First, an important note:

The default in my journal is to screen all anonymous comments, so no one sees them. I can remove that screening at my discretion, though, on an individual basis -- and I have only one criterium for unscreening things. If you are commenting anonymously, and you want your comments to be pubically seen, please sign your name ( Read more... )

Did anyone else get an email alert from here? Just curious

Things fell very, very silent in here. I know ( Read more... )

So. Yeah. Been quiet in here.

I should probably let people know that I've largely moved over to another blog - WadsWords. It's a bit different in tone - more polished, more big-thinky ( Read more... )

(Kim is considering what to pack for an upcoming vacation.)

Kim: (calling from her room) Hey Paul?

Paul: Yeah?

Kim: Can I ask you a question I swore I would never ask any man?

Paul: (uneasily) Um....okay?

Kim: (coming to him in a dress) Does this make me look fat?

Oh hi Livejournal. Real quick - I've kind of gone friends-only and lurking by default here. But I'm active elsewhere online - I now write for the travel blog Atlas Obscura.

And there's one thing I wrote for Atlas Obscura which as now been linked to by two different major(ish) media outlets; first the BBC tweeted a link to it, and now Fast ( Read more... )

So in a tongue-in-cheek move, I decided to adopt the text of a parody of one of those motivational posters as my resolution this year - "Stop worrying about what could go wrong and just focus on butts". For some reason it's turning out to be the perfect way of short-circuiting the second-guessing you always do that ends up psyching yourself out of ( Read more... )

Am in a strange spot roommate-wise - the current roommate is moving out, but not until February. But I really don't like the whole hunting-for-a-roommate process, so I'm looking now.

So I'mma put a brief note here, and have people contact me so I can send the more details in more private cover. ( But the details behind a cut - check here for more on an apartment in Brooklyn. )

(This was actually originally posted over on what is becoming my main blog. But this could do with some signal-boosting.)August 17, 12 pm ( Read more... )

Y'all, I have to share this site. I've talked in the past about how frustrating the tradition of skanky costumes for women is - this year seems to have reached some new lows with the release of a sexy body bag costume. Which has been making a lot of people say "what the actual hell ( Read more... )