Jennifer Garlen

Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

RIP Walter❤️

Celebrating Jackie Coogan born Oct 26, in 1914. Over 140 roles including Oliver Twist (1922), Peck's Bad Boy, Tom Sawyer (1931) — and of course, Chaplin's The Kid and lovable Uncle Fester on The Addams Family! #botd https://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/jackie-coogan/

Excited to be collaborating with @sparkytopia.com on their new snail mail club, featuring original art and characters by Sparky and cozy stories by me. Meet the Puppysteins (Godwin and Shelley) in the launch issue! You get 2 stickers, an original story, exclusive art & a letter.

Here's how private equity killed your local mall.

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”

Humanities dissertations have fallen by 49 percent since 2015, compared with a drop of 4.5 percent in the social sciences, according to a new analysis of nearly 445,000 dissertations in these two fields over 65 years. Explore the data: https://chroni.cl/4yxUZ4S

Writing a fantasy story that moves between the past and the present in this one village and I might be getting a little obsessed with the various genealogical histories of these families.

Had a lot of fun watching EVIL CAT (1987) last night. www.criterionchannel.com/films/1HY1sV...

New on the blog - I was hoping for more chills with BACK FROM THE DEAD (1957), starring Peggie Castle as a woman possessed by the evil spirit of her husband's first wife. #filmsky

Had to make the most of the @criterion.bsky.social flash sale so my husband can thank me for doing his Christmas shopping for my gifts. Picked out some favorites I have wanted to own for a long time! #filmsky

I know America. I know that, in America, we believe in a country big enough for all of us. So, JD Vance, don't you dare come from Ohio to lecture me. You don't know a damn thing about America.

you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

My latest for @classicmoviehub.bsky.social - it's THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS (1946)! Perfect for Halloween. #filmsky

mail call! Signups are open for my new snail mail club- November's letter will be all goodies involving the Puppysteins! a little joy for your mailbox :) sign up: mailclubly.com/@sparkytopia

Haunted Hotel season 2 is very funny so far, but we were not expecting the multiple feels of the "Ghost Day Out" episode. The horror genre jokes are great, but the storytelling and character building really make the show.

My alma mater just sent out an email saying they're making all the students do AI now and I should give them money so they can make all the students do AI. I unsubscribed instead. So much for liberal arts values. 🪦

Tax billionaire wealth. I frankly don't care if a billionaire can make a second billion. I'd rather have the average person be able to make their first $100k.

"Medieval" gets to the heart of the Evangelical right wing mindset perfectly. I think about that a lot, actually.

H’as spoken like a traitor, and shall answer As traitors do.

Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities

Let books be. Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, an annual observation started more than 40 years ago in response to a sudden surge in attempts to censor or remove books in libraries, schools, and bookstores. Sound familiar? Find ways to get involved and spread the word: https://bit.ly/4yvixbB.

Showed the lifetime learners SCARLET STREET (1945) today. It's a slow burn, but that third act sure gets creepy.

a spotlight on my lovely Ginger 🐈

Took a trio of Zoomers on an adventure today - we hit Unclaimed Baggage (hi, Hoggle!), a retro soda fountain (caramel apple crisp ice cream OMG), and the bizarre but fascinating Patches Merchant Emporium (I see you, lady who makes terrifying recycled doll parts art).

Explained fan culture and cosplay to my lifetime learners today. We talked about sports, music, popular media, religion, and politics satisfying the same desires for community, spectacle, and expression that give meaning to people's lives. (Also cosplay videos!)

We're having a Dolly Parton movie retrospective at home this week. Charles Durning's "Sidestep" number in BLWIT is both hilarious and depressingly still accurate.

New on the blog - 10 Peter Lorre Films because I'm so ready for Halloween. #filmsky

OPINION: "Reading allows children to live in a vibrant world, surrounded by fairies, elves and talking animals, transporting them to places where the impossible becomes real," William Dee Nichols and Michelle Kearney write. www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-read...

Been a bit obsessed with this one lately, for those of you who missed Pulp's tribute to 1950s film (esp noir and Technicolor) when it first appeared. Really fun to see the rear projection driving scenes, too. #filmsky

Unexpected twist in the popular culture class - I asked them what they want me to talk about next week, and this sweet octogenarian says, "I was at a hotel in Chicago and they were having one of those comics... comic cons? It was wild. Can you talk about that?" Oh, yes, dear lady, I certainly can.

My latest column for @classicmoviehub.bsky.social - ANGEL FACE (1953) stars Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons in a twisted tale of romance and murder. #filmsky

First day of my lifetime learning class about Popular Culture Studies. Taking a broad, introductory approach to the subject since most of my regulars said they don't know what I'm talking about. Today I'll ask them about all the cultures THEY belong to and like.

The new #StarTrek / #LeCreuset collaboration products are in Williams Sonoma stores in the US today:

60 years of Star Trek! You could celebrate by reading some of the essays in SPACE, THE FEMINIST FRONTIER. (The ebook might be available from your public library and Libby if the cost of a print edition is too steep). #startrek

OPINION: "A longing for “digital detox” is a part of why print books are Gen Z’s top preferred reading format. Perhaps that’s because printed books don’t ping or track you. …These physical qualities actually make books more alluring than they were in the days before the internet," the authors write.

Showing THE SUSPECT (1944) to the lifetime learners today. It's the first in our "Bad Romance" noir series, which will be my last for the program after 15 years (don't be sad - I'm going on the road to help @sparkytopia.com at cons next year!).

It's 95 today and feels like 100. I realize one of the things I love about cozy/farm games is this idea of actual seasons that have a predictable rhythm. I miss "fall" as a concept.

winds, heed my neighs! ⛈️ #mlpg3

I already disliked Buc-ee's and refused to go, but this doesn't improve my opinion of them (and I'd have to drive a long way to get to a blue state).

"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP