suzanneforbes
Suzanne Forbes
suzanneforbes

starring you for your awesome username

I love these articles of yours so much. I feel like so many people simply don’t have either the imaginative capacity or the empathic capacity to grasp the texture of long-term poverty and depression combined. For example, once some friends of mine told me they were going to “take me out to dinner” on Valentines

Yeah, a lot of the times that I’ve been dead broke for months at a time, I’ve been anemic. I would happily have donated money rather than pay a ticket, but then I would have been even weaker and more exhausted.

Got tech or other creative freelance skills? Come to Berlin, an affordable city with incredible public transit. Metro card is 80 euros a month, for a transit system at least as connected as Manhattan, where I grew up. Our 1300 sq foot apartment is about 1300USD. And we live in a beautiful neighborhood where we never

thank you. yum.

What on earth is a sweater jockey? ( I am afraid to google this, frankly.)

Now that I have heard of this Greek Guacamole, I must have it. In October, in Berlin. I hear they have 5-euro ripe avocadoes at KaDeWe...

Straight parsley is absolutely delicious! Both regular and Italian flat-leaf.

Ah, comics. Will my mixed emotions never cease? It’s so cool that there’s a new comic about preteen girls having adventures, and Vaughan is such a great writer, and the artwork is dazzling. But wouldn’t it be even cooler...to see a new comic about preteen girls...written, edited and drawn by women? Sigh.

When I glanced at the headline I saw “Build a penis” and thought of those “Build a Bear” places in malls, and imagined a future where trans dudes go to the mall and customize exactly the peen they want.

It’s not just that you need the chip put in before the vaccination, for Europe- it’s that it’s a special chip for European readers. 15-digit. Also, Lufthansa is legendary for pet kindness. We flew our two cats to Berlin and they were a dream.

We paid the extra legroom monies to fly our cats to Berlin and it was SUCH a good investment.

Yes, this. You can get a special metal-free harness.

One time in the 80s, having sex in the walled garden of St. Luke’s church in the West Village in the middle of a beautiful dewy spring night. We finished and I stood up, shook out my waist-length hair- and felt something terrible. Several somethings. My hair was full of slugs.

Fiona Staples is amazing. Someday I may purchase a comic book again simply to ogle her artwork.

Srsly. I love her on Elementary and she is ridic beautiful, how can she be just two years younger than me?

My hubbie is an Aspie with some OCD, so he can’t scoop the litterbox and can’t manage household tasks at all. Pizza is the one thing he can cook, so he and the cats would be turtle teenagers too. Shit, cats can’t have pizza cause tomato is a nightshade. Maybe the cats could eat chips.

Ha! I’m 48 and haven’t had a drink since I was 22, and lemme tell ya I don’t miss it. The cigarettes, on the other hand...

And that means you are a FUCKING GOOD PERSON. You would be amazed at how many people know you’re broke, know you don’t drink this last oh the entire ten-twenty years they’ve known you, and still wait for you to pitch in for the champagne while comping the most famous person at the table, who “didn’t eat much”.

This starving artist recovering alcoholic with rich friends who love to run up a table’s tab with bottles loves you for saying that. I HATE subsidizing rich tech workers’ drinking.