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Thursday, November 24, 2022

A Gilded Age Thanksgiving

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November 24, 1898: “Thanksgiving Day,–Up betimes to seek out my warmest cloathes and greate cloake with new striped orange cravatte, as well...
Saturday, November 5, 2022

Remember, Remember the Fifth of November

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GUNPOWDER Gun"pow`der, n. (Chem.) Defn: A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, ...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

A Theatrical Flashback to the Year 2000

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November 3, 2000, Mishawaka: Tit and I went out to dinner at Applebee’s. I had an Oriental chicken salad and a couple of strawberry daiquiri...
Monday, October 31, 2022

There Might Be Cupcakes Podcast Spooky Story: Red Death

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The Masque of the Red Death, for Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tales of Mystery and the Imagination,” Chicago, 1895-96, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, drawi...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Bummer Halloween: Awful Things That Happened on October 31st

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Continuing with the project I began after seeing Jordan Peele's Nope . Content warning for death, child death, drug overdose, murder, fi...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Sunday, October 18, 2009: Treehouse of Horror

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Sunday, October 18, 2009: The highlight of my day was watching the new Simpsons episode, “Treehouse of Horror XX (LABF14).” The first segme...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

Bummer Summer Part II: Awful Things That Happened in September

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Content Warning: Accidents, natural disasters, death, guns, mass death. This is a second sneak peek at a very tentative, very early-stage wo...