HeyJaredThe Worst Years Of Our Lives: The 2000s
Was the era of virginity pledges, vajazzling and John Mayer truly the last good time??
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The Songs That Got Banned on 9/11 (opens the original)
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First, a word from our sponsor: me! My book The Midlife Plot Twist, comes out on Sept. 15, so now it’s time to hype it at the top of the newsletter. Sorry, but I am confident that you’ll survive!Anyway! It’s a funny and heavily researched self-help book about dealing with midlife dissatisfaction — spoiler, I am very much in favor of embracing it, as I think it gives you crucial information about changes you might want to make in your life. My co-author and I surveyed 150 wo
Why Did We Get Obsessed With a Movie That Didn't Exist? (opens the original)
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There are only a few things I’ve ever been sure of in this world: 1. that Margot Robbie was robbed of a Best Actress Oscar for her work on I, Tonya; 2. that when I die, they’re gonna cut me open and find a congealed wad of Diet Coke the exact size and weight of a bowling ball; and 3. that one day, I was going to have to write about Snakes on a Plane for this Substack. And since this seminal piece of “Samuel L. Jackson cusses out a bunch of reptiles” cinema turns 20 on August 18, it seems that da
Why Have We Forgotten About '00s Quirk? (opens the original)
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As luck would have it, I was on vacation back in June when the debate about what constitutes “hipster music” broke out. I was glad to have missed it — I think we can all agree that anything that keeps me from getting into an emotionally violent online argument about the Lumineers is a blessing. But it did make me start wondering about how we’re writing the history of the 2000s.I mean, not like I’m ever
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