Esther Werdiger has a weekly podcast, a rich internet life, an Australian bank account, a day job in Jerusalem, and clients in America.
Esther Werdiger has a weekly podcast, a rich internet life, an Australian bank account, a day job in Jerusalem, and clients in America.
Will no one stand up for short guys with glasses who suffer the heartbreak of OFS?
@atipofthehat my boyfriend is shorter with glasses. not sure what OFS means.
@becky@twitter
Defined above as "Obstructed Face Shot" on Facebook.
@atipofthehat oh. right. he doesn't have an OFS. maybe that's the ticket?
@atipofthehat *standing up* *testifying* *raising the roof*
My love is short, hairy, nearly legally blind with Coke bottle glasses to match, and a severely receded hairline. I want to take a bite out of him whenever I look at him. He rocks that shit, so no OFS on his Facebook profile. His confidence may have been boosted by my threat to make him wear a bald pate during intimate moments if he ever got a hair transplant. :^o
My past dating life is filled with midget-y, balding, confident, swarthily Greek/Jewish/Arab men with receding hairlines, massive hairy chests (oh hell, massive hairy entire bodies), bad eyesight and funny accents (rrrawwwwr!). So to say that short guys with glasses are my type is an understatement.
@becky@twitter: glad I wasn't the only one who didn't know. I just googled it and got a bunch of things that I didn't think made any sense there.
@Artressa Vandelay
To be fair to Esther, the Obstruction could be concealing some poor guy who doesn't even wear spectacles. Can't expect her to risk that!
@LilyMarlene
Wow. Not a description of me, somehow! Even so, I think wow. Romantic!
I need more girl dates, desperately. I'm thisclose to posting something like SLYTHERIN BITCH SEEKS HUGGABLE HUFFLEPUFF* on Craigslist.
(*For drinks, ethnic foods, more drinks, and endless, circuitous discussion of non-canon couples.)
@JessicaLovejoy more pinner meetups!
@JessicaLovejoy I'm pretty sure I'm a Hufflepuff and I like ethnic food! NEW FRIENDS?!
@JessicaLovejoy I would reply to that shiz. I am hufflepuff to the core! (I don't know why Hufflepuff doesn't get more love - we are just dopey badgers who hang out making shit with like, safety scissors and glue sticks. Also, everyone knows that Neville Longbottom is our Gryffindor spirit animal, and he is OBVIOUSLY the best!)
@chunk lite Plus, I'm pretty sure you guys are closest to the kitchens.
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr9c2y2IkU1qg2nqs.gif
@SBGBlogs NEW FRANS!
@JessicaLovejoy frakkin' TELL me about it with the ladydates. just got out of a time-sucking grad program, am staying in the city I moved to for school, and am now realizing I don't actually have friends here with whom i can see a crap movie or eat cookies over spiked hot chocolate. Lucille seeks Lucille II for heavy drinking and moderate crafting.
@candybeans I won't hear it, and I won't respond to it.
@JessicaLovejoy Where are you? Let's be BFFs.
@candybeans WHY DOES EVERYONE LEAVE AFTER GRAD SCHOOL?! Ughhhhhh. :(
@JessicaLovejoy I don't even know what's happening. all I know is that it's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar. what in the world?! so cramazing!
@JessicaLovejoy Samesies! School is over and now I find out I have a great education, and no friends. :(
@candybeans @JessicaLovejoy Gah, yes. Most of my close female friends now live in other states or countries and wow, can that really feel lonely. I don't want to turn into the stranger who was sitting a row over from me during Fright Night and still trying to whisper to me about the movie.
-Desperately Seeking Ladydates
@JessicaLovejoy Seriously though, where are you? Not in a specific address way. Just like, geographic region. Come to the SF Pinup!
Seriously, this is 100% what Pinups are for! (OK, maybe 90%.)
@JessicaLovejoy If when you say "I won't hear it and I won't respond to it" you are making an Arrested Development joke come to Chicago right now and we're getting a drank.
@JessicaLovejoy Would you settle for a rocking Ravenclaw with lots of Hufflepuff hobbies? You know, like knitting and cooking and decorating homemade gingerbread cookies as Red Shirts?
