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high school teacher, horror-lover, poet, Bright Wall/Dark Room editor, parent, person
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Today’s interesting student observation comes from a kid who’s in both my Existentialism class and my Gothic class: could you read Haunting of Hill House as similar to No Exit? Three people, thrown together, unable to leave an enclosed space, designed to torture each other …

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maybe dumb question but: does a KN95 help against measles? Hahah what a stupid time to be alive!!!!

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Copy editing this piece made me TOTALLY FASCINATED. (Also B.C. is such a joy to copy edit: he always has a very thorough notes and references doc that makes things very easy!)

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I don't even know how to post anything about Gene Hackman. So often now the experience of contemporary life is feeling like the words have dried up.

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Struggling psychologically? Only your most irrelevant niche interests can save you now!

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As fans of my husband know, Chris officially left social media a while ago now … but he wanted me to say that he started a Patreon to share work and other fun things. He may also be on Bluesky, but hiding. Idk. Possible. www.patreon.com/MutinyForever

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attn: middle child has gotten really into painting miniature items. (In lieu of screens, yes, but also of reading/homework.) Is this the most Middle Child Interest or what.

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checks out

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Happy Twin Peaks Day 🥧☕️🦉🩸

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mental health threat level: rewatching the Buffy pilot

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I appreciate all of these attempts to kill art—AI, the corruption of the NEA, the Kennedy Center coup, evil corporations buying up properties l. It shows that they know art is still dangerous and powerful. What they don’t understand is that you can’t ever truly choke it out. Keep making art.

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last night I watched Casablanca in a theater and today I went for a very long walk and if I could just always watch old movies and go for walks maybe I’d feel mildly less insane

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I am depending on the greed and evil, black hearts of the pharmaceutical companies right now and that feels fucked up.

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recently I was telling someone how I have come to see grading less as “assessment” and more as relationship-building and this is just one moment (an “extra” paragraph a student wrote post-Works Cited) where I feel this at work!

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So happy to have this piece up. I worked really hard on it and I hope you’ll give it a read — I think the disability element of this brilliant film has been under-discussed.

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I love the national parks and they have been one of the few places I have felt at peace in the last 5 years especially and this feels like a semi-final straw to me

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so I know we all just keep getting up and going to work (except for the people who have already been fired) but like … for how much longer

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Spending the day off in one of my favorite places trying not to think about anything but rocks and trees and sky.

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It’s the kind of Saturday reserved for taking Excedrin Migraine and thinking about The Pitt

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I am unable to find the image of the bouquet of roses evil Angelus sends to Buffy with the card that just says SOON, but please know I’d be posting it here for Valentine’s Day if I had it!

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Chris isn’t on social media anymore, but today was his & @victorlavalle.bsky.social’s last day of work running The Terror: Devil in Silver, based on Victor’s book. He hopes you love it when it airs. I think it’s gonna be great. (Victor, he misses you already.)

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You know how working through Covid makes you at higher risk for Long Covid? I feel like there might be something similar going on with working blindly through the current political insanity. Every day I have to compartmentalize I feel just a bit more at risk for complete burnout.

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Today’s the last day of post-production for my show, The Terror: Devil in Silver. Five year journey. Amazing array of folks helped make it. A diverse group of people trapped in a place that’s trying to kill them; institutional evil & corruption. Afraid it will be even more relevant in 2025.

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what the fuck

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Today in what’s-good-in-E’s-brain: notes from today’s Psycho Harkness. (I scribbled out some student names.) I love my class and I love this movie! Okay that’s maybe where my positivity for life runs out today!

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had to do some Kierkegaard before we got to this. direct quote from a student: "Kierkegaard had fire hair, bro."

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I think it's a good day to teach Camus' Myth of Sisyphus?

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Screened this masterpiece tonight for kids. Every frame is just perfect. They loved it, too!

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I, uh ... I'm at a loss for words. Which Washington Post journalist really thought this was going to be the first sentence of a piece they wrote this year? (from www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...)

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