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Category Archives: Soapbox

I am an oil spill, and so are you.

Please join me while I say something terrifically, disastrously unpopular. This is bound to be fun for all of us!

The Boyfriend Test

1. Do you like animals?
a) Like animals? I LOVE animals!
b) I’m an asshole.

We Are Here

Jeff and I are in Madrid. Yes, my ex-husband and I went to Madrid together. Many potentially fascinating theories could explain this odd development, but here, let me save you the trouble: we are in Spain together simply because we both wanted to go to Spain.

Types of Personal Ads: A Reference Guide

PRETENDING TO BE TOO COOL FOR PERSONAL ADS BUT PROBABLY JUST LAZY
I am too amazing and complex to be summed up in paragraphs so I won’t even try. You should similarly recognize the futility of this exercise and just message me, hopefully with considerably more effort than I just exerted.
ALMOST COMICALLY INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM ANY OTHER [...]

If this were a video, I would be dressed up like Chris Crocker and I would be shrieking “LEAVE KINDLE ALOOOOONE!”

Someone asked me awhile ago to do a Kindle review post. I’m not sure that the hot rambling mess you are about to read counts as a review post, but here you go anyhow. If you do not care about the controversy surrounding the Kindle, you may want to go do something else … anything [...]

On this, the first day of my new life: Things I have learned. Am trying to learn. Have learned, but forget. Will never learn.

The collection below essentially amounts to what happens when an agnostic attempts to articulate her own personal prayer beads into words. I stop, I kneel, I clutch them, and I let them slip through my fingers, one by one, all while muttering these sorts of things at myself.
And then I go out into the [...]

Resurrected Post: The Reasons

This post is originally from 2008, regarding BlogHer and social dynamics in general. I felt inspired to bring it back because of Issa’s great post.
I’ve enjoyed more social activity this year than … well, ever, honestly. And you guys, it’s FASCINATING. Some women are flat-out rejected. Some blend in effortlessly. Most are somewhere in between. [...]

Love: the Sequel! (Part 2: Director’s commentary.)

One of the most dangerous habits of humankind, I think, is our tendency to shape our lives into a narrative—to snap our life events to a sort of universal grid. We don’t just live our lives; we also tell our respective stories, whether to an audience or just to ourselves. This is a forgivable enough [...]

Maybe this Christmas.

One of the most terrifying things about this year was how very poor I was, for just a little while.