Nick Cox

Special people don’t worry about whether or not they’re special – they are too busy doing special-people things like solving world hunger and writing the Great American Novel and living in cool apartments with exposed brick and getting laid.

America is in deep trouble The federal government has been shut down for over two weeks and could easily hit its debt ceiling in less than 48 hours.

Stop checking your email because you know it will just be your friends asking you if you’re okay, and you don’t want to admit that you really aren’t but know they won’t believe you if you lie and say you are.

Sometimes when you think you love something what you really love is not the thing itself but just some small and inessential part of it: you think you love banana splits but really you just love the maraschino cherry on top and you think you love autumn but really you just love getting a Pumpkin Spice Latte at Starbucks…

New Girl is a good show because it is, as they say in academia, liminal. To wit, it dramatizes a meeting of two worlds that up until now have almost always been segregated: the twee-hipster world and the bro world…