How To Be Better Than Your Parents in Three Easy Steps
First off, try to have crappy parents. When your parents are shit, the sky’s the limit. If your mother’s currently serving life in prison for...
What I Wore: Long Skirt and a Short Jacket
Here’s the same skirt from the other day, but it’s been pulled down to it’s full length. It’s a versatile piece, and I like it....
Elements of Grandma Style
Clicking on the thumbnails will take you to the store that sells that item. If you’re interested in true grandma style, check out Advanced Style,...
What I Wore: Wishing for Spring, Wearing a Flower
Jacket from The Gap via the thrift store Olive v-neck from Target Linen flower shirt from Macy’s Tweed wool miniskirt was cutt off the bottom...
Audiobook Review: Monster Hunter International
Monster Hunter International [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition] by Larry Correia (Author), Oliver Wyman (Narrator) Imagine every one of your favorite action movies ever combined into...
What I Wore: Mauve Maven
Wool Coat from H&M via the thrift store Maroon shirt from the thrift store Maroon sweater vest from Target Miniskirt from Forever 31 Black leggings...
The Time My Mom Made Me Shave My Step-dad’s Back
For about 6 years, from ages 8 to 14, my mom was with an older guy named Ramon. He’s probably one of the better men...
What I Wore: Color Punching and Color Blocking
This outfit made me happy all day. I’m getting into shorter skirts lately, they just make me feel bouncier. Kerchief from REI Shirt from Target...
Why Chris Brown Will Not Go To Jail, No Matter How Hard He Seems To Try
I don’t mean that he will never go to jail at all, because everything that goes up must come down, and eventually studio lawyers and...
What I Wore: Buttons and Baubles
I have a stain on my shirt, because I am a mess and I cannot control myself. I’ve actually been kind of down on myself...
What I Wore: Hoot Rat Hoot Rat Hoochie Lama
Turquoise hood handmade by me Velvet jacket from the thrift store Coral long-sleveed shirt from Target Sweater vest from Target Blue tank (undershirt) from Target...
Audio Book Review: The Drunkards Walk
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition] Leonard Mlodinow (Author), Sean Pratt (Narrator) Every so often, generally when I spend...
What I Wore: Winter Wonderwhat
Long sleeved Mountain Hardware shirt from REI Summer dress from Asos Belt from Target Red skirt from Mervin’s Leggings (not seen) from Target Extraordinary thigh...
My Memories of Italy
From second to eighth grade, I went to a private school in my home town of Altadena. I was probably the 3rd most impoverished person...
What I Wore: Business Patchwork
Scarf from a Japanese specialty store in Portland, Or Jacket from Talbots via the thrift store Turquoise short sleeved shirt from The Gap Sky blue...
Public Service Announcement: Apartment Living
This morning I met our new neighbors. At 4:00 a.m., while wearing pajamas and standing in my own driveway and staring at them in their...
My Cat is Terrible at Petting
Just what is the point of cats anyway? The entire Internet has become one giant cat fanboy palace and I’m sick to death of it....
Are You Tired of Reading About my Mother, Because I’m Tired of Writing About her… And Thinking About Her, and Crying Over Her. A.K.A This Again?!
This is a post I found in my drafts bin fully completed, never before published. I went to see my new therapist and he said...
What I Wore: Rainy Day Red
I found this photo set in my flicker and realized I’d never put it up. As you can tell, it’s from right after I got...
What I Wore: Olive the Other Kerchief
When I was coming out of my therapists office, another therapist who was leaving for the day said “That looks great! You have such a...
The Time Our Neighbor Had A Target Tattooed On His Fucking Forehead
I live in Hawthorne, which is maybe not the best neighborhood around, but isn’t the scariest either. We live in a pleasant little apartment that...
What I Wore: Pattern Combustion
So I spent this entire photo shoot trying to smile naturally. This is the result. Smiling is really difficult, you guys! Kerchief from REI Game...
Self Hate as a Motivator
So I just learned about the “humiliation diet” where you post your weight online every day and expect the people who care about you to...
Twitter Tells Me: Prime Minister Crampy, the Cheese Senorita
It’s that time again: I feel I’ve neglected the blog long enough that I harass my poor twitter followers until they tell me what to...
