Cheers to JezSpin. We’ll never see its like again. 

I don’t know any one in touring bands (at least at the level of playing small clubs and driving their own van from gig to gig) who expect to have a bed to themselves, let alone separate hotel rooms for each member of the band. My husband and I regularly let bands crash at our place, and they’re so excited to not be…

I once got a loooong MySpace message from my (now) brother-in-law’s ex-girlfriend, telling me how the whole family talked all this shit about me and I should get away from them and we needed to stick together. Oh, and she also “accused” my (now) husband of being bisexual, like that was some horrible scandal. She was…

... I am very much looking forward to the addition of women characters with a bit of agency.

I could see Ron liking Klobuchar in the primaries— he’s got a thing for powerful, intimidating brunettes.

I remember the good old days of trying to come up with the perfect lyrics to express my teenage angst in my AIM away messages. 

I hope they start giving Ramsey something to do, rather than just be the object in the middle of a pissing contest between Ludacris and Tyrese.

The thing is, I know I’m in a way better position than a lot of people. I went to a public university, got a few grants and scholarships that helped out, and wised up and left my graduate program before I acquired too much more debt (it was never going to get me far ahead enough in my field that the cost/benefit…

I used to like shopping from there-- I really liked that you could filter for “longer dresses” because I like them around the knees, and I got some cute stuff over the years that I still wear. I haven’t bought anything since the Jet buyout, but I still check out the website from time to time-- if I like something from…

Today is pay day, which means it’s bill-paying day. So I’m currently going through my twice-a-month existential despair when I look at how much I still owe on my student loans.

My high school had an elective called “Myth, Legend, and the Bible.” Every year there were a handful of super-religious parents who got pissed about the Bible being included in that category. 

Ronan Farrow’s upcoming book, Catch and Kill

I think she has a hard time with some of these issues because they seem so far removed from her own life. But when I told her a friend’s story of why they use they/them pronouns, and how much better and more understood they feel when people respect those pronouns, it hit home a little more with her. My mom sounded…

My mom is around Hillary’s age, and she has lots of questions around stuff like gender identity and pronouns. She has a really hard time with “they/them/theirs” pronouns, for example, but if I yell at her and shout her down, she would just get defensive and she’d never learn. So I try to talk to her using specific…

Same. I work in a small office of all women, in a women’s health care nonprofit. It’s not always a 100% ideal workplace, but I feel reasonably confident that I won’t have to deal with the kinds of situations that end up getting written about by Ronan Farrow. 

This story was freaky, and then at the last line my mouth just dropped open in disgust. WHAT THE FUCK???

The really scary ones make tears start pricking behind my eyes. CONGRATULATIONS FOR MAKING ME CRY.

THAT LAST LINE. I swear to god, the creepy shit toddlers say is a big reason I don’t think I want kids. 

I don’t have anything meaningful to add, except that I fucking love Rebecca Traister, and everyone should read Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger.

Last week I searched the site to find out roughly when the call for stories would go out this year. I don’t even like scary movies, but I love the stories in this post every year!