The Awl

http://www.theawl.com/2012/03/the-incident-report-or-the-time-i-broke-it

i tried getting thru that i really did

same

I just couldn't stop thinking about how exactly that could have happened.

A classic from the Straight Dope:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/608/is-it-true-men-can-suffer-penile-fracture

Favorite section:

Frequently the victim suffers the injury while kneading his member in order to reduce an erection, a technique that in my experience usually has the opposite effect. One moron "awoke during the night with a desire to urinate," whereupon he "hit his erect penis with his hand in order to alleviate this desire." Other reported causes: rolling over in bed, hitting the bedpost, getting caught in your pajamas, falling out of a tree, being thrown against the knob of a motorcycle saddle, and so on.

Fracture always occurs during erection, making you wonder what some of the victims were up to. Consider one case involving a 38-year-old ranch hand. "The (medical) history was vague and difficult to obtain," the reporting physician writes. "The injury had occurred in the corral. It was impossible to get the exact details … His family was of the opinion that he had been kicked by one of the horses." Tell it to Catherine the Great, buddy.

Cecilia K Corrigan recently wrote about horses and ponies for the show "Luck." Now, she has a twitter.

i wonder if she has a cat named Princess Bunny Buttons

http://www.inquisitr.com/25536/broken-penis-cases-triple-in-jamaica-due-to-daggering-dance-craze-video/

can a moderator please change thread title to *2012 rolling broken penis thread*? thanks.

it's taking me a really long time to read because I am tabbing away every 2 sentences and grimacing in horror

3 weeks, 5 days a.i.
Since I can’t do much, we get creative. I’ve never given “the shocker” before, but it seems to be working great, for both of us. “I really like you,” she says afterward.

“Good to hear, Mrs. Thatcher.”

I just finished it my god

do we have a daggering thread?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4CzFrjw8KY

rolling the awl/jamaican dance crazes/broken penises

the awl's piece on the haggerty/olive garden thing was A+, but I haven't read much else on the site

I got a broken penis, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh

thanks 4 sharing hurting

u are welcome, I will try to review more websites in a similar style

do a whole bunch and then it can be an n+1 feature.

the site is impressive. the homepage is fashioned in a tuscan blogsite style.

http://thebillfold.com/

Not super familiar with that.

boxall

the billfold and wirecutter are really good, hope they keep adding stuff.

http://www.theawl.com/2012/07/north-michigan-pasty

as a native of the upper peninsula of michigan this angers me for reasons I cannot fully articulate. plus lutefisk is not finnish.

"internet hipsters"

:)

This article has made me feel a little violent.

these guys do some good stuff imo

they do, although I feel like it's a tough market for them, trying to be sort of the anti-clickbait "content" site in a very clickbaity world.

also it looks to me like they've completely changed their format relatively recently? And it kind of sucks?

have they?? i havent noticed

and yeah i know what you mean, but it seems like they're doing ok! there was some profile somewhere recently talking about it?

it looks weirdly bloggy/tumblry now and I don't remember it being like that

so . . . what happened with the hairpin?

yeah what the hell

http://observer.com/2015/10/the-hairpins-editors-are-leaving/

We reached out to Choire Sicha, the co-owner and co-founder of The Awl, to find out what’s going on. Mr. Sicha did not clarify very much at all.
“Why would we tell anyone! That’s no fun,” he replied. “We were going to make it into a fantasy sports betting site but instead decided to start a heavily funded bloodwork lab—but for women. High-end commercial phlebotomy, with a feminine touch!”

forks otm

So what’s happening? We’re actively planning what The Hairpin should be next, in a way that pays tribute to its legacy.

http://thehairpin.com/2015/12/this-holiday-season-at-the-hairpin

over/under on rejoining the Denton machine?

sounds like the worst possible outcome for both parties tbh

http://c0.thejournal.ie/media/2013/11/shutterstock_26447485-390x285.jpg

http://www.theawl.com/2016/02/job-open-again

the aw(fu)l

http://www.theawl.com/2016/03/new-awl

http://digiday.com/publishers/medium-brings-publishers-including-awl-hairpin/

Still curious about what the hell happened to the Hairpin.

With Laura Olin folding her Awl newsletter, I rediscovered this beautiful/crushing issue - should resonate with a few of us on ilx:
Songs as time machines

rip

https://www.theawl.com/2018/01/awl-ends

That's a damn shame.

boo

well, you have to give them credit, they gave it their awl

Awl things must pass iirc