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Things About Today’s Youth That Makes Me Angry

gilliantelling — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:24:53 +0000

<——-This Urban Outfitters tee shirt.

New Mom Sex- Is It Happening?

gilliantelling — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:17:02 +0000

I’m super excited to announce I’m am going to be writing a bi-weekly column for Mom.me. What about? Mom sex, of course! Also Dad sex. Parental sex. Partner sex. Basically anything that happens when the lights go down that doesn’t involve snoring or bickering over whether to let the kids sleep with you or not. My first column was just published, about how much new parents are REALLY doing it. (Hint: Once a week is average.) Read the whole thing here New Parent Sex and let me know how you feel. And stay tuned to Mom.me and this blog for more more more about Sex and the Mommy. xx

What Happen When Your Kids Google You?

gilliantelling — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:08:37 +0000

I never posted this article I once wrote for Babble about what happens when your kid is old enough to use a compute and decides to Google you. For many parents, nothing. Maybe a Linked In profile shows up, a photo of them at the family reunion… But for me? Sex columns I wrote for Maxim called “Lust in Translation,” where one of the opening lines is how a guy whispering “I want to bang your sister” is a no-no in the sack. Not lost in translation? How mortifying this is going to be for my child. Because he’s only 2 years old, I’m hoping by the time he’s of computer age, the Internet will have found a way to make itself more parent-friendly and I can just delete embarrassing shit. In the meantime, since he can’t read yet, please read this article and weigh in with any thoughts!

The Google Monster

http://www.babble.com/kid/privacy-google-kids-internet/

My Son’s Twisted Sense of Humor

gilliantelling — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:27:04 +0000

Meet my son, Charlie. He is cuddly. He is cute. He is funny. He is also a weird little kid who is obsessed with toilet humor and slapstick gags. I know what you’re thinking. “YOU’RE the one into toilet humor and slapstick comedy, which is why he thinks those things are funny. You’re projecting!” Well, I see your point, but this kid honestly was, like Lady Gaga, born this way. When Charlie was an infant, he would never give me those big belly laughs that you see babies on America’s Funniest Home Videos doing at dogs running by unless… I pretended to trip over something or smacked myself in the head with a pillow and pretended to fall down. Then you should have seen the kid! He’d laugh so hard he couldn’t breathe and he’d topple over. He first started this at FOUR MONTHS OLD. It got to a point that every time he was upset or crying, all I had to do was slap myself in the face and say “OW!” and he would collapse into fits of hysterical giggling. Later, after he learned to walk, he’d try out slapstick on his own and see if he could get some other babies to laugh at him. Every time we entered the gym where we did a playgroup twice a week, he’d pretend to trip and throw himself on ground, grinning and waiting for the laughs. Mostly it was the parents who would crack up, because we couldn’t believe a one year old was basically already one of the Three Stooges. When his best friend learned to talk, one of his first phrases was “Charlie funny.”

Well, Charlie has grown. He is now a mature two and a half year old who really understands the hilarity of pretending to fart on me when I’m changing his diaper. His appreciation of toilet humor has almost surpassed his appreciation for a good trip or knock to the shin that makes someone yell “Ow!” and hop on one foot…almost. This photo was taken last night when he was trying to squeeze my face so I’d make funny gurgling noises and cross my eyes and pretend to be dying. Man, how he laughed. But not as hard as we both laughed later when he made bubbles appear in the bath.

Amazing! Amazing! Amazing!!!!

gilliantelling — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:50:19 +0000

Anyone who knows me has heard me say over and over, “Well, when Dirty Girls the TV show gets made, maybe I can do it.” As in, maybe I can go to Hawaii, or maybe buy a purse that isn’t from Urban Outfitters. My manager has actually been trying to make this happen for a few years, but the odds aren’t totally in your favor when it comes to getting things made in Hollywood. But holy fucking shitballs, guess what?! See the below news. I literally crapped my pants with joy when I read this. Wait, no, not literally. I figuratively crapped my pants. I was THRILLED! Ecstatic! And any other synonym that also means filled with glee! And to have people like Mark Gordon and Moe Jelline and Andrea Shay behind this project is literally a dream come true. Honestly, still can’t believe it might happen. If it does, will you be watching? (Also, I swear I didn’t really crap my pants.)

EXCLUSIVE: The Mark Gordon Co. has sold its sixth project this development season — half-hour comedy Dirty Girls, which has been set up at ABC through ABC, where the the company has an overall deal. Moe Jelline (You Again) will write the project, which is based on the Gillian Telling book Dirty Girls: The Naked Truth About Our Guilty Secrets. The single-camera half-hour revolves around a group of female friends who reveal the dirty truth about the secret lives of women. Gordon, Jelline and Mark Gordon Co.’s Andrea Shay will executive produce.

Dirty Girls joins Mark Gordon Co.’s other projects sold to ABC this season: Sex Diaries, Pros & Cons, Gothica, an untitled family drama co-written by Bob Daily and Pierce Gardner, and the female soap Vain from Make It Or Break It creator Holly Sorensen. Jelline is represented by ICM Partners, which also reps Mark Gordon Co., Kaplan/Perrone and Rick Genow.