Cait Brennan

a stack of cassette tapes from the 1990s

In this week's newsletter, I share a playlist full of dreamy pop, talk about long-ago mall record stores and share a bit about my "Your Ghost" @marchxness.bsky.social essay. (This photo represents a small portion of my 1990s-bought tape collection.) anniezaleski.substack.com/p/you-were-d...

I had one dream in this life and it was to become Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas. This is devastating. I ask for privacy at this difficult time.

Definitely a sense of pride in his work in those post-statue pics. "Those tacky abominations, shattered at last. I am a good cat, and a pretty cat. And a cat with taste."

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I realized some important stuff last year and it changed (restored?) my trajectory as an artist. I wrote about it here:
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Very excited to hear this album--excellent interview here!

A Volkswagen Beetle, customized with a Rolls Royce style front end by George Barris, with a custom paint job celebrating Capitol Recording Artists (the) Raspberries. If I win the lottery you'll see a replica in my driveway at some point. Oh also there are a couple of clearly borderline-legal young models leaning on it seductively.

I'll race them in the Raspberries Rolls

A woman with thick curly hair and dark lipstick stares into the camera. She wears wire-rimmed glasses, a maroon cardigan, black leotard, and an old-fashioned Western string tie with a yellow stone.

ALBUM REVIEW: Bee Delores proclaims Wren Carpenter "a beautiful force of nature" on their EP of sparkling demos Charmed, I'm Sure.

(Editor's note: Wren is the kind of extremely talented gem of an artist I do this work for.)

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When Life Gave Her Ageism, She Created Oldster

Had the good fortune to talk a bit about Oldster Magazine with Kasia Pilat at The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/s...

The first dates of the Programme 4 tour are in! Screenings, guest stars, music, comedy--lots of fun, with many more dates/venues coming soon. What better time to grab some like-minded friends and escape to a better, weirder world?

There is far too much pressure to live your best life these days. Leave me alone and let me live my most middling life in peace, with the colourful miscellany of highs and lows that naturally entails.

I'd always hoped her name was an intentional homage to Harry. Even if it wasn't, I'm going to stubbornly believe it was.

If you see this, post a Star Trek

PUDDYSTICKS - American Cinematheque

L.A.: @amcinematheque.bsky.social screening of Megan Seely's brilliant PUDDYSTICKS, a comedy about navigating trauma and a movie I'm proud to be in: Wed March 18th, 9:30 pm, Los Feliz 3. Get in on this future cult classic on the ground floor!
www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...

YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man (Official Live in London 2008)

Forty years later the klezmer-noir of Leonard Cohen’s ‘I’m Your Man’ LP remains the most radically successful reinvention of any of the major songwriters from the 1960’s. A moral and geopolitical hellscape staged as Vegas review. One part Rat Pack, one part Leviticus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZOT...

A screenshot of Rachel Dratch from SNL. She's a white woman with short dark hair and blue eyes, and she's making an awkward expression that implies, "Sorry I have to tell you this and ruin your good time. But also I'm kind of not sorry about it." I've added a subtitle that reads, "That's AI."

an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

It's terrifying, and all I can do is lay here at 2am staring at the ceiling wondering when my state's next.

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment.

If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

Yeah, the later seasons are in color. Apparently ran for six seasons!

I like The Saint. It's not gonna put Danger Man/Secret Agent out of business but Moore is very charming, the scripts are mostly pretty tight & there are lots of fun guest stars.

If he didn't do it on a kitchen table, Schumer doesn't care.

Kansas is criminalizing the existence of trans people

I need journalists to care about this

Kansas is forcing trans people out of public life

I need journalists to care about this

Kansas is making it impossible for trans people to exist in the most fundamental ways

I need journalists to care

Break it, Huey! I'm still struggling with the fact that they named it "Manus".

Perfect!!

I feel like Mannix and Cooper would have worked well together.

11:30am: Rockford enters the town of Twin Peaks, rekindles old romance with Peggy Lipton, socks Bob in jaw; 4:30pm, Palmer murder solved, Angel Martin swindles deed to the Black Lodge.

All detectives on deck

Joe Mannix does the Agent Cooper arriving in Twin Peaks thing.

Alternate selection deemed too obscure for modern audiences

Agent Cooper's beloved "entering the town of Twin Peaks" meme, ruined by an image of Knight Rider saying the thing.

It is knightriding again

"Sammy and Company" is a must. "The Name of the Game" looks interesting (great cast!) and "It Takes a Thief" is always breezy spy fun.

The final scene of Blake's 7, in which (spoiler alert--you've had 45 years) the entire crew is (evidently) slaughtered by Space ICE, leaving only Ker Avon alive, hopelessly surrounded by fascist assholes, surely within seconds of death, yet unbowed, raising gun slowly but defiantly, blaze of glory or nothing, that's how it has to be. "Besides, they can't kill me off now, Servalan isn't even in this one. Yes, it's inevitable, I'll get out of this, probability be damned..." For some reason in this picture Avon's white collar looks like he's wearing a teensy white bikini top. Might just be the edibles kicking in.

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