Jessica Coen
Jezebel
Woodside, NY, United States
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Meet the Badass Mother-Daughter Duo Who Conquered the Pony Express Trail
We were deep in the woods of Humboldt County at Katie Azevedo’s family ranch, gathered around the table for breakfast. It was a comfortable scene, but six weeks ago Katie was dirty and dusty, in the midst of a transformative experience: she and her mother, Linda—along with their horse, Sedona—were riding the Pony Express Trail. → Read More
Sex on a Plane: Tips for Joining the Mile High Club
Some 13 million Americans purport to be part of the Mile High Club. Sound like a lot of people? Not when you consider that it only accounts for 4 percent of the American population. What’s more, these Mile High Club members are mostly men. → Read More
Sex on a Plane: Tips for Joining the Mile High Club
Some 13 million Americans purport to be part of the Mile High Club. Sound like a lot of people? Not when you consider that it only accounts for 4 percent of the American population. What’s more, these Mile High Club members are mostly men. → Read More
Passengers Boo Flight Crew as Crying Woman Is Kicked Off Airplane
You don’t have to look too hard to find stories about airplane passengers being removed from airplanes—seriously, just the stories just fall from the sky (no pun intended) like acid rain—but rarely are they so confusing and absurd as this one. → Read More
Studying Abroad in Africa Is a Woman's Game
The traditional study abroad experience is changing; no longer are students invariably heading to Europe to drunkenly piss on the streets of Florence or Sevilla. They’re heading to Africa, too—and it turns out that the students most interested in studying there are overwhelmingly women. → Read More
Attention-Starved Couple Invites Public to Come Crash Their Wedding
A Fort Meyers couple has announced that their wedding on October 10 will have a Wedding Crashers theme, in that they have requested that anyone—literally anyone—come crash their reception. Okay. I have some questions. → Read More
How to Fly Overseas With a Jerk Cat
There’s an abundance of information about traveling internationally with dogs. If you’re moving abroad, obviously you’re bringing Fido. But traveling with cats? We don’t seem to talk about that a whole lot. And why is this? Are cats unworthy of traveling around the world? I think not! → Read More
Vomit: Couple Finds Barf Bag in Seat-Back Pocket on Flight
From the check-in counter to the cockpit, the tarmac to the cabin, airline employees work hard. These jobs are pretty thankless, but this lack of consistent, warm-n-fuzzy emotional fulfillment is not grounds for failing to carry out one’s responsibilities. Especially if those responsibilities involve bodily fluids. → Read More
Are You Young Enough to Be the Mother of the Bride?
Well? Are you? → Read More
Take Control of Your Body's Clock With the Anti-Jet Lag Calculator
Long-distance travels are a drain on both your time and money. The fact that such journeys can also seriously mess with your sleep and energy schedule—leaving your brain feeling like a moldy marshmallow—is insult added to injury. But with science, discipline, and math, the biological injustice of jet lag can be tamed. → Read More
What Do Travel Agents Even Do Anymore?
I noticed something weird in the invitation to my Canadian cousin’s upcoming wedding in Mexico. As I read through the details, I saw that he was directing everyone to book their accommodations through...his travel agent. → Read More
If You're From One of These States and Planning to Fly in 2016, LOL Sorry
Attention driver’s license holders from the great lands of New York, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and American Samoa: The Department of Homeland Security has no love for you. → Read More
Flying Without an ID? Chill TSA Agents Will Take Your Costco Card Instead
A little known and surprising fact about the nightmarish hoops one must jump through at the behest of the TSA: You can get through airport security and board your flight without an official ID. Airport security is pretty chill. → Read More
It Is Very, Very Important That You Buy a Ring at Zales Today
The Diamond Store™ has some information for you. → Read More
Wedding Drama Is Rarely About the Wedding
Weddings are slow cookers full of potential agitation, wherein family, friends, finances, and fiancés all come together during months of planning and mingle together to create a terrible-tasting mess. Nine times out of ten, this nonsense actually isn’t about the wedding itself. In fact, the more complicated the fuss, the less likely it has anything to do with the bride, groom, or their nuptials. → Read More
'Australia's Best Wedding' Is Australia's Worst Wedding
Can you identify the point at which couples decided that the strength of their love was best reflected by the degree to which they infuriate bystanders? I cannot. → Read More
What's Your Most Indispensable Travel Planning Tool?
Welcome to Wisdom of the Masses, wherein we tap the global intelligence of our readers on matters you won’t necessarily find covered in Lonely Planet or Tripadvisor. → Read More
Woman Loses Her Mind, Is Removed From Flight After Refusing to Put Her Dog in Its Carrier
A woman was recently dragged off an airplane after she failed to put her growling, snapping dog in its carrier before takeoff. A fellow passenger filmed the incident (as one does) and if nothing else, we should recognize this lady’s convincing performance as a deeply disturbed human who loves her tiny helldog more than anything else on this hideously flawed earth. → Read More
Moron's Marriage Proposal Causes Huge Traffic Jam
Highly public marriage proposals have become a matter of global nuisance, but none more so than one which greatly inconveniences innocent bystanders. From Istanbul comes the great news of one such event. → Read More
What Are the Best International Destinations for LGBTQ Women Looking to Hook Up?
Welcome to Wisdom of the Masses, wherein we tap the global intelligence of our readers on matters you won’t necessarily find covered in Lonely Planet or Tripadvisor. → Read More