@serenityfound @kate kane @JessicaLoveJoy Here is mouth, and money, in the same place: LA. Anyone else floating around in this wacky morass? I missed the godforsaken meetup by, like, a day (i discovered the hairpin the day everyone was like, "man, wasn't our LA Meetup of all these cool smart ladies teh Best??" and was SO sad). Can i commandeer a new meetup? Is that something i can just... do??
(also, ditto ravenclaw with hufflepuff hobbies.)
@JessicaLovejoy also, i tried to like your "I won't hear it..." comment twice. I'd like it infinity if i could.
@candybeans I'm in, except for the crafting!
@candybeans PLEASE DO! I missed the LA one because I actually live 2hrs east of there w/my parents (yay unemployment!) who wouldn't let me borrow the car to go meet a bunch of people I didn't know in a bar. It was all so high school! Parents, amirite?
ANYWAY, I will soon starting work in/moving to Irvine. I am totally down for an(other) LA/OC partytime!
Is it just me, or does "Ravenclaw with Hufflepuff hobbies" actually make a lot of sense. All of my cooking/crafting was self-taught from books...
@JessicaLovejoy See if your town has any kind of Geek Girl groups on Meetup.com would be my suggestion. Just don't do what I do, which is join the meetup group and then be too scared to actually attend an event.
@JessicaLovejoy I think 'pinups should be semi-weekly. Or monthly. Or weekly. JUST SAYIN,' I ALWAYS MISS THESE THINGS.
:(
@JessicaLovejoy I'm another LA pinner who missed the last meetup as well. Let's make plans for another soon!
@JessicaLovejoy @candybeans Let's have one in October! I would plan it, except I don't actually live in LA and have no idea where to have it (except maybe the Edison, but I've heard it is expensive or something?). But I would come! I would make a poster!
@candybeans @JessicaLovejoy aahh I'm a mostly lurker but I'm also a lonely grad student in LA and I would come! I was mega sad to miss the last one.
And maybe we could have it on the west side? Since I'm the only lady in LA without a car?
@JessicaLovejoy @aleanbluezither ok! I am going to create a place! to put, like, your real names and stuff!
I did it! time lapse! http://groups.google.com/group/la-pin-up also, i'm @candybeans on twitter, if the group doesn't work right or something. V. Possible, did it pretty fast.
Hurrah!
@candybeans This is wonderful! I was just going to recommend we make a Meet-up group to better figure this out! 10 points to Ravenclaw!
Also, I am @serenityfound on the Twitters.
@candybeans I'm all the way on the other side of the country, otherwise I'd be there!
@candybeans ARE YOU ME? I live in LA, just said goodbye to grad school but have a job in the city, and half the things that come out of my mouth are Arrested Development references. Also, spiked hot chocolate would have been perfect last night, what with LA's brief flirtation with rain. Let's make friends?
The one time I went speed dating, the only number I got was the girl who sat next to me. She was awesome!
@Katie Walsh! You are back! I was missin' on you for a little while there...
This is amazing. Esther, do you have a comics website?? Tumblr confuses me.
Generally I have more fun on girl dates than I do on actual dates. Sigh.
These are incredible, but who showers at 4 AM? (Unless you are a morning DJ or have an early flight to catch...)
@Bittersweet or you are drunk... or um coked up. I've heard. Early 20s!
@Bittersweet Drunken showers or just-getting-home showers (or both) have been known to happen at 4am. My body is a heat-generating machine, going straight to bed without showering after being out dancing is not an option!
@JoanTition and Kate Kane: @JoanTition and Kate Kane: Obvs I've just admitted to being An Old with a mortgage and a 9-to-5 job. And I even used to go out and then shower when I got back home...*sigh*
@Bittersweet: If you work in a bar or club that allows smoking, you may often be showering at that hour.
@Bittersweet If it consoles you any, when I'm up at 4am during the week, it's because of insomnia. My purposely staying out is packed into Friday or Saturday night.
these are great! though if you're 5'1", seems like the shorter dudes would be a good pool for you, right? I'm 5'7" and I dearly love my 5'6" guy (with glasses), just saying.
@bb I'm 5'10" and love my 5'6" guy. He only wears his glass when he's driving though, so.
these were the best!
ha ha start-ups
Love these. Especially the hair-in-bun parts.
These are phenomenal.
Will someone please girl-date me? Please?
@kayjay i will i will.
I enjoyed these. Swimming in hotel pools is brilliant, but I'm pretty sure I'd get caught.
