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I'll be on The Strategy Room tomorrow at 12pm

I believe none other than Bill Schulz will also be on that hour.

In other news I’d like to know if it’s possible to go to a party and not wake up the following morning feeling kind of hoarse? How do other people do this? I mean, I can’t deprive people of my fascinating anecdotes and delightful conversation. That would be cruel.

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What I've been up to lately

Hi kids. I’ve been watching a lot of episodes of M.A.S.H. lately while thinking about a) couches/furniture and b) how I should write a book. That’s boring though and doesn’t fit in with the image I want you to have of me, so I should add that the space suit arrived and I’m very much looking forward to my biannual trip to the moon. For one thing, I feel very skinny there. It’s tough to actually get on the scale though, since it floats around like no one’s business. Plus, I just enjoy slamming flags into the cold ground and eating freeze dried ice cream. That’s kind of all I do up there. I don’t want to ruin the glamorous space-hopping rocket-setting image I just created, but I guess I’m something of a space couch potato. Mostly I just float around stuffing my face with freeze dried ice cream and taking pictures of myself. Sometimes I do somersaults in the air.

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A slew of photos


Here I am with the imaginary father of my imaginary children, Joshua McCarroll, Red Eye wunderkind and McConaughey correspondent. We’re in the green room, wearing green. Well, one of us was. By the way, McConaughey is kind of impossible to spell.


Here I am doing The Strategy Room earlier today. I totally came up with the best strategy. I’d tell you, but it’s a secret.


Here I am smiling, probably at something I said.


Here I am cocking my head because I heard a high pitched noise or smelled a piece of kibble.


This is me on Red Eye last night shortly before Greg called me out for not answering the specific question he asked. What you didn’t hear in the commercial break? Me saying “How dare you call me out for not answering the question! Not answering the question is the backbone of this show!”

And then here’s where I explained that I don’t think smart pills actually make you smart. I think they make you annoying.


And then here I am making this face.


Oh look, it’s the beach (I had to get these off my camera. They’re from my recent trip of OC for Thanksgiving).


Another beach shot.


Another beach shot. Lovely, isn’t it?


And then here’s a couch I saw today at Raymour & Flanigan. This one’s four hundred and something dollars cheaper than the one sitting in my apartment right now but which I could return. Should I return the one in my apartment and get this one instead? It’s entirely polyester/synthetic/foam whereas there are actual feathers/down in the one in my apartment. Hm. It seemed comfortable though.

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The Annual Alison

I was musing today about myself and books, but more about myself, and I was thinking that I should write a book called The Twelve Days of Alison but then I was thinking that isn’t enough, it should be the 365 Days of Alison or maybe The Daily Alison and then I was thinking, hey, don’t put all the cans in one bag and all the bottles in the other, bag person, because I can’t carry that and what the hell? Did I neglect to mention I had these thoughts at the store? To be fair, she wasn’t really doing this, I just thought she might because it seems people who pack your grocery bags can’t resist organizing into like items which I find really annoying and short-sighted because then you have one bag filled with toilet paper and kleenex and another filled with bowling balls and you try to walk forward but you just spin in place. I totally hate that.

So then I was thinking I should write a book of advice to people in vocations where I have no experience. For example: Grocery bag packers should not group by like items. Here’s another: Doctors should not tell you about how sick they feel so that as you’re walking out of the office you actually say “hope you feel better.” (that actually happened to me years ago.) Here’s another: bus drivers shouldn’t be prone to road rage. Here’s another: prostitutes shouldn’t wait till the third date. Here’s another: Lion tamers shouldn’t smell like elk meat.

You know, but funny

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Wherein I say "And so tell us…" multiple times

I just found this fast-moving action sequence on YouTube. It’s from the auto show, specifically the design challenge at the auto show. The guy’s named is spelled Jacques but he pronounces it Jack. Sort of like how my name is spelled Alison but I pronounce it Yolanda. But lest you are new to all things me, please watch some of my more exciting videos before deciding that you love me. (That’s where this was all going anyway, right? Admit it: you love me. You love me in spite of this video. I knew it.)

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I'm on Red Eye on Monday

What?! Monday night?!

I’m on Red Eye on Monday and I’m on the couch today. The gray couch. Or the brown couch. Apparently everyone else thinks it’s brown but it looks gray to me. I don’t know why this is but it frustrates me. I like to see things clearly. For example, I’d rather see a couch I like when I look at it.

But that wasn’t my point, not at all. My point was that I’ll be on Red Eye on Monday night/Tues morning and even though it’s written on the right side of this page where I have my upcoming appearances I wanted to make a special post about it because the date has jumped around a bit since I was traveling and pinning me down was hard to do. “Don’t pin me down!” I yelled as they began attacking me with bobby pins.

In other news, I’ve become quite a fan of the show M.A.S.H. and I’ve developed a crush on early Alan Alda.

When I was six I had a crush on Oliver-era Jack Wild.

I’m given to anachronistic crushes, the kind where when you see what the person looks like now you shudder.

But I’d never liked M.A.S.H. because I associated it with things which are hot and dusty and depressing but then I was watching some episodes to prepare for Switch (the topic was TV doctors) and lo and behold, I actually really like the show. Maybe I only like the early episodes though before it got all heavy handed and depressing and dusty and hot. You know?

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