I picked my screen name when my father was still alive, and I knew he would disapprove of me using my real name, so I substituted “angst” to represent my conflicted feelings surrounding the prospect of taking over his empire.

My name is Barefoot Cuntessa because I’m a chef and I always thought that would make a great roller derby name. My picture is her face with her eyes and mouth red for obvious reasons. 

Mine is from an old pissing contest where someone said that they pooped in a produce bag in their grandpa’s car in a parking lot like “a little animal.” I maybe haven’t ever laughed that hard. So I used to be Little Animal. Then I cleared my cookies to stop getting auto-refreshes on Jezebel and was logged out without…

Pumpkin Andy was the name of my first, bestest cat. When he passed, age 18, I didn't know what to do with his cat body, so I rolled him up in his tiger rug, stuck him in a snow bank in the yard, and a week later asked this guy in my spin class if he would take care of Andy, and he did. I loved him so much I was too…

Mine is a letter switch I do sometimes when I’m super tired (very mild dislexia) I am a big person, and sometimes refer to myself as a fat panda because of all the bizzare shit that’s wrong with me, but can be hardly noticeable to outsiders.

We had to put our dog, Doodle-Bug, down today. He was just old and sick and there was nothing we could’ve done for him. We had him for 18 years and I don’t know what I’m going to do without him. He’d been with me since I was 8 and was the first dog I ever owned.

So serious life stuff here- On Thursday I’m getting a full hysterectomy and endometriosis excision surgery, I ‘ve wanted this surgery for years and dont need the parts with my gender identity and thought I was super calm about it. Then the 1 week until surgery mark hit and I’m really starting to panic. I’m just plain…

I for one will not be surprised when we learn his younger sibling's kitten died under mysterious circumstances.

Not sure if anyone has ever done this topic b/4, but tell me the story behind your screen name and profile pic. My pic is simply a doodle (for some reason I like drawing cats even though I’m more of a dog person) and my name is from a Patton Oswalt joke about a KFC dish.

Despite my chronic greyness, some of you know I’m trying to get pregnant, and was miserable about my painful late disappointing disappearing period this month. I’m really in need of the anonymous support of some internet denizens because TURNS OUT THAT WAS NOT A PERIOD. The “period” pain got so bad I rang my doctor…

Job update: trying not to go insane from waiting. The hiring manager and pharmacy manager are meeting Monday morning, so I should finally have an answer then. I will hopefully have exciting news to share with all of you next week if I haven’t lost all of my marbles due to a combination of waiting to hear about the job…

Hi kittens! My cat Blanchie had all of her teeth removed in surgery this week, and she’s absolutely great. Woke up from surgery purring and has been a calm, much happier cat now that she’s pain free, for probably the first time in years. I’m so happy the vet checked her mouth at her well visit and found the lesions…

I had a migraine this past week, so I’m upping my self-care game this long weekend. (Also Tuesday is my birthday, and BossLady gave me half a day off.) I have dark chocolate and herbal tea and hot chocolate ready to go.

Kitty!!! 10/10 would pet. 

You want a comedian who has some amazing talent? Watch Hanna Gadsby’s Nannette. I spent the latter half of it just staring at the screen, mouth hanging open. It was that good.

Oh my GOD thank you so much for posting your reviews and also your recommendation about Book Riot! I am going to check all of these out and this is exactly what I needed!!! You rule!

You betcha! I started blogging all the books I read back in 2014...and then it went down to just my favorites...and now I haven’t blogged since last May, lol. But you can check out my (usually brief, occasionally funny, sometimes painfully earnest) reviews here: http://www.thewomeniread.com/

I’m so in love with this image I’m going to tattoo it on my person.

That’s the thing about all these conversations about whether or not we should accept back these fuckers after some nebulous period of “time out” from public life - it presupposes that there’s no one else with sufficiently good (or better!) talent that we could direct our attention to. It all focuses on the tragic loss…

CK asserted “The whole point of comedy is to say things that you shouldn’t say. That’s the entire point.”