Last month after listening to a podcast where Lydia Loveless talked about her favorite album, The Replacements’ “Pleased to Meet Me,” I got a little huffy on the Twitters. I thought the podcast host was…
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I Have Always Turned Heads: What it’s Like Being a Physical Other
There is a lovely essay by Sarah Einstein in Salon, making the rounds of my Facebook friends. In it, Einstein talks about being a plain woman married to a beautiful man. She talks a lot…
The Moratorium
I hate weddings. Despite this, I’ve cried at every wedding I’ve ever been to. This has nothing to do with why I hate weddings and more to do with trying to prove that I’m not…
‘You Are Not a Keeper,’ He Said. Or, The Fault in Our Exclamation Points
Really, that’s what he said. Or rather he texted. I’m not sure how we got from planning to meet tomorrow for coffee to “You are not a keeper” in one conversation, but we did. Apparently…
Supergenius vs. The Aggressive Submissives
For as long as I have talked about my height on the Internet, I’ve attracted the attention of submissive men. There is something about a freakishly tall, large woman that make a lot of submissive…
It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: Zero Tolerance for Cowardly Bullshit Edition
8 a.m. This would have been a nice and good hour to rise had I not been up until nearly 2 with some vague fuckery. I laid in bed and contemplated grocery shopping. There are…
The Roadtrip
Bringing the disparate areas of your life together can be a little nerve wracking. When I invited Vodo my former Loft teacher and now friend to join Heather, Wolfdogg, and I on our journey to…
17 Reasons I am the Worst First Date Ever
Last night I had dinner at BFK & Atom’s house. It was a sort of Rock & Roll Bookclub, or at least it was supposed to be only I never got around to reading the…
The Women Who Raised Me in Corporate America
“I’m forty-two now, guys,” I announced just moments after sitting down to lunch with two of my all-time favorite coworkers ever. “That’s not the kind of thing a lot of people announce,” Shannon said. “I…