I’m curious what your problem with art school is. I’m aware that a BFA isn’t really for everybody (or sometimes, even worse, is falsely made for everybody), but I’m unclear as to where your disgust for art school comes from.

I don’t have a disgust for art school, and the reason you’re often unclear about things is because you suffer from black-and-white thinking.

I was answering a much larger question from someone stuck wearing art school blinders. I had to smack them upside the head with a big crazy idea to make them realize that life is so much fucking bigger than a couple of art school rejection letters.

How would someone be dodging a bullet by not getting into art school? I got in a few years ago, owned it and was immediately put on a design degree without an interview, aced that too and now I’m in my dream job working as a designer and travelling the world.

If I hadn’t been to art school, learnt my shit, made good connections and worked my ass off, there’s no way I’d be where I am today. Maybe some have a different view of art school to what it really is, maybe Yale is pretentious and useless (I have no idea, I’m from Europe) but what I do know is the art school taught me a lot, including better process, ideas generation, fine art skills (that actually got me noticed for the job I have now) and most importantly, commerciality in art and design.

Ok fine, I seem offended by your comment, but really, I’m just saying art school can be brilliant, and it being a bullet to dodge isn’t something I could easily agree with.

Of course, of course. Not only was my advice completely wrong, but I failed to take into account your specific life experiences when answering that other person’s question that wasn’t even really about art school.

Congratulations on all your success, and I sincerely hope the world keeps revolving around you.

So you think art is a waste of time? Or only that being an artist is wasting your life?

No, silly. Art isn’t a waste time. Then again, being an artist might be a waste of your life, but only because you’re too stupid to understand the difference between being an artist and getting into art school.

You are a giant fucking asshole, bitter to the core. I agree with your existential nihilism, but don’t put your self-hatred on everyone else who asks a fucking question, bitch.

This was the immediate response to me telling someone to get rid of all their worldly possessions and join the Peace Corps.

Goddamn, I love this fucking sport.

I got an interview to Yale school of art and then got denied. I got denied from my back up school too. Now I have no clue what I should do with my year. I’m really tired of working my shitty day job and trying to have a studio practice. I’m too drained (physically and emotionally) to do both, and now I feel like I’m doing a shitty job at both. I’m self aware enough to know I’m being a fucking brat, but how do I stop acting like a fucking brat and find a balance that makes me happy?

You wanna stop acting like a fucking brat? Okay. Quit your shitty day job. Sell, give, or throw away all your worldly possessions. Join the fucking Peace Corps.

You dodged a fucking bullet by not getting into art school. Now quit wasting your life and go do something that scares the shit out of you.

Oh, and since you asked, do you wanna know why you’ll never find a balance that makes you happy? Because you think I’m fucking kidding.

What ever happened to the girl who was kicked out of college for saying she was raped? I keep her in my prayers, so please let us know if you hear back!

Yes. I’ve kept in touch with her these past few months, and her case has reached a point where it’s okay for me to update everyone. According to her, “Now that it’s definitely happening, feel free to tell the world. It’s going to be a good fight.”

So yeah, it’s all good news. Shortly after the original post, she got in touch with her local district attorney who put her in touch with the appropriate women’s legal advocacy group. They agreed to take on her case, and she began gearing up for a fight.

It took some time, but the lawyers proved effective. Not only were all of the charges against her dropped, but the college realized how badly they screwed up, and they readmitted her with their humblest apologies.

Nevertheless, she’s moving forward with a fairly significant lawsuit, and she seems confident that she has a good chance of winning. Her lawyers think the case may get some publicity, so we’ll see what happens. As she puts it, “I’m sure as hell not letting this go.”

Fuck yeah.

How do you feel about your fellow advice giver Steaktalk having a little girl and naming her Mars? I feel that there is a lot to say about this generation of people in their late 20’s who cannot let go of the 90’s and have are still obsessed with space, aliens, dinosaurs et whatnot.

Steak and I share a mutual respect. She will make an excellent mother, despite your petty implications regarding her maturity.

If you feel there is a lot to say about her generation’s aesthetic sensibility, go right ahead. The line for hacks who want to bitch about Millennials starts outside by the dumpster crammed full of printed issues of Newsweek and a bag full of fucks no one gives about your irrelevant opinions.

Every time I go to your website, the first thing I see is the question I asked. Can you please post something new so that I can stop looking at it?

Okay.

What do you think of the proposition to make six Californias?

The aren’t six Californias. There are three — Southern, Central, and Northern — and they fucking hate each other. Everyone knows this.

We’ve got an assfull of insufferable dotcom capitalists to the north, a herd of shit-kicking republican farmers in the middle, and a gaggle of godless Hollywood liberals down south — three entrenched regional power bases so diametrically opposed to one another that they couldn’t agree on the color of money, much less how to run the twelfth largest economy in the world.

Since you can always count on one of the three regions to fuck the other two, the state government has spent the last forty years grinding down into a useless, bankrupt pile of shit. That’s why this VC douchenozzle from up north is proposing to break up the state into governable chunks.

Fundamentally, it’s not the worst idea in the world, but this super-rich dork has an ulterior motive. He loves the smell of his own farts so much that he thinks Silicon Valley deserves to be its own gated community, which is absolutely fucking insane. Of course, he can’t justify such an outrageous proposition without inventing five other states to make it seem rational, most of which also happen to be conveniently republican. Fuck that noise.

He’s overcomplicated the issue with his personal rich-asshole politics. Fine, whatever. It’s not like anyone takes the proposition seriously. At the end of the day, this is all just a silly legacy building hobby for a bored rich asshole who was forced into early retirement by his rich asshole business partners. They should all go shit themselves and die.

Is it a good idea to have a shared bank account with your boyfriend for groceries/laundry/rent if you’re arguing over who is going to go shopping this week?

It is my experience that sharing a bank account amplifies financial disagreements between partners, so you two would need to sort out your money issues first.

Figure it out together. Come to terms over how you’ll handle your finances as a couple. Write it all down in as much detail as possible. There can be no uncertainty when it comes to shared expenses, and no matter what you decide, you should still retain your own personal bank accounts.

A joint account isn’t a solution. It’s just an instrument. Open communication about money is the only thing that’s ever gonna solve those problems.