As a professional artist who used to make a good living as a courtroom artist, I suggest you don’t ever wind up in Federal Court, which will remain the domain of courtroom artists a while longer. We can make you look worse than Tom Brady. Also, we get to stay alone in the courtroom during breaks, and we sometimes spit…

Um. “The muppet that was Jabba’s pet that just kept laughing all the time.” That’s still one of the best things that ever happened in my life.

Yeah, let’s talk about the WEIGHT of food. Wow it sucks. Our choice to move to Berlin to make a more sustainable life than the one we were living in Oakland took everything we had. We have been desperately broke most of our first six months here. Our first place was four blocks from the supermarket, and I’d have to…

Yeah, if you’ve worked in a California kitchen with folks who are first-generation Mexican-Americans, you’ve worked with people who work three part-time jobs, at least 90 hours a week. I’ve had three part-time jobs at once a couple times, but never more than 70 hours a week, and I would always be so amazed at how my…

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?