The Leg Man: Deconstructing Front Stoop Compliments
This is going to sound weird, but I don’t get cat-called. It might be because of my Chronic Bitchface. It might be because of my...
Category: Commentary
Poor is the New Black
This is one of the custom blogs I do for my Facebook friends. I asked if there was anything they wanted me to blog about,...
As If Anybody Cared About My Opinion on GMOs
Grandma’s fine, surgery went well and she even took her first steps on her new hip today. Anyway… This is one of the custom blogs...
The Police Are Not Your Friend
Maybe this should be chalked up to my own slightly irrational fear of law enforcement (I say slightly irrational because I am half white after...
What If Your Mother Had Aborted You? No, What If She Actually Had?
This was prompted by Texas Governor Rick Perry’s infantile pothead question of pro-choice opponent Wendy Davis: “What if your mother had aborted you?” I knew...
I’m Sure You’re Dying to Hear About My Favorite Things Right Now
This bitch: Hoodie Allen I wasn’t a fan at first because of the name (ewwe incestuous pedophiles). Like, I heard it, thought “cute joke” and...
The Secret Ingredient is Confidence
What if I told you I’d set you up on the most amazing blind date, and my description of the man in question (you enjoy...
A Serious Post About the Nature of Sexual Attraction
I was going to write a serious post for today. I have this thing on the political (and non-political) ramifications of sexual attraction that I’ve...
Lay Back and Take It: The Xbox One Story
Trigger Warning: Rapes, and jokes about rapes. So about two hours ago at Microsoft’s E3 presentation, a male and a female presenter were playing the...
My Grandma Likes the 99 Cent Store
I spent basically the entire day with my grandma. To give you some perspective on what that’s like. I haven’t hit my 10,000 step goal...
Goodbye Hitler Teapot
The JC Penny Hitler teapot billboard has been taken down. One week after this beautiful Hitler-coaster roared to a start, it’s all over in a...
The Do’s and Dont”s of Moving In-Together
Rae Johnston, Techlife editor, Bioshock affectionado, and all around delightful twitter personality was quoting this article on how to prepare for co-habitation earlier today, and...
You Made Me Do This
Any special requests for tomorrow’s blog? Otherwise you’re getting a list of ways that Leslie Knope and I are the same person. — Marina Rose...
A Shack of My Own
So this happened: I think the question we all want to know the answer to is can The @corcoran_group find me a shack to die...
The Cost of Living
I see a lot of poor people like myself really upset about their student loans. And sometimes I think to myself that I live in...
How To Know If Your Boyfriend Loves You
This was one of the suggested search topics I might want to cater to according to my SEO keyword thingy. Finding out if your boyfriend...
Share the Hate
I’m not having a good day. Rather than talk about that, let me introduce my new Tumblr project: The Hate Report. I’m collecting quotes and...
Clothing That Looks Like Vaginas
The other day Ben and I happened to see a woman wearing boots like these: Ben: It looks like she stuck her foot in a...
Mr. White Man
I was walking in to work this morning, listening to the music on my phone and Brother Ali’s The Travelers came on. If you’re wondering...
“Check Your Privilege” Trolls
This is one of those things that’s been bothering me for awhile. I try to write about it whenever it seems to flare up, but...
This Blog Brought to You By:
April Fools. Because men don’t want to smell a flower. Men want to eat a steak. Empower yourself to make his night. I’m happy to...
You are Not Broken
Trigger warning: rape, molestation, attempted murder. Party. Before I get into anything else, I feel obligated to point out my own trauma privilege, for lack...
Work/Life Balance and Other Things I Don’t Understand
It’s no secret that I’ve been stressed out lately. All my friends seem to want to talk about is when the last time I slept...
Barpies Before Harpies: God of War Traumatizes Feminist Dude
Someone made this poor man from Ploygon play God of War: Ascension. And he was upset when, after brutally murdering a Harpie (lady daemon, very...
Rape Culture or Stupid Boy Culture?
That was the question asked by my good friend Big Ben when he introduced me to this little ball of entitled male fuckery: Fifty Shades...
