I got my BA and MA in writing and I could NOT believe how many people plagiarized work in the time I was there, most of whom totally got busted. It was embarrassing enough when people stole from famous novelists but a year after I graduated, someone turned in a paper I WROTE with like one word in every sentence…

Ugh, I live in Seattle and it’s so depressing to realize how many neighborhoods that could have been.

I think the correct answer is the that the NFL made themselves the moral arbiters of the sport and they were supposed to investigate. They don’t say that this is a police matter and wash their hands of it. They say they are going to investigate and punish wrong-doers.  Their answer amounts to “we didn’t investigate.”  …

This is not an apartment story, I just have a question. What is going on with toilets in the US?

Holy shit!

“The Trump administration is allowing five oil and gas companies to conduct “deafening seismic tests” in the Atlantic Ocean”

So not technically an apartment, but now-Mr. BallOfStress and I, along with my male bff and a random guy from out school we met off of Craigslist (back in the day)...It was a truly great house, in a sketchy neighborhood, but the price was right. We ignored the fact that the landlord was obviously a few cards short of…

I became a housing attorney because of my worst apartment, which was my first on my own. I was moving to Seattle for grad school and rented the cheapest apartment I could find off the internet, sight unseen - a 250 square foot efficiency for $450 a month (which was still dirt cheap 10 years ago). I moved in during the…

It was my and my husband’s first apartment. We were broke, so all we could afford was a dubious first floor in-law that was at least close to the park and beach (as much as you can use the beach in San Francisco). Anyway, we nicknamed this apartment “the cave” because the only windows it had either looked into an…

Regarding that Zinke comment, doesn’t that constitute libel? He is no uncertain terms calling Grijalva an alcoholic. That kind of claim could certainly causes damages (or rather, I am confident lawyers could make that case), so I would love to see this bite Zinke in the ass.

the two that i had roommates with because people. it’s heaven living alone.

Picture it: Austin, 2007. I had just broken up with a boy I lived with and needed a new place fast. I found a bedroom to rent in a house: the owner lived in one of the bedrooms and rented out the other bedrooms, there was a shared kitchen and bath, separate exterior entrance to each bedroom. Great, done. I took it as…

I lived in a what appeared to be a nice looking apartment in a complex at the top of a steep hill in Flagstaff, Arizona.

I never noticed til just now that Zinke looks like Bumble from Rudolph, but not nearly as cute.

Memo to the White House PR dept: don’t juxtapose Trump with the three best looking world leaders; Spain’s Sanchez, Canada’s Trudeau and France’s Macron. Next to those three cover boys with their cover boy hair and their fancy higher educations and their English fluency, it just makes the hideous ignoramus with the albi…

I once lived in an apartment owned by a notorious slumlord. There was a leak from one or more of the apartments upstairs, and rather then paying to fix their plumbing he would simply replace the ceiling sheetrock when it soaked through every couple of months. Eventually, it would get so wet that the ceiling would…

Moved into a flat a few years ago and pulled the sofa out to vacuum and found this:

the Mueller investigation (which she referred to more colorfully as the “Russian Witch Hunt Hoax”) “probably does undermine our relationship with Russia.”

I highly recommend the podcast “My Dad Wrote a Porno”.  Each episode they read a chapter of a truly terrible “erotic novel” written by the host’s father.  He continually has to confront the fact that his father is a terrible writer AND knows nothing about how sex works.

Oh my god...oh my GOD. Can you imagine if it was your dad or brother writing this horrible shit? Talking about violent ejaculations and semen pouring forth without end? Oh my GOD I can’t stop laughing these are SO BAD. I’m gonna ask my husband if it ever feels like I’ve got an enameled pepper mill inside me.