If you don’t know how you’ll cope with your existential boredom now that the election is over, don’t worry; Farhood Manjoo’s got you covered .
My favorite suggestion: “If you missed ‘You Suck at Photoshop,’ the 20-episode Web series in which a disaffected loser dishes about his miserable life as he tries to teach you how to edit photos, stop reading this and watch it immediately.”
I suppose you could also develop a rich interior life of prayer and learning, but that’s, like, so yesterday.
Notes on Anosmia
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