Catherine Baab-Muguira
World's foremost expert on Dawson's Creek.
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Slate
How a $500 Monthly Allowance Saved Our Marriage
When I spend $65 on a vintage Jaws T-shirt in a closely watched eBay auction—closely watched by me, anyway—my marriage of 11 years hangs in the balance.
Quartz
The absurd dark comedies helping us survive 2017
When I asked the comedian Chris Gethard if 2017 has been weirder than other years in recent memory, he replied: “Of course it’s been weirder. I’d sum up this year thus far by asking a simple, “What the fuck is going on?’”
The Millions
Edgar Allan Poe Was a Broke-Ass Freelancer
For his entire oeuvre—all his fiction, poetry, criticism, lectures—Poe earned only about $6,200 in his lifetime, or approximately $191,087 adjusted for inflation.
Playboy
How Tim Heidecker Beat Nate Silver to Predict Donald Trump
On November 9, millions of people woke up to a nightmare. But Tim Heidecker, who writes and stars in Adult Swim’s Decker, found himself in an eerily, uncannily prescient position.
New York Magazine
I Spent $11,537 Becoming a Blonde
When I realized my hair was turning orange under the white dye goo, I finally hit send on the text I was hoping to avoid: “EMERGENCY. I’m getting something really stupid done to my hair.”
Quartz
Millennials are obsessed with side hustles because they're all we've ...
What happens when a generation raised with a “you can be whatever you want to be” ethos meets the worst job market in years?
Quartz
The good news about failing at absolutely everything in your 20s
A couple nights ago, I stumbled across a cache of rejection letters – possibly one of the largest deposits of rejection letters recorded in human history. They were all addressed to me.
Quartz
My husband and I have nothing in common
Yesterday, my husband and I had the dumbest fight in the history of our relationship. Were the takeout Belgian waffles I’d brought home for breakfast too small, or just the right size?
FLAVORWIRE
Forget SNL: ‘Decker’ is the Best Satire of the Trump Era
This low-budget stoner-y Adult Swim show is a masterpiece, a great work of art.
Quartz
Do you have to move to New York City to make it as a writer? I asked my literary idols to find out
A few weeks ago, I was visiting New York City, standing in the top floor of The Whitney, staring at the museum’s giant burning candle of Julian Schnabel, when God spoke to me.
New York Magazine
How I Tried to Buy a Better Life With $400 in Subscription Boxes
Some people can do self-improvement without self-loathing or recrimination, without descending into the kind of zealous frenzy that prompts strangers to ask, “Is there someone I can call?” I am not one of them.
Fast Company
The Stupidly Simple Productivity Hack Hiding In Microsoft Word | Fast Company | The Future Of Business
I wrote this article in Focus mode, like everything else I write.
Salon
“Westworld” is woke
What at first seemed like just another premium cable prestige drama tricked out with the usual violence and toplessness has turned out to be an eerily accurate depiction of our own world.
Quartz
Moving to a new country won't solve your problems–but you should do it anyway — Quartz
I moved to New Zealand from the US in the usual, time-honored fashion. First, I got rejected from every graduate school I’d applied to. Then I pulled out a calendar and contemplated spending another year in my soul-killing, $10-an-hour receptionist job. Then I started crying.