Erin Gibson

PUBLIC RESPONSES TO PRIVATE MESSAGES: #5 - ARE THOSE FANGS? Like...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:09:00 -0800

PUBLIC RESPONSES TO PRIVATE MESSAGES: #5 - ARE THOSE FANGS?

Like most men in my life, you’re about to be disappointed. Not only are those my genetically perfect canines, I’m sad to report that I am also a mortal.

Look, it’s not your fault you see vampire traits in normal people. Vampire obsession is ruining our generation, the generation before us, the generation before them, and possibly ruining babies in utero. There’s absolutely no escaping vampire culture… they’re everywhere! Our TV shows, our movies, vampires are even ruining our indie rock (“Hi, we’re Vampire Weekend. We own over four thousand sweater vests and the best way to enjoy our music is to listen to Hot Chip and Peter Gabriel cover it”).

Personally, I’m not attracted to the “vampires” in Twilight, True Blood, or Vampire Diaries, and to be honest with you, seeing set stills of Johnny Depp in “Dark Shadows” makes me want to shut my vagina down for business for good. Until Tom Hardy accepts a role in “Dracula II: Take This Real British Accent, Keanu”, my fantasies will never involve being sucked and fucked by a vampire.

And I know it’s been said before, but these “vampires” aren’t even vampires. Edward in the Twilight series is NOT A VAMPIRE! Sure, he loves blood, but he can go into the sunlight and drives a Volvo! Vampires do not drive Volvos, and certainly not Volvo SUV’s! Those cars are reserved strictly for women, who dress as if they’ll be asked to ride a horse at a moment’s notice, and their children, who learn French before they start kindergarten.

Vampires are supposed to be frightening and monstrous, not weak and sparkly. Calling these characters “vampires” is like slapping a Ronald Reagan mask on a zebra and calling it a centaur.

Also, am I the only one who has a problem with 170 year olds making out with 17 year old girls? Even as a consenting adult, I am not interested in falling in love with someone whose last girlfriend died in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire. And just because vampires have centuries of sexual experience, that doesn’t mean they’re good at it. Oral sex for women wasn’t even invented until the 60‘s (according to my grandma).

Look, I appreciate you reaching out. But, if you’re looking for a vampire to love, or someone to talk about your vampire love with, I’m sorry, you’ve got the wrong lady.

But if you want to talk about how hot zombies are, I might know a lady who could be interested ;)

PS. If you are into zombies, meet me in the cemetery so we can fuck dead people together. I’m there every night 2-4AM.

PUBLIC RESPONSES TO PRIVATE MESSAGES: #4 - CAN I SPOIL YOU? Oh,...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:45:20 -0800

PUBLIC RESPONSES TO PRIVATE MESSAGES: #4 - CAN I SPOIL YOU?

Oh, wow! Can you spoil me? I mean, it does sound like an amazing offer. Let’s talk this out. So, the situation would be you, a man, showering, me with affection, buying me whatever I want, possibly going down on me on a regular basis, etc. Maybe you fly me to Paris, make me frittatas for breakfast (I can’t believe you can cook!) then propose to me in front of the Great Pyramid. Oh Jesus, I never even knew they made 20 carat diamonds! I say “yes”! Of course I say “yes”, because this every woman’s dream! A year after our first date, we’re living in a wonderful house in Cape Cod and I have everything I’ve ever wanted. But slowly, I sober up after realizing I was drunk on being taken care of. I cry while you’re gone because I’ve lost myself. What happened to my career? What happened to my friends? And the worst part of it all, because this relationship with you is based on diamonds and dinners at Per Se, you feel that you are entitled to treat me like an object.

When neighbors become worried, I blame the moodiness and yelling on your stressful job as a high powered investment banker. But deep down inside, I know that doesn’t excuse why you hit me when the hand towels are crooked.

But I’ve put up with enough! I want to live my life again! Who cares if I have to put my car payment on a credit card? It’s better than living with you, a rich control freak, who one day will not hesitate to slice my neck open with our Gunter Wilhelm paring knife and watch me bleed out on our $10,000 Persian rug … smiling because you know now, no one else will have me.

While we’re out on our boat one night, I fall overboard during a storm, fake my own death at sea, swim back the house (you didn’t know I could swim, did you!), flush my wedding ring down the toilet and escape to Iowa. I become a librarian and fall in love with a sweet man who has too much facial hair.

