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words in the atlantic/pitchfork/gawker/vice etc, cohost the podcast. wrote a book about how golf saved my life. order it and listen to golfcore 
howgolfcansaveyourlife.bandcamp.com/album/golfcore…Joined February 2009
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the bill gates netflix documentary contains maybe the funniest shot i have ever seen
everyone should go outside, take a long walk, and think about how they‘ve been behaving on the internet
who on joe biden’s team was like “oh hell yeah let’s put this sick ass joe biden quote on the joe biden website”
i have just discovered that there is not a tom hanks movie called “the pony express” that is about the pony express. i have spent at least a decade of my life believing that there was such a film. what the fuck
Hello, I am now the ’s weekend editor! If you are a writer, please pitch me stories about things: drew.millard@theoutline.com
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obviously the issue gates is grappling with is very real, but the idea that the filmmakers represented his efforts to deal with that by having him write “Reinvented toilet” on a whiteboard is truly incredible
Starting July 1st, I will be ’s Features Editor. Please pitch me features now so I have things to run!!! Email is drew.millard@theoutline.com!!!!
can’t wait until trump postpones the election indefinitely and the democrats immediately cave in exchange for a $500 tax credit for pell grant recipients who start a small business that employs four to seven people and has a hypoallergenic office dog
i love my dad, but he voted for joe biden in the north carolina primary. his punishment was that he had to let me interview him about it
can’t believe they hired a “frasier but modarn” twitter account to write the actual frasier (but modarn)
the new kanye album is about redemption. but does he, or anyone involved with donda, deserve it? and exactly *how* coked-out can a christian rap record sound? these are questions i tried to answer for
i found the russian intelligence asset and it is
this is the funniest photoshop i have ever seen
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i'm kind of in shock right now but i just want to say thanks to everyone who's reached out with kind words. and also thanks to everyone who ever wrote for me, your pieces were all amazing and i'm sorry if i gave you too many nitpicky edits
wrote about the travis scott satanic panic is great cover for live nation having an effective monopoly over large-scale live music for
I am not necessarily a "get mad and dig up old tweets" type of person, but in light of the fact that Charlie Daniels is playing the North Carolina State Fair, I decided to dig up Charlie Daniels's old tweets to remind the people who booked him that *this* is the guy they booked.
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ok this is a pretty funny button for joe biden to sell though. like it just says "folks"
Are you a writer who likes things on the internet that are pleasant? If so, you should pitch an entry in The Outline's A Good Place column! To me! At drew.millard@theoutline.com!
super tight that biden was like “when i’m president things are gonna be good. specifically ‘ebola’ levels of good.”
bringing 1000 $160k google jobs to downtown durham is a huge deal — we’re a small city that lacks affordable, centrally located housing and/or decent public transportation + already have rampant economic inequality and gentrification courtesy of out of state developers
i wrote an open letter to my dog
sucks to have your job taken away by people who view the totality of your hard work/passion as a number that’s too high in one column in the spreadsheet and another number that’s not high enough in another. also sucks to have a corporation lie about your working conditions online
Wrote about how Tom DeLonge quitting blink-182 to go alien hunting is good and how being cool online is bad
as writes, "we are born sold out, and we spend our lives searching for lost and mythological authenticity." in other words, let dril make his adult swim show in peace
lol remember how all of the “new journalism” people in the 70s used “i have a photographic memory” as code for “well the internet doesn’t exist and i’m on a bunch of speed so i’m gonna make half this shit up”
I wrote a “long form article” about people trying to get rich by making us live forever
I profiled DaBaby and accidentally convinced him that I actively worship Satan
it’s almost like the companies that produce journalism.... don’t actually care about journalism and certainly don’t care about the people who actually perform the labor of creating it? wait that can’t be right, that would be super fucked up
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the fact that durham ceded so much power over its future to a private company without any meaningful form of consent from the people who live here — not even so much as a vaguely worded bullshit referendum! — is so undemocratic it makes my eyes bleed
people* always** ask me, "drew, how are you so productive even though you work from home?" and so, i have written an article disclosing all of my secret work-from-home life hacks.
*no one
**never
politics isn't harry potter and elizabeth warren is never going to do your taxes, from
wrote about why universal child care would mean millennials like me could start families (not actually me, but like, people *like* me, y'know?)
for the past few months, i've been editing (and lately, often writing) a column for the outline called A Good Place, about all the nice and pleasant websites on the net. here's a greatest-hits collection of those columns in case you want that right now
thinking back on the time shane smith was giving some random people in suits a tour of vice and gestured over to the editorial area, which he referred to as a “hipster sweatshop” right in front of our faces. not sure why i’m remembering that right now.
noisey let me write profiles of bubba sparxxx, jackie chain, and the dude who sang "the monster mash," and being there gave me the opportunity to work with people who i'll count as friends for life. noisey was a good website.
