So I am sure you guys get this type of question all the time but how did you get started with this company? I live in LA and recently heard about you guys through the girl I am dating and love everything you stand for. Lately I have been so proud of the L
- i had this: marielynbernard.blogspot.com
- then i started recapping l word for the l word online
- so i met people through that
- in january 2009 i wrote/decided this:
“Somewhere between theory and the practice is the only me I’ve ever known. This year I resolve to begin with practice. It’s never the bad behavior that bothers me in and of itself, it’s the lingering guilt that these prescribed activities/habits are somehow responsible for the circumstances of my life and I feel, somehow, that the circumstances of my life are not enough.
If the circumstances become enough, logic dictates that guilt will then disappear.”
- i thought it would be cool to turn autostraddle into an online magazine with more than just me writing so i got my friends involved, mostly people i’d met through my blog or my l word recaps or wherever else i’d been writing at the time.
- we saw a giant gap in the market. we are surrounded by people who care about the same things we care about but we don’t have a central gathering place. so we thought we’d try and make one.
- alex designed it and i wrote stuff. so alex and i are the ‘co-founders’ of autostraddle
- so then in march 2009 we launched and it was me, alex, carly, robin, crystal, stef, tess, laneia, natalie and intern vashti.
- it just sort of steamrolled from there. a lot of us lost our jobs around that time so we funneled a lot of energy this way. people took turns being unemployed maybe.
- the feeling of 'revolution’
I am going to go meet Autostraddlers today and I am scared I am not pretty enough to get laid. Maybe I should just stay home… :-(
you’re right everyone else at the meetup will be way prettier than you and you will never get laid. i suggest popping some popcorn, throwing a banana-chocolate smoothie into the blender, slipping on some fuzzy socks and curling up for a long night of masturbating to the L Word blackout sex scene.
ARE YOU CRAZY. firstly, “pretty” is a subjective term and i don’t trust your own assessment. secondly, getting laid is an equal opportunity prospect.
go to the meetup!
“I’d like to go to all the pretty parties where all the pretty people go
and I ain’t really all that pretty but nobody will know.”
- ani difranco
Dear Crystal, Whenever I meet someone from Australia I immediately freak out and ask them if they listen to An Horse/Iron On/Disco Nap. Kate Cooper should hire me for PR, Imjustsaying. Anyway, I’m sorry if this is generally considered “annoying”. Sorry.
I listen to An Horse, I’m excited about their new album. Kate Cooper has really excellent hair, don’t you think?
I don’t know why people are yelling at you. Autostraddle works great here in Amsterdam! YAY! So, why don’t you all come over here and we’ll have an “Autostraddle-works!! party” Y/N?
that seems like one of many possible parties one could throw in amsterdam
I have a paper due tomorrow and Autostraddle being down is a huge help. So I actually appreciate it…oh shit, this isn’t a question….um, Did you know I have a paper due tomorrow and Autostraddle being down is a huge help?
do you see how you still managed to end your question with the phrase “help?”
that’s talent
my favorite is the cat with the remote. after the whiskey cat. you have a way with cats.
you’d never know that i’m totally super allergic to cats
Tim Tams: overrated or perfect? I sure hope you like Tim Tams.
perfect. I love Tim Tams but never buy them for myself because I have no will power / self control. They’re basically crack in biscuit form.
Is it okay if I refer to you as megaslut? (in my head, in a good way)
that’s okay. it’s a reference to a post on autostraddle called: “This Week in Bisexuality: We Are All Made of Megaslut.”
i thought the headline was funny. i would paste the link but our website is broken.
Riese I hope you don’t get upset about the technical problems questions, even I’m bored to read them everywhere but I guess it just shows how much some of us love/need Autostraddle and think you should be proud. No one complains when parentstv is down.
no, it’s ok. it’s just i have no control over this whole thing which makes me feel bitchy and insane and i snap a lot because i feel the same way the most frustrated bitchy insane complainer feels but times 1,000. on our end, we’re losing money/stats/traffic/sanity, too. what’s happening right now is actually NOT ok at all, which’s why we were shelling out $400/month for our old server (it was supposed to be foolproof and allegedly what we needed for our traffic levels). i know this isn’t normal, nobody else’s site goes down like this so often.
aside from tess, i think my girlfriend is the only person still communicating with me today because everyone else is afraid of how ragey i become when the site goes down. that being said i spent most of the morning on my bicycle.
Hey Rachel, i have 30mins to kill before my “meeting” how’s your day going? hope it’s going great. i miss AS (and i’m patiently waiting and totally not yelling at you guys for switching server :D)
thank you for being patient, i would give you some sort of prize were that a possibility. my day is ok, i am eating a black bean/squash/kale burrito and wondering whether this box of ‘smoky earl grey’ tea is a good idea. i hope your meeting goes well. the site will be back and better than ever I PROMISE GUYS.
“No one has normal healthy relationships. My theory, that I have yet to put into practice, is that you pick someone slightly less crazy than you.” (Billy, Six Feet Under)
