Hawaii’s on the list, believe me!

I don’t blame people that don’t have the means, either. Surprisingly enough though, when I actually had the means to travel, I didn’t. I was too busy working all the time. I didn’t leave the northeast for almost a decade, until my job at the time flew me out to Mountain View. I’ve…

Yeah I’ve visited Phoenix probably more than any other city besides New York and as far as cities go it’s pretty meh. I’m way more of a Boston/San Francisco/Seattle/Vancouver person.

I’ve been pretty lucky in that I’ve been able to travel just about everywhere in the US (every state except Hawaii) and I’m continually…

Yeah the heat can be pretty brutal. I at least lived right next to a nice, shady National Forest high up in the mountains though, so by comparison to say, Phoenix, a toppled Jenga of strip malls inside an oven, it was pretty temperate. We even had snow in winter! (idk why pic is sideways and I can’t be bothered to…

I lived in AZ for a year last year and I can mostly agree with this assessment. It’s quite pretty though. Arizona at least falls in line with Idaho & Montana in its natural beauty to horrible people quotient. Whereas Texas is just a complete wasteland of assholes and nothingness. So, it could be worse.

New state…

If I’m your professor I’m giving you a C+ right off the bat just for that cover page title followed by 70 blank pages of paper and forcing me to contemplate it on my own.

(essentially what you’re doing right now)

Maybe someone can answer me this (and it’s slightly off-topic, sorry) but every time something like this happens, in addition to mourning the victims and survivors and their friends and families, an immediate thought I have is wondering why the attacker, especially these younger ones, don’t think to themselves “hm, I…

I read an article somewhere years ago (I don’t recall where, but it wasn’t Facebook) discussing the world’s billionaires and the absurdity of the amount of money they make down to the minute. The specific example given was that it would cost Donald Trump more money to stop and pick up a $100 bill on the ground than he…

oh, Joanna. You are far and away my most favorite Jezebel writer. Keep doing you.

It was definitely the most difficult thing to learn, and is quite the process from dough to completion (you can’t really just wake up in the morning at home and go “oooo I think I’ll make croissants for breakfast today!” on a whim because you’ll be eating them for dinner, so even if you knew how to make them you…

Thank you!!!! Same to you!

Well if it makes you feel better (it won’t) I am a straight white man. My manager and the owner at the bakery were both women. Actually I was 1 of only 3 men out of a total staff of like 16. They were both pretty horrible but that didn’t have anything to do with them being women (I actually very much prefer to work…

Ha it was SUPPOSED to be over at 11:30. That never ever happened. Earliest I was ever out was 1:00 and many times it was 3:00. They were severely understaffed (awful pay, awful hours) and they didn’t pay overtime. And they had such horrible credit with their paychecks bouncing my bank put a 21 day hold on any check I…

Yeah I was leaving the house at 4:00 AM too (on the days I could peel myself out of bed to actually be out of the house at that hour) and I only had a motorcycle at the time and had to ride it in a snowstorm my last week of work. And of course at that hour they hadn’t started plowing yet so I was riding in two inches…

haha funny that your username was in the name of the very bakery in question. There was for sure a certain peace to opening the shop and being there for the first hour and a half alone. And then especially great when the barista that opened the shop was The Girl With The Green Hair. *sigh* We listened to 50's doo wop…

Anyone from Scandinavia is okay, so long as they reject their fantastic maternity leave laws for both mother and father, 90% high school graduation rate and above average literacy, math, and science levels, 95% satisfaction rate with water quality and all around general amazing quality of life. Oh and their silly…

I got fired from a minimum wage job as a baker once, because I couldn’t consistently show up on time at 4:30 AM to make croissants while battling clinical depression. I made damn good croissants, too.

Shame I wasn’t just a racist pig, and I could forget about filling out all these job applications.

I love her lisp. Favorite part of the show, really.

Yeah I’m also an Old Man who was a teen in the 90's (go go Gen X!) and would never have come across this article were it not for the advent of social media, either. I’ve already been accused of being a pervert in my mid-twenties by Soft-Serve Girlfriend #3 after having never gotten around to cancelling a subscription…

hahaha +1 for Parks & Rec and AD references. Those make for PERFECT burner account names.

hahaha not for Billy Idol specifically (though I do love a good lip sneer) but for the actress in the video who really really needs to play this Billy Idol cassette right now but her stereo is broken and has to use her neighbor’s. Then woops wine spill shirt comes off and she decides to do calisthenics on my bed.

I’ve…