Maximum public notification didn’t seem to work so great. FYI Alexandria.
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Maximum public notification didn’t seem to work so great. FYI Alexandria.
Hopefully it will end as well. As well as @zuzusunshine.bsky.social mailing me gingerbread pop tarts in 2009, that is. I’m not sure I’d categorize what happened here as “well”
Also now 10% of my brain is re-mourning Mark’s Kitchen & wishing for a ginger tofu focaccia sandwich. Sigh. I hope @fishinnards.bsky.social finishes cooking dinner soon 😂
Yeah, as soon as I hit send I remembered why we haven’t drunk Founders in a good long time. But by then I was lost in an Ommegang reverie of deep intensity. Waiting til tomorrow to pick some up b/c I can’t drink of these migraine drugs anyway. But I must know more. For science.
Maybe I’m finally just completely broken inside but I haven’t been this momentarily obsessed with a foodstuff since the gingerbread pop tarts incident of 2009. And that time I had a really high fever & went down a rabbit hole that involved buying hot doctor pepper cocktail glasses.
It like living the Community gag where a character photoshops a fake VIP opening invitation for “Single Malt Platinum Boobs & Billiards Club” & the recipient doesn’t question the tailor-made appeal b/c he doesn’t say it out loud
I was going to ask if you were drinking founders & then there were follow-up questions about this years coffee stouts & then. Record scratch. This could be horrifying but gazing upon it short-circuits critical reasoning & could make it to the store before close for sure but WHAT. IS. HAPPENING
That sounds amazing.
Yes! And I found the clip online! youtu.be/hrkOAf8ZTV4?...
The newsletter is great, but nothing is worth the risk of extra treks through the mini-roundabout
Crafting a pitch for a musical version. Keep it simple tho, maybe just for voice & guitar. Like dial-a-song but sometimes depressing. Maybe we just back away from this idea & pretend this never happened.
I had to return to this post to say that this book is amazing @toddkeisling.com but it was gutting me like a trout so I had to set it aside for a while. Which is high praise, don’t get me wrong. Wow. I mean. Just wow. Happy to dive back in soon bc I accidentally hid it from myself for a while 😂
You’re running out of procrastination time if you want to propose something for the public anthropology conference - deadline is tomorrow.
ALX, Braddock Road redesign options are out! Take the survey and tell them to put bike lanes in both directions!
It worked!!!! Thank you so much.
Nothing to be worried about of course
Always nice to get those “great to see you at the party, sorry we didn’t get a chance to talk!” texts. But friends, I’ve been under the weather & haven’t been out of the house in days so, as always, I have no idea who that was last night. Next time you see me, take a picture. 😬
It was AMAZING. Until the strawberries came for me, anyway. Then I guess it still would have been amazing but in a very different sense of the word.
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🎁🔗 Review of “Women Artists of the DMV” at the American University Museum.
And I am definitely not concerned about the message several friends sent that it was great to see me at a gallery opening in DC last night when I was most definitely home on zoom all night. Nope. Not gonna worry about that at all 😬
Lovely launch party! (Cows, def scary). Had to jump straight to a bureaucratic meeting but I was still busy thinking about an underlying pleasure in stories like The Extra or works by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social - that skillful non-pedantic avoidance of demonizing the woods or villainizing nature.
Ok alt-text is broken for me. That’ll have to wait til later, it was just something stupid on their site that made me laugh.
I got an early copy of this book, I didn’t spend all day today reading & rereading the same book with naps in between but that would have legit been a better way to spend this day. 🤣
Happy book birthday @annieneugebauer.bsky.social even if you did cause me to have unsettling dreams. Also you set the bar too high by writing a book so elegantly spare & evocative I had to read the damn thing multiple times & it creeped me out in different ways each time. Bravo!
That’s fantastic! Congratulations!!!
I hope someone can get to it quickly both to get it to safety & for the sake of your sanity!
Omg I am so so sorry. What an absolute nightmare. I felt a little dizzy just reading this. (NOT sarcasm)
And please give my regards to your donkey friends.
♥️ I worked at a farm that adopted burros from a Grand Canyon rescue & gave them all Shakespearean names so I spent a good number of years yelling for Hamlet & Ophelia & Othello to come & get their dinner. (Can’t remember all the names). Such fabulous weirdos. The personalities!
