Favorite Albums 2020

I keep this blog solely to be able to post this list annually and for no one to care about it. You're welcome. 

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Here are my favorite albums of this shitty, shitty year (in no particular order but in kind of a particular order and with some explainers):

1. Waxahatchee - St Cloud
2. Black is King Soundtrack
3. Taylor Swift - Folklore
4. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher
5. Ariana Grande - Positions
6. HAIM - Women in Music Pt 3*
7. Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters**
8. Jhené Aiko - Chilombo
9. Ratboys - Printer’s Devil
10. Khelani - It was good until it wasn’t 

*This took a while for me to warm up to

**Technically very good, but sadly one of my least favorite Fiona albums.  There I said it. 

Top 10 Worst People on Below Deck

This was really hard because there are so many pieces of shit on this show and this is coming from someone who regularly watches several Real Housewives franchises.

10. CJ (season 1)

I don't really remember a lot about him except that he was predator and looked like Willy Wonka. 
Favorite Quote: Not sure but probably something like "the Candy Man can."

9. Jen (season 5)

Left her child to follow her dreams of being a stewardess. Constantly complained about work and was terrible at her job.
Favorite Quote: "No matter what I do I can't do anything right." That's correct.

8. This bitch (season 6)

Only has friends because she is rich. Tried to punch someone who was tending to her while she was a drunken idiot. 

Favorite Quote: "My heart is so full."


7. Tanner (season 7)

Quintessential only child. Most likely still breast feeds. Calls Kate a bitch several times but is also desperate to sleep with her. Actually much better than most of the men on this season who were all absolute scum and yet here he is.
Favorite Quote: "I'm excited to get home and see my mom."

6. The woman who refused to share her room so her friend had to sleep in the captain's room and Captain Lee had to sleep on a couch!!!!!

Favorite Quote: (when asked if she could share her room on a luxury yacht) "That's actually not an option."

5. The woman who said "chicken is what poor people eat" while wearing a SCRUNCHIE TO DINNER ON A YACHT!!!


4. Chandler (season 6)

Bosun who took no responsibility for anything. Was mostly napping when he wasn't yelling at Rhylee.
Favorite Quote: "I'm a big boy. I can have ice cream."

3. Kevin (season 7)

Extremely mediocre chef. Tells Kate she doesn't have a palette while also considering chicken parm gourmet. Kicks sand in her face. Like Tanner, and Chandler, and all of the men on Season 7, is an actual baby.

2. Trevor (season 4)

Truly so aptly named!!! Congrats to Trevor's parents. Looks like he wore Fox Racing hats in high school and called everyone he was intimidated by a faggot.
Favorite Quote: "I was a hair model."

1. Ashton, bru (season 7)

Read the textbook on how to be a misogynist piece of shit. Left yachting to " help people transform their bodies eating the foods they enjoy & living their best life" !!!!! Tries to fuck EVERYONE and when denied says things like "I wasn't into her anyway" and "I'm so tired of working so hard to get my dick sucked." 
Favorite Quote: "I almost died." Too bad for us all really. 

My nana is dead.

I once owned the domain name, imyourkatieque.com, but then, like my nana, it expired and died, so now I own mynanaisdead.com.

Thank you and god bless.

Favorite Albums 2018

I spend all year curating this and genuinely no one cares. Here are my favorite albums of 2018:

1. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog
2. Anna Burch - Quit the Curse
3. Black Panther Soundtrack
4. Snail Mail - Lush
5. US Girls - In a Poem Unlimited
6. Mitski - Be the Cowboy
7. The Carters - EVERYTHING IS LOVE
8. Adrianne Lenker - abysskiss
9. Drake - Scorpion
10. Speedy Ortiz - Twerp Verse
11. Lucy Dacus - Historian
12. Teyana Taylor -K.T.S.E

Summer 2018

Is it hard to believe that I'm still using Blogger or is it extremely #onbrand?

I had a very special birthday.

SHOWS:

Wednesday, July 18th, 8pm: The Comedy Studio at Remnant Brewing, Somerville
Monday, July 23rd, 8pm: Comedy Dinner Show, Capo, South Boston
Wednesday, August 1st, 8pm: The Pour House, Boston
Sunday, August 5th, 8 pm: East Boston Comedy, Maverick Marketplace
Monday, August 13th, 8 pm: McGreevy's, Boston
Friday, August 17th, 9 pm: The Dover Brickhouse, Dover, NH
Friday, August 24th, what time zone is this: Fringe Festival, Edinburgh

EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT AT 9 AT THE DUGOUT CAFE: The Mendoza Line Comedy Show!

Kewl Gr8

My little baby child, The Mendoza Line Comedy Show, is officially back. This is CRITICAL to my mental health, so please come, every Saturday night at 9 pm, at The Dugout Cafe.

ALSO, the Women In Comedy Festival is right around the corner and it's going to be amazing.

Ok cool.

TBH no one at all cares about this "website" including me.

The Book of Esther

There are a handful of feminist heroes in the Bible and my favorite of all is Esther. In fact, I love her so much that I’ve decided if I ever have a baby girl, I’d name her Esther, and if I ever have a baby boy, I’d just throw it in the trash (because I also appreciate the story of Moses).