Hey, It’s a Tour of My House
Ben and I made this house tour for RedditCribs. Here it is for your viewing pleasure.
What I Wore: Photoshoot
So, I totally didn’t realize that I have only one crappy full body shot of this outfit until right now. So I guess it’s just...
A Letter to My Inner Child
Dear Inner Child: My therapist says that I should “converse” with you. I’m not really sure what that means. I waver between thinking that this...
What I Wore: Working Ghoul
I found this amazing Talbot’s jacket at the thrift store. It still had it’s original tags and spare buttons hanging off the sleeve, and thanks...
What I Wore: Cotton Dino
So, better late than never, here is my very special Halloween What I Wore. The “spikes” are little triangles of fabric filled with pillow fluff....
Mother Issues Redux
I wrote this for another venue, but I liked it so much that I thought I’d post it here. Anybody who’s read this blog for...
What I Wore: Orange Shift
My sweet boyfriend Ben thought that I should stand in front of the closet to take my outfit pictures, and since our doors are mirrored,...
What I Wore: Red Red and Blue
Scarf was a gift from Ben’s mom Blue shirt is from the thrift store Maroon tank is from Target Seatbelt belt is from a skate...
Twitter Design Challenge: KATG’s Hottest
At about 5:00 p.m. this evening, I put the word out on twitter that I was accepting Design Challenges. At 7:20 p.m., having no other...
What I Wore: A Pattern Emerges
Red scarf is a gift from Ben’s mom Linen floral button up from Macy’s Blue v-neck from The Gap Canvas belt from Target Skirt from...
Movie Review Redux
50/50 I expected this movie to be funny, at least a little bit cute, and to probably make me cry at some point. It delivered...
Bienvenidos a Gringolandia
My friend and co-worker was sworn in as a U.S. citizen yesterday, and we all had a little party for her at the office. My...
My Horizontal Lines
Ever since I rediscovered this shirt at the bottom of my laundry hamper, I’ve been totally in love with it. It’s so comfortable and soft...
Striped and Streeps
Striped collared shirt from Target Overshirt from The Gap Skirt from Ross Socks from Target Hounds-tooth Converse high tops from a vintage shop, now defunct...
Movie Review: Drive
My awesome boyfriend and I saw “Drive” today. Off the bat, I think I think I should mention that my all time favorite movie is...
What I Wore: Plaids and Stripes
At long last, it looks like the What I Wore posts are coming back. It seems I only go in for this stuff in cold...
Felt?
I’ve been following the blog of Melissa Crowe, a fiber artist out of Portland Maine. Checkout Girl always has the most adorable felt-work pieces on...
Gizmodo Cyber-bullies Random Nerd, Gets Page Views
Judging by the twitter explosion that I just witnessed, you guys have all read the terrible mistake that Alyssa Bereznak just made over on Gizmodo....
A Function of Memory
In my life, I’ve had several mothers. In one way, I’ve had a series of caretakers who were there for me when my own mother...
Twitter Tells Me: Douching, Public Anxiety and Hashtag Hate
@Tuttle88 asked: why do women, specifically American women, douche? Well my foreign friend, America isn’t called the land of milk and cheese for nothing. Actually,...
Depersonalization Disorder: I’m Not Here Right Now
Longer ago than I like to admit, I started getting feelings of intense depersonalization. I would be driving home, or grocery shopping with my amazing...
Twitter Tells Me: Sex, Suicide and Unsafe Driving
As is my habit (and in order to get the poetry as far away from the top of the page as I can) I have...
The Wolf
One of the worst things about having had a bad childhood (please see well written examples here, here and here) has nothing to do with...
Taking a Job on the Death Star
I never knew who Ryan Dunn was until this morning, and I never ever cared. I still don’t really care. Don’t get me wrong, I...
Twitter Design Challenge: Dog
So my last twitter design concept was “breakdancing robot dog.” The concept was a little cluttered, and I had no immediate thoughts, but I started...
Twitter Design Challenge: Things I Learned
After the latest and first ever Twitter Design Challenge, I learned some things. First of all, sucking so much is definitely painful, make no mistake....