I shit you not: I was in the middle of dashing off that post when, coincidentally, multiple chats lit up. It boggles my mind that such a bad situation keeps getting worse.
Endless 💔 for friends & colleagues who were fired or know they’re on the way out the door. If any of my mutuals are thinking of applying to this meatgrinder please be sure you know what you’re getting into. Which is a fucked up thing to say in this economy + the scarcity of arts job but here we are
I have more of a comment than a question
“But in this instance these could have been my words.” THEY PROBABLY WERE. 🙄
I do wish you’d quit posting these play by plays of my day. *sob* Solidarity.
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Splendid! Thank you!
That’s excellent! Indiana Bones is still sporting his Midsommer attire but Is about to gear up for Fall. Many of these flower garlands were donated by neighbors. They’ve written him poems, the kids sing Christmas carols to them, & people take family photos with him. bsky.app/profile/mean...
Same. Have tried multiple addresses.
We have no need for your puny online validation
Now you don’t have to hope those vampires are lactose intolerant.
Protects against death from any cause!
🎁🔗 Appreciate that students are calling out [AU alum] Mayor Muriel Bowser for her complicity. wapo.st/46fxFwI
🖤🖤🖤 All credit for the postcard design go to the mighty @boringstorybook.com & @culturalgutter.bsky.social. That was a great vacation. I miss that place. 🖤🖤🖤
Dairy products are the key to immortality.
Now I’m picturing the old suit riding home clinging to my husband like a polyester leech & that’s not upsetting at all. Words aren’t working so great for me today 🤣
Fact
I love that!!! It’s a kinda great concoctions in its own weird way. I swear @monkeyrotica.bsky.social shared a cool story about Armand’s recently but I’ll be damned if I can find it now. Probably not news to you, but it was a fun memory-lane thing.
I didn’t intend for that to sound like I think a retired bird suit that probably still smells like sweat, farts, & stale Armand’s spinach-garlic pizza comes to life & creeps into my home & leaves stuff. It rides home on Husband’s shirt after work. I mean, I hope that’s how it’s getting here.
I was a college mascot sub. I believe I was chosen for my effervescence, athleticism, & irrepressible charm. If that wasn’t narrated in your head by Wednesday Addams go back & try again. I’ll wait. Clawed swag has been showing up in my home & it’s like being haunted. By a giant cartoon eagle.
Helllllooooo! For real, if you ever get your hands on the novelization of Jaws: The Revenge, it is something. It’s got the Voodoo & DEA subplots that ended up on the cutting room floor. It takes an ill-conceived script & manages to make it even weirder. Magic, really.
So, hello! Excellent timing or fate or the magic of Erin or whatever.
Did you miss this weekend's talk on The Lost Children of the Alleghenies? You can catch it here - youtu.be/rvSxFkaZhw4
While it doesn’t solve Erin’s problem (which has in-hand anyway), I swear on a stack of bibles* that just this morning I was realizing how few maritime historians & archaeologists I follow here. Another consequence of the chaotic exodus from the bad place *Novelizations of Jaws 3 & 4
Amazing. Allow me to introduce you to 3 Eggs in Space, a public art piece in my neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia. This piece has no religious pretensions, but it does have a great many vaginally-inspired nicknames.
VA/DC/MD peeps, please join me for FIEND launch at @onemorepagebooks.bsky.social on Sept 15. @eaaymar.bsky.social will be there! www.onemorepagebooks.com/event/author...
I’ve been archiving most of my blog, but I’ve left some posts that make me laugh & you reminded me of this one. For 15 years my mom lived in the center house of what was basically a single story rowhouse with questionably placed skylights. (Sorry about the rotting template) meanlouise.com?p=9286
Oh. No.
honestly you probably made someone’s day. having been on the processing end of that sort of thing, you’re often dealing with big egos & condescension so getting a mistake so human and funny was probably a bit of joy
You have to laugh.
I thought about that the second I hit send because you actually explained this to me once before but I have the mind of a steel sieve today.
Yeah film seems to be the way. Blinds that you can lower instead of raise don’t seem right for this because of that raised approach.
Apparently today is National "I Love Food" Day, so I figured it’s as good a time as any to reshare my massive #GastroHorror Guide! It’s always a work in progress, so if there is anything y’all want added, let me know! #HorrorSky #Horror sarahstubbssays.com/gastro-horro...
