Sometimes I like to randomly flop down with my tongue hanging out the side of my mouth and imagine what my chalk outline would look like if I died suddenly while folding the laundry or something.

Occasionally I follow that with slowly curling my fingers up like corpses do during rigor mortis then I quickly check out…

Oh, the joys of solitary smoking. I haven't had one in twenty years. I used to start the day by making a double espresso on the stove and smoking a cig. It was glorious. Smoking while driving alone, smoking while talking on the phone, smoking while playing guitar, smoking while sitting on your front steps and…

I say really sarcastic things to commercials. Out loud. Like full out mocking them. And then I laugh, because I'm hilarious. It's really tragic.

I'm married now, but continue my SSB by totally sitting on the bathroom sink counter and squeezing every blackhead on my face, a la Charlotte, except without the white gloves and vanity.

I've been married for almost 4 years and with my husband for almost 9. We have an almost two year old girl and I only smoke cigarettes on vacation.

My first boyfriend (after I had been independent and single for years) told me while we were cuddling once, "See? Isn't this better than being independent?"

You know what's funny? I was just thinking about The Aquabats, because thanks to the parody song "Wednesday" from season one of their show, I legit can't remember what "Friday" sounds like. I owe them such a debt.

You're not punk, and I'm telling everyone.

I work for the state. They are all "Sorry, can't give you a raise, not even COLA. We need that money to fund studies to figure out why people are leaving government jobs for the private sector."

Me = short person w/lanky body envy

Why is it so offensive to white people when black people say ENOUGH. Do they not know how this country was built? Do they not know their country's own history? Stolen land, genocide, stolen labor, slavery. And white people are benefiting from that to this day, acting like others are stealing THEIR land, their…

Yeah, I am going to need to splurge on that shade myself. Please spill the name!!!

This took me a moment and then I was rolling. God I love Stephen Fry. I've had an odd crush on him for years, which makes watching pocoyo with my kid infinitely more enjoyable (and a but awkward)

Oh dear. Carly Fiorina wants women to engage more with the political process? I find that....interesting. See, on paper, I'm practically a Republican's wet dream. Grew up on a farm without a lot of money, learned to shoot a gun before I could drive a car, put myself through college and law school by working hard,…

My Mom actually TAUGHT me how to lie (and more importantly, how not to get caught). Mostly by example, but sometimes through direct instruction. Little things like not volunteering information, exaggerating for effect, the witty social lie, always pay in cash if you're doing something you don't want others to know…

No rules? Insane. But we had very few. We gradually let up on curfew as time went on. At 17, we discussed our daughter's curfew and she said, "Mom and Dad, nothing good happens in this town after midnight." So we left it there. Her boyfriend's parents were grateful. It meant an early night for him.

Every time I see a photo of Kelly Osbourne I think of Mrs. Slocum from Are You Being Served? (which may well still be running on PBS). Invariably, though, I end up reminding myself that that's not very charitable. To Mrs. Slocum.

Wadding up foil and sticking it on the rabbit ears antenna.

The way these terrifying DIY procedures have found a place of legitimacy among trans people who have been priced out of legitimate gender transition procedures as a direct impact of their economic disenfranchisement is the kind of systemic injustice that should keep other human beings awake at night.

Kate you look FABULOUS!!!! I love this article, it is so well written and I'm fascinated by the work that you describe that you are doing.