I know you’ll all think I’m in the wrong here, but I would wear the hell out of this frock coat every day even if it was like 80 degrees out.

Not only did they handle it ‘okay’, but (SPOILER WARNING)

Burlesque is a HUGE community now. Here in San Francisco there’s several burlesque shows a week, and our largest monthly show, ‘Hubba Hubba Revue’ fills the place with about 300 or so people every event. Just last week was the Burlesque Hall of Fame weekend, where burlesque performers came from all over the US for a…

That... that kind of makes me WANT to follow her, if there really are that many bad craft posts on there. It sounds like a one-woman ‘Pinterest Fail’ account and I AM ALL ABOUT THE PINTEREST FAILS!

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I came here to say the same thing; I thought there was a contract rule about that.

“If only you knew my past. Everybody makes mistakes.”

I had no idea, either.

It can also be super painful when skin gets caught in the bellows. Or is that the comedy part?

Well, fortunately, I didn’t actually go into teaching, despite the insistence of adults in the early 90’s. I work with special needs homeless, in a career that’s stable because I was fortunate enough to have started my career around 12 years ago, so I’m fairly established. But I STILL only make about half the median…

“At the time I started, teaching was a pretty lucrative field. Everyone was hiring, you couldn’t spit without hitting a ‘massive teacher shortage’ article, and yet, in a few short years, by the time I was ready to graduate with my degree the economy went tits up, teachers were being laid off, and as of right now, the…

Right? Not only have I never worked in a place where I got racist / sexist e-mails through work, I’ve never worked anywhere where jokes were circulated around through e-mail AT ALL. The e-mails in our company are all pretty ‘business-only’, even with employees I’m on friendly terms with. Is my company like some weird…

I’m so upset that I don’t have a John Waters story. when I still lived in San Francisco, he apparently got an apartment that was only like three blocks up the street from me, and I swear I was the only one in my social circle that never ran into him :(

I think the idea of Ellie Kemper being anything BUT nice is just kind of... unthinkable. Like, I can’t even visualize it. She’s a human being, so she MUST get angry or impatient or unpleasant sometimes, I just have difficulty reconciling what it would look like in my mind.

“For the past few days, Taylor Swift has been teasing her upcoming “Bad Blood” music video through a series of what looks like Sin City inspired posters, which all feature one of her famous best friends.”

That Of Monsters & Men video is both gorgeous and slightly terrifying (but in all the best ways). I don’t know why, but I’ve always been a fan of CG animation in that style that isn’t even TRYING to be realistic, like high-tech collages.

Right? And doesn’t Mark live in San Francisco, where it’s equally unlikely that we’ll have access to a dishwasher?

I was one of those goth weirdo kids and we didn’t even have Zima. We just had terrible role-playing games (not even D & D! GURPS! The Safeway Select of RPGs!). Then the GM would get pushy and my best friend and I would bail to the dollar theater to see ‘Wayne’s World’ for the 50th time because it was the only thing…

Same here, actually. Neither me nor any of my usual group of friends in High School went to parties or drank. I guess I had some vague knowledge that some of the more popular kids did that sort of thing, but I never actually witnessed it firsthand.

My girlfriend’s from Cleveland, and from what I can tell, it’s got a BOOMING art and theater scene compared to where the both of us live now (San Francisco, where the world-renown ACT theater is losing it’s prop house to luxury housing. Way to support that arts, guys!). Plus, she was able to making a living wage as an…