This weekend as promised, I saw and read, Stephen King’s The Monkey. Actually, if you read it, you’ll need to pick up the collection of short stories called Skeleton Crew. Don’t worry though, this one has The Mist in it too. There’s plenty to read outside the about 50ish pages that make up The Monkey […]
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Guys, Friday is freaking finally here. I don’t know about you, but this has been the weekest of weeks. Every day is a new terror. That’s what they say, right? I hope you all have incredible weekend plans, or more incredibly have absolutely nothing to do and can stay at home reading in your favorite
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In writing about how changing my name could affect my ability to vote, and I’ve done it twice, I was reminded of the internal chaos when I changed it the first time. I’ve always been a bit of an overachiever. I talked super young and passed that along to my own progeny. I read way
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Sigh. January was 5,000 years long. Civilizations rose and collapsed while we watched endless parades of performative but meaningful executive orders get signed. We confirmed to key cabinet positions people who spouted about merit based hiring while seemingly wildly unaware of the concept of irony. We wept. And sometimes laughed. But it was hollow. I
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Last weekend marked the beginning of the dreaded dance season. An action packed 2-3 months of glitter, feathers, tights, and more butt glue (I swear to God that’s real) than a girl could ever possibly need or presumably want. That butt glue is sticky as hell and sometimes you have to rip the costume back
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I may not be the ideal person to talk about this. I have a white skin that would incite jealousy in most ghosts. Skincare brands don’t sell colors light enough for me. If it weren’t for the flush in my face, I’d look constantly like I was dying of consumption. There are so many people
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Ah, consumption. That ‘old-timey’ disease. Inexplicably romanticised throughout art of all kinds in the 19th century. It was the hottest thing to die of. I usually prefer not dying, but alas, it was a different time. Personally, I’m hoping for death via something sudden in my sleep when I’m, like, I don’t know, 93. This
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This past week I read Head Cases by John McMahon. It is the first book in a new series that follows a group of FBI agents working on cold cases and the first book I’ve ever read of his. I was excited to go into a fresh novel by a new-to-me author. This was massively
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Many people are considering, to varying degrees of seriousness, moving out of the US. Searches for ‘how to move to Canada’ or ‘how to move out of the US’ have been spiking in recent months, what with the proliferation of laws that wouldn’t seem super out of place in your favorite dystopian media. At this
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