G’day mate! Aussie here and I am happy with this outcome. My feed on Facebook is clear of all the doom and gloom posts about the sad state of the world. Instead, I have 3 posts from friends about their life, interests, experiences etc and then a sponsored post about something I just ignore.

Did anyone see Perez Hilton “apologize” to Mischa Barton on The Hills reboot? It very quickly turned into “why the fuck aren’t you accepting my apology you fucking bitch” and it was not surprising.

The fascists bleating about unity and healing and all the same old tiresome cant.

“I am the hurricane that comes every single year, and you can expect to see me again soon.”

I’m learning that I am not lightning that strikes once. I am the hurricane that comes every single year, and you can expect to see me again soon.

Shelter Cat Update!

Here’s a Darwin pupdate, for everyone who is a fan of cute puppers:

It is absolutely frigid here today, like praying to the car battery gods, please start cold. So, the obvious solution is to not leave the house and bake some bread, then leave the oven door open. I think I finally cracked it, this was as good as the bread from a restaurant we used to go on day trips to New York. The…

Not even my first job, but an internship at a small but respected industry magazine owned by Conde Nast (I think they owned much more in the early 2000s than they do now).

From a Native Hawai’ian who is constantly having to battle with the haole tourists that rent out units in her elderly father’s building and refuse to wear masks and walk around making fun of us and our laws, THIS. And poor people too. Flights to Hawai’i have been super cheap and a lot of places are doing deals. There…

If I woke up in a room with just Katie Porter and a whiteboard, with her starting to pepper me with lawyer questions, I’d confess to shit I couldn’t have been a part of. The Kennedy Assassination. The Lincoln Assassination. Loading the gun that killed Hamilton. Driving the Titanic. Whatever. She does not play.  

I’m a childfree abortion care worker and I 100% support your right to have children. The tenets of Reproductive Justice are “the right to have children, the right to not have children, and the right to parent our children in a safe and sustainable environment.”

I was talking to my 8yo son the other day about how, one day, this will be a really interesting period of history to have lived through and his kids or grandkids might want to know about what it was like to be kid during Covid, just like I asked my parents about the 60s Civil Rights Movement or my grandparents about…

As someone who elected to be childfree by choice a long time ago, the pandemic also cemented that it was the right decision. I’m lucky in that NO family members have ever given me a hard time about it.

I will concede that Justin Bieber’s choice of religions is not one I would choose (problematic church culture), but millions of people credit God in some form for getting sober around the world every day, so if that’s what helped him not drink himself to death, I think we could do the bare minimum of not snarking on…

Mr E was present at the birth of his son, but I have to say that the true test of intimacy came about a year afterwards, when I got food poisoning from the fucking McDonalds under fucking Rockefeller Center, and was so virulently ill that foul liquid was ejecting from both ends. Not only did he clean up after me, but…

Those familiar with me know Mr. Penguin is disabled, so I have done a ton of shit I never thought I would have to do until we were way old and hopefully could afford to pay someone to do shit. But I digress.

Name the next Mission Impossible movie:

That’s what I don’t think you’re understanding. This person is your friend. So, when your friend dies by suicide, you are very sad. You are going to miss your friend! You have direct, shared experiences with your friend, and those will always be the first thing you think of when you hear their name. And you will have…

I will never not feel a measure of sympathy for the friends of people who turn out to be secret abusers.