Gillian Gaar

@gilliangaarwriter.bsky.social Good evening, and here’s why an article you wrote 31 years ago is all the rage:

Good gravy!

Sorry but this did make me laugh

The wonderful David Horsey on the mood of Seattle voters today:

Blue graphic with white and yellow text: "Jails and prisons ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. Incarceration shouldn't strip us of our right to read." Red and yellow tinted photos of a jail cell and a stack of books in the bottom right.

It's Prison Banned Books Week — a week dedicated to shining a light on the widespread denial of incarcerated people's freedom to read.

We all have a First Amendment right to read and receive information, in and out of prison. Censorship has no place in a democracy.

Halloween Spooktacular: Vintage records to shiver by Reissued on vinyl (mostly) to help you celebrate this year's season of the witch in fine style.

Lotsa Halloween-themed music! www.goldminemag.com/collector-re...

The Song and Dance Man Who Brought Dr. Frank-N-Furter and Pennywise to Life - Book and Film Globe As Tim Curry is the first to admit, his best known alter-ego, the inimitable Dr. Frank-N-Furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, would have no problem

Yes, I'm still writing: bookandfilmglobe.com/books/the-so...

Federal Troops Arrive in Portland and Immediately Form Bands Military personnel were seen trading in automatic weapons for mandolins and zithers.

www.borowitzreport.com/p/federal-tr...

The Iron Fist in the Velvet Glove - Book and Film Globe For decades, young women around the world dreamed of being Elvis Presley’s Chosen One: his bride, walking by his side, forever in love. In her 1985 memoir

Well, I do write about other things than Elvis...but here is another Elvis-related piece! I enjoyed reading #PriscillaPresley's new memoir and writing about it for #BookAndFilmGlobe: bookandfilmglobe.com/books/the-ir...

Writing about Elvis...note that my byline comes lower down in the story, underneath the album's title: www.goldminemag.com/reviews/box-...

Vaccines don’t prevent infection. Vaccines are meant to produce immunological memory and antibody production, so that when you get infected, your immune system can rapidly respond to eliminate the pathogen and prevent serious complications, including death.

Vaccines don’t cause autism!

Today’s message for the world 💙

Elvis and the Real Colonel Parker - Book and Film Globe The standard view of Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s manager, is that he was a shyster, a conniving conman who manipulated Presley as he saw fit,

I spoke with #PeterGuralnick about his book #TheColonelAndTheKing for #BookAndFilmGlobe bookandfilmglobe.com/books/the-re... #Elvis #ElvisPresley #ColTomParker

Give Yourself Over to Absolute Pleasure. - Book and Film Globe Anti — Say it! — pation! The way you beat the other girls — With a whip! A toast! — Cue the mass tossing of bread slices. For better or worse, The Rocky

I wrote about #TheRockyHorrorPictureShow again! And Linus O'Brien (son of Rocky creator Richard O'Brien; he's done a new doc about the film) liked it (see reply below). @bookandfilmglobe.bsky.social bookandfilmglobe.com/film/give-yo...

Elvis and the Real Colonel Parker - Book and Film Globe The standard view of Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s manager, is that he was a shyster, a conniving conman who manipulated Presley as he saw fit,

I spoke with #PeterGuralnick about his book #TheColonelAndTheKing for #BookAndFilmGlobe bookandfilmglobe.com/books/the-re... #Elvis #ElvisPresley #ColTomParker

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The business I use for my mail had a fire this week. They could use some help getting back to business! gofund.me/c2e02711

My sentiments exactly!

This Fourth of July, the world declares its independence from America | Stephen Marche America is turning away from itself, and the rest of the world must follow

www.theguardian.com/us-news/comm...

Who Are the Killers in 'Murderland'? - Book and Film Globe What makes a killer? Could it be — something in the air? That’s the premise of Caroline Fraser’s (author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Prairie Fires: The

One more time...my review of #Murderland: bookandfilmglobe.com/nonfiction/w...

Who Are the Killers in 'Murderland'? - Book and Film Globe What makes a killer? Could it be — something in the air? That’s the premise of Caroline Fraser’s (author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Prairie Fires: The

My review of #Murderland on #BookAndFilmGlobe: bookandfilmglobe.com/nonfiction/w...

Tim Walz eulogizes slain lawmaker as a historic Minnesotan — and friend After a hug with Kamala Harris, Gov. Tim Walz eulogized slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.”

It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Well, I did my list. Difficult, as there were so many movies I hadn't seen. Surprised to see Lord of the Rings on so many lists.

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

It does not get any more backwards than Republicans pushing rural hospitals to closure through partisan health care cuts... to then try to keep those hospitals open by creating a new fund to counteract their own policies.
 
There's a simpler solution. Vote NO on the entire bill.

I believe at present they are only open on the weekends.

As a brutal heat wave overtakes much of the country, almost every single state lacks universal air conditioning in their prisons, where temperatures can exceed 120 degrees.

This isn’t an issue of comfort or luxury — it's an issue of life or death for many incarcerated people.

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