Die Hard 4 Liveblog
I like how hacking movies always make the back end of sites look super slick and full of awesome graphics. Uh, Sir, it looks like...
Die Hard 3 Liveblog
Sorry we started late, I had to use it. And then I was hungry. Anyway, now we’re starting I bombed this department store because I...
Valentines Day 2013
I don’t usually go in for this sort of thing. Why do you need a special day or a collection of commodities to tell your...
Die Hard 2 Liveblog
Suddenly, NAKED GUY. 5(eastern European dudes) + black guy = Die Hard Villain Squad The real bad guy here is anybody who would taze a...
Die Hard Liveblog
In honor of my favorite action hero, John Fucking McClane, today’s post was a liveblog of my Die Hard viewing party that kicked off at...
PART 2: THE FATTEST GIRL ON THE TREADMILL BAY
This is one of the custom blogs I do for my Facebook friends. I asked if there was anything they wanted me to blog about,...
PART 1: HOW’S THAT RUNNING WORKING OUT FOR YOU?
This is one of the custom blogs I do for my Facebook friends. I asked if there was anything they wanted me to blog about,...
Hello Facebook Graph Search
So I got Facebook graph search today. Of course, I immediately checked the badass level of my friend group. Apparently none of you are badass...
The Time I Came Out to My Mom
This was going to be Monday’s post, but since my friend Rhian passed away Sunday, I forwent a Monday post in favor of a goodbye...
MLK Day 2013 Twitter Hall of Fame
In honor of the great man himself, I tried to do something a little different with this Hall of Fame. Rather than finding the biggest...
Holiday Repost – Why I Hate Your Baby and Want Your Marriage to Fail
Happy MLK Day. In honor of the great man himself, I was going to post the horrible stream of consciousness essay I wrote about race...
Goodbye Huell
Oh Shit. Huell Howser is dead. Who the fuck is going to be enthusiastic about things for us now? Fuck I loved that giant white...
Azealia Banks: F word, N word, I’m out
Apparently perennial doucbebitch Perez Hilton did something to infuriate my current fave hip-hopist Azealia Banks. In response she tweeted that he was blocked, and then...
A Few of My Favorite Things
So today Ben’s mom was telling us how the guy who murdered firefighters Michael Chiapperini and Tomasz Kaczowka and wounded Joseph Hofstetter and Theodore Scardino...
Holiday Repost – To M(eat) or not to M(eat)
Merry Christmas. This is a repost from July of 2008. I’ll be posting the follow up to this on New Year’s day. Spoiler alert: I...
Christmas is Just Another Cold Day
So this year has been bad for money, and it just got worse. As in I was recently sitting in the lobby of the service...
Least Helpful Tweets About AIDS
You may know that today, Dec. 1, is World AIDS Day. The purpose of this day is to bring awareness about HIV/AIDS, show support for...
‘Tis the Season for Charitable Giving
Since I have a whopping 60 dedicated readers at this point, I thought I’d do the ‘popular blog’ thing and name a charity I’d like...
Because Quality is Overrated
The other day, Internet citizen and all around popular guy Matt Inman, proprietor of TheOatmeal.com posted a comic about being a content creator which you...
When Did Everyone I Know Become So Well Adjusted?
The morning after Thanksgiving I woke up excited. Not just for leftovers, or the fact that I get Friday off work. I woke up excited...
Transgender Day of Remembrance
So today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day when trans and genderqueer people pay homage to the community members they’ve lost due to transphobic...
Wait, What Are You Talking About?
So, this weekend, Ben and I were driving down the street, and we saw a billboard that looked basically like this: I tried to find...
Welcome to 500, Thank You for Coming
Right now, in real time, you are reading the first sentence of the 500th post of this blog. If that doesn’t make you feel damn...
The First Day of the Rest of This Week
So, since I spent all of yesterday blogging, today’s going to be short and sweet. As you can probably tell, I’m completely stoked to have...
Who’s Live-Blogging Election Day 2012?! This Bitch!
Instead of my usual pre-written post that auto-publishes on or around 5:30 a.m. ET, today I will do something I have never done before. To...