Madison Moore
Author of How To Be A Pop Star.
When A Co-Worker Writes You On Grindr
The real issue about a co-worker hitting you up on Grindr, aside from the awkwardness that will inevitably result, is when does a simple text message or D pic become sexual harassment?
An Interview With Somebody In An Open Relationship
“Open relationships should always come from a place of, we’re young, we’re hot, let’s just experience stuff. I honestly think that once my partner starts telling me about people he’s hooking up with it’ll be like a fun thing we can kiki about, like we’re best friends.”
10 First Date Deal Breakers
I know we met on Grindr and all, but can you at least wait until the date is over before you open it back up? Sheesh.
Discussion: If Somebody Breaks Your Heart, Can You Still Be Friends?
Why do we feel the need to be friends with or make total enemies of our lovers as soon as we break up?
5 Awesome New Songs You Should Be Listening To Right Now
The best thing about fall is hands down all the new records and bands that show up on the pop culture radar. So who should you be listening to this season?
What It Feels Like To Get A Rim Job
My face was buried deep in the pillow and I remember praising the lord and clinching the sheets, which of course only made him go at it even more. When it was over I was like, “WAIT WHY DID YOU STOP??!!”
I Really Hate Alcohol
Whenever I’m in a drinking situation and somebody new finds out that I generally stay away from alcohol, the first thing they do is tilt their head, furrow their brows and look at me like I’m some kind of unrecognizable foreign object. “You don’t…drink?”
Why I Want To Live In The 19th Century
Can you imagine what it was like to see the first light bulb go off, to ride the first roller coaster, to ride the first bike?
10 Songs I Want To Hear At The Club
Why would you pay a cover charge and buy expensive drinks in a place where you’re hearing songs you can easily get on the radio? So here are ten songs I always want to hear at the club.
Discussion: Will Carly Rae Jepsen’s New Album Be A Hit?
Yesterday Carly Rae Jepsen dropped her highly anticipated album, Kiss. But will it be any good?
Stretch Your Last $21 To Your Next Payday
But let’s be real — it’s not that you’re poor. You just massively overspend, every month. It’s the American way! You can make $200k or $20k and still float from check to check. But it’s not until you’re in the red that you realize how expensive your habits are.
A Close Reading Of Azealia Banks
Music heads know that Banks’ first single, where she sings and raps in this “Valley Girl” voice, unapologetically samples “Float My Boat” by Lazy Jay.
I’m Sorry For Staring At You, Gay Couple
They just don’t understand how two men or two women could be in love (or lust!), how they could dare flaunt that love to the world in the same way straight couples get to do, virtually unpunished, in basically every social sphere.
Doing Drugs With Damien Hirst
Now, Hirst is at it again with “The Complete Spot Paintings: 1986-2011,” a simultaneous, international exhibition currently on show at Gagosian, the high-end, New York-based contemporary art gallery with a global footprint. The “Spot” paintings are part of a cycle of works begun in 1986, and though as many as 1500 “Spot” paintings currently exist, they are intended to be an endless cycle.
Aerobic Proclivity
No, the most annoying thing about losing a debit card is the ambiguous seven-to-10 business day period when the bank promises to send you a brand new one. You wait and wait and wait and it doesn’t come but then, finally, it does. Why on earth do the banks insist on sending replacement cards at such a glacial pace, anyway?
Quit Making Out On The Bus
You make out without realizing everybody is uncomfortable. You do this in front of me, and I now have this VIP, all-access tour of your peep show. And though I don’t really care to look, nothing in particular is stopping me from doing so. You force me to participate in your live porn. I’m thinking, Oh, they must have just started dating.
The Classical Music Conundrum
For some reason I’ve been on a classical music binge, annoying my neighbors with all the waltzing around the apartment I’m doing, in high heels and cat suit no less, to the doom and gloom of Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Smetana. I don’t know what it is but I’m really drawn to pieces in minor keys that sound next to impossible to play—my friends say it’s because I like aggressive Russians dudes which, whatever.
Where Did You Go Last Night?
With all this recent emphasis on so-called “party photography” in the last decade or so, it might seem that “party pics” are a new kind of genre. But as far as I can tell, the genre extends at least as far back as Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, which launched in 1969 as a title focused primarily on interviews with film stars and personalities of the period.