OMG, "has a rich internet life" in the byline. I need to start putting that on my resume.
No dudes talk about Coldplay. Unless it's like "Hey, you know what band really sucks? No, not Maroon 5 or Train, Coldplay. Coldplay is a band that really sucks."
@Ham_Snadwich The really insufferable ones will tell you about how that one Coldplay song ripped off a Steve Vai lick, and uh...yeah, let's pretend I've never started that conversation.
@Ham_Snadwich that discussion is not solely limited to dudes.
@leon.saintjean /makes the hex sign to ward off guitar wankery.
@Ham_Snadwich By the ghost of Yngwie Malmsteen, I abjure thee!
@Vera Knoop Are you mad, woman? You'll unleash the fury!
Can someone please tell me the secret to wearing your hair in a bun? I have long hair that's not too layered, but I can never do it! I need help.
And don't say hairpins b/c I tried that and it didn't work!
@scully Run, don't walk to the nearest CVS/Walgreens/whatever and pick yourself up some "spin pins." They are spiral shaped hair pins that literally screw your hair into the perfect sexy/messy/polished/chignon! Miracles! I'm half-Asian and I inherited my mama's super slippery hair that refuses to do anything but be straight, and 2-3 of these puppies were able to hold my hair in place all day!
@tin can phone I am doing this TONIGHT. I'm so excited!! Thank you!!
@scully Also, try pulling your hair into a ponytail, braiding that ponytail, and then wrapping it around itself! Helped my thick, super stubborn hair stay put through ballet classes full of jumping and spinning around, though I can get away with just bobby pins if I'm not doing anything athletic.
@scully I have good lucky with hairpins, the trick is to make sure you weave them through your hair and that they catch each other so you create an anchoring mass of hairpins. Or use an elastic band and then take some bobby pins to smush your hair down. The smushing with pins makes it so you don't get that weird hair tie bun that's 2 feet in the air.
@tin can phone Spin Pins changed my bun life.
pittsburgh ladies. any girl dates? possible pin-up? i just moved here and i'll say it: I'M LONELY
@isaidweresinking I'm down! There was talk of one a while ago. Let's make it happen!
Ahh, these were great!
I like these a lot. I'd have to throw the cup away though.
Why not just pee in the sink? Just make sure it's empty and then clean it afterwards. You know, hypothetically. Luckily I now live alone and can pee whenever I damn well please.
THANK YOU EVERYBODY!
@Esther Werdiger I read your Tumblr. Any chance you can elaborate on the murderous sibling + stitches story? Or is that the next comic?
@anotherkate I've thought about this properly for a few minutes and can't seem to figure out what you might be referring to!
@Esther Werdiger It's referring to me commenting on the wrong article. Oops! Sorry.
Oh man. I would sell my soul for a few girl-dates. One top-secret thing that they never tell you about getting married: ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS INSTANTLY DESERT YOU. I've even started haunting the "strictly platonic" section of Craigslist, but it seems to mostly contain women looking for clubbing partners. I want a "Let's Watch Auntie Mame and Eat Nachos" partner! Bah!!
@werewolfbarmitzvah I would totally watch Auntie Mame and eat nachos with you! Any chance you're in Park Slope??
@O! Winged Wanderer ZOMG, eerily enough I am completely in Park Slope. You're a fellow Brooklynite???
@werewolfbarmitzvah Oh my, YES! I just moved here from Astoria last month and the only people in the vicinity I know are my roommates, who've turned out to be quite lovely but also left me for Europe this past weekend.
The "strictly platonic" section of Craigslist is very weird, especially when you narrow your search to "park slope"; helping a stranger practice their foot massage techniques sounds good in theory, but... Wait, no - no, it doesn't.
Any chance you like hummus? I have a whole mess of it I brought home from a job this weekend, and I have a feeling the roomies aren't going to love seeing it take up half the fridge when they get back from Iceland...
Aha, Park Slope AND Astoria! I've lived in both of these places! But yes, the Slope is a very fun Shangri-La-ish kind of neighborhood, but it's twice as fun when there are people to hang out with. And hummus is indeed the food of the gods. Now, as a relatively new commenter on the Hairpin, how do people tend to go about exchanging contact information on here without accidentally getting murdered by rogue internet crazy people?