Sound familiar? It’s the plot to the Julia Roberts’ opus “Sleeping With the Enemy” and had it been released in 2012, it would have started with an on-line dating message just like this one.

While the idea of being a female house pet is embarrassingly tempting to me, even having seen “Sleeping With the Enemy” more times than I care to admit, for my own safety, I’ll pass on your offer.

Hi Equinox, I loved your gym, but couldn’t afford the...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:18:37 -0800

Hi Equinox,

I loved your gym, but couldn’t afford the last price hike, which is why I left. But as a former member and a health conscious feminist, I fucking LOATHE this new ad campaign. At over $150 a month, you must know that the type of women who can afford your gym are probably professionals who aren’t thrilled to get e-mails from you guys that include photos of under weight models looking dead inside while being rag-dolled around by a buff shirtless dude. Me included.

I’d rather you sent me a photo of a meth addict eating vomited up spaghetti than this Terry Richardson trash.

Thank you,

Erin Gibson

feminist/comedian/jump rope queen

PUBLIC RESPONSES TO PRIVATE MESSAGES: #3 - A BIT CRAZY Hi...

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:28:38 -0800

PUBLIC RESPONSES TO PRIVATE MESSAGES: #3 - A BIT CRAZY

Hi possible future date!

I’m not sure if people would consider me “ a bit crazy”. But how about this… I’ll tell you what I did last night and you can judge for yourself ;)

I went to Gelson’s and picked up a yummy dinner - two bottles of malbec, pre-made tuna salad and rice crackers. Went home, popped off my men’s Nike’s, unpacked the groceries (set them on my desk) and finished my work (looked at porn).

It was 10PM when I realized that I was very drunk and my hands smelled like a gross pier on a sweltering day. At this point in the evening, I had two options:

Option #1 - Go to bed

Option #2 - Dance

Blame Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend” and M83’s “Midnight City” forcing me onto my feet and shaking my ass like no one was watching (because no one was. I live alone). I watched myself dance in a full length mirror, wearing a robe over my clothes, for about 30 minutes. Not sure if you’ve ever danced in a heavy robe over a flannel shirt and corduroys, but it can get hot really quick, so I got totally naked, marched in my bedroom and put on a silk party dress, panty hose and peep toe heels. Feeling amazing in an outfit too bold for an indoor lonely dance party was the fuel I needed to dance the night away. I hit shuffle on my iTunes and danced like a three year old at a wedding. The two bottles of wine sloshing through my system made it easy to make every song a dance hit - Journey, Merle Haggard, episode one of Breaking Bad.

But the night, she was a justa getting started! I flung my shoes off and into the floor lamp, grabbed my last glass of wine and my laptop, and headed into my bedroom for a little single lady alone time ;)

I laid on my bed, took off my pantyhose, then opened my laptop. I went to my gmail, did a quick search for sad/angry emails ex’s have sent me, then read them aloud while crying and apologizing for being a terrible human being.

Next thing you know, it’s 8AM, my face is washed, the laptop is plugged in and all my clothes are put away. After I double checked that no pleading, sad emails were sent to anyone, I put my yoga clothes on and walked to the gym like nothing ever happened.

Anyway, I’d love to grab a drink if I sound like your dream woman.

Throwing Shade Ep 8. Try not to die from all the awesomeness.

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:34:52 -0800

Throwing Shade Ep 8. Try not to die from all the awesomeness.

Merry Christmas from The Bachmanns!

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:26:09 -0800

Merry Christmas from The Bachmanns!

PUBLIC RESPONSES TO PRIVATE MESSAGES: #2 - BIG ‘OL...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:47:07 -0800

PUBLIC RESPONSES TO PRIVATE MESSAGES: #2 - BIG ‘OL DONGS

If a guy likes my photos, but we have LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE IN COMMON, he will send me an email that is related to my height requirement, which is a minimum stature of 6’.

That being said, I get two types of these e-mails:

#1 I meet your height requirement

#2 Fuck your height requirement

This is an example of #1, with some bonus information… the 1950’s construction worker sexual harassment slang/greaser pick-up line “hung like a mule”.

It’s an interesting choice of words for a person I assume is living in the today’s, so I’d like to explore what he’s expressing by using it.

