I had serious, life threatening depression and psychosis, and I was worried that when I killed myself by going over the side of our 19th story balcony I would take my baby and toddler with me. It prompted me to check into the psych ward, and go to a 12-step program to stop drinking. If I had somehow partly succeeded,…

I use a travel agent even for nearby flights for the most part (Singapore to Vietnam, say.) When it comes to going home to the States and my children insisting on flying via Narita because then they go through SFO to Eugene, OR instead of HK -> LAX [they hate LAX with the fiery passion of a thousand O class stars, but…

"[M]odels of color" and "colored models" are two very, very different things.

"Colored models?" The fuck now?

They tell me that EVERY SINGLE EXAM. Yes, someone has told me. "You may have trouble conceiving." Except for the two times I got pregnant in the first month of trying, and have two children. Thanks. But my uterus is hells tilted. shit be damn near tipped over, apparently. People have to comment on it; they can't not.

No, she's saying you lack the basic literacy skills required to read and contextually understand the English language. Additionally, you may be interested to know that "racism is a crucial element of this story" is not semantically identical to "it was all white people's fault!!!"

Sure, but that was "the account as we have it so far." We weren't given one version and then a followup, simply a single letter. The original story, as fully stated, included an obvious instance of sexual harassment, and that was his side of the story! One can hardly do anything other than imagine that it sounds more…

Yes, but I have to be going out to a fancy cocktail bar and then a fancy restaurant or I will lose that shizz like a motherfucker. Also, I usually have ten trillion things in my purse, so the incredible multi-color/metallic Brazilian clutch I have that the iphone can barely go in is an issue. I take a lot of medicine,…

He threatened her with some kind of exposure at work if she ended the relationship. That's textbook sexual harassment, right?

Fuck you. My dad rebelled against his high society Savannah/NYC/Darien family to be a sailor and a tattoo artist and leather-worker and stained-glass-maker and commune-run-by-Dennis-Hopper-inhabitant (yes, that was as bad an idea as it sounds), and he had sleeves from when I was a kid. When I finally got a tattoo from…

Bingo. The popular kids don't look back at high school and think of themselves as having been 'the popular kids,' for the most part.

Was Whorf stoned the whole time?

You should maybe invade Iraq if that's the kind of thing you're into?

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I have a tween and though she loathes Katy Perry with the burning heat of a million O class stars, her female classmates are all about some fucking Katy Perry. Yes they love One Direction, and Taylor Swift, but this candy-colored bullshit is selling to 12-year-olds all day long.

I live in Singapore but I own part of a small island off Lombok in Indonesia, the next island over from Bali. It's totally undeveloped and really beautiful (Lombok generally, but the island has only 50 people living on it, and nobody living on my part); you can see through to the bottom of the water from your boat…

I want you to come to the beach with me!

Keep it simple: keep it tacky. These brash newcomers have been branching out, moving outside their core competency. this is what it's all about. Though I'd argue that Lindsay's only a few kilos/cases etc. over the line and that she could be back in fighting trim in no time, getting out of cars all wasted with no…

That was pretty fucking amazing. I had forgotten.

Fuck yeah. This is my homeslice here.