YR AN ADULT started as kind of a joke title, thinking we would come up with something better down the line or raise the money to eventually buy the domain “adultmagazine.com” (ha!). But the name has kind of stuck, for better of for worse. It’s oddly catchy (in our minds) and the obnoxious spelling somehow feels right for a site about barely-adults who grew up on the internet. But we’ve never been sure how to print it in posts. In the logo, it’s lowercase, which looks fine in the hand-print font, but not that great when written in posts. If you look back at past posts, you’ll see that we’ve tried all kinds of different ways of printing it: italics, bold, all caps, just the first word capitalized – but nothing has stuck. So, I thought in our first poll, I’d let the readers of the site give us their take. So, if you could please take a whole 2 seconds to think about it and let me know what you think, that’d be great. Here’s to solving other people’s problems! (click thru below to the poll)… KEEP READING!
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Quote of the day
“To me, young has no meaning- something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality and if you have it, you never lose it.”
-Frank Lloyd Wright, spotted here.
8 reasons why you shouldn’t bother buying a home
Earlier this week, NPR had another bleak, the-world-is-sooooooo-fucked-up-for-young-people article about how millennials aren’t buying houses like previous generations (forwarded by Andrew Brown, yr an adult’s moral conscience). They explain this trend by rehashing all the other bad news millennials are faced with; there aren’t any jobs, credit is impossible, real estate is either prohibitively expensive or in regions with no economic prospects. Also, since millennials are sooooooo entitled and want the freedom to pick up and move whenever they feel like, they’re not even thinking about owning their own home. It’s depressing news, which is why I felt compelled to look on the bright side, to help you, dear reader, to consider it a blessing that you’ll probably never be able to afford you’re own home. Below is a list of reasons why you shouldn’t bother owning a home, because it mostly sucks. Don’t say I never made you feel better. .
1.) Owning a house is, like, a job in itself. Every Sunday is another trip to Loews for new fixtures or appliances. If you live in an apartment and you have a shitty kitchen, you just have a shitty kitchen. And your life is pretty much the same as it would be after you could have spent $50,0000 and 700 hours making your kitchen awesome. Think about it. What do you want to do this weekend? Watch Prometheus, go get drunk in the park, watch Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Final and play ‘Cards Against Humanity’? Or do you want to get in an argument with your girlfriend/boyfriend in the drapery section of Home Depot?
Quote of the day
“The act of snapping a picture is no longer enough to confirm reality and enhance experience; only sharing can give us that validation.”
- New York Times Art Critic, Karen Rosenberg, in her excellent op-ed piece on the changing nature of photography
Recent discovery: the ability to buy comic books on my iPhone brings out the absolute worst in me
One of the very first posts I wrote for yr an adult, before I even knew that, literally, hundreds of people (I know! Hundreds!) might be interested in reading what I had to say about how weird I think adulthood is, was about my recently returned love of buying comic books. If you weren’t with me since the beginning (don’t worry, that doesn’t make you a poser), I’ll summarize: I’m dork, I like spending money impulsively, and there’s a comic book store around the corner from my apartment, so I’ve been spending $20-40 bucks a month there of late, all in attempt to not being a complete grown up yet. Anyways, late last night, my mind wandered to, of all things, Miles Morales, the new alternate-Marvel Universe black Spiderman, who inspired an obnoxious race-is-a-thing-we’re-still-not-good-at-talking-about media stir late last year (it’s summed up pretty perfectly by Jon Stewart, here). “Was that still a thing?” I wondered to myself. A couple iPhone strokes and I was wikipedia-ing whether the comic had lasted since the summer and whether the “critics” thought it was any good. After a little perusing, I was filled with a sudden impulse to read the comic book, but, it being 10:00 pm on a Sunday night, that didn’t seem possible. Then it occurred to me:
“Can’t you buy electronic comic books on your iPhone?” If less-practical lightening has ever struck, I’m not sure where.
The New Rules of Adulthood
#2. If you’re at an upscale mixology bar, don’t order a drink in a martini glass when you don’t have a spot at the bar.
There’s nothing cool about spilling an $11 cocktail all over yourself.
photo via ty nigh, used under a CC license.