They’re good for a holiday or two, but it’s possible to make an actual living doing pet-sitting, and those sites as far as I’m aware don’t let you charge money. For the past seven years I’ve been pet-sitting and making money at it, and I can tell you it’s the IDEAL side hustle for a writer, because you’re always the…

Correction: she IS a scrappy YouTuber. She is just one who has, over time, become staggeringly successful. Her videos are great, and I’ve always loved watching her (and her music’s not bad either), but they’re primarily about her. I’m not sure how she’ll do when her job is to interact with other people and let them…

If she’s the journalist’s source, maybe she negotiated to be left out. IS ALICIA WITT THE DEEP THROAT OF HALLMARK MOVIES???

I remember this case from the Vanity Fair article. Sooooo twisted. At a certain point, don’t you look around at your Florida mansion with the gold toilets and all and think, “Yeah, that’s enough”?

Gloria Trevi, still an industry leader all these years later.

Five Canadian bucks say Alicia Witt is the Tonya Harding behind this case.

There’s so much great French music, both historical and contemporary, that there’s no excuse for that. What about Ye-ye from the 60's? Or French baroque? Such a missed opportunity.

It IS child endangerment. On a farm it’s unbelievably stupid. But it’s not a case that’s likely to be winnable in front of a jury, so no prosecutor will take it on.

Well, there goes the farm. Literally.

This reminds me of the false origin story of Flashdance, ie that these PG dances and not-quite-stripping performances were a growing underground centered around female sexual empowerment. In reality, a bunch of Hollywood producers dreamed it up and knew that men would watch.

If you said, “Please call me Sprzout” and they persisted in calling you “hon” it would be a problem. 

There is literally no such thing as a “quick trip to Thunder Bay.” Come on.

I used to think you had to be 13 to order a teenburger. I honestly did.

Right? I tried keto once, for four hours. I logged breakfast just before preparing lunch, and my app told me I was already over my carbs for the next three days, so fuck that shit.

I’m 100% sure he was drunk. During my interview with him he was drunk, AND kept disappearing to the men’s room and coming back with what appeared to be a streaming cold.

I interviewed Lasseter once. It was my very first assignment in journalism, and he was an asshole to me. It was decades ago, but I bring it up to show he’s been an asshole for quite some time. 

Those two were the original Horrible Emo Couple.

RICH white collar criminals. The hacktivists I know got no bail at all and typically did more than a year of pre-trial custody.

That’s like the difference between consecutive and concurrent life sentences.

That book was genius. I got it on Audible when I wasn’t sure I’d enjoy audiobooks and I listened to it every spare moment for three days.