Howl
A lunatic compendium
In anticipation of the upcoming Beaver Moon, I find the women in the werewolf mythologies.
Shout out to the Lunatics!
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/howl
#radicalleftlunatic #lunatic #fullmoon #halloween #werewolf #werewomen #beavermoon #lunar
01.11.2025 12:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Tarry
Linger here with me
A sweet romantic post! From me? And around Halloween? It must be the hormones.
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/tarry
#tarrytown #sleepyhollow #history #washingtonirving #halloween #showandtell #stories #legendofsleepyhollow
26.10.2025 13:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Playing Dead
"The back door of the world"
Today I write about animals (and human animals) playing dead in the face of threat, while so many of us activate to do something entirely different and take to the streets. #nokings #resist #Indivisible
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/playing-dead
18.10.2025 16:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Brains! Part 2
How would you like that sliced?
Let's tour some of the world's preserved post-mortem brains, because...intelligence matters.
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/brains-par...
#brains #einstein #aaronhernandez #yale #cornell #postmortem #collections #cte
11.10.2025 11:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
When it feels like the end times, cower in your corner and cry, or... come together and share the weird stories and little trinkets that bring us joy.
bit.ly/sleepyhollow... COMING SOON to the Hollow!
#sleepyhollow #storytelling #event #datenight #westchester #hudsonvalley #halloween #showandtell
09.10.2025 00:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Brains!
Going Presi-mental in a two part series
Ok, I aim to delight and disgust so hopefully this delivers. Also my attempt to mindmap Trump's head. Good luck with that! Bon Voyage!
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/brains
#neuroscience #brains #mindmap #mole #mental #nokings
04.10.2025 13:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Fear of Fear
Trigger alert!
What are you afraid of? It's scary how once you start making that list, it's hard to stop.
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/fear-of-fear
#phobia #trypophobia #agoraphobia #americanhorrorstory #cult #fear #afraid #death
27.09.2025 13:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Horsemanning
And other nouns that become verbs
What we need now is more comedy, a Halloween season edition.
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/horsemanning
#colbert #kimmel #cancelculture #comedy #horsemanning #halloween #sleepyhollow #headlesshorseman #headless
20.09.2025 12:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Dept of War
Fight for the right for peaceful protest
Do you have any fight left in you? Time to take to the streets. sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/dept-of-war
#resist @indivisible.org
13.09.2025 12:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Death by Selfie
The falls of Kaaterskill
The alarming phenomenon of dying from an extreme attempt at selfie. Was the picture worth it? The likes?
Are you afraid of heights? You should be!
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/death-by-s...
#selfie #death #kaaterskill #catskills #falls
06.09.2025 11:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Alien Upgrade
Beam up your homemakers!
What does it take to make your space your own? open.substack.com/pub/sleepyho... #alien #homemaker #housewife #diy
30.08.2025 14:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
On the Face of Things
Life is a pattern and the pattern creeps
Do you see dead people? sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/on-the-fac...
#shapes #patterns #clouds #faces #manonmoon #mars
23.08.2025 10:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Injected Lips = Mega Trucks
The supersizing of American gender
As the lips and boobs get bigger, so too do the pickup trucks...
What's going on with gender?
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/injected-l...
#gender #surgery #barbie #trucks #MAGA #wtf
16.08.2025 11:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Blue Light District
Sleepless in Cyberville
Blue Sky peeps, feeling blue? sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/blue-light...
#cybersick #bluelight #sleepless #screen #addiction
11.08.2025 23:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The Villages
Some kind of heaven?
What's your ideal retirement look like? Escapism, return or something unimaginable? sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/the-villages
#retirement #florida #adultdisney #thevillages #heaven
02.08.2025 11:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I'm Moving to the Cloud
An accumulation of cumulus
For the BlueSky crowd, muggy day musings on these beautiful clouds - sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/moving-to-...
#clouds #shape #cloudappreciation #patterns #bluesky #blueskythinking @cloudappreciater.bsky.social
26.07.2025 11:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Γ©
Little Alien, Big Indian
I have an alien! But he's not mine to keep.
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/e
#aliens #bigindian #extraterrestrial #pinebush
21.07.2025 12:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Repair
"I alone can(not) fix it"
Riffing on a Repair theme for my birthday week. We all need some TLC. sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/repair
12.07.2025 11:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
When the Emperor Has No Clothes
And still the cult won't crack
How does someone with such a shit personality create a Cult of Personality? And happy, ehhh, Independence Day?
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/when-the-e...
#cultofpersonality #authoritarianism #cultleader #cult #psychology #independenceday #fourthofjuly
04.07.2025 14:54 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Eremition
I'm sitting this presidency out
How creating things of beauty, or even remembering beauty, can also be valuable acts of resistance.
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/eremition
#protest #whatartcando #fight #march #resist #beauty
28.06.2025 12:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Heartwood
Scratching the surface, part 2
Going deeper into the Hidden Life of Trees, so much more complicated and full of feeling than you might imagine:
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/heartwood
#trees #hiddenlifeoftrees
21.06.2025 11:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
amazing likeness! the more clowny the more realistic
14.06.2025 10:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
yup you're onto me - eventually ;)
14.06.2025 10:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Touchtree
Meet Tessitura
If you live near here, you know this grand tree. If you don't, come meet Sleepy Hollow's finest weeping beech.
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/touch-tree
#trees #community #environment #forestbathing
14.06.2025 10:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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11.06.2025 14:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Mike Drop
I am not a hobnobber
Today seems like a fine time to share my hilariously awful Mike Myers encounter 20ish yrs ago at the artsy edge of lunacy & East Williamsburg.
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/mike-drop
#austinpowers #drevil #SNL #brooklyn #mikemyers #parkerposey #cigarettesaftersex @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social
07.06.2025 14:18 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Define Artificial
AI is my fake BF Part 2
Part 1 of my deep dive into AI was defining Intelligence. Will AI ever really be intelligent? Are we the standard?
Part 2 - what is artificial really? Might we be?
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/define-art...
#artificialintelligence #AI #superintelligence #singularity #computers #cybersickness
31.05.2025 11:40 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Define Intelligence
AI is my dumb BF
It's a good idea to check in on AI every so now and again to see if the Gremlins have been overwatered.
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/define-int...
#AI #artificialintelligence #superintelligence #singularity #generalizedintelligence #gremlins #mogwai #intelligencetest #IQ
25.05.2025 18:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Birdbrain
Busybodies of the animal kingdom and their diets
Hummingbirds have to eat more than most anything in the animal kingdom but, these tiny fitful beauties can also be quite vicious.
Fun facts & massive amounts of food on the menu:
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/birdbrain
#diet #rawfood #vegan #audubon #birdbrain #busybody #animals #whale #cow
17.05.2025 11:33 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Red Herring
Is not an endangered species
I guess you could say one of my hobbies is chasing down the meaning of animal expressions.
sleepyhollowink.substack.com/p/red-herring
#redherring #hitchcock #psycho #gonegirl #andthentherewerenone
10.05.2025 11:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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