I love this story. It’s the Canadianest camp story ever. Throw in canoeing on the lake and sighting a beaver and you’ve got yourself an Atwood short story. Provided the young camper ended up working in Toronto and thought of that racoon while dating her first boyfriend, years and years later.

How about a Prince line?

I don’t think the book is problematic. I think it is a very smart book written about problematic characters who live in a problematic culture- but I don’t think the book itself is problematic. I think it is sometimes misread, but I think more generally what has happened is that most people think they remember the book…

Call me drastic but isn’t the normal response to this situation to want to chop his dick off? Or at least Carrie Underwood style personal property destruction? I’m not saying you would/should act on those feelings but as someone that has been blindsided by a long distance cheater I can speak from experience that my…

I’m trying very hard not to judge her, but my compass is moving consistently to psychopath. All the lies certainly don't help her case.

Mark, if you, like me, owned a dogeared copy of Bear Attacks, you’d know the park ranger maxim “a fed bear is a dead bear.” That’s because bears, when they begin to associate humans with food, often escalate to attacking humans when they realize that they’re made of meat.

Actually, you are totally wrong. Contrary to your belief, Pizza Hut is a corporation (a Fortune 300 company). They are totally corporate buzzworthy.

I vote Tina Fey for Marcia, and the guy who played Jackie Chiles on Seinfeld for Johnnie Cochran. I mean, duh.

What people just should eat their art? Live in it? Fuck the romanticizing of living a life of poverty for art, or else you are a hack sell out. Fuck. That.

As an artist, this is the stupidest most frustrating bullshit ever to hear.

So many people subscribe to this idea and it just feeds the notion that you’re not a “real” artist if you can 1. Survive on your work, 2. Endeavor to get your work into the minds/senses of others.

Artists have always had brands, intentionally…

Practically all famous artists (like artist artists) have and are brands.

I give yasses to your glasses.

I live to block.

I loved visiting Portland (helloooooo, food!) but I think all their great pro-health/eco-friendly-ness belies the fact that they can be just as smug as us easterners. We just do it with more makeup on.

If they would only consider makeup the same way they do tattoos (ooo, maybe they’re covering their skin problems with all their tattoos!)...plus these are the white Portland arriviste types who didn’t grow up there and all live in certain neighborhoods. Non-white folks in Portland wear makeup when they’re getting…

I was going to say “I don’t remember the first time I ever got noticed” but I forgot HAHAHAHA that my pastor’s son pretty much stalked me from the time we met at age 9 (and he was like, 18) until I went away to college, and continued to email me after. I should add that he was (is) high functioning Downs, but I hate…

I know! I was actually having a discussion with a friend the other day about how male attention has played a roll in how I’ve come to accept myself. I remember this one story vividly from high school. I was a freshman and this guy was a senior. It was the beginning of the year. He was really popular and I had always…

I was an early bloomer but all the boobs came on at once. I’m about average-sized but I wear the same bra size now that I did when I was 11. I got at least as much shit about it from self-proclaimed “adults” as I did from kids. There were a lot of baggy shirts. I even asked for reduction surgery.

@dialing_footnoterphone: I am a teacher and I have definitely run into *those* parents, but per your post I do not think you are one of *those* parents.