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The family of mice singing “No cheeses for us meeces” in the opening song (“Scrooge”) of THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992), a movie that I saw in the theater at age 10 and which immediately became a formative movie and deeply held family favorite, its annual viewing soon becoming a family tradition, and which has always been incredibly dear to me, even though I consider myself only an average enthusiast when it comes to the Muppets (I grew up with them and still love them with that warm childhood purity but I am not at Disney-Adult-levels of obsession or passionate opinion—but I will say that THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL is one of the best adaptations of Dickens’s story in the entire history of cinema, and no one since ’92 has come remotely close), and which I have always found incredibly moving and beautiful and tragic and redemptive, and which always makes me cry quietly during several key scenes; it is one of my strongest links to childhood memory.

When they ask me what radicalized me

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

It’s sweet potato casserole with scorched earth topping

The only flavor on that dinner table is the scented candle

A golden brown loaf of cheesecake inside a brown parchment paper sling, cooling on a rack

I tinkered with a recipe for this last night (and flooded my food processor along the way)

Can’t wait to try your version. You’ve never steered me wrong!

I’ve watched this four times

sorry I can’t come I hate all my clothes

I’ve been missing so much and I didn’t even know. Thank you Nick

Pop culture retellings of Hamlet are fair game

Saying what is > saying what isn’t, every time

We could really use more less.

West Quoddy?

These are adorable!

The number of Shakers in the U.S. rises to 3 A new person has joined the last active Shaker community in the U.S, bringing the Christian, communal, and celibate group to a total of three. They once numbered in the thousands.

new Shaker

New Shaker

NEW SHAKER

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The hornpipe he’s playing is titled The Pumpkin’s Fancy. A nice touch

Girl, they’re treading all over you

The watercolor cover version of Flannery O’Connor’s Everything That Rises Must Converge

me: i will rest today
me, later: i am anxious why am i not doing things

The sky after a July storm. Landscape-oriented. Bottom third, deep green trees and rolling blue hills. Middle third, clouds crashing like waves on the shore. Top third, pale warm blue sunset sky.

A sign of a healthy intellectual movement is when a week later you are still talking about something that didn’t happen

i enjoy seeing people i care about, especially when i haven’t seen them in a while

i just despise that moment when they start asking rude, insensitive questions like “so how are things” and “what have you been up to” like ok first of all how dare you

Amanda Doyle’s July 4 pep talk is inspiring. You can find it here: wecandohardthingspodcast.com

A diseased and impoverished nation is easier to control.

I love that they list “deep well water” as an ingredient

they should make a way out other than through

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Portrait-oriented. Top third is blue sky with white fluffy clouds and green trees, bottom two thirds is flatweed, a yellow flower, as far as the eye can see