1. The Toast's weekly Friday open thread, hosted by The Bartender.

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  2. Erinn Salge examines the ghost tours she has taken, and evaluates them by haunting-ness.

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  3. The Mom Apotheosis

    The most mom stories in the world, anthologized.

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  4. Link Roundup!

    The Toast presents a selection of delightful information in the form of a link roundup.

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  5. Ariana Kelly on the strange sorts of people who work and play at a ski resort, and the chairlifts that unite them.

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  6. There was pretty much just one problem with The Maze Runner.

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  7. Caroline O'Donoghue on the later lives of the book characters of your youth.

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  8. Nicole Soojung Callahan and Sarah Jeong talk race, representation, and writing about Asian Americans.

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  9. Two men talk about their multiracial marriage, the "exotic," and where the fault lines lie for them.

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  10. It's hard to trust the women in an Eagles song.

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  11. Link Roundup!

    The Toast presents a selection of delightful information in the form of a link roundup.

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  12. Maddie Gaw on the awkward and unnatural (though occasionally sublime) experience of waiting to meet celebrities at the stage door.

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  13. Mallory and Alexis Coe, talking Alice + Freda Forever tonight in San Francisco.

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  14. Songs From A Neutral Milk Hotel Album That Does Not Reference The Holocaust!

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  15. Eliana Osborn, on being pretty bad at her job at CheckRite.

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