Pamela Ribon

Category: Blog

  • one. oh.

    Ten years ago right now I wondered what would happen if I started writing a web diary. Ten years. I haven’t had any address in my entire life as long as I’ve had pamie.com. Very few things last an entire decade. I thought I should do something special to commemorate it, as it’s not often…

  • the attempts to get happy.

    Weezer: Red Album (Deluxe) Overwhelming Positivity: Atomic Tour Podcasts

  • save your jokes, folks.

    Benjamin Nugent: American Nerd: The Story of My People (There’s no joke you could make about me in this situation that I haven’t already said to myself, about myself.)

  • wanted.

    I was running this afternoon when a lamp post caught my eye. There was a message taped, a love letter. It said it was the eleventh of fifteen, a public message for a special person. There, typed, was a poem, about how the writer’s love was real. His or her need was real. That both…

  • cookie puss

    We had our first table read for season two yesterday. That’s a very exciting thing, being on a show that comes back for another year. But this second year is still the first year, and I kind of forgot how we went straight from season one to the strike to season one point five, to…

  • grateful and grumpy (aka: old-lady pamie)

    For those of you who are crazy cat ladies/actual veterinarians/long-time fans: Thank you for writing in about Cal and his new meds. That’s very kind of you, and your advice is much appreciated. Yay for Pill Pockets. Now if only Greenies made a “Liquid-y Vomit Catcher ™” for thirty minutes after Cal’s had his medicine.…

  • punch-up.

    punch-up.

    punch-up: a process where we individually go through the writer’s first draft and offer up suggestions for jokes, story structure, and/or cuts. Then we get into one room and offer up all of our suggestions at the same time until the writer is convinced he or she should never write anything ever again while simultaneously…

  • boo.

    boo.

  • i miss my mommy.

    i miss my mommy.

  • ring-ring.

    [scripty] PAMIE Hello? SARA Hi! What are you doing? PAMIE I’m watching a Planet Earth. SARA Nerd. PAMIE Technically, I was working on my book, and then I spent some time trying to figure out if I wanted to upgrade to Leopard, and now I’m watching a Planet Earth. SARA NERD! [/scripty]