128. The Week in Me
My latest work, and some fun little memes for the season!
Hello! The last week has offered a lot of content for this here blog, and I’d like to share it with you here, as well as a few memes, and some belated Christmas content for keeping the cheer going. Also, hey fellow Jews!
- joined me for some of the work I got the greatest feedback on this year (thank you to Dan, et. al), which the hed explains perfectly:
Gene Kelly: The Original America's Ass
“You give your heart to Fred Astaire but you save your body for Gene Kelly”- film historian Jeanine BasingerSubscribe to me but also subscribe to Sophia, who wrote a great Truman Capote essay recently.
I interviewed my new pal and Internet sensation
about bringing the magic of Ty Inc.’s Cookie to the masses:
The Gingerbread Gentleman That Has Taken Twitter By Storm
It started with a tweet, as it often does.
In a big fucking deal, this interview, one I’m proud of as I build my strength as an interviewer, was featured in
, the premier pub for the terminally online, led by my very supportive Internet pal . Thank you, Taylor!!!
I wrote an essay about the movie Never Been Kissed that was personal for me in a new way: not exploring the what of my life, but the how and why, why romantic movies imprinted on me and how they have made me susceptible to that what of my life. I have a lot of love for this piece and hope to write more like it.
And I got very, very, very, very personal and no one yelled at me for it (I am desperately trying to avoid this in the future!!!):
122. You Will See Cardinals Everywhere
I got on a Delta flight (with a stopover in Atlanta; there are not direct flights, why would there be) to Tulsa, Oklahoma on me year ago today. Here is what I would have ran through the airport: slow-motion, hurdle-clear, end-of-the-movie ran to tell myself before getting on that plane.
I think this is some of my best work. It does not speak down to the reader about the 8 1/2-ass year I have lived, but it is every truth I have to share about what I learned and bathed in strife for (often til I pruned). I felt healed enough to write this now. To acknowledge its place in the past. And now I can look ahead…except for any time someone speaks the words Oklahoma or Ethan Hawke to me.
Thank you for being here this year, the worst of my life. Thank you for reading, pledging, sharing, oversharing, honoring my oversharing, and more than any of it, laughing - so I’m not here laughing at myself alone.
Because I’m absolutely laughing at myself.
To listen:
My new episode of Soundtrack Your Life where
and I discuss The Muppet Christmas Carol and I reveal a HUGE secret about this movie:
To read:
My (thank god, she is so beautiful and loving to my children) IRL pal
wrote a brilliant guest essay for this blog about her love of queer fanfiction. I coaxed her into writing this piece and it delivered beyond my even high-from-knowing-her hopes. One of the reasons I publish this blog is to remind you that our passions all deserve stages. I offer you but one stage that I can:The Healing Balm That Is Queer Fanfiction
My buddy Chloe and I routinely send each other text messages screaming “LEE PACE IS 6’5” at each other. I send her antique wall hangings of finely-carved hands I see on vintage Instagram shops; she sends me fancams of the Pride & Prejudice hand flex
My copy of
’s newest collection of poems, ride, is tagged with indigo-colored sticky notes. I even rendered one of my marquee boards in the house to include a line of hers I love and sorely needed this year. Some of these poems discuss CSA, though delicately and with much ivy obfuscating it, but go in with that knowledge.
How I feel every time I read a new
essay:
To watch:
A Die Hard pop-up-book musical number:
All I want for my weekends honestly:
This is literally just Simone:
(when she is sleepy) (which is often)
This is literally just Lugosi:
Actually my babies:
Various and sundry:
From
:
Ees for me:
I hope you all find your mermaid store that brings you joy (or fill it, regular, card):
Love you bitches so much,
TG
Thank you so much for this Tara!!! I am so glad you like the book and what an honor to have a line make it into your board. Really made my day!!!