as “the best time of their life.” While I’m glad these folks enjoyed themselves, I can’t relate at all. High school was such a mess. And I’m fully aware that as a dude, I probably had it easier in general than my female peers. Take...
Tumblr is a place where anything can happen. Well…within reason. It can’t grant wishes or make you money or provide a halfway decent ending to the Game of Thrones TV series. So I guess by “Anything can happen,” I mean “Anything can be written and it will likely be very funny.” That’s not as pithy, but it...
What would any of us do without Tumblr? And before you say something reasonable like “Do real work,” or “Post our ramblings to a different site,” understand that it was a rhetorical question. Because there’s a special vibe about Tumblr. A specific aura. Sure, in theory you could find the same sorts of things...
Everybody’s got their little moment of fame – or maybe infamy. These things stick with us forever, and not always in a good way. Reddit user Internalgenius took to r/AskReddit to pose the question: What was your “15 minutes of fame?” byu/Internalgenius inAskReddit While there were hundreds of responses, some of them were...
In the program for Andy Warhol’s 1968 art exhibition in Sweden, the words were printed “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Whether Warhol himself originated the phrase or paraphrased it from someone else is uncertain, but “15 minutes of fame” has since become ubiquitous, and, as it turns...
Roommates. They’re just the worst, aren’t they? Even when you very carefully lay down a series of rules designed for peaceful cohabitation, there’s always somebody who thinks they’re above the law of common decency and that those rules need not apply to them. What’s to be done about such people? Do we just grin and...
Have you ever seen a Tweet? They’re sort of like books, but way shorter. Or like, jokes, but sometimes longer. They’re um…ugh, how to describe it? They’re blogs that tell you very little about what the person has been up to. They’re poems if poetry rarely rhymed and was generally angrier. They’re how the United...