Growing up a sheltered Christian '80s kid trying to absorb pop culture through social osmosis. Just like osmosis, it doesn’t work. The cool never sticks. Here’s a story about The Karate Kid & my lifelong plight as the weird outsider who could never quite fake it. #Exvangelical #KarateKid #1980s

10.08.2025 18:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Technically, This Is Rest Vacation planning always seems to start the same way: you get bored with your couch.

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“The Righteous Gemstones” Guide to Real Church Drama Anyone else mourning the end of HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones?

I couldn’t find awell-documented breakdown of how HBO's "The Righteous Gemstones" is basically every Sunday morning in America, so I made one myself.

You’re welcome.

And I’m sorry.

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21.05.2025 14:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I Saw Amy Poehler and Tina Fey Live, and All I Got Was an Existential Debt Spiral My partner and I feel obligated to see any half-famous artist—musician, comic, or rogue puppeteer—who’s brave enough to say, “Hey, maybe America shouldn’t be such a dick all the time,” and have the ga...

Just wrote about E and I's experience catching Amy Poehler and Tina Fey's "Restless Leg Tour" last weekend. open.substack.com/pub/onwardna...

06.04.2025 16:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

About Republicans About Republicans -- As we’ve now said on our first-ever About Us page on our website, there’s something unique about humankind’s relationship with spices that time and again have caused spices to be...

My partner was revisiting the website of a spice co. she’s ordered from before, when she noticed a tab at the top titled “About Republicans.” You should check it out—and consider making a switch for your next spice haul: www.penzeys.com/shop/about-r...

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