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March 19 2016

Names, Words, and Phrases Appearing in a Single NYT Trend Piece

An

abridged

list, in no particular order.

  • Edmund Wilson
  • poststructuralism
  • the Situationists
  • “extrainstitutional intellectualism”
  • bourbon
  • “proletarian meta-narrative”
  • the Lost Generation
  • Cornell
  • Sacre Coeur
  • shoe bench
  • Jonathan Lethem
  • The Paris Review
  • paradigm
  • Jacques Derrida
  • French reactionaries
  • Brooklyn
  • “a hedonic treadmill”
  • Guy Debord
  • The New Yorker
  • Lady Gaga
  • “stale tobacco”
  • Frederic Tuten
  • Utne Reader
  • Douglas Rushkoff
  • “slacker-revolutionary spirit”
  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes
  • Michel Houellebecq
  • James Wolcott
  • Maoist
  • Paris Commune
  • Kanye West
  • “the inevitable failure of Marxism”
  • Kurt Andersen
  • N+1
  • Columbia
  • ‘70s encounter groups
  • “a ladder to nowhere”

What to Wear During the Blackout Apocalypse

One (1) pair of leggings or any other jegging-esque bottom with an elastic waistband, which will prove reasonably comfortable during both long periods of immobility and short bursts of activity (like getting up to light candles).

One (1) pair of sweatpants with 5 days’ worth of crumbs and stains on them. Wear these whenever you are not wearing the leggings. Sleep in them. Wear them while trying to give yourself a kitchen sink-bath in the dark. Run errands in them. Do everything you can in these sweatpants and save the leggings for times when you need another human being to respond to you in a positive manner, like when hailing a cab. Do not hail a cab in sweatpants