Aimee Knight

to ableist autistiphobes, i say: i hate people when they're not polite

reading a lot of old profiles of david byrne, wishing i had a dollar for every time the journo makes a big to-do about the guy not making eye contact

YouTube video by EncourageTV Heaven (1987) Documentary | History | Pop Culture | Diane Keaton

Among Diane Keaton’s many accomplishments is her 1987 directorial debut: the experimental documentary Heaven, about how people envisage life after death. It’s wacky, erratic, at times uncomfortable, and streaming in full on yt. Vale, DK 🖤

When I was 12, I recorded my own audience participation track to cassette, which I’d then listen back to, taking notes on how to punch up my jokes and delivery.

someone should give me—an autistic aunty with laser focus and great taste—a Dear Abby-type advice column (Dear Autie? Autie Aunt?), in which I dole out my incomparable autistic wisdom and opinions, i am not even joking

so i also have a big, beautiful autism announcement: i saw CATS on the weekend, will probably go again

What a time to be pitching a hybrid memoir x travelogue that explores childhood, creativity, neurodiversity, education, nostalgia, and Jim Henson’s Muppets 👀

!!!

Kevin Kline stands in front of the White House, looking thoughtful, on the poster for the feature film DAVE.

I have an idea!

Planet Puppet | Mina Tavakoli Nowhere did I witness the guardsmen at the gates of the mind — those responsible for self-consciousness and self-doubt — more swiftly outsmarted, pacified, or outright killed than in that room. And th...

“Dicky’s daddy’s hand was shoved somewhere near Dicky’s brain stem. My throat was in my stomach. Their hearts were in vaudeville. But we were all in Kentucky.”

Mina Tavakoli at the ventriloquist convention is a new jewel in the crown of ‘curious outsider explores niche community’ journalism. Superb

John Woo’s Next Film Is ‘A Half-Musical’ With Sparks: ‘My First Movie Where I Don’t Need A Stuntman’ Legendary Hong Kong director teases his upcoming Sparks movie – expected to be X Crucior. Read more at Empire.

Every day must surely be a day closer to finally seeing this www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

PLEASE i will read every single one of them

BRO one squillion percent

when i worked at borders in 2011, a man once asked me if we stocked 'Don Quickoats'

The Brian Wilson Mixtape Across the 1960s, The Beach Boys were a certified hit machine, with sensitive perfectionist Brian – like a cross between Phil Spector and a teddy bear – at the helm. But Brian’s body of work is more…

Surf’s up (mhmm, mhmm, mhmm) 🌊 I wrote about five of my favourite Brian Wilson songs for The Big Issue AU (though I was too sad, at the time, to mention ‘Ding Dang’) 🥕

we did it! they were so beautiful! i think we accidentally saw two mating!

we’re just normal men

Comedian Nathan Fielder walks through a carpark in an oversized grey suit

On the side of a highway, Pee-wee Herman tries to hail a ride using a comically oversized thumb

Comedian John Mulaney sits in an upholstered armchair, grinning, on the set of his talk show Everybody’s Live! He wears a neat grey-blue suit.

Musician David Byrne dances on stage, wearing an oversized grey suit.

thinking a lot about these four, specifically

I’M SO PROUD OF HIM 😭

nathan fielder, drop your CAT-Q, brother

Uncredited script doctoring by Elaine May

Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it

Finally, some good news for once.

CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest 2024 - CRAFT CRAFT 2024 Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest November 13, 2024 – January 15, 2025 $3,400 Awarded Guest Judge: Donald Quist Thank you to all the writers who sent work to our 2024 Memoir Excerpt & Essay Co...

An extract from my Muppet autism memoir got longlisted for a prize! Will this rush give me the courage to gatecrash the Flinders Uni Film Society's screening of The Muppet Movie tonight? (Jim, grant me the serenity to accept the eye contact I cannot return.)

Looking for narrative nonfiction books with knock-out introductions. What do you recommend?

hacks is heat for girls

preparing to teach a group of teens how to pitch and write feature articles, and i'm weighing up whether, in the section about commissioning, it's worth completely bombing so long as i get to use this image

I love living with my gf because, when we wake up, I get to say stuff like, “My love, why is there a Tamagotchi instruction booklet in the bed?”

It is! One of my all-time favourites 🌕💛

It’s in Brooklyn Heights, NY (though I try to take a little bit of Nicolas Cage’s energy in that movie with me wherever I go)