Even with all the rumours, I was hoping they’d work it out. 

All three of us clearly heard someone sneeze a few feet away from us.

1996 - Chicago suburbs - I was a scrawny 14 yr old boy. My sister and I were home alone - she was in her bedroom on the other side of the house. I was doing homework at our kitchen table facing a floor to ceiling window facing the backyard. It was already dark outside, which meant the window was basically a mirror…

I occasionally get sleep paralysis which is pretty awful in its own right. Its not recurring and its not a consistent figure or entity, I usually just chalk it up to whatever I ate or watched.

One of the most vivid was that I dreamt I was on a tour of an old building (its the US, so 1800s old) with a group of other…

I moved into a new apartment in Manhattan’s East Village in 2018. It was a huge upgrade for me, and it really is special. It’s kind of a carriage house building with only five apartments and you have to walk through another building to get to it. There is an adorable little courtyard with trees and flowers, and I even…

This story belongs to my dad, but I was present for it- albeit in my mom’s belly. My dad worked transporting buses across the country and taking odd jobs for a big part of his twenties, and by the time he married my mom, he’d experienced more strange happenings than the average person. But this story happened in his…

When I was 12, every night for close to two months someone would knock on my bedroom window. It was usually after 11 p.m. and before 2 a.m. and, at the beginning, would wake me from a dead sleep to where I thought I was dreaming. A few times I even heard the knocking in my dreams and then woke up and the knocking was…

When I was in fourth grade, my mom and I moved a few hours away to live with my grandma. I was an only child and painfully shy; all my friends had been my friends since forever, and I had no idea how to talk to these new kids at school.

The shutdown is happening not because the Dems and Republicans can’t agree but because the GOP can’t agree amongst themselves what to fight with the Dems about. That’s not a good look. 

encouraging people to “lie” to their vendors gets contracts cancelled. if you don’t like the rate you’re being presented with, ask for a breakdown and comparison to a ‘non’ wedding event. Calling people fuckers and encouraging lying is not doing anyone any favours.

““Anti-bride” is just a new version of the same list of “musts” that a woman has to achieve in order to be a good and trendy host on her wedding day, but framed by punching down at women who want a traditional wedding experience and the legions of women who did the traditional thing before.”

A) How fast did that sale go through? From “not even on the market” to “sold” before his painkillers wore off? Are we to believe that Perry is in kahoots with his anesthesiologist or something?

I feel like it’s important to think about this shift as part of an industry that has been totally shaken by 1. the collapse of one of their cornerstone retailers (David’s Bridal), 2. increased cost of operation and 3. consumers shrinking pools of disposable income. They’re desperate to remain relevant and essential to…

There’s an important distinction that gets lost in nearly every discussion of “high-maintenance” women vs. “chill, “low-key,” etc. And that is the distinction between what you are doing/paying for yourself, and what you are asking of others.

As someone currently divorcing a shithead, I recognize and respect Turner’s moves for what they are: stay quiet, know what your impassable lines are, and do what you gotta in the courts. Jonas’ very public loudness reads like someone who deep down knows he’s in the wrong, but is too self-centered and misogynistic to…

It’s hard to judge because I saw the movies after reading the books. Talking to some friends or co-workers, some viewers definitely depended on friends to explain things to them.

This is just lip service. He’d never sign a bill that made this happen. 

And how will this be enforced? I am 47 - and my deadbeat dad STILL owes my mother back child support.

If 18 years of child support isn’t enough to scare men, I don’t think 18 years and 9 months will be any more effective.

Tired: I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale