I arrive at Six Flags Great Adventure, in Jackson, N.J., one extremely hot October day, already a scary human version…
I blame my interest in raw meat on my mother. Under the guise of protecting us, she wouldn’t let me or my sister touch…
Ever since Tim Gunn uttered his first “Hmm” on Project Runway, I’ve dreamed of being a contestant on the show. Not only…
Generally speaking, I find life adequately challenging without inventing ways to put my mettle to the test. Although I…
If you have ever flipped on the tube after eating a ball of pot, settled on the most invigorating display of human…
The one thing you need to know about sword fighting is how immensely satisfying it is to hit someone in the head with a…
It was a remarkably odd feeling to sit slumped over in an office arm chair, my coworkers watching me as I described my…
We at Jezebel get invited to endless PR events, most of them not worth attending. We do make an exception, however,…
Like all ideas that sound good at the time but are actually quite scary, my journey to become a mermaid started with a…
A man has built himself a bubble bath out of balloons. He is asking two teenage girls—who have volunteered for this,…
On Thursday, our friend and former colleague Jia Tolentino wrote, “The Personal-Essay Boom Is Over” for the New Yorker.…
Over the past few months, you may have seen commercials for a Phantom of the Opera-esque beauty treatment, a plastic…
On Sunday, I arrived in North Dakota and headed to Oceti Sakowin, one of the main camps where Native water protectors…
I don’t remember exactly how I played myself into wearing a tail for a week—I just know that it wouldn’t have happened…
God help me, I actually enjoyed reading Ivana Trump’s dishy, ridiculous, semi-autobiographical 1992 novel, For Love…
About a year ago, I got botulinum toxin injected into my face for the first time. As a woman of the aughts, this seemed…
I’m not going to subject you to the umpteen millionth permutation of the opening line of Pride and Prejudice, so let’s…
I was folded forehead-down, sweating like a pig in a truly incompetent child’s pose, when onetime boy-band idols Nick…
This past weekend, I went to see The Longest Ride, the latest Nicholas Sparks movie, all by myself.
"Oh fucking shit," Julianne says to me. We've been at this New York magazine-sponsored wedding expo for half an hour,…