Read on the Russian rap scene’s parallel universe, where literally every SoundCloud rapper is bigger than J. Cole
first day of school y'all!
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Starting July 1st, I will be @outline’s Features Editor. Please pitch me features now so I have things to run!!! Email is drew.millard@theoutline.com!!!!
lately i’ve been thinking back on the hardest i’ve ever been owned: when disclosure canceled an interview i was supposed to do with them at like 3am at a nightclub in vegas by making their publicist tell me they “wanted to party.” to be clear this was at 3am, in the nightclub.
I wrote 3500 words about going to New Hampshire and buying a Bitcoin t-shirt from an anarcho-capitalist
there is no better day than today to *not* make a quarantine podcast, by
time to get back to my true passion, staying inside and attempting to distract myself from the fact that i don't have a job
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To celebrate Google having to pay $57 billion dollars, please read my profile of DuckDuckGo, the search engine that does not want to know who you are. medium.com/s/story/nothin
I went to Paoli, Pennsylvania to the headquarters of DuckDuckGo, the plucky, private search engine that could take down Google with kindness medium.com/s/story/nothin
In December, I traveled to Santa Monica to spend the afternoon interviewing Whitley Strieber, an author whose life has yielded many of the foundational narratives of conspiracy culture. medium.com/s/reasonable-d
just made my debut for , writing about the surprising resurgence of buttons on high-end tech devices -- thanks to , , and for helping me work out how buttons = power
it is 2022 and everyone likes rap music, so i wrote a story about how there is probably a type of rap music meant specifically for you (especially if you are a MAGA person in florida)
stop telling me to be productive while i'm sheltering in place
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also want to express a word of gratitude for my colleagues, all talented and fantastic people who especially in quarantine have been a godsend. , someone please hire us lol
wrote briefly about my obsession with looking at ads for pickup trucks on craigslist
i'm in wyoming, here for the kanye west album. here's a picture i just took of him to prove i'm not lying
as someone who had a deep emotional investment in matrix 4 being good i can confidently say that matrix 4 was good
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the google thing will fundamentally alter the look, feel, and socioeconomic makeup of the downtown area to the point where durham will basically become unlivable for thousands who are barely hanging on as it is
my book is currently the number-one new release in “sports humor,” none of y’all can tell me shit ever again
wrote about why "superstar cities" and the axe-throwing bars that accompany them can eat a bag of shit
Wrote about Topher Grace's unique ability to play smarmy, unlikeable characters whose shittiness feels all too familiar
HAVING A BOOK LAUNCH PARTY THURSDAY MAY 11TH AT BUSHWICK COUNTRY CLUB COME THRU
shameless repost of my dababy profile now that obama has publicly confirmed he likes a dababy song, please click
wasn’t there an hbo show one time where the entire premise was just “uhhhh this guy’s got a big dick”
calling yourself "the ONLY coffee company that supports the second amendment" is a very weird and pretty fucked up thing to do, but the black rifle coffee company does it anyway. i drank their mediocre republican dirt water so you don't have to theoutline.com/post/4709/blac
after 22 interviews, countless hours of prep, at least five anxiety attacks, an amazing launch party where i got to see so many of my favorite people, and me passing out at midnight last night and sleeping for 12 hours straight, book launch week is finally over
i wrote about why "millennial-friendly cities" don't exist (hint: it's because millennials descending upon a city in search of "good jobs" and "craft beer" tend to ruin that city)
LA Weekly’s new owners arguing that a group of well-organized activists exercising their right to free speech en masse is somehow stifling their own right to free speech is the most corny corporate bullshit in existence
i do not think you can fully comprehend the slowly mounting horror/glee that and i felt when we realized that her (fantastic) piece on infinity pools was begging to be called "Infinity Jest"
oh hey everyone's favorite company (facebook) gives a bunch of money to everyone's favorite people (republican politicians)
i was so fascinated by the phenomenon of "get what you get" tattoos that i decided to let a gumball machine pick my next tattoo out for me
decoding hidden socialist messages in britney spears’s choice of emojis is just qanon for lefties
as a centrist democrat who occasionally appears on msnbc i am anxiously watching these results so that i can decide whether or not the new hampshire primary is obsolete outdated horseshit or a really great indicator of who our next democratic nominee is going to be
I regret to inform you I have discovered the next President of the United States