Manda Cherry

Every time I hear "I mean, what does one wear that's apropos for a party that's also a crime?" it waters my crops and clears my skin.

LA VIE BOHEME changed my world when I saw it for the first time from my small town community theater Tony Awards party. And it's still transformative. Also I can still sing it at tempo. Find me at a con karaoke night and let's go.

Can I make an appointment with the vampire who but Anthony Rapp right in the vocal folds? Damn. If I close my eyes, I'm back in the dressing room listening while getting ready for a show.

I'm already teary at the #RENT30 stream and it's still 5 minutes to curtain. My family may be about to disown me. But 1996 was the year I worked my first Equity Scale show and also the year I started as an HIV/AIDS educator & counselor. Tonight is a big effing deal for me.

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WHYYYYYY does the day I have migraine pain and decided to sleep a little extra (and was able to actually fall back asleep) have to be the Earthquake and Tsunami alert test day??? 😭 Not a good wakeup

I'm writing my third (THIRD!!?!!) Shadowrun novella and tomorrow I get to see my favorite author: @seananmcguire.bsky.social because I get to pick her up from the airport!

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Update: work items handled. Now it's on to full passes for voice, brevity, clarity, and continuity.

I have a book due on Thursday. I have 4 work items left to finish on it. So obviously today I also have a migraine.... 🫠 Fortunately so far it's just pain & aura so I'll be able to work, just slower than normal

When Jim Cantore tweets "Not Good" alongside a map of your hometown and the next thing you see is the notice *every* Waffle House in town is closed, it's gonna be a rough weekend....

The Flora-Bama Waffle House is closed today. If you understand that sentence, and I'm crying about it, I see you. This is gonna suck.

I need that storm to chill tf out and leave my hometown alone please.

Always fun to see a friend in the bookstore. I love @seananmcguire.bsky.social and everything she writes FUN FACT: two of the titles on these shelves are in whole or in part dedicated to me 😍

I am stage hosting @snarkbat.bsky.social 's book launch tonight and there's not a ton of time between the end of rehearsal with the middle schoolers, resulting in my having to do MUAH before rehearsal & therefore standing in a middle school cafeteria in *FULL* glam

Rip Torn as Max the Priest in "The Beastmaster". To this day, I'm still terrified of Rip Torn.

Enya CHANT Pure Moods *Celtic* Moods Enigma Bond The Irish Tenors

"My Cousin Vinny" is a forever favorite movie and today, thanks to wisdom gained from dozens of rewatches, I remembered to Google whether the vehicle my characters are about to blow up has a solid rear axle or an independent rear suspension.

A seller on Poshmark has a store sample of my wedding dress for sale and I do NOT need it (mine is hanging in my office closet) but I am sorely tempted. For the record: our 20th wedding anniversary is this coming March.

We've been married almost 20 years and tonight, for the first time ever, after he said something was my fault, he referenced a beanstalk. My husband just threw my favorite deep cut back at me. I married the right person 😂

I have come to the point in my Buffy rewatch that contains the first mass-media documented use of "Google" as a verb. I feel old

Sometimes I can forget an episode of TV was shot/first aired pre-9/11 until there's a scene in an airport and a whole bunch of non-traveling characters are hanging out at the gate

Or! OR!! Diwali starts November 6 this year and is also a "colored lights on the house" holiday. We have neighbors that celebrate Diwali and only kind of do Halloween who I bet will have lights up very soon.

I'm an ambulatory wheelchair user. And a WorldCon member. And I cried reading this.

OH! I have some nominating to do.

As someone who worked in HIV/AIDS services and education in the 90's, I cannot fully wrap my mind around how wonderful this is. Holy damn.

Ok! I had heard most of the songs, but not all of them. And I had definitely never seen that ending!!

I've reached S6 of my Buffy rewatch- and as someone who was fooled by the finale fake out when the show switched networks, I realize that I don't think I've ever seen "Once More With Feeling" in its entirety before. So... this is going to be an adventure.

I was on the offramp from 405S to West Valley Highway on the way to grab mcnuggets before picking Seanan up from the airport when I thought there must have been a big truck in my blind spot making the ramp jiggly. Turns out it was AN EARTHQUAKE. Guess I can no longer say I've never felt one....

I truly have the best friends in the whole world. Today I'm especially grateful to know @jenniferbrozek.bsky.social and @seananmcguire.bsky.social 💕

It’s Launch Day, darling! This one is not cozy or for the faint of heart, please note the warnings, but it’s here at last! And while you should read in the way you like the best—dude, Neil Newbon’s narration knocks it out of the PARK. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813073...

OH HOORAY!!!

Sometimes you fail to read the fine print and accidentally order 3+ pounds of red & pink Starbursts.... Not mad about it, though

Y'all. The band is from NOLA and they opened with IKO IKO and I stg it was like being back home for three minutes. My NY husband did not know what was happening.

Literally me with SHADOWRUN. I am *still* pinching myself. Wonder and awe and joy are definitely worth factoring into a decision.

So apropos of nothing in particular, let’s talk about media tie-in novel pay vs. original work pay, shall we? Let’s say you write a novel. It’s set in your own world, your own characters, and titled The Original. You get a book deal! Look at you go!

The life of a disabled girl: going to a GA concert tonight, failed to look into accommodations prior to today, was supposed to have emailed before the day of the show to ask about accommodations. Oops. Emailed today anyway & was super apologetic. Fingers crossed it all works out.

Of the 4, Babylon is my favorite, but none of these were life changing for me. I hope they are the perfect songs for someone.

A different accent to answer each question, all punctuated with "In Soviet Russia" jokes.

One of the perks of living on the West Coast is getting midnight Taylor Swift drops at 9:PM.

I love that hockey is back. But I don't love this part of the season where we have a bunch of new players I don't know.

The newest wave of TikTok book discourse is completely unhinged but it's got people talking about @tkingfisher.com 's upcoming release so I'm kinda loving it 😜

Do I have a cold or is it just autumn? An autobiography

TIL Texas Senate candidate James Talarico has a favorite drag queen and she's also one of mine.

The world is a whole mess but I've spent every afternoon this week with middle school kids and BY GOLLY they give me hope

PAGING @snarkbat.bsky.social !!!

Make a band edible: Pear Supply