Jenny Lawson's Blog

I still don’t know what I’m doing with my art substack but I am very much enjoying it and somehow I have 9.9k subscribers, which is both shocking and weird. I also don’t know how you’re supposed to edit the preview image each week and that is why I think I just emailed 9.9k peopleContinue reading "I apologize for sending you cat buttholes, probably."

We started Nowhere Bookshop at the end of 2019 when we sold our first book through the Fantastic Strangelings Book Club which we fulfilled in Elizabeth’s garage (with the help of spouses, kids and even our parents). By March of 2020 we were finally ready to open the actual remodeled (as remodeled as we couldContinue reading "On the positive side, we have a lot of anniversaries."

It’s hard for me to type this because this weekend I took out my frustration on my garden (“garden” being a very generous word for my overgrown backyard) and vigorously ripped out weeds, tree roots and also the better part of two fingernails. Turns out that you’re supposed to use gloves.  I pulled out theContinue reading "Pretty deadly things"

In the last few years my parents have finally figured out texting, which is wonderful but also often baffling because it often lacks the context you might get from a normal conversation. Example: (I apologize if you are not familiar with a “gut pile” or why anyone would point a trail camera at one butContinue reading "FOR SALE: SLIGHTLY USED COFFIN"

Some of my favorite books of the year are coming out this month and you should definitely pick them up. The first is my pick for the Fantastic Strangelings Book Club and it’s Meg Shaffer’s The Lost Story. Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy taleContinue reading "July is for reading."

First off…click here for an update to my post about car footrests that caused a firestorm of discussion. Secondly, it’s Friday and this week has been long as shit, so that means it’s time to come into my office so I can show you all of the videos I saved for you. Ready? Let’s go.Continue reading "It’s Friday!"

Yesterday I was getting my oil changed and when the mechanic came back to the waiting room to give me my keys I had a question for her: Me: Quick question. I always put my right foot in that footrest thingy on the bottom of the passenger side door of my husband’s car but nowContinue reading "Is this a universal problem between husbands and wives or is it just us?"

Shit feels like it’s coming apart at the seams sometimes but then I open up my instagram “for you” page and it’s all gay possums and I think to myself, “Nah, baby girl. You’re doing just fine.”

Me: I wonder why shark dorsal fins stick out of the water? Victor: Because they’re hot and want to cool off. me: But it’s always colder in the water than outside it. Victor: Because they’re cold and they want to warm up. me: You’re just confidently guessing until you get to one that sounds right,Continue reading "sharks and toddlers"