Let’s assume he’s not so crass as to just write “I’ll split you in half with my huge cock”, so, he thought he’d be funny and write “hung like a mule” instead. While I appreciate the small amount of restraint and sprinkling of respect, the message is the same…I HAVE A BIG DICK. Talking about your massive dong might be a funny thing to talk about with your friends or maybe a girl you’ve been on a couple of dates with who “gets how you like to joke around”, but I’m a mother fucking stranger, which means I don’t know you. And you don’t know me. Which means you also don’t know that I don’t like big dicks.

Believe it. I’ve been with enough guys to fill a yoga class, so I know what I’m talking about when I write in all caps “BIG DICKS ARE SCARY”.

Guys who brag about having gargantuan cocks usually don’t understand the term “too deep”, which a phrase women use when it feels like a dick is about to burst through her uterus, maybe her spine. And because of their inflated ego, well-hung guys don’t care about how having a monster’s penis makes it harder for women to have an orgasm. They don’t understand that because their cock doesn’t fit in anything smaller than the Alaska Pipeline, there’s no body friction, and they need to use their fingers so that the women they’re having sex with can have a fun time too. If a guy brags about having an enormous schlong, and you decide to have sex with him, you can bet on a three-part sexual experience - you and him fucking, him falling asleep as you tell him you didn’t come, you masturbating on the floor of his bathroom.

But, hey, maybe I’m wrong about the whole message he’s trying to send. Let’s assume he was being literal. He’s just your average, tall, nice guy who embarrassingly has an actual mule penis…due to some unfortunate science experiment or genetic mishap. I’m sure it’s a tough thing to bring up with ladies and while I appreciate his honestly, I’m sorry, I still can’t handle a mule’s dick, which looks like this (NSFW).

All around, until you’ve met someone face-to-face, I’d wait a few dates before bringing up your xxl boner.

Throwing Shade EP 7 - Tim Tebow, Manhunt Billboard, University of Vermont Rape Survey, Rick Perry loves Dick?

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:25:35 -0800

Throwing Shade EP 7 - Tim Tebow, Manhunt Billboard, University of Vermont Rape Survey, Rick Perry loves Dick?

PUBLIC RESPONSES TO PRIVATE MESSAGES #1: THE OUT-OF-TOWNER This...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:00:05 -0800

PUBLIC RESPONSES TO PRIVATE MESSAGES #1: THE OUT-OF-TOWNER

This internet stranger used a lot of unnecessary words to express that he would like to fuck me at the end of December. I’m not into out-of-town dick or short-term anything, so I won’t be responding to this. But if you’re a guy, and you’re interested in fucking a girl who you’ve never met before and you’re only in town for a couple of days, here are some more direct things you could email. Sending her the following things might not guarantee she’ll meet you, but if she’s down to fuck, it just might do the trick:

#1 Look, I don’t know you, you don’t know me, but I’d like to give you the sexual experience of your life at the end of December.

#2 Just your pictures are making me hard. Imagine what would happen if we were in the same room together. I am.

#3 After Santa Claus comes, I think you should too. And I’m the guy to make that happen. With my tongue.

#4 I know we don’t know each other, but I’d like to take you to the Standard and fuck you for days.

#5 Wouldn’t it be fun to ring in the New Year with my fingers touching you in places you didn’t know were pleasurable?

#6 For Christmas, ‘tis better to give than receive. And I have the perfect gift for you. Multiple orgasms.

These are just some examples of more direct ways to ask for casual, time sensitive sex…because there’s no time to pussy foot around when you’re a guy looking to escape family holiday festivities by fucking a stranger.

Live chat with me and Bryan Safi right now. Ask me questions about my Annie Hall inspired jacket.

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:03:51 -0800

Live chat with me and Bryan Safi right now. Ask me questions about my Annie Hall inspired jacket.

I tricked this magazine into thinking I’m famous! And they...

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:20:25 -0800

I tricked this magazine into thinking I’m famous! And they fell for it! Dummies!! I’m laughing all the way to the bank with the money they didn’t pay me!

Buy it here

If I were still working as a bookkeeper, I would totally wear...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:16:05 -0800

If I were still working as a bookkeeper, I would totally wear this outfit.

Episode 3 of Throwing Shade. I left a date to make this for you.

