Katie Schwartz

A few weeks ago, I joined two incredible women, Joy Hurwitz and Belle Zwerdling , to form Three Dames With A Clue , a women's collective that produces live, filmed, interactive theatre coined My Authentic Expression. Each month, a new topic is tabled and guided by 3-4 panelists, paired with an online series of interviews featuring some of the web's most prolific women writers and artists. Some you might even know, FranIAm and KarenZipdrive . As you can see, we've got some really kick ass dames coming out for this. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, we'll be posting new interviews. Our first show is slated for May 11th in Los Angeles. Location TBA. I will keep youse posted. If you're in LA, please e-stalk me for reservations. Tickets are FREE. Parking is 5 bucks. Free appetizers. Cocktails and beverages are totally doable. Nothing crazy price wise. After all, we are in a recession.

Oh, how I love and appreciate a blog award, especially this one, the Sisterhood Award , from a dame I adore, Liberality Liberal . LL has bestowed this award on some bloggers I am looking forward to reading because their blogs sound way up my alley. One of the bloggers, Mauigirl, I adore sooo much. Thanks Libbylib, I'm a lucky dame. What I love most about the Sisterhood Award is what it means to me: camaraderie, mutual respect, appreciation for other women, elevating and uplifting, not degrading or disrespecting, and feeling connected, not because all women are going to like each other cause'ns we're of the Vsuasion. Though, it would be great if we could, at the very least be there for each other in some small way. Maybe even help each other achieve our goals, instead of trying to take a sistah' down. That just ain't right. I see a lot of that, as I'm sure we all have, and experienced it, too. Most unfestive, donchya think? Yeah... I know. The origin of sisterhoo...

UPDATE, UPDATE, UPDATE::: THANKS TO MONKEYSTUDMUFFIN'S COMMENT, I HAVE FIXED THE LINK TO BUBBSIE'S ESSAY ON FARMHOUSE . THANKS, MONKEYSTUD There are a million reasons we love Bubbsie. He's dark: and funny as hell: We love his writing, the child can spin a yarn like nobody's business. A few of Bubbsie's treasured topics are Clowns , Alligators , and of course, who could live without his FREAK OF THE WEEK series. GUESS WHAT, our Bubsielicious has spun a disturbingly sick and funny non-fiction story, running in the spring edition of Farmhouse Magazine . This might be Bubbsie's first stop, that we know of, but one thing we are most certain about is that it's just the beginning -- This kid's got mad writing skills. Click on over and read about his Day With Antonia .

This song bugs the mother fucking shit out of me for reasons I really don't know. It could be the nasally-stuck-in-his-throat harmony of Time Passages , though I'm not certain. How mizzy does the broad look in this picture? To me, she screams: "Dress, stuff and roast you're own fucking turkey." I agree with her completely. Living in 2009, I have the privilege and luck of saying as much. I'm irritated with nephroqueen's new medication. I think it's giving me headaches and making me tired. I'd call him Monday, but I'm seeing him on Tuesday. Gee, I can't fucking wait. I'm so excited. My nicknames for my nephrologist are: Obviously, nephroqueen, nephroboy, nephrologyboy, nephroasspain, kidneyologist, urinequeen, urarella, blood-and-urine-sucking-vampire, and I think that's pretty much it. Got any new ones for me? I'm addicted to Twitter , much more so than Facebook, not sure how I feel about Facebook or if I really want to assign a...

If you haven't figured it out yet, I love Vanessa Hidary 's spoken word and I'm not much of a spoken wordian. This broad is off the mothah fuckin' hook. Watch! Oh, and when you're done, a gift from my friend Crionaberry , a personal ad with a TABLE OF CONTENTS. Oh yes, a TOC, beautiful babies.

So, on Twitter today, I discovered some kick ass dish from some folks I'm following. From @ Rex7 , what does a trillion dollars look like ? Click it, the visual will take your wig off! From @ dcagle , Tattoo Barbie . Ha. Liberality , I got your comment, I'm on it, babycakes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Bubbsielicious of the Sprawling Ramshackle sent me a gift this week via email that is truly flawless . Behold the sagiest of sage words dripping from the below Craigslistian ad posting. Don't Shave That Hair!!! I have recently made a mistake in my life, and I offer my story to you, that you may learn from my error. It all started, as many things do, with me having trouble shitting. No, I was not constipated; this was not a regularity problem but a matter of technique. It seems my ass-hair had grown to such a length that tiny grogans were constantly getting tied up in the matted jungle between my asscheeks. It led to much frustration, with me KNOWING that I still had something to drop, but unable to shake the tenacious turd loose from its butthair dwelling. Eventually I would have to do two things: either reach down with some paper and try to pinch off the lingering loaf (which required careful precision to avoid smearing the creature all over my rear, especially since I had no wa...