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Boredwalk Community: "Listen Not to Respond, but to Understand"

1. What's your actual day job and what's your dream day job?
My actual day job is a RN in an ICU. It's been a really stressful last 12 months being frontline with Covid.
If we were dreaming I would be living in a camper, home schooling my children, doing those work-to-camp arrangements all over the country.
(Ed. note: I bet! Thank you for your service. I hope you and all of your nursing colleagues get some rest soon.)
2. What's your biggest pet peeve?
Ugh! When people lie! Liars are the absolute f*%^*!< worst!!!
3. What's the most useful piece of advice you've ever received?
"Listen not to respond, but to understand." (That's a really good one for all of us to remember.)
4. If you could have any super power what would it be and why?
Invisibility. I think it would be amazing to 1. sneak up on people and pretend to be a ghost, and 2. so I can hear who talks that shit!
5. You can curse your nemesis with a minor annoyance for eternity; what do you choose?
Excessive salivation to the point of drooling uncontrollably. (Aggressively annoying but fairly innocuous. I like it!)
6. What experience do you most want to cross off your bucket list?
...I don't really have a bucket list. But I want to scuba dive one day. I want to visit Australia. I want to backpack through Europe...a lot of travel. 🌎
7. What is a surprising fact about you?
I can independently wiggle my pinkie toes.. go ahead try it — bet ya $5 you can't.
8. Where can the rest of the Boredwalk community find you?
On Facebook @Nicole.Forsyth
Boredwalk Community: I'm Almost 40 and I Hate Wearing Pants

1. What's your actual day job and what's your dream day job?
I help cultivate cannabis in Arizona.
My dream job, I would have to say High Priestess in a Cannabis Cult. We would live in an estate-sized commune. We would have cook outs, grow cannabis, and people would give me money to hear my philosophy on how everything is meaningless and it would be better to do drugs about it.
2. What's your biggest pet peeve?
Slowness.
3. What's the most useful piece of advice you've ever received?
Always keep a good flashlight, like a mag light. You can whack someone over the head with it, and find things easier in low lighting. They're way more useful than people give them credit for.
4. If you could have any super power what would it be and why?
I would want to be invisible. I could avoid my weird neighbors. They like to have conversations at me, and quite randomly. Sometimes when I take out my trash, there is this super old dude and he comes out of his house to tell me he took care of the weeds in my yard. I think it's nice, I'd just like it a whole lot better if I could make it to the dumpster holding a heavy bag of used kitty litter without having to smile and nod for 10 minutes at the super chatty dude. If I was invisible I could just take my trash out and then go back to my house where I could take my pants back off. I hate wearing pants.
5. You can curse your nemesis with a minor annoyance for eternity; what do you choose?
I would curse her with a loose booty hole. Like if she sneezes, or laughs too hard she'd do a little "wet surprise fart."
Not like full-on shits her pants or anything — just enough for a little too much booty juice to come out. That way she's mildly uncomfortable and would like to find a restroom to fix the inconvenience as it drys and gets itchy. Also that would run up her laundry bill. She'd probably get wicked skidmarks and have to go through tons of extra underpants.
Ladies underpants can be expensive. Some ladies have to buy the bougie organic cotton kind, or else they're going to have a stanky lady garden.
6. What experience do you most want to cross off your bucket list?
Paying off my student loans.
7. If you drink: what's your go-to drink? If you don't drink: what's your go-to dessert or snack?
I started drinking anything chardonnay because it's the lowest carb count. I'm on keto and it sucks, but the Dollar General across the street doesn't judge me when I pay $3.08 in laundry quarters and loose change, so that's my go-to drink.
I only drink when my coworkers make me want to wander off into the desert and shoot myself.
8. What's a surprising fact about you?
People think I'm a barely mentally functioning adult, when in fact I'm almost 40 and I hate wearing pants.
9. Where can the rest of the Boredwalk community find you?
I'm on instagram at @ghost.with.a.hoop
And I make an ungodly amount of playlists on Soundcloud.
...HAVE BEEN SANDWICHES.
Happy National Cheesesteak Day! After the day I had yesterday, a hot & melty plant-based cheesesteak would sure hit the spot today. My favorite form of this sandwich, the Filly Cheese Phake, hails from Liquid Earth in Baltimore, Maryland. Reply to this and tell me about your favorite cheesesteak experience!
We would be remiss in celebrating cheesesteaks if we didn't also celebrate National Ag(riculture) Day, which recognizes the contributions of agriculture to our plates and even our wardrobes (thanks, Big Cotton!)
Today is also National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day. Do with this information what you will. I, for one, will pretend it — and raisins in general — do not exist.
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So many famous birthday boys/girls/persons today! They are as follows:
Escapists: Harry Houdini (1874).
Activists: Dorothy Height (1912).
Actors: Steve McQueen (1930), Jim Parsons (1973), and Alyson Hannigan (1974).
Bakers: Mary Berry of Great British Bakeoff fame (1935).
OK, OK...you've waited long enough. It's link time!
1. The perfect response from those of us who prefer non-human children.
Thomas Benjamin Wild, Esq. really makes that ukulele wail...almost as much as my neighbors' kids.
2. A puppy playing with a butterfly? SOLD!
I mean, that pretty much says it all. Whenever I see scenarios like this I always come away from the video thinking "now THAT guy has it all figured out." And by "that guy" I mean this tiny dog. Or the butterfly. They're both way smarter than I am.
3. 25 inventions that you may not have known were created (or dramatically improved upon) by women.
Please also file this link under "People Who Are Way Smarter Than Matt".
4. Comics full of puns and a slight dash of cringe.
Pro tip: instant ramen is not an acceptable movie theater snack.
5. Wait — Legos, ASMR, stop-motion animation, and baking all rolled into one mesmerizing video?
YouTuber tomosteen is onto some next-level sh!t here. Oh, well. At least you have something fun to watch while you nosh on that cheesesteak!