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Guest AuthorMay 14, 2014

The other night, I watched a Bravo “Real Housewives” reunion show in which a woman yelled through a bullhorn “You’re a dumb ho! Shut up!” at another woman two feet away. A split-second later, the woman with the bullhorn looked genuinely surprised when the other woman charged at her, furious, and began swinging. It was […]

Guest AuthorMarch 13, 2014

As a kid, I loved horror movies, and so one year I set out to record every horror movie ever made. My parents had purchased a box of blank VHS tapes from Sam’s Club, and I used Super Long Play to record three movies to a single tape. (The quality was terrible, but this was […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 8, 2014

To be a teacher is to shove all housekeeping tasks to those tight windows of time when the grading goes away. All semester long, dirty laundry piles up. The lawn grows unchecked. And then, just after my semester ends in December, or May, or August, I schedule long-overdue oil changes and haircuts and dental appointments. […]

Guest AuthorNovember 7, 2013

Dear List Articles, You are killing us. You: the List Article. You know who you are. The type of article shared on Facebook at an every-other-status-update clip: “The 5 Best Pumpkin-Flavored Specialties This Season” and “20 Important Speeches Interrupted By Kanye West” and “The 17 Grisliest Death Scenes From ‘80s Slasher Movies” and “22 Things Right […]

Tag: Nathan Holic
This photo provided by Florida Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Glen Rogers. (Florida Department of Corrections via AP)

Nathan Holic: This is what happens when we forget that speech has consequences

Nathan Holic: The anxiety of ‘read it later’

Nathan Holic: The struggle to eliminate clutter in the digital age

Nathan Holic: An open letter to Listicles