Jesse Doogan

The library sending their overdue notices out on Sunday mornings is a violation of my religious rights

Instagram has put me in a very specific demographic and it is wild over here

“So good I know I won’t be waiting for Friday to make these!” is the new “remember you are dust”

Like, is Gorton Seafood specifically catering to a Lent-observing audience or is this person incidentally Catholic and decided to take that angle?

Who will write me 10,000 words on Lenten spon con

perfect movie

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

Okay I absolutely thought George was a girl and the illustration was a girl with black hair and a black skirt falling and as soon as he became a man I lost interest

It was so fun

get rid of him right away

oh for sure when the blood-sucking lawyer was in the bathroom stall

Getting the big ones out of the way: yes, it is dinosaurs and yes, they eat SEVERAL guys

I have just seen Jurassic Park in the theater and for the first time, AMA

THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR

you live in a boxcar *one time* and they call you "the boxcar children" forever

Jam in a latte is the best move

I have not and this is quite important to me

If Carly Rae Jepsen has no fans, I am dead, but perhaps the “Call Me Maybe - Manhattan Clique Remix” that is essentially only the refrain “call me maybe” over 2012 dance beats for five minutes straight should be banned from whatever music services play in MRI machines

I only use notepad when I absolutely need clean text with nothing weird happening. Why did they add the weird thing????

“Splurging on rotisserie chicken” when they are almost always significantly cheaper than a raw whole chicken you make yourself.

“Surely it is safe to see Hamnet and then H is for Hawk next week!” But no. I cried over Hamnet bird and now I can’t cry with H is for Hawk bird.

It has Claire Foy in it! It was out for approximately a week and I saw another movie in that week and now what will I do????

I am devastated to learn that I have missed H IS FOR HAWK in theaters. Gonna adopt a bird to deal with this grief.

I saw him in Chicago on Friday and he is perfect.

Il est oraaaaaaaaaaaange

I hope they took some time to gaze in wonder at the Tiffany ceiling but it doesn’t seem to be included on their handwritten schedule

Teens accused in downtown Macy's burglary, drawing map to hide in store after it closed: Sheriff Two teens are accused in a downtown Chicago Macy's burglary by hiding in the Loop store after it closed to steal merchandise. The sheriff's department says the pair had even drawn a map of the store.

The children long for The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

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I’ve Been Laid Off. I’m Not Done. After 20 years at The Washington Post, I’m suddenly on my own — and still writing about books.

Ron Charles is my all-time favorite book critic. For several years, I subscribed to this newspapers ONLY to read his reviews. What a sad and absolutely infuriating day.

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Shutting down (the stellar) books coverage at WaPo is a real telling move when your owner is literally Jeff Bezos