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I'm trying to compile a list of the noteworthy events of the past year. Any help would be appreciated ( Read more... )

(from Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs23. Q: Consider this possibility ( Read more... )

(from Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs22. You work in an office. Generally, you are popular with your coworkers. However, you discover that there are currently two rumors circulating the office gossip mill, and both involve you. The first rumor is that you got drunk at the office holiday party and had sex with one of your married ( Read more... )

(from Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs21. Imagine you could go back to the age of five and relive the rest of your life, knowing everything that you know now. You will reexperience your entire adolescence with both the cognitive ability of an adult and the memories of everything you've learned from having lived your life previously ( Read more... )

(from Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs20. For whatever the reason, two unauthorized movies are made about your life. The first is an independently released documentary, primarily comprised of interviews with people who know you and bootleg footage from your actual life. Critics are describing the documentary as "brutally honest and ( Read more... )

(from Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs18. Your best friend is taking a nap on the floor of your living room. Suddenly, you are faced with a bizarre existential problem: This friend is going to die unless you kick them (as hard as you can) in the rib cage. If you don't kick them while they slumber, they will never wake up. However, you ( Read more... )

(from Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs)

17. You have won a prize. The prize has two options, and you can choose either (but not both). The first option is a year in Europe with a monthly stipend of $2,000. The second option is ten minutes on the moon.

Which option do you select?

(from Chuck Klosterman's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs16. Someone builds an optical portal that allows you to see a vision of your own life in the future (it’s essentially a crystal ball that shows a randomly selected image of what your life will be like in twenty years). You can only see into this portal for thirty seconds. When you finally peer ( Read more... )