Katie Schwartz

Shalom Beautiful babies. Guess what?! The gems at Farmhouse Magazine , one of my favey favealish reads online featuring fiction, non-fiction and poetry, alongside toe curling, subversive art, interviewed Schwartzy about my book, Emotionally Pantsed . Take a look. Ga'head . PS: Website is officially going live this weekend. Ya's can take a look at it in beta.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of Astonishing Adventures Pulp Magazine , a wickedly dark artist, a brilliant writer and a great friend, and today is his birthday! Lewchie, John Donald Carlucci , I wish you the happiest birthday ever. This is your year, kid. I know it. I feel it in my bones. I wish you the world. Click over and wish him a very happy birthday, por favor. xo Jewgirl

I never ask ya's to sign petitions. Now, I'm akksin . Here's the dish and the URL: "In 2007, the 'artist' Guillermo Vargas Habacuc , took a dog from the street , tied him to a rope in an art gallery, and starved him to death. For several days, the 'artist' and the visitors of the exhibition have watched emotionless the shameful 'masterpiece' based on the dog's agony, until eventually he died. The prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American decided that the 'installation' was actually art, so that Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008. PLEASE HELP STOP HIM http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html It's free of charge, there is no need to register, and it will only take 1 minute to save the life of an innocent creature." Please, please, please sign this petition .

I e-stalked Peter Bebergal , co-author of The Faith Between us , another book I’ve been reading. It's great soul food, lots of spiritual nourishment that helped in the faith restoration department—you know, faith in oneself and the-dirty-little-secret-that-is faith in God. By the by, authors P&K take God out of the closet, introspectively, passionately, humorously and beautifully. I love it. You know the drill, run. read .now. Ya’s all know that I’m a big proud Jew, that’s true. My relationship with God has also evolved and shifted many times. One of the things I adore the most about being Jewish is the latitude (I feel) it affords me to ask questions and search for enlightenment and atonement on my clock and on my terms. I digress. After sharing with Peter how much his book has impacted me (you must read it, really. Peter and Scott Korb wrote it, Jewish and Catholic, respectively.) I was telling him about this dame I ran into while waiting for an elevator en route to a doctor...

One of our favorite bloggers is celebrating her one year anniversary ! Click over to CatolishaJewess, Frannylish's blog and wish that diva a very happy anniversary. Ga'head. Wait til' ya see that goigeous, happy shana punim, you'll plotz!

I just got the most fuck-off-fabulous postcard from our beloved Cup-of-Coffey . My crackberry's photo abilities don't do this baby justice. My apologies. The quote underneath these two adorable divas reads, "Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practise witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." --Pat Robertson, US Politician, 1992 Fab! Thank you, Bethy, you made my day, child.

I feel menstrually betrayed. My sister and her BFF began menstruating on Friday without me. No memo was sent to my womb. Here I sit in a PMS stupor going it solo. While in the car with her last night, I courted her hormones with champagne, strawberries, chocolate, salty potato chips-n-dip, anything to entice the mones to mingle with mine so wombareena would bleed. This morning... bupkas. Refresh. Sigh. In an effort to drag myself out of the thyroid closet that I've been living in for the past five plus years, here's the dish: I got fabbylish news last night from my endocrinologist about my thyroid. I'm 14 points away from having a balanced thyroid. Having been severely hyper and hypothyroid for so long, those 14 points have taken my wig off, I'm over the moon. Your thyroid regulates your mind and body. If that bitch goes awry, all bets are off-- youse are all kinds of jacked whether you're hypothyroid or hyperthyroid . Anyhoodle, in my forthcoming title (Emotiona...