I really want to come up with something to sell to people on the way in.

Some tweet about dog pants started spreading a la “what color is the dress,” Kara rightly called everyone out on it, then GMA decided to run a poll about it juuust to make sure.

I just went down the Ed Sheeran / Kara Brown rabbit hole and found out from her twitter feed that EIGHTY TWO PERCENT of people believe dogs should wear pants only on their hind legs. Shouldn’t that be like, 99.99%? Or 100%? smDAMNh.

I guess my other question is, where do people go to tell the truth (besides kinja and where the teens hang out like tumblr)? Now that Facebook is about manufacturing the perfect outward appearance of your life, there is zero tolerance for anything that strays even remotely toward the negative. Earlier this fall I was…

Totally. My most recent is that I commented to a friend who shared the Mike Rowe rant about Bernie’s stance on college and tuition. I basically said in so many words, “I agree with Mike mostly and Bernie gets a B+ for effort but could use improvement,” but my friend could not gather that from the post, so he thought I…

Yikes, I went through many. I looked on elance, posted a couple of jobs there, hired people to help me one chapter at a time, and did that about 5 times before I found someone perfect. Then she got a job on a real TV show, and I had to start looking again. I looked on a lot of “list of great editors” blogs and…

Just wondering, how many times a week does someone break news to you using “Bobby, baby...” ?

Ugh that’s awful, I am sorry. I am also a size 14 and I get enough from my parents, I don’t need it from strangers or peers.

I kinda got an Adam Lambert vibe, but now I am seeing Mark McGrath too.

10/10 sounds legit, would buy!

Have you done it? I wanted to use Ingram Spark and then just post it on Amazon, but I know you don’t get similar benefits that KDP authors do (like getting on any trending lists, like that would happen anyway).

It is really difficult. I hired an editor to help whip me and I have successfully avoided her since September. There are parts missing, pieces needing rewriting before I can even enter the editing stage and I’ve been working on this thing for 3 years.

I have a sizable amount of anxiety which prevents me from putting photos anywhere on the internet that random people could get them. Go ahead and post my yearbook photo but you won’t find the 2015 version.

Precisely! But then I pictured her tromping around in that dress and a pair of hipster hiking boots like these and was thinking that might be totally something a vogue editor would do. Just for the photos, of course, then go back inside.

I cannot think of a more perplexing conundrum. These kids are the most unattractive boy band members I have ever seen. They started out kind of wacky and irreverent a few years ago, and now they are just obnoxious, ugly teenagers. And yet, their following is so die-hard and obsessed it is downright scary. They all…

Actually this romp in Joshua Tree will not upset me because I live 2 hours from there, in basically the same world of dr seussy shaped cacti and blobby sandy boulders. Also there was a frost last night and it’s cold as hell so I’m not sure white lace is going to cut it.

And there’s still 3 more days, I wonder what else we can drum up!

omg yes yes yes I can’t wait pls tell us all how it goes.

YAY!!! A quesadilla for you :)

Open invitation for anyone with mad skillz to join my post-apocalyptic survival community. So far I’ve got some agriculture people on board, a doctor, a metal worker, a wood worker, some jack-of-all-trades muscle, a teacher, a few caregivers, and hunters. We need a mechanic, an engineer, a horse person, a sailor, some…