Hello! Hello!
Yup. I love Substack. I love Substack so much, I subscribe to 213 Substacks. I love Substack so much I started my own Substack. It was few years ago after I accused Donald Trump of assault, sued him for defamation, and, after 27 years of writing the “Ask E. Jean” column, Elle magazine fired me.
BOOM!
I moved old “Ask E. Jean” to Substack, and boy! I have never looked back! It’s a gas!
But these days I’m asking the questions. And you are answering.
I have spent 50 wild, wild years as a journalist. I beat the former president twice. Isn’t it time I stopped flapping my gums, and started listening?
As it turns out, my questions are good; but your answers?……
What’s the last argument you won?
Are you the same person you were when you were a child?
What law would you like to be immune from?
What if you never left your home town?
Your first love, your last love, your favorite hair style, your worse boss, your best pet trick, the sickest you’ve ever been, the art that hung in your childhood bedroom, and on and on, question by question, your answers reveal your life history, and by the end we are all wiser, braver, and incredibly more powerful.
SO.
We aren’t going to save the world, but maybe we will save each other. And, yes, that’s old E. Jean up there in that photo showing her underpants at the Miss Cheerleader USA Contest. And DAMN, HONEY! Look at that jump! The scotch tape in the upper left I can’t remove. The photo was taped so long to the wall of my Pi Beta Phi bedroom, it permanently stuck. Anyway I won Miss Cheerleader USA and I’ve never stopped yelling and shouting since.
But now I’m gonna listen.
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About me.
I was raised in this red brick school house in the sticks of Indiana. I grew up to be a cheerleader who happened to go on to write for Saturday Night Live, have a TV show called (what else?) Ask E. Jean, write five books, including the biography of Hunter S. Thompson and the current book, What Do We Need Men For? and skip around the world writing for Esquire, Outside, Elle, The Atlantic and Vanity Fair.
You can read more at EJeanCarroll. Here’s my Twitter.
So Answer My Questions!
And please! Drop me photos of your pets!
Latest addition to the fam: Miss Havisham!
