cowboy bebop
Cowboy Bebop: "Heavy Metal Queen" and "Waltz for Venus"
In which the show is trying things, and I appreciate it (even if it doesn't always work)
Emily St. James
Emily St. James is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in Vox, The A.V. Club, and the New York Times. She is the co-creator of the podcast Arden and a writer on the TV series Yellowjackets.
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Kirsten and Natalie #3: Jumanji (1995) and Mars Attacks! (1996)
In which Kirsten Dunst gets lost amid some special effects and Natalie Portman learns to love being weird
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Cowboy Bebop: "Ballad of Fallen Angels" and "Sympathy for the Devil"
In which I have no idea what's going on, but I love that for me
cowboy bebop
Cowboy Bebop: "Honky Tonk Woman" and "Gateway Shuffle"
In which I think about what it means for TV to be "cinematic"
emily rogers
How to make roast chicken
The cis version of myself from an alternate universe tells us how she met Hubby David
The X-Files
My neighbor Fox Mulder
The truth is out there, and it's a cat shaped like a bus
cowboy bebop
Cowboy Bebop: "Asteroid Blues" and "Stray Dog Strut"
In which I wax philosophical about procedural worldbuilding
kirsten and natalie
Kirsten and Natalie #2: Little Women (1994) and Beautiful Girls (1996)
The movies and precocious girl children, explained.
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What's up for Episodes in 2022
We're switching some things up
best of 2021
11 rad things I wrote in 2021
In a really cruddy year, I still wrote some things I was proud of
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The Bake Sale Bunch #17: Sophie Saves Christmas
Excerpts from the classic book series about a bunch of trans women who love to bake (sale)
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Taylor Swift's evermore is a Christmas album
Finally, someone creates art that is very specifically about being sad between December 22 and January 3.