Words! Glorious, wonderful words.
If you're burned out after a long week of talking, or not talking, to your family, or even from looking at adorable photos and GIFs on the Internet, perhaps we could interest you in a select handful of the exemplary longform stories BuzzFeed has published in 2012?
From an epic meditation on the complicated legacy of Mitt Romney's father to the travails of underage runway models to the craftiest of apocalypse profiteers to the science behind chill-inducing tunes, these stories reflect the range of topics and ideas of interest to us, and, hopefully to you. Enjoy 'em, share 'em, enjoy 'em some more.
Happy reading and Happy New Year. And much, much more of this kind of thing to come in 2013.
Can You Die From a Nightmare?
It was creepy to wake up violently in the middle of the night. It was creepier when no one could tell me why it was happening. by Doree Shafrir
Making Mitt: The Myth Of George Romney
The Republican nominee's father didn't walk out of the '64 convention. And George Romney didn't teach Mitt that you lose by being honest — he taught him that you change your positions to win. > by John R. Bohrer
Atari Teenage Riot: The Inside Story Of Pong And The Video Game Industry's Big Bang
On Nov. 29, 1972, a crude table-tennis arcade game in a garish orange cabinet was delivered to bars and pizza parlors around California, and a multi-billion-dollar industry was born. Here's how that happened, direct from the freaks and geeks who invented a culture and paved the way for today's tech moguls. by Chris Stokel-Walker
