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Yes - but also please tell me about the restaurant food you ate with your lost loves that still haunt you.

every time I learn this particular cardinal’s name I manage to forget it again, and then eventually I am reintroduced, like a newborn baby, to the wonder of it all

michelle williams meeting michelle williams is so important to me as a fan of michelle williams and michelle williams

Takeaway Q&A: Food Chats with Alissa Nutting Reese's White Creme Peanut Butter Tree, hallowed be thy name. 🙏

New Q&A! This week on Gay Takeaway I interview the amazing author and screenwriter @alissanutting.bsky.social about Diet Coke, Reese’s holiday shapes, and her current favorite Taco Bell order (hint: witch cauldron). Eat up cuties! 🥤

Takeaway Q&A: Food chats with Ali Liebegott Turn left at the ghost of 1,000 Dunkin's. ☕️

Last week I talked with the one and only Ali Liebegott about all the good things in life - hot dogs, dunkins, and donuts. Check it out! 🌭

Takeaway Q&A: Pizza Party with Shelley Gaske 🍕 Deadass sigma Stuffed Crust.

Omg Friday night pizza night with the incomparable @hishelley.bsky.social!

Which pizza is actually soup?
Read on! 🍕🥕

Takeaway Q&A: Nachos Party with Elaina Ellis Nacho Business.

Last week I chatted with the amazing writer and founder of @generouspress.bsky.social, Elaina Ellis, all about the beloved art form known as nachos. Supreme! 🧀

Takeaway Q&A: Food Chats with Katie Okamoto Bring on the butters!

Last week Gay Takeaway talked with the phenomenal @kokamoto.bsky.social about 🧈, 🍰, and 🍭!!

Also check out her Substack Snack Chat, it’s one of my faves! katieokamoto.substack.com

Takeaway Q&A: Ice Cream Social with Kristin Tucker 🍦 We all scream for clown sundaes.

It’s all about ice cream this week at Gay Takeaway! The best food group. 🎂

Oh no. I don’t know what happens either so definitely not googling the lyrics!! 😅

I used to work at a candy store when I was in college! Chocolate was never reliable in its freshness for suuuure.

I have a secret though. I love candy corn. It was the one candy I never got sick of when I worked there. 🫠

Never!! 🧸

Gay Takeaway Q&A: Candy Spectacular with Sarah Perry Praise be to our bisexual lord and savior Almond Joy/Mounds! 🙏

It’s Candyland at Gay Takeaway this week! Author Sarah Perry and I talk about candy jingles, the best treat while driving, and what makes candy essentially queer. Her forthcoming book all about candy, Sweet Nothings, is out Feb 4th! 🍬

Only 50 years late

48 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2025 - Electric Literature Books by Zora Neale Hurston, Laila Lalami, Andrea Long Chu, Angela Flournoy, and EL's own Denne Michele Norris are among the most anticipated

some forthcoming 2025 books by women of color I’m excited about!!!

in this piece out today in @electriclit.bsky.social 🖤

electricliterature.com/48-books-by-...

Takeaway Q&A: Food Chats with Katie Lee Ellison Much Ado About Shrimp 🍤

Last week on Gay Takeaway we interviewed the phenomenal Katie Lee Ellison! We chatted hot dogs, shrimp, and the amazing local restaurants and event spaces that have partnered with Nonfiction for No Reason. More national and international events planned in 2025! katieleeellison.com/nonfiction-f...

Gay Takeaway Q&A: Food Chats with Makenna O'Keeffe Let’s time travel for some clementine pie.

New year, new pies! Check out this week’s episode of Gay Takeaway - featuring Makenna O’Keeffee who designed our adorable key lime pie logo! 🥧

Gay Takeaway Q&A: Food Chats with Kristen Arnett Say no to BOGO bananas.

Oranges. Prime Rib potato chips. Vienneta. It’s all here! Check out the last Gay Takeaway interview of the year, featuring the phenomenal @kristenarnett.bsky.social!

I think about the story where the cowboy tries candy and spits it out, saying “too much taste” all the time! 🥹

There is legitimately nothing I hate more than wrapping presents. I am so phenomenally bad at it I end up panicking and sweating. Is this some built-in people pleasing boiling point, or a lack of my brain fundamentally being unable to interpret 3d space? Is anyone else cursed with this affliction? 🫠

Gay Takeaway: Best of 2024 edition! Pepto Skittles how could you?

Favorites of 2024! What I wouldn’t give for some coffee soft serve to go with the midnight rainstorm that is 4pm in Seattle. 🍦

Oh also I grew up on Purgatory Road in Middletown, RI. Up the street was the intersection of Purgatory Road and Paradise Road. I went there a lot to stare at the road signs and curse Rhode Island.

😱😱😱
@brittashley.bsky.social and I walked to Baby Island Beach (aka BIB) once but the tide was too high to try to walk to the island.Though I wouldn’t have. Because babies. Also there were warnings about being sucked up into the sand. NBD.

In Deception Bay there’s an island called Baby Island. Sirs. How bad did those babies deceive you??

i should be able to give the guy at the pizza slice store a dollar and have him pick out the right slice for me based on my vibes

I mean why not Sufjan too in three part harmony. 🎶

What we both need and deserve is for either Mitski or Jason Isbell to write a two-act romantic operetta about the United Healthcare assassin

Takeaway Q&A: Pancake Special with Aaron Lanou 🥞 Beware the pancake fight-or-flight growl!

This week on Gay Takeaway, @aaronlanou.bsky.social and I dig into on all things pancakes! Pure maple syrup goodness.
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The PNW usually doesn’t have the delicacies that are the special flavored Polars. I am bereft! 🥀

A cute dog looking out a window at the water

At a cabin on Whidbey this week watching the water with Waffles and @brittashley.bsky.social. Waffles says hi and wants me to tell you she’s seen three eagles!