Victoria Marinelli

What I said: "Brush your teeth and prepare for bed." What she did: Coated various items in the bathroom with Vaseline. Close enough, right?

don't mourn, organize - http://vmarinelli.tumblr.com/post...

I was going to do a search on my representative Eric Cantor and “insurance,” hoping to learn about what, if any, insurance industry donations he may have received. (Though I knew it’d be an exercise in futility, I did, of course, call his office yesterday, asking that he vote for the health care reform legislation, but against the anti-abortion... - http://vmarinelli.tumblr.com/post...

Heaven or Las Flatulence When Nick reblogged the above (right) thermogram of human flatulence, I stared for a minute, trying to figure out what it reminded me of. Finally, it hit me: the cover for Cocteau Twins’ Heaven or Las Vegas. Is it just me, or does one somehow evoke the other? Of course, it’s entirely possible I’m channeling the impish... - http://vmarinelli.tumblr.com/post...

I'm not saying this has anything to do with the particular teenager with whom I reside* - http://vmarinelli.tumblr.com/post...

Oh, retweeters.

Boy: "Are you going to sue me for sexual harassment?" Girl: (*giggles demurely*) DISNEY CHANNEL, YOU GUYS.

It's weird how some think my non-Atheism is the result of absorbed doctrine rather than lived experience about which I would never "preach."

Puppy pile! - http://vmarinelli.tumblr.com/post...

"Mom, do I at least have a non-awful singing voice?" There is no safe answer to this question. Unrelated: bleeding ears.

Sleepy? On a monotonous drive? Own a vagina? Try kegels! Like, the super-hard clenching kind. Now THAT is multitasking. #OhGodINeedANap

Fell asleep on the toilet. Living the dream! (...Where beyond the door, muffled voices of children and dogs are heard. A rather dull dream.)

Travel safely, kick ass, and let us know if you need a place (albeit a bit south of DC) to crash, @ClinicEscort.

If you've never made an emergency run to Wal-Mart to buy your kids new underwear instead of doing laundry, you're a liar. Or better than me.

♪ "Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your username." -@vmarinelli - http://vmarinelli.tumblr.com/post...

Nothing funny here, move along - http://vmarinelli.tumblr.com/post...

"Want me to walk you in?""No thanks, Mom. I'm still scarred from when you picked me up wearing pajama pants & your stained NAACP shirt." :(

I'm sure all you single moms want to hear me whine about being without my coparent for OMG A PLURALITY OF DAYS, KILL ME NOW.

Re: SHOULDN'T YOU BE WRITING? - http://brilliantorange.tumblr.com/post...

Remember when Timothy McVeigh blew up Oklahoma City and 80% of the news was about him being a Christian? Yeah, me neither. - http://vmarinelli.tumblr.com/post...

@Mike_FTW Also, early rumors blamed "three men of Middle Eastern origin" for the Oklahoma City attack. http://vmarinelli.tumblr.com/post...

Received from the first woman I ever slept with, twenty years ago. I’d say “Um, how much better could we possibly know each other?” - but then I read her replies to the list of questions concerned, and saw that she’d answered “Favorite dressing?” with “four-inch heels.” Well, that is new information, (redacted). - http://vmarinelli.tumblr.com/post...

One kid humiliates me by dropping trou in public. The other, by correcting my usage of "pandemic," analyzing the term's etymology in detail.

All I need is the gin. - http://vmarinelli.tumblr.com/post...

TRAFFIC LAW-DISOBEYING BICYCLE RIDER IN KNIT CAP AT LAKESIDE AND HILLIARD, YOU OWE ME A NEW PAIR OF PANTS. ALSO ANXIETY MEDICATION. JESUS.

Um, @EsseErre…  I’m the cynical one? First, I’d totally fight1 @sarkastickunt for the “blue” designation. Second? Whatever, it doesn’t matter anyway. __ 1Pillow-fight. - http://vmarinelli.tumblr.com/post...

Hey, panic attack. If you don't mind, - http://vmarinelli.tumblr.com/post...

Photo: Um, @EsseErre…  I’m the cynical one? First, I’d totally fight1 @sarkastickunt for the “blue”... http://vmarinelli.tumblr.com/post...

Things I can rationalize when my husband's out of town: Ice cream at 5:50 AM. (jk, I can rationalize that when he's here, too).

@cosmopoetica Have Google Wave but no clue what to do w/ it; haven't written a good poem in years; already fucking up Na(prose)WriMo. Go me!