The kind of day I’ve had can only be described by two words: bitch, please.
Besties On Ice
Pretty much a blog about my bestie and me ice skating, or just using ice skating metaphors, or really nothing of the sort.
A writing career becomes harder to scale - latimes.com
kl7:
The writer’s apprenticeship — or perhaps, the writer’s lot — is this miserable trifecta: uncertainty, rejection, disappointment. In the 20 years that I’ve been publishing books, I have fared better than most. I sold my first novel while still in graduate school and published six more books, pretty much one every three years, like clockwork. I have made my living as a writer, living off my advances while supplementing my income by teaching and writing for newspapers and magazines.
As smooth as this trajectory might seem, however, my internal life as a writer has been a constant battle with the small, whispering voice (well, sometimes it shouts) that tells me I can’t do it. This time, the voice taunts me, you will fall flat on your face. Every single piece of writing I have ever completed — whether a novel, a memoir, an essay, short story or review — has begun as a wrestling match between hopelessness and something else, some other quality that all writers, if they are to keep going, must possess.
So… is “We were busy playing with orphans, but because we’re such huge football fans, we told the orphans we had to leave” a viable excuse for showing up late to the Superbowl?
I mean, I think it worked.
Lying about volunteer work is my new favorite party trick.
(Keep your pants on people, I applied to be a Big Sister for Big Brothers/Big Sisters a few months ago)
Why do costumes make everything so much better?
(This one’s for you, Jay. I’m sure your children will someday have a video much like this)
There’s photoshop and then there’s this …
A Florida judge awarded custody of a 1-year-old boy to the foster family he’d been living with, saying the boy was “happy and thriving.”
The adoptive parents, however, happen to be gay.
And that didn’t sit well with the Florida Family Policy Council of Orlando, who sent out an alert to its members about the judge’s “arrogant judicial activism.”
On the left is the picture that the Policy Council used to illustrate the gay couple that was awarded custody. On the right is the actual couple.
(from The Orlando Sentinel)
This is the craziest shit ever.
The Situation just hugged me and Pauly D shook my hand.
My life will never be the same.
Also, I think I’m pregnant now.
Who is surprised? Are you surprised? Really?
mmmmmm collard greens. makes me wish we were still on the NBC lot.
GPOYFIMWA (Gratuitous Picture of Yourself— Fuck, I Missed Wednesday Again)
“Being Single with This Lady Is Better than Being in a Half-Relationship with Anybody” Edition
Hold on to your pants, L.A.
You’ve been warned.
NY Driver faces fine after using mannequin as plus one in carpool lane
She totes stole my idea, except I wanted to buy a blowup doll to put in my passenger seat.
My favorite part (besides the picture in the article) is that the cop became suspicious when he saw the “passenger” wearing sunglasses & using the visor, even though it was an overcast day.
