Does it have to be this way?

Classic brew of art and memes.

I like to laugh; Sue me! If it's a crime to laugh out loud, then I am on the fast track to being sent to a maximum security prison . More than laughing itself, I love to embrace cackling as my primary medium for conveying the joy that lives within me. Cackling is not just a laughter type, it's a way of living. I do not care that I sound like a witch. I do not care that now everybody in the room is looking in my direction. I do not care that an elderly gentleman is now asking me why I'm ‘screami…

Happy Monday, people. And a very happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate. I, for one, am suffering due to some serious Lunar New Year celebrations . And no, I'm not hungover. I'm weary from eating roughly one thousand dumplings, 400 egg rolls, and many, many clementines. We had shrimp dumplings, pork dumplings, spicy pork dumplings, and wonderfully mushroomy veggie dumplings to top things all off. Every year my friends and I get together for this dumpling fest, and every year I forget about h…

Forget skeletons

Rise and grind

I was not a cool kid. Up until high school, my experiences with friendship generally started with convenience and were maintained by mutual interests. But because I was not cool, these interests were a bit unorthodox. I was obsessed with reading ultra-bleak history tomes, as well as even bleaker fiction. Much of my choices surrounded World War II , and in particular, the Holocaust. I had learned at a young age that my grandfather's family was all but exterminated in their home in Ukraine, for t…

Dating as a parent must be tough, but watching a parent date later is pretty tough, too. The frustration, the sadness of watching someone you love get hurt. While we have tons of sympathy for adults who are forced back into the dating pool, having to watch someone you respect and love struggle in an area of common sense must be difficult. Twitter user @stahppitrahn provided some very good (and very funny) proof of this recently. Seems her sweet father fell prey to a dating scammer who tried to…

If they don't know who sees dead people, then they're too young for you.

This guy is: Ice. Farking. Cold.

Explaining your trauma < memes

Do you eat to live, or live to eat? Honestly, I'm worried about the people who proudly claim the former. While it's true that we literally eat to live, but it's absolutely bonkers to me that there are people who just don't care about, or flat-out enjoy, eating. I'm talking about Liz, the tech worker I met years ago who dreamed of powering her pale, sickly-looking body with a pill taken just once a day. Even more disturbing? The day I learned she was on a diet that consisted only of Clif bars. R…

My eyes

Oh yeah, it's Friday baybay. But does that really matter? The older I get, the less excitement Friday brings. Sure, I can go out and party until 4am without much consequence (like, I won't get fired), but I will also almost certainly feel like utter shit and accomplish none of my personal responsibilities. Moaning and groaning my way through Saturday, and then doing it again as some sort of sick hair of the dog, just sounds…terrible. This means the weekend is just relegated to chores and chill…

I can't imagine how difficult it must be to date as a blind person . I'm sure every hack has a hot take about who would date a blind person, and they're all pretty insulting. "This guy is so ugly; he could only pull a blind chick!" "Good thing he can't see her because if he could, he'd be in for a rude awakening." News flash: blind people are not clueless about the nuances of attractiveness just because they do not experience sight the same way sighted people do. Blindness does not make people…

Unbelievable