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:51:15 -0800

Episode 3 of Throwing Shade. I left a date to make this for you.

Ladies, Leave Ryan Gosling Alone!

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:23:01 -0800

Have you heard of Ryan Gosling? Of course you have! If you’re not head over heels in love with him, you know a woman between the ages of 12 and 90 who is. I don’t care what People Magazine says, women across the world (and probably universe) have made it pretty clear that when it’s a question of who the sexiest man alive is, Gosling is the only answer.

Here’s what makes Gosling the perfect objet d’amour - he’s handsome, he can dance, he can sing, he understands comedy but is not needy about it, he’s a great actor, he can have sex with his eyes, he uses phrases like “I’m shy” and he’s the kind of guy who can seamlessly mix tender kisses with manhandling … or so we hope.

It’s fun to think about Ryan Gosling every second of every day. What he’s wearing, what he’s thinking about, how we’re gonna meet him. But these full blown obsessions and infatuations with Ryan Gosling have to stop! It’s not good for us, it’s not good for him and it’s not good for the future of the human race.

To be honest with you, pre-“Drive”, I wasn’t even a Gosling fan. I didn’t dislike him, but his work never spoke to me in that deep, heartthrob-y way. Didn’t care to see “The Notebook”. Skipped “Half Nelson” and as far as I’m concerned “Lars and the Real Girl” doesn’t exist.

And to be honest with you, I wouldn’t have seen “Drive” if it weren’t for the hot pink cursive titles. Oh, but after looking at his face, listening to him not talk, watching his hands move inside those leather gloves for 100 minutes, I started to understand what all the fuss is about. He drew me in like a hot, well dressed cult leader … if that’s a thing that even exists. I watched “Drive” two more times, thinking “If I help this movie make more money, he’ll make another one just like this and then I’ll always have something important in my life.”

I was the worst offender of Gosling obsessed indulgence. At parties, I’d bee-line to a circle of girls, interrupt their conversation with “Guys, Drive! Right?! What?!”, then we’d all talk about his hair and his face and how magically he stares out windows against the LA skyline at dusk. We’d do this for long periods of time while the world went on around us.

My reckless disruption of every conversation is another girl’s blog comparing Ryan to puppies…which is another girl’s Etsy store selling crocheted Ryan Gosling iPhone cases … which is another girl’s full sized waterproof cardboard cut out .

You know why it’s waterproof.

It’s all too much! We’re grown ass woman and we have to control ourselves! We’re expressing our school girl love in a way that is suffocating and not attractive. Has anyone thought how this makes Ryan Gosling feel? No, we haven’t. We’re updating our Facebook status with nonsense about how awesome it would be to make out with Ryan Gosling at a Cut Copy concert and we’re not thinking about how doing that probably creeps him out.

What I am afraid of is that he will react in a drastic way to all this sexually charged, desperate attention. And my biggest fear is that we’ll scare him off and he’ll remove himself from the spotlight completely. And none of us want that.

Cause then all we have is Timberlake.

We’re independent, modern, progressive women! We can’t be spending this much time on Ryan Gosling! We have bills to pay! And vintage jackets to buy! And mixed breed dogs to walk! And most importantly, for the majority of us, men to meet.

I’m on an on-line dating site, of which I am SURE Ryan Gosling is not on. But best believe I did find a guy who looked A LOT like Gosling, and if his profile wasn’t a mess - he said his favorite movie is “American Psycho” but doesn’t know who Bret Easton Ellis is - I would have totally messaged him that I was offering free, un-reciprocated bj’s to Internet strangers bearing a striking resemblance to Ryan Gosling.

Anyway, on my profile, I list “Drive” as a favorite movie. Someone photo-handsome messaged me, we got to emailing and two emails in he asked me if I knew about fuckyeahryangosling.tumblr.com (I know I’ve mentioned it twice, but please fight the urge to go to this site right now).

Until this point, I hadn’t mentioned anything about Ryan Gosling except for listing “Drive” in a list with other movies. A list which also includes “Ghostbusters” and “Secretary”, two other conversation starters. So, he pretty much brought up Ryan Gosling out of nowhere.

Because….us ladies have been pushing our Gosling agenda so hard, guys are using him as a dating tool! Guys now think that if they show us they’re cool with Ryan Gosling, they like, get us.

