He totally is just fleeing the law by joining a traveling circus populated with strange characters who will teach him the meaning of his strange supernatural powers, right? RIght?

Also, if any of you guys want to make friends with a 19-year-old AI programmer from Olympia, WA who also programs all the advertising stuff at Earwolf, I think the position is open.

This is true — I pick very weird things to be cheap about. If I was being fiscally responsible, I would live inside an elaborate series of milk crates and dress in wet paper towels, though, so I might as well see more comedy/find and personally heckle Moshe Kasher for that time he didn’t respond to my OK Cupid message.

My new roommate works at Earwolf and I have a hard time not begging him to take me to work with him every day. If I didn’t have my own job, I would go whether he wanted me to or not. He had an actual conversation with Tom Lennon yesterrday, in which they made fun of the Sklar Bros! Matt Besser considers him his personal lackey! Goddamn your luck, new roommate…

I LIVE BY THAT GUITAR CENTER. Well, a few blocks away from that Guitar Center, and also Meltdown, where I would go to all the comedy shows if they didn’t make me pay for them, and probably should go to anyway. If I do, Kumail Nanjiani might talk to me one day! That would be the best.

Ahh, but I think there’s a big difference between ever having taken a sick day for your period and doing it monthly — I mean, most people’s accrual rate for sick time is one day per month, so that’s a whole lotta periodin’ happening in the office generally.
I also think, too, that it’s tricky if we allow the standard for appropriate/productive workplace behavior to be a sort of dude standard; that men don’t have periods and thus don’t take sick days for them, so women shouldn’t either, even though they do. Obviously it would take extra work to get your boss to see that his position isn’t the right one just because it’s been the dominant one for so long, but maybe you can lock him in the conference room and have “9 to 5″ looping on the projector screen.
(That solution to workplace sexism is almost *too* perfect, good job amywinsagain!)

I think you’re right but also disagree, if that’s allowed. In terms of her work, a ton of it is very introspective/inverted/navel-gazing, but what sets her apart from Allen for me is that her work points out the very real horror that everyday life can present. Her writing about living in LA during the era leading up to the Tate murders, for instance, for me perfectly replicated the feeling that life is senseless, brutal, and overwhelming; a feeling that perhaps I can’t describe in words well but that I’ve experienced many times over during my life as a person with chronic depression. Of course, that makes my feelings about her writing even more subjective than they already are. For me, though, Allen’s work (up until 1979, let’s say) is about a neurosis that no one is meant to take seriously, while Didion’s personal essays approach the void that I’ve often thought was going to swallow me whole.

Can I tell you all that I saw someone at a party last weekend definitely, totally, unironically wearing a replica “Drive” jacket at a party? In Los Angeles, which somehow makes it even sillier? He claimed to have left his driving gloves in the car, and confided that the jacket had been his Christmas present to himself. I am still a little bit dumbfounded.

Don’t stick a branch in the hornets’ nest, Andrew.
However, making fun of white people for being racist may never stop being funny to me.

I was uninsured for a year while studying abroad, and was then (and still am!) taking a few drugs to treat my ridiculous amounts of depression. After experimenting with a few options, the best thing I found was to have a doctor who had treated me in the past send a new prescription for a 3-month supply of meds to one of the Canadian pharmacy websites, then have those meds sent to me way on the other side of the Pacific. Somehow, that ended up being cheaper than when I’d had those same meds covered by insurance and had bought them in the US. Something similar might work for you, too, especially since every kind of Prozac will be in generic in Canada.

Ariel Levy is such a great writer, and I wish I had some super-power that would allow me to manipulate all the teenagers of America into reading that book.

This Almodovar reference is basically the best Almodovar reference.