Ian Brodie

Not that anybody’s asking, but The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie where everyone’s a Muppet except for Florence Pugh.

Kate Beaton’s “A Murder Mystery” Take a closer look at the cover of the annual Cartoons & Puzzles Issue.

Hey! I have a New Yorker cover today! Glad to have the opportunity to do a fun issue, the annual games and puzzle issue www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...

Final boost for our panel at SIEF: deadline is tomorrow!

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Given that the first parking meter wasn’t installed in England until 1957, “Lovely Rita, Meter Maid” was about someone with a reasonably brand new, unprecedented job description. #ResearchingParkingMeterHistory #UnderusedHashtags

We’ve been podcasting for nearly a year now & it feels like we’re reaching more widely -Ian’s a top bloke -& also a Canadian comedy & folklore academic. *Suddenly awestruck by technology*

Had quite a few people saying it’s opening a window on neurodivergent experience. Heartening.

I’ve been catching up on Nic King and @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social ‘s “Neurotypicals Don’t Juggle Chainsaws” podcast and it is equal parts informative and delightful. As basically neurotypical, it’s opening up a lot of ideas to me.

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Donate to The Thyla-Zine: a zine of Thylacines, legend, and folklore, organized by Daisy Ahlstone This zine is about how the thylacine’s story is told and reto… Daisy Ahlstone needs your support for The Thyla-Zine: a zine of Thylacines, legend, and folklore

Bestie @thylacinedreamer.bsky.social is doing a thing, so go support them. gofund.me/ff0871ad

Ugh As If! Ugh As If! uncovers the complex layers beneath the glossy surface of the 1995 classic film Clueless. Litt investigates not just the Austen satire b...

Clueless meets the brilliance of bestie Veronica.

99% Invisible 99% Invisible with Roman Mars is a tiny radio show about design, architecture & the ninety-nine percent invisible activity that shapes our world.

Today is a great day to start or get back into 99% Invisible. It's a show about the objects and systems we design and what these things say about us and our values.

Start with any episode! Jump around! Pick one about something you're into. Find one about something you're not

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I know that plants provide things that can be added to cocktails or salads: after that, it is mystery.

I’m sorry about your friend. I loved his work.

Since I have a whole lotta people following (more than I warrant, surely), they shall be rewarded with a picture of this cool… cactus?

CFP now open for this lonely online conference; I’m giving a keynote type thing, so yay!

A vast improvement could be had in the world if every busker, girl singer, and bar band everywhere added “(Billy) Don’t Lose My Number” to their active repertoire.

Since we’re here, a reminder about our panel at SIEF in Aberdeen (building off our AFS session in Albuquerque).

I feel that, had it been more successful, Frankenstein would have been totally cool with the eponym: you never hear “Actually, Ford was the engineer: you mean a Ford motorcar,” or “Sandwich was the creator: you mean Sandwich’s foodheap.”

Pretend News, False News, Fake News: The Onion as Put-On, Prank, and Legend Abstract. The Onion parodies the rhetorical strategies of local, national, and tabloid newspapers. As its mediation shifted from newsprint to website and ultimately to social media, the cues suggestin...

To tie myself to the news of @theonion.com buying Infowars, some transparent self-promotion.

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#askafolklorist

This thing has real MeWe energy. But I’m here.