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  • This piece about WandaVision & fan theories has me musing on the difference between trying to figure out who will make a cameo and, say, analyzing the cinematography in Veronica Mars to see how it draws on the visual language of noir. via Elizabeth Minkel. πŸ“Ί

    β†’ 12:19 PM, Mar 4
  • I remember when MCU fans were clamoring for WandaVision to reveal its big bad already & Ashley Esqueda said “maybe grief is enough” & it turns out it totally is. πŸ“Ί

    β†’ 7:35 AM, Mar 3
  • Check out Riana Mckeith’s period-appropriate cartoon homages to WandaVision. So great! It will surprise no one that the 80s one is my fave. (via kottke.org) πŸ“Ί

    β†’ 10:05 AM, Mar 2
  • What I’m learning from the MCU (caught up on WandaVision & currently watching Agents of SHIELD 3x15) is that everyone with a PhD in the natural sciences is good at hacking and creating algorithms. Scientists, is this true? πŸ“ΊπŸΏ

    β†’ 1:53 PM, Mar 1
  • The latest episode of WandaVision has given me a new cosplay goal… πŸ“Ί

    β†’ 1:35 PM, Feb 19
  • Give Kathryn Hahn an Emmy. πŸ“Ί

    β†’ 1:29 PM, Feb 19
  • Every once in a while early Sesame Street drops in a random Carol Burnett segment and it brings me such joy. πŸ“Ί

    β†’ 12:03 PM, Feb 5
  • πŸ“Ί Ugh, Dr. Pulaski is the worst. πŸ––

    β†’ 10:23 PM, Jan 23
  • πŸ”– The Deep Sadness of Marvel’s WandaVision: This is the kind of WandaVision thinkpiece I want. πŸ“Ί

    β†’ 9:06 PM, Jan 19
  • πŸ“Ί I know the consensus is that Season 1 of Star Trek: The Next Generation is Not Good, but I find a lot in it to love. Q! The beginning of Data’s obsession with Sherlock Holmes! Dixon Hill! Lore & the crystalline entity! The introduction of the Borg! Geordi being hilarious! β™₯οΈπŸ––

    β†’ 4:35 AM, Jan 15
  • πŸ“Ί Me, a former educator, watching the new Saved by the Bell: This is really good, but I feel like with a doctorate, it makes more sense for Jessie to be a school psychologist than a counselor.

    β†’ 2:17 PM, Jan 10
  • πŸ“Ί I’ve been watching Bridgerton & aside from the obvious fact that Lady Danbury & Eloise are the best, my biggest takeaway is that I really need to up my velvet coat game.

    β†’ 4:03 PM, Jan 8
  • Kimberly Hirsh Presents: Things of Bronze Episode 3 - Teacher's Pet

    It’s here! The long-awaited all-librarian episode of my Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast! Transcript & show notes forthcoming.

    β†’ 3:50 AM, Nov 10
  • Kimberly Hirsh Presents: Things of Bronze - Witch

    I’m experimenting with podcasting about whatever I want. Here’s episode 2 of my Buffy podcast, Things of Bronze. This is episode 2, “Witch.” Or is it episode 3? IS IT TWO OR THREE? I know what Wikipedia says, but what do you think?

    β†’ 4:15 PM, Oct 16
  • Kimberly Hirsh Presents: Things of Bronze - Welcome to the Hellmouth and The Harvest

    I’m experimenting with podcasting about whatever I want. I’ve got 3 finished episodes of a planned Buffy the Vampire Slayer podcast called Things of Bronze, so I thought I’d go on and upload the pilot for it and see how it goes. Show notes and transcript coming soon!

    β†’ 4:35 PM, Oct 2
  • In recent weeks I have watched all of Sherlock, finished tonight. It was fun, then it wasn’t fun, and then it was really upsetting and made me feel bad. Now I can’t sleep until I do something else that makes me feel better. πŸ“Ί

    β†’ 10:15 PM, Sep 30
  • πŸ“Ί M. and I are watching MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC and I am reminded of the extent to which I am Twilight Sparkle, who owns a reference book about slumber parties but has never had one.

    β†’ 10:54 AM, Aug 27
  • πŸ”– Katie Yee’s Very Good Writing Advice from New Girl’s Nick Miller is the most delightful thing I’ve read this week, and makes me want to re-watch New Girl. πŸ“πŸ“Ί

    β†’ 10:32 AM, Aug 8
  • πŸ“Ί I recently binged Disney+’s Diary of a Future President, about an ambitious Latina middle schooler who one day becomes president. You should try it if you like Netflix’s BSC and/or One Day at a Time.

    β†’ 12:23 PM, Jul 28
  • πŸ“Ί Netflix's Babysitters Club: Response and Link Roundup πŸ“š

    I binged the Netflix Babysitters Club series last weekend. Growing up, I was not a Babysitters Club obsessive like many of my peers. They were one of the many series on offer that I enjoyed. The main thing about them that thrilled me was that, unlike many of the other books I read, they were books that other kids had also read and would talk to me about.

