Maria Dahvana Headley

Yeah, I get it - i'm not worried about it either. I think it looks cool! But I wasn't expecting such a rapturous shout of joy when I stepped into the sunlight today hahaha

This morning, my partner in crime was walking behind me, & suddenly became delighted by the various silver stripes in my mostly black hair. "Oooooh" he cried. "This is so beautiful! It's like a medieval tapestry with real silver threads!" I send this out to those feeling nervous about grey hair.

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

This book is excellent—smart and touching and melancholic, and every time I explain that to someone I realize I sound like a crazy person and I have to go back and re-read it to remind myself that I am 100% correct.

An absolutely luminous and beautiful book about a woman fucking a bear

Hahahaa I know this book! I love it!

This morning, showering without contact lenses, I used a new shower gel, which is dark green. Then I forgot. When I looked down, my limbs were striated dark green, as though someone had lurked me with Kryptonite. And reader: things in the world are so weird, that's what I concluded had happened.

Noooooo

LeGuin wrote about the desire for 'unassailable safety' as one of the deep roots of evil, and I think about that a lot.

Sitting in the Denver airport looking at a western sunset, & Florence & the Machine is blasting the song that goes "you make a fool of death with your beauty," & a guy gave Grimmy free icecream, & all this mostly makes up for the fact that a kid projectile vomited right beside us on the plane.

You are so lucky.

Ooh are you in chicago? Because I'm also gonna be there a lot in the spring! I'm doing like, a guest writer thing.

It's magic. It cures all ear worms.

Movin right along! Sing it! It's the antidote!

I'm keynoting this conference in Chicago in the fall, by the way! It's about medieval monsters! And i'm gonna be there in person, so if you're a medievalist/ a person who wants to meet me and talk about monsters, you should come: www.dom.edu/medieval-mon...

At least you forgot it for 40 years?

I don't know, never saw a real one. But the ad! It stays with me. Forever.

You are the luckiest one of our whole generation.

There's nothing else like it. It's the most earworm thing that has ever existed. But yeah, who made it!!

I know, it's the worst thing. Like 40 years have passed since I first learned of that little doll companion, and the curse is still as strong as it was the first time I heard it.

This is the antidote. It works. I've tried a lot of things over the years and this is the only one.

Go to the next posts - I offer an antidote.

You are very lucky: kid sister is in a minor key, and it will end you

It's basically a mithridatum for those theme songs and lots of other earworms too. But you have to do the hand motions.

I just activated like a sleeper agent

No, I had to try a method of exorcism. It came on in my brain and it wasn't going away.

Just fyi; the only cure I've ever found for My Buddy and Kid Sister is Movin Right Along, Kermit and Fozzie, and you have to sing it loud and make hand gestures like you're driving a car and honking the horn a lot.

Kid Sister is worse, because the key changes.

I'm so sorry gen x and early millennial fellow travelers. Speaking the name of My Buddy is the only magic spell that works instantly and requires no ingredients.

I know, I did a criminal thing mentioning the name. It's the closest thing to dark magic I know.