I do that. I also do a lot of work in other countries which screws up my texts etc. sometimes even though I have an international plan. It makes for wonderful excuses when I don't want to talk to people though.

Me too! It's so great. And everyone assumes you're off doing hopelessly glamorous things, right?

lol

"white guy with dreads" <- say no more.

Holy shit I think it was. UGH!

A TON of my friends were there last night and we are all just sick. A total freak accident and I feel so awful for his family and for Rey Jr. and his family.

Oh, fuck. This is tragic and awful. I know both of them in passing (the lucha scene is pretty small around here.) Fucking horrible and so sad.

New Yorkers are some of the warmest and kindest people I've met anywhere in the world.

Not gonna lie, I read this in the voice of Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons

Now I want to write my piece: How I went from being happily and openly promiscuous to being happily and openly monogamous. (Except no one would want to read that boringness, hahaha)

Oh my god that legitimately made me tear up. What a wonderful story. <3

His dead eyes are creeping me out in this gif.

I was a broadcast reporter in LA for several years, and as such I frequently ran into other reporters. I did radio (on purpose: I didn't want my looks to get so scrutinized that I ended up getting a whole new face) and I loved a lot of the TV people, but some of the older ones started to look pretty terrifying pretty…

Mr. AgingHipster and I have a pact never to get married, and these are 365 of the reasons why.

Oh, and as someone who was horribly physically abused by more than one ex, as well as assaulted by others, and who was diagnosed with a screaming case of PTSD because of it, I found her "healing through getting punched in the face" narrative to be just... I don't know. Gross.

I've seen that a lot, too. And while there are some excellent conflict reporters out there, there are MANY more who are just like your ex, as I'm sure you know. They go out not because they have a burning desire to tell the untold stories etc., but because they are basically just fucked up, and then seeing extreme…

Yes. The public self-flagellation, the one-upmanship, the story-swapping, the policing of others (which makes everything else so much harder to take) - ugh.

Agreed, wholeheartedly.

All of her stories are like this, too. Like, great story idea, but she can't not put herself into it. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/…

they are the fucking worst.