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Nothing Normal
It was the end of an era. During a week of tear-filled good-byes in early June, Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad, the stars of Broadway's ridiculously popular musical The Book of Mormon, passed their Temple…
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Yo Quiero Taco
So there's the cult of The League, the FX show, now in its fourth season, featuring a group of friends and their fantasy football league foibles. And then there's the cult of Taco: stoner, lover,…
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A Novel Life
As a kid, Emma Straub wanted to be an actor. "I took one class. And we were supposed to pretend to eat something. And I was like, 'This is so stupid.'" But the fantasy lingered.…
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A Real Treat
"I have someone say 'Treat yo' self' to me about 10 times a day, whether it's on Twitter or in person," Parks and Recreation star Retta says of the show's viral catchphrase popularized by her…
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Hannibal Rising
It's early in the evening backstage at Brooklyn's Knitting Factory, and comedian Hannibal Buress is about to have the highest profile night of his career. In a few short hours, his gut-bustingly funny stand-up special…
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Sh*t Celebrities Say: "I Don't Own a TV"
"You don't own a TV? Then what's all your furniture pointed at?" - Joey Tribbiani, FriendsPeople who humble-brag about not owning TVs at cocktail parties, you are not alone. Below, a list of your celebrity…
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Digital Renegades
HEATHER KNIGHT JAYSON MUSSON JONAH PERETTI EMILY GOULD AND RUTH CURRY CHRISTINA XU AARON KOBLIN …
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PAPER's Guide to the Internet
Chatting With the Funniest Person On Twitter: @JennyJohnsonHi5How to Create a Single-Purpose TumblrWeblebrity: Mykki BlancoI Compulsively Search On the Internet For...Hashing It Out -- How to Craft the Perfect Twitter HashtagTween Hobo's Guide to Bindle…
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Weblebrity: Mykki Blanco
Michael David Quattlebaum Jr.'s cross-dressing alter ego Mykki Blanco was born in 2010 when the 24-year-old uploaded videos of himself playfully portraying a teenaged female rapper. He went on to publish a collection of poems…
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Hashing It Out
Crafting the perfect hashtag to sum up your 140-character creation is almost an art form. The hashtag is primarily used to organize topics and make them more searchable, but those comfortable with the Twitter lexicon…
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Tween Hobo
Who is Tween Hobo? Her Twitter bio (@tweenhobo) merely says: "I'm only 12, but I'm a hard 12." Her look -- smudged eyeliner, a beat-up bowler hat -- is equal parts Urban Outfitters and…
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I Compulsively Search On the Internet For...
Killer Mike, rapper: "I am slightly obsessed with antique barber chairs, and constantly go on eBay and old barbers' forums to look for them. It's hard to find a full set, because athletes and rich…
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Finding Love On the Internet
Courtney Love's been online for years, writing on AOL message boards in the '90s, keeping a blog on MySpace, and, more recently -- and infamously -- using Twitter. (Last month, Love took to Twitter to…
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How to create your own single-purpose Tumblr
Since launching in 2007, Tumblr now hosts more than 50 million blogs, including pages for President Obama, Lady Gaga and, probably, your grandma. (PAPER's got one, too!) In 2009, a quirky phenomenon started gaining traction…
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One-Tweet Wonders
One of my favorite things on Twitter is when someone registers a really hilarious username, and then gives up after tweeting only once or twice. When Twitter rolled out the username search, all of a…
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Chatting With the Funniest Person On Twitter: @JennyJohnsonHi5
With her acerbic -- and hilarious -- tweets, former TV news producer Jenny Johnson (aka @JennyJohnsonHi5) has amassed a following nearly 200,000 strong, catching Hollywood's eye in the process. When the Houston-based Johnson is not…
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Aaron Koblin
Aaron Koblin leads Google's Data Arts Team, nine creative coders committed to what Koblin calls "experimental applications of Google technology," or "showing off what's possible." It might be easier to say that Koblin, who switched his…
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Christina Xu
If you ask Christina Xu where she's from, she'll say "the Internet." Born in China and raised in suburban Ohio, she spent much of high school in chat rooms and spent her years at Harvard studying the…
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Emily Gould and Ruth Curry
In the era of e-books, what will happen to the indie bookstore? Will the algorithms at virtual big-boxes decide what we read? And if so, will important, life-changing books go undiscovered? This was a future that…
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Jonah Peretti
When he clicks on "The World's Saddest Owl" (43,293 views) or "38 Situations That Aren't Going To End Well" (64,200) Jonah Peretti's giggle belies a surprisingly cerebral thought process. As the founder of BuzzFeed, the social publishing site…
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