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TWW: 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...
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Tea’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...
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Tea’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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Tea’s Weird Week: TWW Returns! (plus, a psychedelic time travel boat dream)
As things tend to go with me, at a certain point I was overworked and struggling to keep up and so my beloved column, Tea’s Weird Week, fell into hiatus. I think politics played a hand in this, too....
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Tea’s Weird Week: Hot Cryptid Summer (Part 1)
Local legends have drawn tourist dollars for decades, attracting curious legend trippers. Celebrations like West Virginia’s Mothman Festival (Sept. 20-21) and the Ohio Bigfoot Conference (which...
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Tea’s Weird Week: Apocalypse Every Show Now
My third book, Apocalypse Any Day Now, was published in 2019 (by Chicago Review Press). I talked to a wide range of people on their ideas on how the world as we know it might end, and some of their...
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Tea’s Weird Week: If You Don’t Support QWERTY, You Might End Up Butt-hurty...
I wrote a similar column title last year in a plea to get people to support something I’m proud of– QWERTYFEST MKE. QF was officially started by me and my co-organizer Molly Snyder in 2023. This year...
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Tea’s Weird Week: Cotton. Balls. The Nadine Zine is on the Loose!
I’ve collaborated with illustrator extraordinaire David Beyer for close to 20 years now. He’s done illustrations for my books and events. There’s been art shows and pet portraits and David edits the...
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Tea’s Weird Week: We Can Battle A.I. with Dive Bars
I’m honored to say that an article I contributed to, “High Dive,” for Milwaukee Magazine, won a National City & Regional Magazine Award in the “Lifestyle/ Leisure” category. Bar culture is big...
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Tea’s Weird Week: I’m Looking for View-Masters
I got an idea I’m working on, possibly somewhere at QWERTYFEST MKE or a QF related event– a View-Master Theater, where there are maybe 6 or 8 stereoscopes (View-Master is the popular brand name) that...
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