Friday Open Thread

It’s Friday! We did it! Thank you for joining us in Hairpin Corner, where we’ve been busy:

• Talking to Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half and to Sarah Bessey, “Jesus Feminist.”

• Seeking advice from a three-year-old (Are you a monster?) as well as from our newly returned Baba Yaga (This rabbit can’t; be killed, it lives in yr tunnels always).

• Taking life lessons from the classically scandalous Pola Negri, who “prostrated herself at the foot of [Rudolph Valentino’s] grave and arranged for a fake note from the doctor to declare that his last thoughts had been of her.”

• Battling Norman and rocking Rob Ford.

• Going deep on Lily Allen’s latest video and this “banner year for white women treating black women as props.”

• Getting a second, heartening Herpes Surprise; maybe having orgasms and maybe not having orgasms but almost definitely rereading Piers Plowman; taking a quick trip to the Red Light District; peeing on a stick with Carrie Matheson.

• Coming into our own as Hunger Games super-tributes and “female-female spiritual transsexuals.”

May all of our weekends be free of fighting and full of cache monet. See you guys on Monday.