December 2010
And now it’s the time of year to listen to...
What are your 2011 Wishes? →
Perhaps a little sappy (I love the sap!) but you can write out your wishes for 2011 and they’ll make them part of the Times Square confetti!
I love this idea perhaps a little too much.
What are your 2011 Wishes? →
Perhaps a little sappy (I love the sap!) but you can write out your wishes for 2011 and they’ll make them part of the Times Square confetti!
I love this idea perhaps a little too much.
And now it’s the time of year to listen to...
"Three brave and articulate women may have begun...
MTV got it right. Seriously, they nailed it. And by “nailed it,” I don’t mean they just did a great PSA for abortion. I mean they told the many-sided truth: that abortion is safe and common, that abortion has been made difficult to get, and, most importantly, that abortion is a complex decision made by complex human beings. (That thump you heard around 11:35 p.m. EST was the...
I love riding the BART
lifeaquatic:
A lot. Do locals say “the BART” or just “BART?” How do I be not a loser?
Tip off to knowing you’re not actually a Bay Area resident? The fact that you have anything remotely positive to say about BART.
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“Joy spends her time immersed in Internet culture.”
– Filed under: Actual lines from my “professional” biography
Supporting the Storytellers
Tonight on MTV three women will share their stories of obtaining a legal medical procedure. They will tell the stories of their abortions.
The sheer act of sharing their stories in public is braver than anything I have ever done.
The climate in this country being what it is, these women are sure to be attacked from the right. They are certain to recieve hate mail. They will experience this and...
On Snow
Yesterday one of the largest cities in the world was crippled by something as simple as a bad storm.
There is something just so humbling about being crippled by the weather. It’s nothing we can solve, nothing we can fix. Here we are with our modern society and our modern things, totally crippled by nature. It stops our trains and our planes and our jobs.
Unlike most other types of weather...
On Snow
Yesterday one of the largest cities in the world was crippled by something as simple as a bad storm.
There is something just so humbling about being crippled by the weather. It’s nothing we can solve, nothing we can fix. Here we are with our modern society and our modern things, totally crippled by nature. It stops our trains and our planes and our jobs.
Unlike most other types of weather...
Conversations with a four-year-old
Joy: Merry Christmas, Sammy!
Sam: Auntie Joy, Santa came to see me.
Joy: That’s because you’re such a good boy! Did anything else exciting happen today?
Sam: I went poop all over the bathroom.
“You use exclamation marks as a defense mechanism.”
– Today in fun text messages from former boyfriends.
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fakejennyyoung asked: Saw this & thought of you:
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I know this is a highly unpopular opinion, but I...
Bah Humbug
Dad: I hate the sound of your text message alert.
Joy: I’m sorry.
Dad: Why does it keep ringing?
Joy: Because it’s Chrismukkah and people want to wish me well?
Dad: Tell them to stop it.
On Traditions
For the last 28 years (28 for me, 15 for him) my dad and I have tried to convince my mom to let us open one present each on Christmas Eve.
For the 28th year in a row we were unsuccessful.