Andrea Benito

The next day my landlord called and told me it was illegal in New York City for windows to be able to open fully, citing “The New York Health Code Section 131.15.”

If your favorite show is 30 Rock, you read Thought Catalog, and you wear jeans and a t-shirt at work while you stare a computer screen all day, you are quite likely to have a very different 5,000-word speaking vocabulary from someone whose favorite show is South Park, favorite site is Bleacher Report, and wears a uniform all day while they operate heavy machinery.

Parents have always said “turn off this trash” to their kids because with the succession of the generations the sounds get louder, more virile, more violent.

Here is a dangerous idea: You have no idea what the consequences of your actions will be.

If you think about it, there is actually no way for you to ever see what you truly look like, to see your body in reality.

Your friend says, “It’s not raining above the cloud. It’s sunny there.”

Kid Rock and Sean Penn have at it a typical Bill O’Reilly vs. Anderson Cooper combat of Republican and Democratic rhetoric, only to ultimately find common ground and work together.

Women are generally smaller than men, requiring less food and smaller clothes, and therefore using up fewer of the world’s natural resources.

When I woke up and saw she was still there, I told her I had just had a horrible nightmare and moved out of bed to touch her, to feel her skin. “Just don’t,” she said. I stared at her face, observing her, feeling myself transform in her eyes…

Why do I know my friends from Texas are going to think Romney crushed it, while my liberal parents up north are going to say it was all a lie?

Are you a dog to God? You’re a dog to God. God treats you like you treat your dog. Want a treat little puppy?

This video is painful to watch; it’s strange how watching it actually seems to physically hurt.

Height signifies, if not biological strength, then a glow of social supremacy.

… Fighting back fuels the fire. The more we attempt to secure the world, the more it drapes us in terror.

Heresy. You must love pigeons.

Why is the offensive so offensive these days? Why are we so afraid to hurt each other? What’s wrong with kicking the life out of someone, metaphorically and even perhaps physically? Why do we prize happiness over pain? The safe over the dangerous?

What is the political issue that directly and negatively affects you the most? And what is your plan to change it?

Satellites mistaken for stars in the night sky, the incessant buzzing of electricity everywhere, the obese data spectrums filling every atom with terabytes of data, the cars zooming through the streets and that slithering steel subway beneath it.