Meeting a partner's family for the first time tends to be an anxiety-inducing situation. There's a lot of pressure to impress the people who raised or grew up with your “person.” But sometimes it's the family that should be concerned with the kind of impression that they're making. Recently, a Korean-American woman took to Reddit for some advice regarding sticky situation she had with her boyfriend's 13-year-old sister. In her posts, she describes visiting her boyfriend's family and meeting his…

If you go literally anywhere on the world wide web of dreams, you're almost guaranteed to stumle upon copious amounts of total bullshit , fake news, and bald-faced liars. It seems that many extremely online people simply can't help themselves and lie about the weirdest, most unnecessary stuff. Why do they do it? Does it give them satisfaction to get away with lying to faceless strangers on the internet? Or are they just trying to get the world record for Reddit upvotes by karma farming? Whateve…

Do they even do show crossovers anymore? Because those were the absolute best!

The largest NCAA college basketball tournament, March Madness , is in full swing and this past weekend was no slouch for basketball aficionados across the country. The fury of the tournament offered some incredible games this weekend along with upsets that came out of nowhere. The number 4 team in the South pool, Virginia , was taken out by the number 13 team, Furman . This game was electric and, while Furman lost in the next round, progressing past the first round was a feat in itself. Next up…

Pure escapism

The algorithm is wild

One of the most complex parts of parenting is deciding when a kid is old enough for certain things. When I was a kid, it was a lot easier to keep kids away from inappropriate content. Elementary school children were not running around with iPads because they hadn't been invented yet. It was normal for kids not to go on the internet for anything other than Club Penguin . While it wasn't the wild west, it was still hard for parents to control what we watched once we became tweens. I watched all 1…

As of right now, it's been nine days and six hours since I've consumed an alcoholic beverage. Which is the longest I've gone without a drink in at least a year. I don't know if I'm an alcoholic, but the pandemic definitely changed the way I drank. More after-work drinks, whether at home while social distancing, or when we were forced to go back to the office. Because I've basically pickled myself, and have gotten into some bad habits, I made the difficult decision to abstain for the foreseeable…

POWER

It just keeps getting weirder

YOU get a red flag, YOU get a red flag, EVERYBODY gets a red flag!

I swear, it's because of inflation

Ah, the dark, dreary and joyless days of winter. For some people, they may not be over. But here on the East Coast, we have some good news. While the cold (and seasonal depression ) may have turned us into mopey blobs with little to no energy or motivation, suddenly, we are experiencing hope. That hope comes in the form of sunshine. It comes in the form of outdoor happy hours and shedding our puffy down jackets, hats, and gloves. Finally, we can trek through the streets without discomfort. Movi…

Here in New York City, the weather is finally starting to warm up. This means I'm finally able to sit outside and enjoy the rare luxury of living somewhere with a backyard. Now, the shared space isn't fancy. My neighbors like to party and leave evidence of that pretty much everywhere. But after I pick up their cans and straighten up the chairs around the fire pit, things don't look half bad. And I can sit and watch the birds in peace. There's a surprisingly diverse variety of avian life on our…

Not acceptable

A lot of people come from the Cole Sprouse school of weirdness. That is to say, they claim they're weird without really being weird at all. If you're lost, let me introduce you to the second-greatest quote from the series Riverdale . “In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit it, and I don't... wanna fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on?” -Jughead Jones, played by Cole Sprouse Of course, the greatest quote Riverdale has to offer is the following: “I d…