But I don’t want that! I want to talk to guys about the 2012 election or “Parks and Rec” not how awesome Ryan Gosling played the ukulele on Jimmy Kimmel… which he did…but I don’t want to talk about that with someone who I might wanna get naked with.

Ladies, let’s take a breath. Let’s block some websites, maybe take a photography class. We have to do something before we cause any more damage.

It’s gonna be hard, but let’s leave Ryan Gosling alone.

For our future.

**This article is dedicated to Ryan Gosling.

throwingshadepodcast: Bryan and Erin continue to save the...

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:27:23 -0800

throwingshadepodcast:

Bryan and Erin continue to save the world, one ‘ssue at a time, while discussing their biggest fears, hardcore drug use, Glee’s anti-virgin campaign, Chelsea Clinton’s new gig on NBC, Sister Wives, and how gayness is a gateway drug. Can you feel this noise?

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Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:36:34 -0800

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The Mess in Mississippi

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:35:00 -0800

As a Southerner, it’s no surprise to me that Mississippi, the home of mud pie and vintage race relations, came up with Initiative 26, which would declare a person as “every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof.” During Tuesday’s general election, the initiative failed, which means women can still get abortions (at the one abortion clinic in Mississippi), they still have access to Plan B (if they can find a pharmacist who isn’t ethically opposed to dispensing it) and ladies undergoing IVF treatments won’t face jail time for destroying unused embryos (if that’s a process they can afford).

With things already pretty difficult for Mississippi women on the reproductive front, you might be thinking what I was thinking - “What kind of dumb dumbs come up with an initiative like this?” In Mississippi’s defense, they didn’t exactly come up with this idea to set women’s rights back 38 years all by themselves. Colorado-run “Personhood USA” dumped lots of money into a national campaign to get this constitutional initiative on state ballots, and Mississippi jumped on the “No More Abortion” train faster than you can say “Get me off this train!”

Women aren’t the only Mississippians suffering from the strict laws of this ultra-conservative state. Mississippi has a tried and true tradition of making sure living life in Mississippi is as difficult as possible. Interracial marriage wasn’t legal until 1987, and while I don’t have any data to support this claim, I’m pretty watching “The Crying Game” will get you thrown in jail. That is, if you’re even healthy enough to have the strength to put the DVD in the player. In the United States, Mississippi ranks 50th in the nation in health care for its residents. Yup, it’s the worst. No one can ever beat Mississippi in “Worst Health Care” because they’re the best at “Worst Health Care”. The only way they could be less awful would be if we burned down every health care facility in any one of the other 49 states.

But that’s not all they have to brag about! Lowest ACT scores? Check! Poorest state in the country? Check! Bottom of the American Human Development Index? Check! 60% of its residents living below the poverty line? Check! Laws to ban gay marriage and prohibit the state from recognizing gay marriages performed in other states? Check! A constitution that mandates “No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office in this state”? Check!

Even “Biloxi Blues”, a movie set in Biloxi, Mississippi had the good sense to shoot in Arkansas.

For a state so concerned with life and protecting it, they are doing an A+ job of ensuring life outside the womb is a daily struggle to not put a shotgun in your mouth and blow your brains out. If you can afford a shotgun. And bullets. And aren’t so fat that you’re arms are immobile.

The only thing Mississippi does right is the blues. And there’s no better way to keep that rich musical tradition of melancholy and sadness alive than to continue to oppress the people of Mississippi. But perhaps the failure of Initiative 26 is a sign that life in Mississippi might be getting a little bit happier.

New Entertainment Hollywood next Wednesday 8PM at UCB Theater....

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:27:34 -0700

New Entertainment Hollywood next Wednesday 8PM at UCB Theater. Get your $5 tickets now before we sell out.

Michele Bachmann does not like Rick Perry’s mandate to vaccinate...

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:13:29 -0700

Michele Bachmann does not like Rick Perry’s mandate to vaccinate young, innocent, fragile girls with the HPV vaccine. Watch as she explains her views on the issue in this exclusive from Funny or Die.

Written by Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi

Special thanks to Ryan Perez

Entertainment Hollywood LIVE! August 14th show part 2. The next...

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:50:47 -0700

Entertainment Hollywood LIVE! August 14th show part 2. The next one is September 28th at 8PM at UCB Theater LA. Reserve your tickets here