Look, I know most people are probably not that interested in reading the Bible or anything in prose form, but there are 3 reasons why you should give the Book of Esther a chance:

1. It’s very short  (not a lot of words to read)
2. It’s about a woman (technically directed by a man, but still)
3. It’s the only book in the Bible that doesn’t explicitly mention God (who we all know is the original fuckboy)

Still not convinced? Fine, I’ll just sum it up for you. Here it is, The Book of Esther:

The story starts with Ahasuerus -- the King of Persia and another historic fuckboy -- divorcing his wife because she’s not kinky enough for him.  He’s like, “Daddy wants to fuck”, and she’s like, “I’m tired and you’re impotent”, and he’s like, “whatever ur an ugly bitch anyway” and kicks her to the curb. Immediately thereafter, he starts looking for a new queen with some very specific criteria:

1. she’s gotta be super hot
2. she’s gotta be super young, and
3. she’s gotta be a virgin. 

(Also, if you scroll down to the bottom of his profile, it absolutely says “No fatties”.)

So he swipes through a bunch of chicks, but ultimately picks Esther because she’s a total smokeshow, like irresistibly attractive. But the thing about Esther that he doesn’t know is that she’s also really smart AND she’s secretly Jewish. This becomes problematic because one day, Ahasuerus’ right-hand man, Haman, says to him, “Hey, I think you should kill all the jews.” And Ahasuerus is like, “Okay!” and orders a massacre. (I mean honestly could they have come up with any other plotline by this point? HACKS.)

Anyway, secretly-Jewish Esther obviously isn’t a huge fan of this idea, so she devises a plan to stop it. She’s like, “Hmm, what embarrassingly simple thing could I do to get a man to change his mind? I know -- trick him with sex!” So she goes and fasts for three days -- a little diet tip she learned from Cosmo -- and once she’s all frail and sick looking (just like her man likes it), she seduces Ahasuerus. At some point during what I can only imagine to be very disappointing foreplay, she whispers in his ear, “Hey Ahasuerus, how about you, like, not kill the Jews”.  And he’s like, “Baby, I’ll do anything you want because even though I have complete authority, I’m actually pretty dumb and also horny as hell.”

So the next day Ahasuerus tells Haman, “Uh, nevermind on the whole killing the Jews thing -- the old ball-and-chain won’t let me do it lol”.  And everyone laughs because he’s negging his wicked hot wife who is way too good for him and yet somehow only a supporting character of the show*.  Then, to really emphasize his masculinity, Ahasuerus has Haman hanged and tells the Jews, “You’re totally welcome to kill some Persians, if you want.” And they do. A lot of them.

So why do I like this story?  Well, because in the end, it’s about a woman empowering herself with her sexuality and in result, 75,000 men die.

Happy Purim, everyone.

*Actually Esther’s cousin, Mordecai, is named the hero of this story, but not in my opinion, so I didn’t mention him at all. Forget I even said this.

Hi, I still have this blog

Can you believe I still user Blogger? Me either. I'm thinking of transitioning back to GeoCities.

Anyway, I swear people have been asking me to let them know when I perform comedy, so if you're interested in seeing me sometime over the next couple weeks, you can find me on:

• Wednesday, February 28th at 8 pm at The Shaskeen Pub,  Manchester, NH 
• Wednesday, March 7th at 8 pm at The Ellis Room, Brookline, MA
• Wednesday, March 28th at 7:30 pm at Limelight Comedy Club, Boston, MA

Pretty much just Wednesdays, I guess.

For my Women In Comedy Festival schedule: CLICK RIGHT HERE.

superfluous picture of my cat surrounded by clutter

Oh also, my precious little gem baby -- The Mendoza Line Comedy Show (*every Saturday night at 9) -- is still *on hiatus while the Dugout renovates, but we'll be back very very soon, so keep checking facebook/twitter/instagram/my desperate text messages for updates.

Bad Feminist

I'm a bad feminist and here's why: 

I've been sexually harassed on multiple occasions (in the past and recently and continually), and at no time did I speak up nor defend myself.

This keeps me up at night: thinking about these incidents and feeling guilty for ~putting myself in those situations~.

I know it’s wrong to generalize a group of people (a good feminist wouldn’t do that), but men, you are so predictably awful, so often, even when I’ve truly, truly tried giving you the benefit of the doubt.

But I’ve also never said that to you when you’ve violated my trust. In fact, I think I said thank you(!) and pretended it was fine.

I have spent countless hours reassuring men of their worth, sacrificing my own in the process.

What else? 

I've watched women attack and tear each other down, and chose to step away, to say nothing, to protect myself and my feelings instead.

I shook my head at women for not supporting other women, but I did not support other women.

Oh yeah, and I haven’t leaned in, I haven’t asked for things I deserve, I haven’t convinced myself I deserve things. I’ve said nothing.

I’ve said nothing.

I’ve said nothing.
I’ve said nothing.

Favorite Albums of 2017

This is a thing I do every year, and I'm not just going to stop because it's inconsequential and uninteresting to most people. Why would I do that?

1. SZA - Ctrl



2. Diet Cig - Swear I'm Good At This



3. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.



4. HAIM - Something to Tell You



5. Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm



6. St Vincent - MASSEDUCTION



7. Adult Mom - Soft Spots



8. Big Thief - Capacity 



9. Lorde - Melodrama



10.  Radiohead - OK Computer OKNOTOK (technically forever probably)




This was really hard!!!!!  2017 was a great year for music and a terrible year for the world!!!!!!!