She has a lot of insightful things to say, but I find her maddening because she’s so incredibly harsh on any woman she deems to be not the same kind of woman as herself, in a way that she’s never harsh on men. Elizabeth Gilbert, Roxane Gay, Leslie Jamison, Claire Vaye Watkins, and in this conversation Jean Rhys and…

Yup! I have also had multiple surgeries and a miscarriage (unrelated to each other) and the stories do really well onstage. Tragedy + time = comedy, right?

“And I can swear a lot because it’s not under my full name and it’s a venting tool”

This is absolutely what makes the internet a total miracle sometimes.

Yeeeeep. When I sit down at the end of the day to binge watch Frasier or whatever I’m obsessed with at the time it’s because I’ve had enough of the real world, and all I want is a quip or two from Niles Crane.

I think it goes hand in hand with social media. Like some people use Twitter to funnel their soul out of their bodies. I use it to connect with people (mostly my favorite authors, who reply and give me advice and talk about their books), old friends I don’t have access to or to hear a more grass roots side of various…

I suffer from depression, but luckily I have a heart condition where I know that if I ever take cocaine or any kind of amphetamine, I will likely die. Thus, no dying like Mitch Hedberg for me. (He was one of my all time favorites.) I also refuse to drink before going onstage, because I haven’t created what I dubbed…

I get a sick satisfaction out of plucking those wirey little suckers. Such a sense of accomplishment.

High five, fellow chin hair plucker! My chin hairs politely showed up at the ripe age of 19. One day I’m going to laser the fuck out of them and I cant wait

Don’t touch the mic with your mouth, though.

What I love is how quiet the Islam-defenders are on articles like this. It’s almost like their heads are busy up their asses or something.

Yeah...I know teenagers are impressionable and all that, but it’s hard to imagine someone reading about these creeps beheading children and thinking “Sign me up for that!” It’s sad, but my sympathy for anyone running off to join them is pretty limited.

No problem! I’m just trying to wrap my head and narwhal tusk around the evil in this world, and when I come across something like this, I like to share the knowledge.

Wait is that only a thing teenagers can do? Whoops.

Whatever happened to doing drugs and fucking boys?

I’d say “at least this might convince other girls who are thinking of joining ISIS that it’s a truly terrible idea.” But not really. If the beheading videos and terrorist attacks on innocents made you root for ISIS, you are probably the sort of person who thinks “well, clearly that girl must have done something wrong,…

What ever happened to running away and joining the circus? Hanging out with lions has to be a hell of lot safer than being with Daesh.

well, teenagers tend to think they are smart and make great decisions.

Dad when I was 15: “You could stand to lose a few...” I was around 135 then...and I’m 5’7”.

I won’t. I mean, who would post barely relevant country music links and obscured 90’s TV show references?

I was raised Catholic and spent several years being taught by nuns in Catholic school. While most of them were unobjectionable, there were always a few who were evil scions of Hell. I’m sure they went into teaching purely to give maximum expression to their innate sadism.