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Lily Hirsch

@lilyehirsch.bsky.social

Writer (often about music). Author of Can’t Stop the Grrrls and Weird Al: Seriously. New one about Angela Lansbury out now! Sometimes tries to be funny.

1,101 Followers  |  960 Following  |  261 Posts  |  Joined: 26.11.2024  |  1.84

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Hi! I don’t know if I’d say “new” but I definitely write (stuff about music and silly short articles). Congrats on your series, I just checked it out!!!

02.12.2025 02:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I’m Your Mom, and I’m Planning Your Next Visit During Your Current Visit Get out next year’s calendar!

It’s great you’re here! But this visit can’t begin without confirming the details of your next visit.

By @lilyehirsch.bsky.social

medium.com/frazzled/im-...

28.11.2025 15:24 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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What Your Favorite Thanksgiving Food Says About Your Taste In Music Don’t question the science (it’s musicology)!

Happy Thanksgiving!

medium.com/slackjaw/wha...

27.11.2025 20:23 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I want to read a review of Bad Bunny's Global Appeal: P FKN R by Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau—any musicologists up for doing this review for me (reviews editor) and the Journal of Musicological Research?

21.11.2025 21:41 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

I learned last night that my review of Samantha Ege's wonderful book "Southside Impresarios" was published in The Journal of Musicological Research on Tuesday!

Many thanks to @lilyehirsch.bsky.social for editing generously and giving me the chance to write this!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

14.11.2025 15:25 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

My kids hate this one so much which weirdly pleases me!

12.11.2025 17:22 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A Haunted House For Parents Home eek Home!

I wanted to repost this one because it got boosted in Medium (such a big difference in terms of pay) but I somehow had the pay option unchecked so earned nothing. Let this be a cautionary tale for other writers—submit carefully! medium.com/slackjaw/a-h...

06.11.2025 15:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Film Noir Parenting It’s 3 o’clock, school pickup time, somewhere.

Finally, parents are represented in film noir!
medium.com/jane-austens...

06.11.2025 15:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Remember, the experience should make your friend feel terrible!” By @lilyehirsch.bsky.social

Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/how-to-tell-...

03.11.2025 15:59 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A Haunted House For Parents Home eek Home!

A silly one for Halloween!
medium.com/slackjaw/a-h...

30.10.2025 14:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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@lilyehirsch.bsky.social’s “Nowhere to Go but Up,” celebrates Angela Lansbury’s life through new research materials and interviews.

https://bit.ly/4nm4Lld

#BookSky #AngelaLansbury

29.10.2025 16:00 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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My book Nowhere to Go but Up: What Angela Lansbury Can Teach Us about Living a Big Life just arrived. So I had to unbox it at Jessica Fletcher’s house!!!!

28.10.2025 03:31 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sure, the news is bleak. But there’s something good today too: Weird Al’s birthday!

23.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Contributor: We still have a lot to learn from Angela Lansbury On the occasion of what would have been her 100th birthday, let's pause to appreciate her remarkable life and work.

In this @latimes.com op-ed, author of “Nowhere to Go but Up,” @lilyehirsch.bsky.social, discussed #AngelaLansbury’s career.

Read the full piece: https://lat.ms/4omNtoM

#BookSky

21.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Contributor: We still have a lot to learn from Angela Lansbury On the occasion of what would have been her 100th birthday, let's pause to appreciate her remarkable life and work.

Happy 100th to Angela Lansbury
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

16.10.2025 12:01 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I’ll be at a local high school this week, W-F, helping with some of the kids’ college essays. I helped last year and it was so inspiring—these kids have so much potential and possibility. I just hope certain adults get out of their way.

14.10.2025 17:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The History of Mystery Join us in the library for a murder mystery scavenger hunt! Guest author Lily Hirsch will speak about her new book Nowhere to Go but Up: What Angela Lansbury Can Teach Us about...

Another chance to wear my trench coat!!!
csub.libcal.com/event/154062...

12.10.2025 17:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Angela Lansbury Can Teach Us Quickly and easily listen to 1980s Now for free!

Here I am talking Lansbury on the 1980s Now podcast! How was I at the Lansbury UK conference yesterday and on a podcast today? Am I a time- and space-traveling witch? Secret: I did both from home. But also, yes.
player.captivate.fm/episode/653f...

10.10.2025 22:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Danielle Sarver Coombs is currently presenting, talking about the fitness video Positive Moves (amazing). Even better, she just mentioned her new puppy J. B. Fetcher!

09.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s 5 am pst (where I am) and I’m up and ready to present at the “Lansbury at 100” conference in the UK (over zoom). Thank goodness, given the theme, I didn’t have to do much to get ready wardrobe-wise—trench coat and done! Jessica Fletcher forever!

09.10.2025 12:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

I had a lot of fun with this one! Fairy tales for parents!

07.10.2025 19:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you! And happy birthday month to you!!!!

07.10.2025 01:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ooo, oo, October 1–good one! Thanks!

06.10.2025 14:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Additional book topic criterion: who would send me happy birthday wishes if I wrote a book about them (because Weird Al has done that every year on my birthday since I wrote Weird Al: Seriously)? (Amazing, I know!!!!)

06.10.2025 00:44 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I have an October birthday (today) and have written two books about people with October birthdays—both people who are iconic, musical, kind, and admirable in every way—Weird Al and Angela Lansbury. If I stick with the pattern, what’s my next book topic?

05.10.2025 17:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1
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New book’s out this month! Happy October!

03.10.2025 22:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Parents need all the applause, especially these days if they’re responsibly trying to help their kids through the chaos that is the world today. CLAP PLEASE!

02.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
"Weird" Al Yankovic - Amish Paradise (Parody of "Gangsta's Paradise" - Official Video)
YouTube video by alyankovicVEVO "Weird" Al Yankovic - Amish Paradise (Parody of "Gangsta's Paradise" - Official Video)

For some reason, I feel like posting this for some basic education about the Amish:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZ...

24.09.2025 01:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So many versions of the color black!

17.09.2025 21:16 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

battle doomscrolling by posting five small pleasures in life:

1. A sweet, old dog sleeping peacefully

2. Toast with butter

3. Rain out the window

4. A good laugh

5. Rustling leaves

16.09.2025 03:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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