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REAL LIFE PRINCESS BRIDES

This reminds me of a friend of a friend who got married at Disneyworld and her invitation was on, like, a royal scroll with ribbons and shit.

Oh, and she and the guy she was marrying were (or claimed to be) both virgins. You just know that life is never gonna meet that girl's expectations. It is gonna fuck her up when she realizes that candlesticks can't talk and forests aren't aren't filled with magical dwarves and that her husband is totally gay.

So You're a Feminist...Isn't That Cute?

Do you want to experience that feeling of laughing and also being totally fucking terrified all at once?

Well, you're welcome:

GO HERE

Be sure to peruse his other blog entries. I think I'm in LOVE.

Are You Too Dead To Read My Book?

So, I had to get a Facebook account. Well, I didn't HAVE to, but I have to, you know, network to try to sell my book, and basically act like a douche and try to get people to notice it. Today I'm going to go over to Cedars Sinai and walk around and be like, "Oh you have cancer? Maybe reading this book will cheer you up. Wait, are you terminal? Oh, the book doesn't come out until January, sooo..."

I think I might be kinda old for Facebook, especially because I always look about ten years older than I am. When I was twelve and I went to the mall with my mom, I went out to the parking lot to get something out of the car, and someone asked me if I could move my car. I was like "I can't move the car, I'm twelve," and they just rolled their eyes like, how fucking sad that this twenty two year old with a VW van is trying to pretend that she's twelve.

Okay, I have to go to Cedars maternity ward and get babies to buy my book and move their cars.

The All-You -Can -Eat Tampon Buffet In The Sky: A Remembrance

Everyone, even the smallest among us, deserves an obituary.

This weekend, my family's old dog Buster passed away.

I think every family has at least one pet like Buster. He was ornery, and fat, and he always smelled really weird. He ate candy wrappers, tampons and, once, an entire stick of butter.

He bit a few people, and rather than have him put to sleep, we just kept him away from strangers and never, ever tried to take food away from him. When my sister had kids, we debated whether he might eat the babies. When my parents shaved him for the summer months, he looked like a velvet sausage.

Still, we loved him, and he was a loyal little guy. When he wasn't busy biting us, he was barking at every single noise in the street lest burglars break in and steal his sticks of butter.

Still the real love of Buster's life was our other dog, Zooey. While the rest of us felt a mixture of love and loathing for the velvet sausage, Zooey loved him unconditionally. When they were put in separate cages at the kennel, Zooey chewed through her cage to be with him.

In the last few months, when my mom was taking the two dogs somewhere in the car and Buster, his back legs crippled, could barely get up, Zooey hopped in, then turned and took Buster's leash in her teeth and pulled him in.

I guess if you can get out of here knowing that one person, and I'm counting Zooey here, really loved you, then you did okay.

Rest in peace, Buster. We love you. And I hear that that in the afterlife, they have an all-you-can-eat tampon buffet.

Come On Down To Onion's!

So, I was walking the pickets this morning at a lame hour (the early shift starts at six), and I was trying to give fliers to all the cool awesome people going to work at CBS (btw, crossing the picket lines in a fucking jaguar, scowling, makes you a superdildo, period), and I'd give them all a big smile and ask them to read our little pamphlet on why we're striking. And I meant to think this:

"Wow, I'm being really perky, like a waitress at Chili's."

But instead, I thought:

"Wow, I'm being really perky, like a waitress at Onion's."

There is no such restaurant as Onion's, and Onion's is the single worst idea for a restaurant ever. All of the food is onion-based, even the desserts, and there's a giant talking onion that welcomes you when you walk in the door.

Also, why does the restaurant Chili's have an apostrophe in the name? What is it posessing? When you walk in, are you then actually owned by a chili?

In conclusion, I should never wake up at 5 a.m., because I have LOST MY MIND.

Now, Onion's is a horrible idea, but my great idea for a restaurant is called Pudding Canyon. It's a restaurant with four big canyons dug in the ground, each filled with a different kind of pudding -- chocolate, vanilla, butterscotch and cherry. You can either buy pudding by weight or time. That's to say, you can either weigh in on the giant scale in the middle of the canyons where everyone can see you, and then pay at the end after you've eaten your fill by weighing in again and paying the difference, or you can pay by amount of time you want to spend in the canyons.

You have to wear a special clear plastic pudding-bathing suit. In between flavors, you must be hosed down in the hosing pit.

The commercial has the following jingle:

Butterscotch, vanilla, chocolate and cherry
Forty percent less drownings since January
Pudding Canyon
You're drowning in it!

Now that, my friends, is a great fucking idea for a restaurant.

