Megan Boyle
Articles by Megan Boyle
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Boyle's Brains
I Listened to Five CDs from the Five-for-a-Dollar Box at FYE
I recently spent about 40 minutes digging through the five-for-a-dollar-box at FYE, delighting in the bleakly diverse selection of CDs resting in what would likely become their punchline-y final destination. Full story
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Boyle's Brains
People I Met in Truck Driving School
This May I passed a trucking school on my bike and enrolled shortly after. For four weeks a small group of men and I watched instructional DVDs and took tests in a classroom Mondays through Thursdays from 5:30 to 10:45. Fridays we’d meet in a relatively empty industrial area unde… Full story
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Weight Loss Tips that Have Actually Worked for Me
Here's one trick you can use to combat food problems: Think about how if something is creamy, lactation was probably involved. When you’re trying to decide between two pints of ice cream, pretend they are your mom’s nipples and she wants you to suck on them. Full story
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Rejected GOP Campaign Strategies
Gingrich wanted to make DJ Earworm’s mash-up of 2011 popular radio hits, “World Go Boom,” his answer to all questions. Full story
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Ways to Improve Basketball
How about Dad Overtime, for example? In the event of a tie, all members of Team A and Team B will be swapped out for their dads. Full story
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What New York City Public Sleepers Think About Everclear
It would be easy to assume an old man with a large plastic bag containing a smaller paper Cinnabon bag sleeping in a library next to a liter of club soda would have a limited awareness of Everclear. Full story
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Deleted Scenes from “Drive”
Ryan Gosling ducks behind a boulder and unwraps two packages of snack cakes and blueberry mini-muffins. Full story
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Future Parts of the Human Body
This column is going to be about stuff I like that I think other people might like too. It's called "Boyle's Brains" because my last name is Boyle and my brain is the thing that tells me what I like. Full story
Thought and Memory
New Fiction by Ed Park 
Malaysian Neo-Nazis
Fighting for a Pure Malay Race 
The Strongest Dwarf in New Jersey
Remembering My Tormentor 
Gay Men and Their Misogyny Problem
It's Not Cute Anymore 
Snooping Around Nicolas Cage's House
So Many Bummers 
Saudi Arabia's Feminist Revolution
It's Not Happening 
