Several months ago, a friend recommended eating Vegans as a sixty-day challenge. I accepted the challenge and it has changed how I’ll eat for the rest of my life.

I’ve practiced a sapien-based diet for the past four years. People often incorrectly refer to it as cannibalism. While I understand why the term remains common, it is outdated. We describe our lifestyle as sapien-based, or sapitarian. Both are correct. We’re attempting to move beyond the misconceptions and negative connotations of the past.

Sapitarianism is not an easy practice to maintain but, once you accept the inconveniences, it is life-affirming. I’m…

Dirty, taboo, vulgar, lewd — all describe the sweary language a gentleman supposedly avoids. Only an uncouth brute uses profanity, or does he? It turns out cursing is a lot more fucking complex than we thought.

We have a fondness for dirty words. They show up everywhere from graffiti on the streets to the halls of academia. There are scholarly works about their importance from philosophers such as Harvard’s Steven Pinker and entertaining books about their origins such as Melissa Mohr’s Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing. Vulgar words are found throughout cultures, dating back centuries. Recently, a set…

When I dropped out of law school to move across the country to LA, I told people I wanted to be a screenwriter, which was mostly true. About 40% of my motivation was writing but the other 60% was to become a surfer. Those priorities conjured up ten years of ridiculous hijinks as I tried to figure out what to do with my life. They also resulted in my getting a phone number from one of the most beautiful women on the planet.

When I arrived in LA in 2003, I already had a network of friends working in…

1. His afterlife glow seems a little too glowy lately. Why so luminous, mister?
2. You notice him liking a lot photos of a mysterious ghoul on Instaghost. Who is this strumpet and does she own a sheet in an adult size?
3. He suddenly decides to cut back on his nightly glass of spirits because he wants to get in better shape. Wait, there’s more than one?!?
4. Last night he broke out some new scare tactics in bed, which felt amazing, but where the hell did he learn those moves?
5. Rumors are circulating he was seen with a skinny banshee at Macabre…

As the world begins crawling back to normalcy, we’re seeing little signs of our pre-pandemic, carefree lives pop up likes the sprouts of spring’s newborn flowers. Many restaurants and bars have reopened. NBA coaches stopped wearing masks on the bench during playoff games. I see open-faced people on the streets for the first time in months, and once again drunk people on planes are a problem.

Ah, normalcy.

The Southwest Attack

On Sunday, May 23 a passenger on Southwest Airlines allegedly struck a flight attendant during a flight from Sacramento to San Diego after repeatedly disregarding safety instructions. …

Have you recently had your heart broken by a fiancee or partner who left you for someone else? Then, you’re in good company with Hollywood’s B-list stable of rom-com characters. There’s a legion of supporting roles in romantic comedies who saw their relationship dreams crushed when they were kicked to the curb by predictable plotlines and so-called happy endings. If a character is the boo in act one, there’s likely an upgrade in the works, but before the romantic switcheroo, act one boos are often mistreated, deceived, or dumped on their wedding days.

Yet these broken hearted B-listers get no…

Brian,

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My friend, Elena, took a thoughtful draw of her cigarette as I swirled the red wine in my glass. She adjusted her brown wool coat and shifted in her seat before blowing a perfect smoke ring that floated over our table and across the terrace of the bistro where were sitting. She casually crushed her cigarette into the ashtray on the table and spoke without looking up at me.

“So, what’s your advice for a 25-year-old girl who feels like she’s in a rut?”

Elena runs a freelance marketing company here in Iasi, Romania and up to this point, our…