Tea’s Weird Week: Who Said It–Phantom Patriot or Marjorie Taylor Greene...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was busted flying an American flag upside down (a form of protest to indicate dissent or that the country is in distress) outside his home as well as the “Appeal to...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week: Goth Barge (and other recent excursions)
One of my favorite things about writing is the chance to have a unique experience and share that with other people in a story, so I was delighted to step aboard Goth Barge and write it up for...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week: Podcast Recommendation: Fur & Loathing
Back in 2021 one of the favorite things I wrote that year was a column (plus a related TWW podcast episode) titled “How a Dogged Reporter Sniffed Out an Alt-Right Furry Infiltration,” in which I wrote...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week: Political Monsters are Creeping Your Way This Fall
I’m thrilled to say that I’ll have a new publication (a short zine/ e-book) out in time for the horror season (Halloween and Election Day) titled Political Monsters: How Presidents Influence Horror...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week: Riverwest Ghosts, Typewriters, Political Monsters, etc.
September was a busy one! Here’s a roundup of some writings and media I did. Chicago typewriter scene: I wrote my first piece for Chicago Reader, “Gen Z is into typewriters,” which appeared in their...
View ArticleTWW: It’s “Political Monsters Week!”
Alright, well, it’s been a while since I’ve done anything significant with Tea’s Weird Week. But we’re getting into the Halloween season and this weekend I’ll be tabling with my Political Monsters...
View ArticleTWW: The Late, Great Hannibal Lecter
Political Monsters Week Continues One of the many bizarre things to come out of this election cycle is the Trump campaign’s racist fearmongering and spreading of false internet stories about...
View ArticleTWW: 4 More Years…of Vampires or Killer Clowns?
Political Monsters Week ContinuesTo conclude my posts about the Political Monsters project, I want to do some monster-casting to the future. During election years, we’re bombarded by both campaigns...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week: Favorite Words of 2024 (and where I wrote ’em)
Words! Some just feel better rolling off the tongue than others. I’ve been trying to keep track of some of my favorites over the last year. Here’s 12 I love (and by extension, some of the best...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week: Send in the (Killer) Clowns (Again)
Back in October, I published a zine/e-book titled Political Monsters: How Presidents Influence Horror Movies. This explored an old theory which I expanded on. The Political Monsters Theory says that...
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