weekly retro: the 'late because i went to boston' retro
this week's retro is late because i was out of town for the weekend and am, today, finally able to Go On The Computer™ and Blog™ - you know, *the two things i was born to do*.
read more »category: laughing
just some upcoming events and things on my mind
my fucking allergies!! just kidding, that's not what this blog is about, i just wanted to acknowledge it. here are some other things i want to acknowledge, separated by 'these need your attention and action' and 'no call to action needed here'
read more »wonderville turned 5! also we're doing another show there this month
yesterday andy and i went to wonderville to help celebrate their 5th birthday! in this middle school standardized test essay, i will talk more about what that means and also close with a call to action related to a new show i'm doing this month.
read more »falling for prince's fridge
as a former professional satirist, i know that you can always make someone fall for something. as april fools day approaches us again, i'd like to share what i believe was the only good april fools joke ever: heavy table's 'what's in prince's fridge'. click that right now, read it, and then come back. heavy table is a reader-sponsored culinary online zine based in prince's home zone, minneapolis and they are absolute legends for this one.
read more »grade school entrepreneur
i was just watching emma chamberlain tell some childhood stories and early into it she talked about under-the-table selling stickers and erasers to kids when she was a little kid and it feeling drug-dealery. i basically had the same experience.
read more »10 years since i warned you's about bitcoin
10 years ago i was working as a senior front-end engineer at the nba making way too little money for what they had me doing and writing extremely niche web development satire as a hobby with my coworker – normal 20-something lady in tech things. this was last time i ever remember being truly bored, which was the big driver behind me writing things on an invite-only blogging platform (medium the dot com in its infancy) that i knew were very funny and therefore would piss off a certain demographic.
read more »i’m giving an important talk at “internet explorers” on saturday 10/9
i'm giving a talk this saturday at internet explorers: one night only big tech bonanza! hosted by my dear pal and partner-in-tech-humor-crimes, mark vigeant, i'll be joining a lineup of experts and comedians to use laughter as a defense mechanism against the horrors of big tech – by the way, wild week we're having, huh?
read more »some foods that have been comforting me this past shitty month
this month sucked, which is why i have been hella logged-off for a lot of it. things seem to be headed in the right direction, though, so instead of dwelling on negative stuff i want to focus on the following foods which have been a great comfort to me this summer
read more »my truth
in which i reflect on one of the most epic and kept-behind-closed-doors cake failures ever in my mid-thirties.
read more »there exist more palatable fusions of “italian for kids” and baked goods than just that spaghettio pie
you may have recently seen a video of a woman making a “spaghettio pie”. i won’t try it, i honestly don’t think it will work. i also, not to get too high off of my own supply, own an actual rolling pin.
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