FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: The Editors Have Some Questions For You

HELLO MUSKETEERS. We are coming to you live from Big Bear, California, where all of the senior editors in addition to Alex, wood sprite and also design director, are working together and occasionally eating string cheese. It’s our annual editorial summit, informally called Big Bear Shakedown, in which we get some time to work on big-picture stuff about what we want to do with this website of ours and also get to watch animal odd couple youtube videos together. Yesterday morning Heather showed us all a video of a cat getting its teeth brushed that her girlfriend sent her, and that was just fucking delightful.

Here is Riese making plans to change the world

I feel like Laneia didn't want me, Rachel, to take this picture, thank you for putting up with it Laneia — I feel like Laneia didn’t want me, Rachel, to take this picture, thank you for putting up with it Laneia

We’re all so so thrilled about how Tell Us Everything Week is going — there’s nothing better than seeing a gravatar face we aren’t familiar with comment with thoughts and feelings that we would never have known about otherwise! Please keep it up, and thank you so much for reaffirming this day and every day that we have the best readers of anyplace on earth.

Heather is in her natural habitat, behind a vase of zinnias

Yvonne and Alex are handling taco night and they would prefer that you not put peas in your guacamole please

In the spirit of telling us everything — everything! — we’ve decided to structure this as a chill, casual interview. It’s totally not a big deal, don’t get nervous, we just have some questions for you. Answering them is optional, but also encouraged.

Riese: What would you title your memoir? (Optional follow-up question: What chapter would be the funnest to write?)

Laneia: The first thought you had this morning — how will it affect the rest of your day? Are you taking it with you for later or changing your course today or was it nothing?

Heather: What fictional character reminds you most of yourself?

Yvonne: What’s your favorite alcoholic beverage? What alcoholic beverage actually represents you? (Or non-alcoholic beverage!)

Alex: If you could have ghost sex with any dead famous person, who would it be?

Rachel: What’s one thing about your life today you wouldn’t have believed five years ago?

You are free to answer all of these or none of them! Or like two of them! It’s a free world. At least here inside this one very specific post it is.

Also though, please don’t stop there! Like seriously tell us EVERYTHING. Did your dog eat anything weird off the floor this week? Did you find your favorite outfit all over again because you did laundry for the first time in a while? Did your baby do a dance to a Tegan and Sara song for the first time? What’s the best color to paint one’s toenails?

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1. Find a photo! This is the easy part. Find a photo on the web, right click (on a Mac, control+click), hit “Copy Image URL” and then…

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2. Copy the code and paste it directly into your comment.

3. Go forth and jam.