    So. Not obsessive. But I’m still filled with nostalgia for them. And, unlike many of my peers seemed to do, I read them mostly in order, so the Netflix series sticking with the order for the first few episodes made me really happy. I told W. the other day that much as women older than us did with Sex and the City, many girls my age strongly identified with a particular BSC character. (In case you’re not familiar with this phenomenon, the main characters on SitC were Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda, and you could buy lots of merch that proclaimed things like “I’m a Samantha.” In case you’re curious, I’m a Charlotte with aspirations of being a Carrie.) Lucy Aniello, director of the Netflix BSC series, describes herself as “a Kristy with a Stacey rising” (and in case you aren’t familiar with that, it’s a reference to astrology. I’m a hard Mallory with some Kristy tendencies, who wished to be Claudia but was too good at school and bad at art to come close. (I did wear coordinated-but-mismatched earrings and hide candy all over my bedroom, though.)

    I loved the show. Its tone is amazingly perfect. The performances are great. I would like Alicia Silverstone to be my co-parent, please. All of the things done to update it are beautiful and none of them feel weird. I don’t have a lot to say about the show itself besides that.

    What really hit me this time around was Stacey. When I read the books, I was relatively poor, unfashionable (though not without style), and the only big city I had ever been to was Miami. Stacey was so far out of my reach. (By the way, the costume designs on the new show perfectly evoke the original characters; of all of them, though, Stacey’s outfits look the most like I think Stacey’s outfits should.) I was sickly, catching every virus that came my way and maxing out my 10 allowed absences before I started being considered truant, but I wasn’t ill.

    Life is different now. Now I’m diagnosed with four chronic illnesses (two mental), with another one undiagnosed but likely. While illness doesn’t define me, it strongly shapes my experiences and decisions. And watching Stacey deal with that moved me so thoroughly. Stacey’s not wanting anyone to know about her diabetes, because then she won’t be a person anymore, she’ll be a sick person. Fearing the consequences. And, the point that actually brought me close to tears: after Stacey goes into insulin shock on the job, her having to face a room full of clients (along with her fellow BSC members, blessedly) and listen to them say things like “Do I even want her watching my kids if something like this could happen again?” (I’m paraphrasing here.) Y’all, the impact of chronic illness on work and hireability is real, and to see it in microcosm for a twelve-year-old was every bit as affecting as seeing it for an adult would be, if not moreso.

    Anyway. That was a new perspective. A part of me wants to go read the books again and pay close attention to how my feelings about Stacey are different now.

    So. I didn’t have a lot of insight to offer on the series, just my personal response, but if you want to read more about it, here are a bunch of interesting and relevant articles:

    • β€˜The Baby-Sitters Club’ Is Back: Help Yourself to the Fridge (New York Times)
    • The Baby-Sitters Club Taught Me Everything I Needed to Know About Literary Fiction (New York Times)
    • β€˜The Baby-Sitters Club’ Defies and Exceeds Expectations (New York Times)
    • How The Baby-Sitters Club raised a generation (Vox)
    • β€˜The Baby-Sitters Club’ Gives Us Intersectional Feminism Without the Angst (Gen)
    • Why THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB Netflix Series is Even Better Than the Books (Book Riot)
    β†’ 12:58 PM, Jul 17
  • πŸ”–πŸ“Ί Alex Brannan’s article, β€œIt Could Be About Anything”: Middleditch & Schwartz and the Viability of Televised Improv Comedy is an interesting read. Longform improv is definitely hard to explain to non-improv normies but also, in my experience, it’s um, not great fun for most people who aren’t “yes…and” nerds, as Thomas Middleditch calls them, to watch. Like… Does anybody NOT initiated into longform WANT to watch a Harold? Maybe they do, but I’m not sure. By the time I was about to stop performing improv, I was over the Harold as an audience member. And I got to see some really amazing teams. Still not a format I would recommend to just anybody. It’s a performance art piece as much as a comedy piece. I don’t know. Anyway, I’d been thinking about watching the show and now I definitely will.

    It’s worth noting that I myself never was on a team that did longform without a gimmick. I think our gimmicks were a huge part of the fun for me. We may never know if I would be able to sustain interest in performing the Harold for longer than a six-week class.

    β†’ 2:26 PM, Jul 16
  • πŸ“Ί “Parents are just older weirdos, doing the best they can. Just like the rest of us.” Netflix’s Babysitters Club series makes me feel seen on so many levels.

    β†’ 9:51 PM, Jul 11
  • πŸ“Ί So is Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist a jukebox-musical version of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend?

    β†’ 4:32 PM, Apr 13
  • πŸ“Ί My wishlist for Picard Season 2:

    1. Geordi
    2. More Spot II
    β†’ 4:21 AM, Apr 9
  • Something about watching Picard gives me the same feeling as reading a novel and I love it. πŸ“ΊπŸ––

    β†’ 3:56 PM, Apr 4
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