In Which I CAN’T. CONTROL. MYSELF. Again.

“A few years ago an ex-girl of mine
Asked me to keep her name out of my rhymes
So I said this rhyme that I’m about to say
It came from the heart and it went this way:
Go to hell girl, you make me sick!
I hope your new boyfriend gets cancer in his dick
What the fuck makes you think I’d put your name on my record?
Yeah, now I feel a lot better”

–Atmosphere, “Guns and Cigarettes”

I am taking this train wreck back to the OOOOOL SKOOO today, in the spirit in which it was conceived. Two things are important to know: 1) Seattle Federline, Esq,. is engaging in unholy matrimony with his second babymama on Saturday, when he will officially become Someone Else’s Problem. Let us have a moment of silence.

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Originally snapped by Squid Rosenberg. Manipplated by Indentured Servants at the Offices of I, Asshole.

Thing two you should know is: refer to title. No, it’s up there. Stop looking at my tits!

Anyway, at breakfast this morning we were all eating eggs and talking about tattoos.

“My dad has a tattoo,” Franny offered. “It’s red and blue.”

“I know,” I said, “but do you know what’s under that tattoo?”

“No. Under? Are you forrealla, Mom?”

“Hells yes, I’m forrealla.”

“What’s under it?”

“My name,” I said.

Franny actually gasped. Apparently she has no recollection of being three. I should have stopped there, but I didn’t.

“You should ask him about that when you see him tomorrow. Before the wedding.”

Perhaps you feel this should be one of those emo posts, where I reflect and lament about life’s changes. No, man. I raise a glass to the woman who MUST keep shit together over there, since I couldn’t work, clean the house, cook, and raise the babies. If her ovaries are that much bigger than mine, then I raise a glass to her. Which I will drink in my quiet house where no such unreasonable demands are made on me.

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Snakes on a Motherfucking BlogHer! Part Three

I have been tired and busy and there seem to be children around here who want to be fed or something, so I am dragging this out, I know. I swear this is my last post on BlogHer. Unless it’s not. CHORTLE CHORTLE. If you are tired of this (I know I am) then I suggest you go watch this crazy person beating Super Mario Brothers 3 in 11 minutes! Rad! (via Daniel) I love what this You Tube commenter said about the video: “COOOOOOLLL!!!! No offence, but I saw another person beat this game in 10:35.” You just can’t please some people (present company included).

Hey, that’s a great segue.

Tha Dark Side

Anywayz, now I must talk about the DARK SIDE of BlogHer: sponsorship. Dun dun dun. Ed Champion told me in person in San Francisco (yay!) that he would bust me so hard if I didn’t write about this, so I bow to his clout.

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Snakes on a Motherfucking BlogHer! Part Two

Step Away From the Haterade

There’s a lot of ground to cover, and I’m going to try to be as brief as possible. I wanted to jump right into to woo! panels, and woo! cool people I met, but I really feel the need to address something first. And I know I can’t change anyone’s mind.

I was doing some googling around yesterday, and I found some writers who seem to have ingested a large serving of Haterade. I have seen BlogHer referred to as an “A/B-list club” that excludes anyone who can’t afford it. There were mentions of the “cool” bloggers leaving a wake of z-list sycophants. I’m not even going to bother to link those people. First of all, YALL JUST JELUS.

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In Which The Night Manager Thinks I Was Serious About That Skinner Box Thing

Today we were at the grocery store picking up some stuff for dinner when Franny found her favorite night manager, who has been her friend for almost three years now. I eavesdropped.

“How’s your summer going?” the night manager asked.

“Okaaay,” Franny said.

“What have you been doing?” she asked.

“Nothing,” Franny replied. Oh, that’s right. We haven’t been going to the Zoo, working on reading, or doing drama camp. And we certainly haven’t been going on vacation or anything.

“Nothing?” the manager pressed. “Nothing at all?”

“Well,” Franny conceded, “I have been sitting in a cardboard box, staring at the wall.”

I popped around the corner.

“LIES!” I shouted, pointing at Franny. Strudel murmured, abandoned in her strolly by the case of salsa and tortillas. “You’ve been reading. You’ve been doing a lot of stuff,” I accused.

Franny shrugged and glanced at the night manager as if to say, “I don’t know this crazy woman either. What’s with people, anyway?”

I’ll remember this the next time you need shots, Franny. I may just let you go rabid.

Snakes on a Motherfucking BlogHer! Part One

DRAMA! HANGOVERS! I SHOVE PEOPLE INTO POOLS! Next on “Snakes on a Motherfucking BlogHer!”

So BlogHer happened. For those who have no idea what that means, I’ll give it to you in a nutshell. BlogHer is a big meetup that was held in San Jose, California. It was created to give women bloggers a chance to meet and discuss techie (what I think of as the “container”) issues and content issues, as in what we write about. I am a content person, so I was glad I missed day one, which focused on container issues.

I flew in for the day one cocktail party, however, so I could have a little extra time out-of-town and so I could meet some women that I’ve been dying to see. I think the first person to espy me was Badger of Badgerbag and Badgermama (among other blogs). She introduced me around to some really cool women. Then, Squid, who I met a couple of months ago (brag brag), materialized at my side and introduced me to the cool and laid back Jo from Spanglemonkey. I met some of the people from Bad Mom’s Coffee, like Mary Tsao, who is one of those very intense and present people that you want to start confessing things to immediately. I hope that doesn’t sound lame, because Mary was way cool.

