Evil Week: How to Get Into Exclusive Parties Without an Invitation

Welcome toEvil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks wed usually refrain from recommending. Weve got all the info you better be successfully unsavory. Heres how to do it. Lets look at each one individually. First, venture to get on the guestlist How did you find out about the party? Was it a friend who mentioned it or something you saw online? Just send a brief email like, Confirming my attendance, thanks!...

November 1, 2023 · 2 min · 384 words · Crystal Armstrong

Evil Week: How to Pose for the Perfect Mugshot

Welcome to Evil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks wed usually refrain from recommending. Weve got all the info you should probably be successfully unsavory. So dont pull shenanigans when youre being booked. venture to look as unassuming and not-guilty as possible. Wear a shirt that wont wash out your face. double-check your hair is on point. Make yourself prettyyou only get one chance to make a first impression....

November 1, 2023 · 2 min · 333 words · Yvette Hanson

Evil Week: How to Summon a Demon

Im sure you do, too, so Ive prepared a step-by-step guide to summoning otherworldly entities. Since this is our first demonic summoning, were not going to start by commanding Lucifer. Instead, well summon a modest, generic spirit into a glass. (The book is, incidentally, the original source of the magic word Abracadabra!) With that out of the way, lets summon something! Summoning a spirit into a glass Step one:Gather your supplies....

November 1, 2023 · 3 min · 430 words · Donald Torres

Evil Week: Pass Off Cheap Baked Goods As the Expensive Stuff

Welcome toEvil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks wed usually refrain from recommending. Weve got all the info you should probably be successfully unsavory. However, that kind of deception only works for family members who value effort and skill. What about those jerks who only care about worth, status, and brands? You cant show up to Thanksgiving with a homemadehumblepie. You better walk in with a fancy box of designer brownies....

November 1, 2023 · 2 min · 365 words · Edwin Moon

It’s Fine, You Can Lift in Running Shoes

You dont want cushions under your feet when theres a heavy bar on your back! But the importance of your choice of shoes is hugely overblown. You arent going to injure yourself or kill your gains by squatting in sneakers. Why people say you shouldnt squat in sneakers Why is this questionable advice so pervasive? I blame internet form-check culture. But theycansee that you are wearing New Balances, so thats what they pick on first....

November 1, 2023 · 2 min · 338 words · Michael Hughes

Nine Ways to Talk to the Dead

According toPsychology Today, as many three-quarters of bereaved people report some kind of after-death communication with loved ones. It seems to help if youre under 15 years old. Some say the board could result in a demon entering your life. Rating: 4 out of 10. If you might find another way to talk to the dead, go with that. One popular method of mirror-aided supernatural communication is called the Psychomanteum....

November 1, 2023 · 3 min · 578 words · Michelle Shepherd

This Is the Apple Pencil You Should Buy

The Apple Pencil is tied with a keyboard case astheno-brainer iPad accessory to buy. (Instead of typing into a text field, try writing in it instead.) But it gets confusing when you take a stab at actually buy one of these Apple styluses for yourself. Apple currently sellsthreeApple Pencils for the iPad,including a brand new one that uses USB-C. It retails for $99, and is arguably worth the price tag....

November 1, 2023 · 2 min · 303 words · Julie Porter

Today’s NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Wednesday, November 1, 2023

If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Does todays Connections game require any special knowledge? Green category - Stitch. Blue category - This one is doctored. Purple category - Um um um Im having trouble with this one....

November 1, 2023 · 3 min · 520 words · Jeffrey Clarke

Evil Week: How to Insult Your Enemies in a Classy Way

Welcome to Evil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks wed usually refrain from recommending. Weve got all the info you gotta be successfully unsavory. So you have an enemy, and you gotta knock them down a peg. The key to insulting your enemies is doing it with some style. Anyone can whip up some crass, problematic, or otherwise offensive remark. A good insult should be more cutting than brute force....

October 31, 2023 · 3 min · 457 words · Gregory Casey

Evil Week: How to Sell Your Soul to the Devil

Welcome to Evil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks wed usually refrain from recommending. Weve got all the info you oughta be successfully unsavory. Even though I was drunk and I dont believe in anything, I refused the offer. Id say its all nonsense, but my drunken bar encounter suggests Im not entirely certain. Bothviolinist Niccolo Paganiniandblues icon Robert Johnsonare said to have sold their souls to avoid practicing scales....

October 31, 2023 · 3 min · 551 words · Krystal Robinson

Evil Week: Keep Your Snacks Out of Your Family's Filthy Paws

Welcome toEvil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks wed usually refrain from recommending. Weve got all the info you gotta be successfully unsavory. Halloween gives everyone the excuse to demolish some candy. Adults without kids, like myself, feel encouraged to celebrate with a bag of their favorite candy. In the name of keeping your hard-earned, comforting, sanity-giving snacks safe, you must deceive your household. The most effective way to trick them into leaving your snacks alone lies in first being a good observer....

October 31, 2023 · 2 min · 307 words · Rachel Kim

Evil Week: The Best Ways to Get Revenge (Legally)

Welcome toEvil Week,our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks wed usually refrain from recommending. Weve got all the info you’re gonna wanna be successfully unsavory. Its Evil Week, so lets talk revenge. These rules are not for fly-off-the-handle types for whom revenge is punching someone in the face. That kind of crude, emotional response leads to escalation, personal danger, and prison time. Decide if its really worth it to you Revenge is messy and can come back on you....

October 31, 2023 · 2 min · 357 words · Eric Collins

The Singapore Stone

This attracted great interest over the boulder and the mysterious inscription it held. Only a few fragments of the boulder were saved. Badang was born a normal boy in the northern part of the Sultanate of Johor, in present-day Malaysia. At night he would catch fish on a small stream with a trap. Badang got so mad with rage that he seized the demon and tied its hair to a rock....

October 31, 2023 · 2 min · 274 words · Lauren Espinoza MD