Nathan Savin Scott
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Nathan Savin Scott
20 Tips to Get Through Your Twenties
Don’t kill anybody. There might be a time in your 20s when you encounter a situation where you’re like, man, I could totally get away with killing this person. Police wouldn’t have a motive. No one would ever know.
Listening To Chance The Rapper’s “Acid Rap”
This mixtape has anger and sadness, but mostly it is joy, 13 tracks of happiness, laughter, Russian-accented weirdness, and singsong
Our Final ‘Community’ Recap, “Advanced Introduction to Finality”
The creators have mistaken keeping the show’s soul with cobbling together pieces of the mythology fans idolize to form some twisted Frankenstein’s monster of self-congratulations and references from two seasons ago.
This Week’s ‘Community’ Recap — “Heroic Origins”
This show has faults, but these are still characters I want to spend time with. That’s enough to give us another season.
I Did Not Have Sex With My Coworker Nor Cheat On My Wife
She told me she’d been too sick to cook dinner, and if I’d mind. I smiled. She blew me a kiss because she didn’t want to get me sick. I walked to the kitchen and, even though I was exhausted after a long day at my job, I got to work cooking a plain dinner neither of us would remember.
The Marathon
Perhaps the strangest thing about all this was how little I cared about who was responsible for the attack. I’m sure I will. I’m sure one day, when I learn who did this, I’ll lose sleep, and feel rage, real rage, and want to see them (or him, or her) killed. I’ll want blood. I’m no better than anyone else.
This Week’s Community Recap: “Herstory Of Dance”
It’s fitting this episode opens with Pierce bragging about the Americanized version of Inspector Spacetime and Abed rolling his eyes at the common TV tropes he lists as epic.
How To Hack Your Life
Then, after delivered dinner, I drink six Red Bulls, and it’s back to another Serious Work Time to actually get some stuff done. That usually lasts until midnight, and then it’s asphyxiation time!
I’m Not Okay (I Promise): On The Breakup Of My Chemical Romance
I remember the first time I saw the music video for “Helena” on Total Request Live, at 4:15 pm on a Tuesday, me sitting with a bowl of Apple Jacks on my couch, my mom calling in from the other room that I needed to start my homework soon. My jaw dropped.
Responding To The Rhetorical Questions Posed By Thought Catalog Titles
What If I’m Always The First To Leave? You get tired at parties? I do that, too, dude. I’ve perfected the move where I tell people I have to use the bathroom, then, when their backs are turned, I just fucking SPRINT out of the bar and go home. Idiots never saw it coming.
This Week’s ‘Community’ Recap: “Economics of Marine Biology”
But watching Abed get completely consumed with the idea of a fraternity, abandon both plots to go make it happen, and then have Dean Pelton instantly play along with it…that’s why I love Community.
Non-Sports Fan’s Guide to March Madness
March Madness sounds like a horrifying disease brought on by the Easter Bunny.
This Week’s ‘Community’ Recap: Advanced Documentary Filmmaking
Welcome back, people who either hate or love this show with a fervent passion!
Men’s Humor
But seriously what’s with girls putting guys in the friend zone?! How dumb is that?! Like, get out of the friend zone and get into my pants, am I right, bros!? Beer me!
A Fiction Writer Applies For A Job In Fashion
How do you think your education has prepared you to work in fashion? I was required to wear clothing in my classes…so that, like, prepared me, in a way.
26 Things We Believe Are True, But Aren’t
There is no “real” you. If you treat people poorly, or start fights in bars, or steal, or hit dogs, or pick on the weak kid in school, you are not, nor can you be, “actually a good person on the inside.”
Fear And Loathing During The Gym Rush Hour
This herd of attractive, toned young people checking each other out is an ecosystem that I have never been able to find a niche in.
A Music Snob Listens To The Billboard Top 10
So, I guess this means Billboard is counting YouTube views now, huh? That is neat, I guess. Getting with the times.