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When The Apocalypse Comes We Wont Be Able to Get Prescription Drugs Anymore, and That is Making Me Sad Panda

Or, “What I Did on My Summer Vacation.”

Yo, homies. I am in San Francisco with Supa, and am experiencing technical difficulties. I have my grandma’s inner ear issues (I stole them from her one day when she was watching her stories) and flying really makes me all cattywampus. It just hit today. I get that feeling you get when, OOPS, you’ve had one martini too many, and then you realized you smoked about 16 cigarettes in a three-hour period.

You step back and go oh, shit, the spins are gonna visit me any second. But then they don’t. I’m teetering on the edge of that. I mooched off the Vicodin Fairy, so I should be good to go in about ten minutes. It was suggested that I take all my Dramamine all at once, but I don’t want my vagina to gain the power of speech and start talking to me. “I would like an eclair,” Vagina declared.

Also, like the jackass fishbelly-white girl that I am, I went out in the sun without enough coverage and got fucking fried. Thanks so much, Irish Forefathers. Yes, San Franciscan Clever Street Vagabonds, I know my face matches my hair. But does my foot fit in your butt?

I didn’t bring sunblock, because, you know, there’s no sun in California? Or something? And now I am sad to lose my glowy white skin. I’m not all Aryan Nation or anything. I just don’t like it when I’m skin damaged. I don’t want to look like an alligator bag when I’m 40. Or have my nose carved up and reshaped like my grandpa’s.

Speaking of fitting things in your butt, I went to the leather daddy festival today. Never have I been surrounded by so many men who were so completely disinterested in me. I am not saying that I’m a hott tamale, but if there are that many millions of men, at least one will hit on me. Nothing. It was awesome. The crowd was tight. Now I know what sperm must feel like. And DOOOD there was a metric buttload of unfurled dickums there. Supa succeeded in showing me something I would never see in Seattle. Something she might call “totally unique.”

I will write about the conference when I get back tomorrow. And if you’re all like WTF, what conference, then don’t worry because I’ll tell you. I want to give it the full 10% of my brain. You may rest assured that I talked about my snack trap all weekend, and was given snaps for it. I was on analog all weekend–I only had a pad of paper and a pen. It turns out you can’t link something on paper, poke it with your pen, and have it automatically flip to the Lindsay Lohan “Big Ol Titties” song. Oh technology, you are my lord and master. I embrace you. Analog Is Shit Ass For Suckers.

Dear Companion and Father of My Child

As you know, you just dropped me off at the airport. And I’m sorry, but I need to tell you something, and I know you will check my blog because you know I go on sneaky bloggy autopilot sometimes when I go out of town. I’m sorry I copped out on this. I suspect I was hemming and hawing as I got out of the car, too chickenshit to say anything.

Listen, I love you. I think you’re hot. Hottt, even. You’re the tits, Baby. You’re the Hottt Tits, so don’t forget that. You my babydaddy. But you have to understand that I am going to California this weekend, which contains the highest concentration of sexy people on the face of this planet, with the exception of Brazil. (Aside to the bosses of Blogher: next year, we meet in Brazil.)

People I Will Sex Up If I Run Into Them When I Am in California, You Have Been Warned, and Don’t Worry, Because I Will Post Pictures.

(In no particular order, really.)

Alan Rickman, circa “Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves”
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Figure Mrrow: Could that scenery BE more delicious? No, it could not.
Steve Almond
Chet Baker, pre-Italian mafia-teeth-knockout
Angelina Jolie, lactating or not
The Duff Sister Who Looks Less Like a Horse
The Duff Sister Who Looks More Like a Horse

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Britney Spears’s Manny
Gyllenhaal Sandwich (again, lactating or not)
Hott Blogging Librarian Ski Team
(I think maybe I just dreamed about this? I can’t google it up.)
Tim Robbins
Tom Robbins
Anthony Robbins

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Baskin-Robbins
BUT NOT Robin Williams. Rest assured.

See you Monday, Sweetie! I’ll bring you back an STD a hat with a lobster sewn onto it.

I Wish to Have a Word with You, Small Hairy Creepy Friend

I am having serious amounts of trouble keeping my shit together lately. July is apparently Rancho Asshole Bug Invasion Month and no one told me. There is currently a moth in every room of my house, and possibly on every wall. I pick up a towel: moth. I pick up some laundry: moth. I fart or cough: moth. Enough with the drab dusty wings that I have to wipe off my counters after you throw yourself through my fans! Go outside and pollinate something. Shit.

I am getting a little jumpy as a result of the moth mafia, which has evidentially decided to team up and make me pee a little every ten minutes.

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OH FNAP AND FNIF

First, it’s important to know that my sister Morgan is on the Internets radio RIGHT NOW. I peeped her on webcam. I got her into Weezer and JSBX and Calvin Johnson. And now look at her…a college DJ. *FNIF*

I still love her, even though she told me that she was going to have me on to “talk about the 90’s.” Boo! She’s playing good music, too, so hooray. She’s playing The Streets right now. OH FNIF. Click listen if you’re interested. I called her and requested “Forcefield” by Beck. If she doesn’t play it I’m going to hella goatse spam her.

Also, thanks Suzy-Q for the rad link. My newest LVL 40 summer JAMZ ololololols.

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