Despite the fact that the country is reopening at a startling rate, we still don’t know much about COVID-19. Cases remain relatively steady, and there’s no vaccine or cure in sight. As such, people are basically scrambling for some kind of magic wand that makes everything safe again. And some companies...
This week, at long last, I received a much expected email from my gym alerting me to the fact that it was reopening — with a long list of modifications, of course: Also expected was the small print at the bottom of the email, which stated that the...
We tend to enforce this cultural binary of city versus nature, dirty versus clean. We see nature as this pure, separate place, but really, the grass growing through the concrete on the sidewalk outside our apartment is nature, too. COVID-19 seems to have only strengthened this binary, with people fleeing the...
These past two-plus months of quarantine have been an exercise in “making the best of a difficult situation,” and how we work out is now different. The giant, potential coronavirus breeding grounds formerly known as “gyms” are currently closed. Home gyms, on the other hand, are all...
We can thank shoes for many things: They keep our feet clean, comfortable and protected (and most importantly, they prevent stubbed toes). There is, however, something to be said about the glorious, godlike sensation of stepping outside barefooted every now and again. The sunbathed concrete warms your...
Mistook your monthly magazine for a pack of One Wipe Charlies and flushed it down the toilet? No worries, here’s the online version! In this edition: How to Take Care of Your Balls The (Ball) Pit of Doom? How Low are My Balls Gonna Go, Anyway? A...
If there’s one thing the long history of nutrition fads teaches us it’s that, whether they’re prescribed for weight loss or healthy living, blueprint diets have their drawbacks. With the vinegar diet, for example, popularized in the 1820s by the English poet and legendary narcissist Lord Byron...
Nobody actually enjoys applying sunscreen. Rubbing some lightweight SPF on your face in the morning is one thing, but reapplying it all over your body, all day long can seriously mess with your beach/pool vibes — especially when sand, chlorine, dirt and other summer-y residue are in...
Sure, there’s a biological reason why most people prefer to breathe out their nose, but there’s a social one, too. That is, a lot of people don’t want to be a mouth-breather, a trait culturally associated with stupidity. But now that everyone is wearing a mask in public, you...
I remember my first chip-filled sandwich like it was yesterday. My friend and I — both early adolescents — had just endured a routine, but strenuous water polo practice at our community pool. As we stepped out of the modest aquatic center, our hair still damp and...
Humans have been imagining words and phrases to categorize others by how they look since the advent of language itself. For men — and particularly fathers — two contemporary examples of this are ‘dad bod’ and the more recent interpretation of ‘father figure,’ both of which are...
Ever since I’ve started protesting, I’ve been coming in hot with my every interaction. Whether I’m going off about something someone said on the internet or fighting with my family about why people loot, I’ve been a bit much. Even with friends I agree with, since I started protesting,...