It's National Teddy Bear Day, which led me to make this list of terrorizing teddies from film and TV. 🧸 #Horror
CW for stuffy suicide & kudos for whoever wrote the line “he smells like the bus”
Tangential to your fab list, on Supernatural Sam & Dean followed a trail of liquor bottles & pornmags to… youtu.be/3su6hUqf6CE?...
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The call for workshops, panels, and other participation has been extended to Friday, Sept 12! There are still days & days for you to procrastinate, so get on that! But then be sure to submit your proposal before the deadline. www.pubanthcon.com/call-for-par...
Did you know that the American University Public Anthropology conference in November is free & open to all? It’s true! But it gets even better! www.pubanthcon.com
Your local forensic anthropologist taking furious notes. Wait that sounds like never mind I wasnt even here that day
Right? I want to say something eloquent because it’s sooo cool but all I’ve got is an awe-filled holy shit
That’s a great one! Charlie Jane’s All the Birds in the Sky has a similar vibe. Stephen Graham Jones’ Vampire Hunter Hunter is a brilliant audio or book. Just do not, & I cannot emphasize this enough, sleep through 5 hours of Edward Hermann reading HP Lovecraft. It’s the mistake that keeps on giving
But congrats on the talk! And thank you for the good (commiserative) laugh 🤣
That would have been an excellent end to the story, but alas it was part of some documentation so I could donate some things that had belonged to him. 😂
If you don’t think I made this whole situation worse by trying/failing to make a joke that it wasn’t a picture of my dad, it was my grandfather on my mom’s side, then you don’t know me very well.
But probably only because for professional reasons I keep ALL photos of osteological material strictly controlled. In no small part because of The Mothman Incident.
Who among us hasn’t been there? Tho in my case it was accidentally sending a sheriff’s dept a photo of the Point Pleasant Mothman statue instead of my dad’s retirement information.
Seconds save lives, and life support can be some of the most basic stuff, easy to learn, and makes all the difference. Check American Heart Association and American Red Cross websites to find classes near your zip code.
This is also a great time to plug the @alexandriavagov.bsky.social Medical Reserve Corps. Whether you have a medical background or not, the MRC is always needs volunteers. AND you get great training, which may even include CPR / Basic Life Support. Check them out here, or ask me for more info:
I have a book coming out soon on how Hollywood bent to the political and social pressures of the federal government in the McCarthy era using a uniquely American genre (Christmas films) to show the cultural consequences of reputation attacks like calling TOM FUCKING HANKS destructive and woke.
Oh argh I just watched a new (to me) one the other night that managed to get both creepy & craptacular & it’s driving me crazy I can’t remember the title. I’m going to have to check a list .
There’s a pretty substantial “ghost-hunter professor & students rent a house or take a girls trip & uncork the forces of darkness” subgenre. You can swim in that pool for a long & hilarious time.
Noooooo!
It was like 20 years but that woman will live rent free in my head forever. I hope that she’s doing well, wherever she may be.
Sorry. That’s just still my favorite weird thing someone yelled once during a yoga mat turf war before a class. It was utterly left field after the dispute about mat spacing escalated rapidly & she just left & never came back. Unfortunately, she was the teacher,
You don’t even know my dog!
🤣🤣🤣
After a few megasharpedo raids w @elenah.bsky.social I thought Eric & I were going to have the momentum to stop in to the party, but I was sadly mistaken. Time & space stretched & OT was suddenly lightyears away. But I love that it was a thing that happened!
I love this so much. ♥️♥️♥️
It’s absolutely devastating.
My DM appears frozen & unsent ??? so reiterating that disconnecting QTs was too late & it was becoming like Bluesky parody: she masks & likes waffles, why is she an anti-vax pancake bigot? Sorry if seemed like I was reacting to you & @zuzusunshine.bsky.social, who are both lovely & dealing w a lot!
almost every account roasting me in QTs was a TERF which was even weirder. Blocking them all was satisfying tho.
It’s cool. I’m genuinely happy you got through to him. This containment while I was offline & I’m too exhausted to deal. ♥️
I’m glad your parents are vaccinated.
Ugh. Also miserable. I hope you’re on the mend soon! I deleted a previous because I realized it was likely to attract a specific kind of reply-guy & no one needs that.
What weird ideas you have!!!