A mentor of mine died this week. Forgive my lack of writing on here. I’ve had a busy month and in particular, I had a long week, for the good and the bad. The good being I got inducted into my colleges English honors society and that I performed in my first college theatre production. The bad being that I sprained my ankle in …
I love award season for no particular reason besides the fact that I love drama and being blasphemously annoyed by who wins or loses despite having almost no qualification to feel that way. That being said, I am really good at guessing patterns in who will win even if it wasn’t the best performance. So, …
2024 was a big year for music for me. I somehow listened to over 100,000 minutes of music, which means I listened to a lot of music. Like when I sleep, when I work, when I study, literally every minute I’m listening to something. And I would like to think I really branched out this …
Over Halloween, I had the (dis)pleasure of speaking to a man about Tyler the Creator. Tyler the Creator, if you don’t know, is a musician who I will admit, makes pretty good music. But I try not to listen to him because of his tendency to write songs that include lyrics about raping women. “I …
If you haven’t heard yet, Ugandan marathoner Rebecca Cheptegei was burned alive by her boyfriend and died. She had just run in the Olympics and went to Kenya only to be doused in gasoline and set on fire. There’s a bunch of discourse going around the internet right now about how the media is wording …
Colleen Hoover’s book, “It Ends With Us,” has been turned into a movie adaptation starring Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively. It came to theatres on August 9th. I’ve been very open about my distaste for Colleen Hoover in previous posts. I find that her books lean heavily into misogynistic stereotypes that are just subtle enough …
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Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race this past weekend. I don’t think anyone is shocked. If you were following the news, there were inside reporters that he was considering dropping out, along with the push from pretty much every senator for him to drop out, this was inevitable. What’s also not surprising is …
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I wouldn’t consider myself a true crime fanatic but there are cases that pop up here and there that I get fascinated by. Mostly the unsolved or still debated ones- the first one that comes to mind is the Amanda Knox case which my AP Lang class studied in my junior year of high school. …
Before I start this, I would like to preface- I hate Colleen Hoover. I say this because I’m about to say something very pro-Hoover, but I need you to understand my extreme distaste for her. I was in a six-year reading slump from going into the sixth grade to ending my junior year of high …
This is Nara Smith, the newest Alix Earle or Charli Damelio. Except she’s famous for the exact opposite reason that the other two got famous. See Alix Earle got famous for her party lifestyle and Charli Damelio got famous for doing TikTok dances …Nara Smith is famous for being a tradwife. What is a tradwife …
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