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Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific. I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter. We express a lot of opinions on this show, and opinions are like smart phones. Everyone has…

Two-Hundred of Anything is Probably Too Many. In our wildest dreams, which include bank robberies, alien abductions and making out with our third grade…

A Little Love and a Little Encouragement. Adulthood is a scam. You think, “Oh, I can vote and drink a beer,” but those minor luxuries come with a lifetime of…

Vacation, All I Ever Wanted. Humans need downtime, time when they don’t need to respond to emails or perform labors or be responsible for stuff generally, time…

The Law of the Conservation of Irritation. In the appendix to Einstein’s paradigm-shifting 1905 treatise on special relativity, he mentions this little known…

Remote Control. This episode of Revolting is completely dedicated to a show-by-show analysis of the late ‘80s MTV game show Remote Control with Ken Ober and…

The Looking Glass Self. In 1902 Charles Horton Cooley came up with this idea that our sense of self is formed in this sort of ricocheting set of judgments.…

A Partial List of Things We’re Against. There’s a subtle difference between being anti-establishment and anti-authority, but we’re both. Also, anti-boredom.…

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer. Humans are social animals. We only make sense to ourselves in a larger context, and we spend the years of our…

The View from the Top of the Creative High Dive. Even if you’ve been doing your thing for a good long time, you have these moments where you wonder if you can…