If you want to read something much smarter this morning, please visit my friend Stella Kevlar's blog HERE

Also, I gots a new McSweeney's up today:

HERE

kthxbai

Pwoject Wunway

I love some Project Runway. When I was working on the short-lived Megan Mullally show, Jeff and I wrote and directed this Project Runway parody, and we got to meet Santino and Jeffrey. It was one of the gayest and happiest days of my short gay life. Please to view:

History Girls

So, I finally saw that British play "History Boys" last night here in LA. If you haven't seen it, there's an older teacher in it who takes the boys around on his motor bike and grabs their balls while they are riding, and everybody in the play thinks it's hilarious. At the end of the play, the old teacher dies in a tragic motorbike accident, and everybody's really sad.

My big thought coming out of it was that if the play was called "History Girls" and the old male teacher had been touching teenage girls' vaginas, he would have died when some girl's father came to the school and shot him with a gun. And the lesson would have been, "Don't touch teenagers in the vagina."

Instead, the lesson was about the subjectivity of history, and that touching teenagers' balls is ok if you look like Santa.

State Mottoes For The Severely Depressed

In God we trust, for now, until he lets us down like everybody else

Manly deeds, womanly words, gay panic

I have found it. No, wait, I didn't.

Let us be grateful to God*

To the stars through adversity, to the liquor store at 8 a.m.

With God, all things are possible. Well, that's wrong.

Thus be it always to pizzas: I will eat a lot of you.

Mountaineers are always free. But what's the point?

Gold and silver, and also a weird smell.

Friendship

Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem
(TRANSLATION: "I think I might have fibromyalgia")

Live free and die

The Strike

Well, I'm on strike, which is weird, because I wasn't working on a show. But! I am a Guild member and so I've been walking the picket lines, etc.

There are a few things about the strike that people oughta know.

1. The writers know that they aren't poor. When we are working, we make good money. This strike isn't so much about justice (no one's starving on the street), it's about fairness. The studios are making, or will make, a lot of money online. The writers are asking for 2.5% of revenue. Yep, two and a half cents on each dollar. It's not a lot, and it's fair.

2. The writers are ready to go back to work right now. So, before anyone blames the strike for other workers losing their jobs, they should know that we are ready to sit down. The producers (the AMPTP) have refused to re-open negotiations.

3. Most writers are like me. I was on a show, and it got canceled. I've been living off savings, some freelance promo, and a book sale. Yes, there are some millionaire writers out there, but most of us still rent, shop at the mall and Ralph's, and hustle constantly to find work.

4. Les Moonves, Jeff Zucker, Rupert Murdoch, Peter Chernin and the like are rich. Filthy rich. Private jet-flying, yachting on the weekend, two penthouses in New York buying RICH. When Kevin Reilly got fired from NBC last year, they paid him 5 million dollars per year for the next three years. They paid him 15 million NOT to work.

5. The networks would rather there were no unions. Really. So if you are in another union and you are out of work because of the strike, just remember that if they bust our union, you're next!

For more info, or to help out, go HERE

Names For Italian People

If you are Italian, but you don't have a name, here is one you might like to use:

Franco Spaghetti

Great ideas!

My husband and I are drinking at the airport, and we just decided that dildo is the new douchebag.

Effective immediately.

List

I wrote this list with my husband, Jeff Drake, about a million years ago. I found it in my old files.

Opening Lines For Jay Leno’s Opening Monologue That Might Set The Wrong Tone For The Show

Before we get started, here’s a tape of me crying silently in my shower for fifteen minutes.

What the fuck do you people want from me?

Our guests tonight are Billy Crudup, Amanda Peet and a seven-eyed winged demon that lives in my belly.

If the monologue seems a little off tonight, it’s just because I crapped my pants.

So, anybody here hate Jews?

Imaginary Diseases That I’ve Been Diagnosed With In Dreams, and Their Symptoms

Psychopantosis: The chronic sensation that you are wearing pants even when you are, in fact, not wearing pants.

I'm Radioactive!

So, I have some kind of thyroid disorder, which makes me hot, fat, sweaty, kinda bald, and frequently sleepless. In other words, sexy.

Today, I went and took a radioactive pill that they use as a diagnostic tool.

I am really hoping that it will give me the following superpowers, presented here in no particular order:

Extra face

Will look good in all pants

Automatic first-class upgrade on all flights exceeding three (3) hours

Wi-fi

Become permanent cast member of "The Hills"

Superfast court-room sketch artist skills

Not fat

You're Bad At Your Job

Let's face it, your career is going nowhere. Maybe that's because you're in the wrong job. This quiz, exclusively for career gals, should point you in the right direction.

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Design by Claudean Wheeler.

This is from my upcoming book, the link to it is in the post just below.