Urban Honking

Getting some great feedback on my advice for Undecided, the girl with the older boyfriend(s) who doesn’t want either of them anymore. Reader S even writes: “this is exactly what i needed to read to break up with [my older boyfriend]. thank you.” Also I should point out that the original advice-seeker took the advice […]

I have been invited to my ex-step sisters wedding–our parents are now divorced, we did not grow up together save for summers/holidays. She lives in a distant city, we talk maybe once or twice a year when a relative is visiting one or the other. Attending her wedding just myself would be a real stretch, […]

Dear Yours Truly, This is a first for me. I never ask anyone for advice, let alone someone I’ve never met! However, I thought it might be useful to get feedback from an impartial third party regarding my current dilemma. The context: I ended a relationship this past spring that had lasted the majority of […]

We saw Looper. I liked it! It was so much darker and more grim than I was expecting, which, god help me, I always appreciate in a movie. Although I never got used to Joseph Gordon Levitt’s face, I would say that I was fairly riveted by the film. Such a good mix of brief […]

It’s Friday I am unusually tired. I have not been sleeping well due to night sweats due to me trying to find a less expensive way to regulate my hormones. Turns out, it can’t be done! After washing the sheets and the duvet like 3 times in a row I finally slept on the couch […]

Yesterday I taught all day, which involved talking to 18 year olds about Virginia Woolf and fiction and writing and their own lives and patriarchy and Katniss Everdeen and the world of today. Then I met with a kid who’s having some issues with a paper. Then I ran over to the fancy room in […]

These days Raymond Pettibon is a  well regarded, respectable—ahem—respected  contemporary artist who exhibits around the world in major museums and galleries. He found his way to artistic prominence in a circumlocutionary manner. He began, early in his career (it can really only be called a career now that we are looking back 40 years) in […]

After being schooled in the comments by a British person or possibly an Aussie, I have indeed realized that I keep telling you to go read my Advice blog but I very rarely actually link to it. Also Mike, you should put a link to it on my blog or whatever you call it. ADVICE […]

Oh no, I forgot COOL AS ICE in my “Quick Trips” entry! Ultimate Quick Trip….down memory lane! Once again at Steve’s house, where so many of the good things in my life take place, I was treated to a visual feast that left my eyes ruined for all the tawdry colors and fashion choices of […]

I have seen a lot of movies but I keep not wanting to deeply interrogate their subtexts and lambast their scripts in yon blog, for some reason. I think it all began when I saw The Master, which I felt was too good to blog about, for I have not enough words in my pen […]