Issue #7: How We Spent V-Day

Tickets for March in NYC and LA and a recap of our PACKED V-Day weekend of shows

Author

Valerie Bodurtha
February 17, 2025

Welcome to Ask a Fuckboy’s newsletter where we’ll 1.) announce ticket drops and 2.) spotlight the craziest texts and stories from our live show or greater community.

Ticket Drop:

Recent Show/Popup/Community Highlights:

1. Wouldn’t Want to Spend V-Day Any Other Way

When we were planning out February, we thought it would be funny to do a show the day before Valentine’s Day AND the day after Valentine’s Day (keeping V-Day itself free, naturally, for me and Andie to sit on our couch and watch Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement).

We’ll be holding this pose next to each other for the whole film

Our first double header of shows went awesome - setting the mood perfectly for a romantic weekend <3

I’d let the crew from Dirty Spoon Ice Cream murder me

I put so much effort into every show and yet my proudest accomplishement so far has been this candy table

If you squint you can see like four men in the audience which was some kind of record for us

We are jelly of Maddy Kelly!

2. Life Updates

Q. Andie, how’s dating going for you?

A. I’ve been asking around about ways to effectively yet politely and adorably inquire early on about politics with someone you’re seeing. I don’t just want to ask “Hey, what are your politics?” because that seems insane and also I think if someone asked me that question I might deflect and start talking about my college thesis on humor in politics.

How DO you suss out what your date thinks about abortion, immigration, Trump, the economy, and—to be frank with ourselves—vaccines? Do I just have to strategically plan dates near protests so we can walk past and I can be like, “Oh look! By the way, yeah, what do you think about basic rights for women?” “Looks like that restaurant’s on strike! Ha-ha, so union busting yay or nay?” “Look, a recycling bin! Does that incite rage in you by chance for some reason?”

I’ll think on it.

Q. Val, how about you?

A. Recently I matched with a guy, we had honestly pretty good banter for about a week, and right when I thought he was going to ask me out he sent me this:

Oh…Canada?

Oh wow no yeah seems like potentially pertinent info.

I don’t take anything that happens on the apps seriously. I try to hold off becoming invested until it’s in person and moved squarely out of “Possibly an AI Texting Me Because Yeah Men Sound like That Sometimes Anyway” territory.

And yet, this text really bummed me out! He didn’t have anywhere on his profile that said he was just passing through, and we chatted back and forth for a WEEK. That’s time I could have been spending, I don’t know, mining crypto? We’ll NEVER KNOW.

I was mad, but also curious, so I sent the only text I can think of:

Girl just don’t respond he is ABROAD

I am a little happy I sent it, because it meant I gave him the opportunity to write this:

yeah that 😅 emoji is right bro, this is going in the NEWSLETTER

Mind you, he sent this well into February.

Look, appeals to my Judaism are, yes, an excellent way to get me into bed. But there’s something really off to me about the way he phrased “one night of oil.”

Not sure if the US has extradition with Canada but can the FBI get on this guy stat?

We’ll keep you guys in the loop, thanks for reading!

Oh, and send us your gossip/stories so we can feature them in our next newsletter/show.

Love, your favorite Down Baddies,

Andie and Val <3