I answered some questions that popped up in the search terms on Twitter yesterday. It was fun. Here are more. “what should i do to be attractive for my bf after one year” You keep doing you. You’re already great! “awkward clumsy giant lesbian” WELCOME! HI! “my husband left me last month 2013 to another […]

Hello, I finally had a second to run y’all through the Random List Generator and can give 10 2-month IndieFlix subscriptions to the lucky recipients. Winners are: (Crossed out = I sent you the code already, not a mark of any kind of deletion) Hexiva Puck Jill Ada LilyR Susan Haney girlnamedxena Yael Daphna Saar […]

Thankfully, Here’s That Bad Advice You Were Hoping For took on the WTF? Dear Prudence penis question. I suspect many of you will enjoy everything about that blog. For instance, this post about a creepily over-involved parent. (h/t @j_zimms) And here is my favorite recent take on the whole question of “Zones”: Why Do Men Keep Putting […]

I am bored with the current WordPress theme and am going to try a few out over the next week or so. This will happen at random & without warning. What you should know: I have a way to live-preview how they look, but to actually know how they will work and if I like […]

I didn’t get this posted in time for National Poetry Month, but my friend Rachel wrote a poem every week during the first year of her son’s life and now there is a book. And my friend & colleague Megan’s amazing essay “Channel B” will be featured in a volume of Best American Essays. Go […]

There are still 7 hours left in International Tell Your Crush Day (Central Daylight Time). Obviously, not all crushes need to be acted on or acknowledged. Sometimes crushes are there to light up your day, remind you of some aspect of yourself or humanity that you admire, or motivate you to brush your hair before […]

The Bristol Awkward People are having a meetup on Saturday, May 4 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm at The Watershed Cafe. More details are at their Facebook group here. There will be an meetup of Ye Awkward Folk in Sheffield on May 25. Details: Hi!  I’m baroquemongoose, and I’m arranging a meetup at the […]

Edited 4/25 to add further email correspondence from the Letter Writer at the end of the post. Two things I know: 1) If you have to keep explaining and justifying and expanding what you said, you said it wrong the first time. 2) If lots of people tell you you screwed something up, you did. […]

Movie is in the can (and about to be on its way to the lab in LA for processing)! So I will be back to being a blogger soon. In the meantime, a friend (and friend of the blog) posted this piece by Susanna Silk and Barry Goldman on Facebook today, and despite some ableist […]

Sorry for the light posting. My students are all in the middle of making films, so my job is pretty busy right now, and I took on an additional super-cool project. If you’re in Chicago, come see By The Way, Meet Vera Stark at the Goodman Theatre this spring. It’s a play about the African […]