Tea’s Weird Week: 100 Seconds
DOOMSDAY CLOCK HITS 100 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT, #TRUMPCONSPIRACYCOUNTER 2020 CLICKS TO 08 While working on my book Apocalypse Any Day Now, I developed an annual tradition, one I guess I’m carrying on...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week: The Super Troubles of Phoenix Jones
My first book, Heroes in the Night, was published in 2013 and was a deep examination of the Real Life Superhero (RLSH) subculture. I’ve had a plan to write a piece sometime in the near future titled...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week: The Top 7 Flattest of the Flat Earth Hip Hop Songs
An Examination of One of Music’s Strangest Sub-genres, Plus the #TrumpConspiracyCounter Hits 063 In past “Tea’s Weird Week” columns, I explored conspiracy theories and urban legends about musicians,...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week: There are Two Dozen Members of QAnon Running for Congress
“That being said, I do believe there is a group in Brussels, Belgium, that do eat aborted babies.”– Matthew Lusk, QAnon member and Florida Congressional candidate L-R: Twitter page of Joanne Wright,...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week: Doomer Fatigue, I Got It
Let’s review this long, long year of 2020 so far. It feels like Biblical plagues are sweeping the earth. In less than two months we’ve seen wildfires destroy Australia, the Doomsday Clock tick forward...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week: Laughing My Ass Off at These Bonkers Trump Paintings
Art by J.Jason Groschopf! “Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.” — E.A. Bucchianeri “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week: The #TrumpConspiracyCounter Zooms Past 100
When Democrats choose their candidate, they’ll have to face the storm of a massive propaganda machine– Russian troll farms, targeted disinformation campaigns, and a tidal wave of vomit spewing forth...
View Article#TrumpConspiracyCounter: March 11
Coronavirus is the hot topic of the day and source of conspiracy theory spiraling out of control. Trump’s number one media advocate, Sean Hannity hosts a QAnon believer to tell everyone is a “Deep...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week: M-m-m-my Corona
I met with my editor for my upcoming book American Madness (out in August) the other day. Among other things, we discussed in-store appearances to promote it. Oh yay, that’s the fun part! After years...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week: Notes From the Quarantine, Part 1
What a time– I hope everyone is doing ok and hanging in there. A majority of my friends are artists, musicians, writers, teachers, small business owners, service industry workers or some combination...
View ArticleBook Giveaway!
Hey there, I hope your COVID-19 quarantine is going as good as it can be. Hang in there. I’ve been trying to catch up on some reading and I’m sure many of you have extra reading time, too, so I’m...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week on Facebook Live Tomorrow
Tues, March 24 5pm CST I’ll be on Facebook Live on my author page talking about my book Apocalypse Any Day Now, writing, and quarantine life. Here’s my Facebook page: www.facebook.com/theTeaKrulos
View Article#TrumpConspiracyCounter: March 25
I’m still keeping the #TrumpConspiracyCounter rolling. I think it’s important to document. I’ve talked in counter updates before about how Trump’s day-to-day language is steeped in conspiracy theory–...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week: Notes from the Quarantine Journal
I tried to do a Tea’s Weird Week livestream. It started alright, I talked about my book Apocalypse Any Day Now, but then I was hit with this wave of doubt and angst– who am I to give any kind of...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week Trivia: Round 1
I had a fun first round of Tea’s Weird Week Trivia this last Saturday. Congrats to Sharon who was the overall winner and Estephanie who won the Cursed Objects round and picked out a category for this...
View Article#TrumpConspiracyCounter: April 1
Unfortunately, none of the contents of today’s #TrumpConspiracyCounter are an April Fool’s Day joke. In the time of a deadly pandemic, ask yourself– do you want someone who believes, promotes, and...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week: Conspiracy Theory Trainwreck
Yesterday, a man named Eduardo Moreno, a locomotive engineer from San Pedro, drove a train at full speed toward the Port of Los Angeles. He was holding a safety flare in the train’s cab as the train...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week Trivia: Round 2
The second round of Tea’s Weird Week Trivia happened this last Saturday. Congrats to Estephanie, Jessica, Tom, and Wendy who each won around. I’ll be back this Saturday, April 11 with four more...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week: I got my own conspiracy theory, which is that the world is...
OR “WEIRD DAY?” “WEIRD HOUR?” “WEIRD TIME IS AN IRRELEVANT CONSTRUCT?” Well, my column title says it all. To support this theory, I’ll do as a conspiracist does and string some random crazy scraps...
View ArticleTea’s Weird Week: Dr. Fauci vs Trump’s Q Army
I wrote a column here titled “Laughing My Ass Off at These Bonkers Trump Paintings,” in which I showed some works by Jon McNaughton, a painter who depicts scenes of Dear Leader literally teaching a...
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