By David Himmel

• Serious question: How did people know they were loved before social media? Like, how many fights occur—or even divorces/breakups—because one party in the relationship doesn’t post enough lovey-dovey white noise? Serious question.

• Flirting with your most dramatic tendencies may be good for you, but it’s hell on everyone else.

• Don’t spend too much time loitering at the corner of Indifference and Duress.

• Sometimes, the best thing for your mental health is to grab a McDonald’s breakfast at the drive-thru, park your car, then devour it while listening to death metal at top volume. Your ears will ring the rest of the day and you run the risk of blowing your ass out later, but mental health is important.

• “I just have so many acid stories,” is my favorite thing I heard this week.

• When friends die, it’s sad. When friends live with crippling pain, it’s worse.