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Kirsten and Natalie #2: Little Women (1994) and Beautiful Girls (1996)
The movies and precocious girl children, explained.
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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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Mary Bailey is the hero of It's a Wonderful Life
George is the protagonist, but Mary's the one who keeps Bedford Falls going.
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The eerie prescience of Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue
The 1998 anime film predicted our world of online celebrity and all the terrors that come with it.
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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.
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1984: the greatest year in American pop music
From Michael Jackson to Prince and from Bruce Springsteen to Huey Lewis, the year rang with enormous, amazing hits.
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"Jeopardy! fans are like trans people: There’s not actually that many of us, but everybody knows a few."
Reigning Jeopardy! champion tells me all about her historic run, her trivia history, and Ken Jennings.
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That time Robert Downey, Jr., and Kermit the Frog made a Christmas special together
And then it was never spoken of again
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is a love letter to our misunderstood teenage selves
The Japanese animated film is about so much more than a girl who can, uh, leap through time.
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The food TV perfection of Big Zuu's Big Eats
The British series captures sides of the U.K. that most other foodie shows cannot.