Listen, you know her. We all do. Perhaps you are her, or were, in some past moment of personal upheaval. Sheâs the friend who is on a âpersonal journey.â The friend who is considering quitting her job and going wwoofing in New Zealand for three months to rediscover nature and her own inner strength. The serialâŚ
Letâs imagine you work at a company. Itâs a pretty good company, good enough that it decides, after much talk, to move to a bigger, fancier office. This office is much-heralded by those who have created it. And yet, it is still an office. It still has flaws, like any living, breathing thing.
I hate the gym. Hate is, perhaps, a strong word, but I certainly and adamantly prefer not to be inside one. Unless a person is a fan of group fitness classes, theyâre basically misery caves, especially in the winterâ sweaty, air saturated with aspirated moisture from the pores of other humans, exertion sounds,âŚ
Somewhere in the tangles of your friend group or your family tree, there is a spooky person. As a teenager they liked â melodramatically loved, perhaps â Tim Burton; as an adult, their tastes hew to Nick Cave, the Criterion collection, and probably stuff with owls on it. It either strikes you as adorable or incrediblyâŚ
In a piece towards which I felt all the traditional stages of loveâsurprise, attraction, anger, denial, tentativeness, renewal and then commitmentâMattathias Schwartz, for the New York Times Magazine, wrote a Letter of Recommendation for a vape.
Got any loved ones with a taste for the finer things?
In most cases, Instagram is not real. By that I mean, at this point, itâs pretty widely understood that most people show only the most attractive versions of themselves and the best parts of their lives on Instagram. Itâs a bit shallow and borderline sad but, everyone does it!
So youâve just started dating (boning) a new person and youâre not sure where itâs going and no one seems super invested but at the same time youâre not complete jerks who would pretend the holidays arenât happening just to prove who is being chiller. Hereâs what to get each other!
Holiday gifts for your boss are the grown up equivalent of an apple for the teacher: theyâre mainly a token of appreciation (ha!), so donât worry about spending a lot. If you like your boss/job, you want the gift to be memorable, but not too personal; useful (so they are forced to think of you whenever they pick theâŚ
It's the day after Thanksgiving, which means that it's time to start thinking about Christmas. And if the people that matter to you don't have an Amazon wish list, you might consider doing all of your shopping at UPS, where you can now have a dildo 3D printed for you.
Tomorrow is the first day of December, and we're already being inundated with Christmas crap! Here's a handy buyers guide.
A present is an opportunity to show how creative, thoughtful, and generous you are, all with a single well-wrapped package. Or it's a chance to look like a huge ass. Here's how to do the former and avoid the latter.
Boxing Day sales reportedly attracted a record number of shoppers in the UK â some no doubt returning unwanted shit â which led us to reflect on whether our holiday dreams were fulfilled.
Someone should notify Daily Candy (and Paris Hilton) that living things aren't "accessories." Oh wait, someone has! [Gothamist]
Cropped haircuts? Moonshine? Dropped waist frocks? Make an educated guess, and then read the actual list of things a 1928 journalist says women want for the holidays. [Minneapolis Star Tribune]
We don't want to be alarmist, but... eleven shopping days until Christmas! And have you even started on your boyfriend's present? What? Well, surely you have a boyfriend if you are reading Daily Candy...and surely if you have a boyfriend and read Daily Candy then the idea of purchasing $76 boxers or a designer woodâŚ
There are two things that People magazine does really well: suck up to celebrities and chronicle the lives of inspirational cripples. When it comes to service journalism though, their grip is a tad less firm, as demonstrated by their holidays inspired Ultimate Gift Guide, which could double as a handy way toâŚ
