Shalom!
We are going to skip the “Tara overshares about herself/others” segment of the blog this week for the sake of not bursting into tears1 at the desk of her brand-new job, where they have DIET SNAPPLE IN THE FRIDGE FOR PEOPLE HERE TO DRINK.
By “people here to drink,” I mean “me to be a little whiny Hemingway kinda bitch trying to find myself at the bottom of a bottle of aspartame 3-7 times a workday.”
I have an event coming up and some podcast appearances:
Philly, look out for this reading on July 20th. I may do an essay I have written and published here, or a chapter or few of my novel-in-progress. Let me know what you might like to hear. This falls two days before my birthday so I’d really love to s(q)ee(ze) you all.
I had the impostorial honor of blurbing Sam Runge’s new chapbook from Bullshit Lit, Intoxicating Sonnets. Sam is writing a guest post for the blog that will go live soon; in the meantime these poems are, as I said and which was published ON THE PHYSICAL BOOK LIKE I AM SOMEONE IMPORTANT, (I am not, I just have a lot of random horny Yemeni male followers) “lithe little daggers” and you can read them and my full review here. You can also buy the HORNS anthology in which three of my dirty little pagespankings appear here.
You can listen to that episode above or here.
To read:
Going to start this out by memorializing a member of our extended family who passed: “Pop Pop” Pete Festa, father(-in-law) to my cousins Kim and Gregg. Pete, a truly decent man, possessed a warmth and a wink, a real charm, and I am sempiternally grateful for being someone who stepped up beyond any standardized expectation as a father to Kim and loving her as his own. May his memory be a blessing.
This got me a little emo!! (What hasn’t this week?) ‘Stereophonic’ Pays Tribute To Donald Sutherland Without Changing A Word Of Dialogue. Rest in peace to a very, very hot man!!! Go watch the 1992 camp masterpiece Buffy the Vampire Slayer! Enjoy the scene where Paul Reubens smacks someone with a French horn!
Finally read
’s report on Project 2025: “Conservatives Plan to Ban Abortion and Cut LGBT Rights Starting Next January (Project 2025’s 180-Day Playbook is a remarkably detailed guide to turning the United States into a fascist’s paradise.)”‘“They can keep dreaming': Gaza Sunbirds aim to offer hope for future of Para cycling in region,” by
.Click through, by
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I can’t believe it took 60 years, but Marilyn Monroe’s home has been deemed a historical landmark, protecting it from Satan’s little cockrests developers.
Tremendous cultural critique about Charli XCX and Lorde, from
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To watch:
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I needed this moment from Celine Dion like a fucking door in the Atlantic Ocean this week. Thank you, Celine.
The only version of the theme song I recognize. This healed me.
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My KING. KING.
This is literally just Simone, except she likes to be nakey:
This is literally just Lugosi:
Actually my babies:
Various and sundry:
Feeties:
From
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Get me. In a pool. Expeditiously.
Love you bitches,
TG
There are actually not words that I can summon to talk about what has befallen my last week-and-one-day, because the love and grief I feel would suckle the ink from the world’s every pen. The words would make it real. It can not be real. And so I won’t.
Wow thank you for sharing this beautiful piece! I love the animal pics, especially the gorgeous and darling little cats. The line about free Snapple and acting like Hemingway at work had me laughing. Listening to the golden girls remix made my day! Thank you for creating this artful piece, with excellent writing and a stunning collage of beautiful photos, videos, and music. Congratulations on the reading event coming up in July! You’re a wonderful writer, and it’s a gift to read your powerful stories.
Love the kitties!