lets be friends on substack: valeriegritsch.substack.com

Doing the scary thing anyway because it’s what Mrs Landingham would want. Well god Jed I don’t even want to know you.

My TikTok knows I restarted the west wing and is embarking on a reign of terror as it shows me all the most heart breaking clips of the show

Jamal Hinton and Grandma Wanda officially celebrate Thanksgiving together for a 10th year. 🦃

I’m grateful for Omegaverse 😌

He’s a klutz, Mrs Landingham! Your presidents a geek!

Our Meg, on the Lego float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 💜

Thanksgiving is not a colonial/Pilgrim holiday. It’s a Civil War holiday. & we think otherwise in part because of the Lost Cause. 🗃️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UrgXv1/

Modern day Sherlock Holmes AU that’s funny

#shopsmall this week and let me and Davey send you some stuff! Http://spottedhounddesign.etsy.com

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Can’t read because paywall but I appreciate the sentiment. Hands off my em dash AI!

ICYMI

The thing I CAN scream about tonight is that we finally found footage from when I was in a ramen noodle eating contest on TRL at age 18 with cobra starship and snoop dogg

This is too much madness to explain in one text

Episode 3! Time for New York to fall

Catching up on the American Revolution cause I thought it was airing weekly not daily. Onto episode two and here’s some photos from bunkers (breeds) hill

Trump said Mark Kelly should be “hanged.” Senator Mark Kelly told Emily & I what he thinks of Trump. Go to mishacollins.substack.com now to watch our full interview with Senator Mark Kelly for free.

Happy birthday, Scott Hutchison. We miss you. #frabbits open.substack.com/pub/valerieg...

We love seeing hot girls in dresses! Qtp with you being a hot girl in a dress

As we gear up for the tenth anniversary of David Bowie’s Blackstar and, come January, the anniversary of his passing, reminder that I wrote my masters thesis on the loss of such an icon and how his fans were remembering / honoring him. Read that work for free at academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/3546/

10 Years ago today, David Bowie released the single "Blackstar” - the title track from his 26th and final studio album.

can a musicologist explain why "semi-charmed life" regulates my emotions so well? i know the doo-doo-doo's do a lot of heavy lifting

and i wish i could get back there, some place, back there, in the place we used to start

just wrote my personal statement and am losing it lmao

I think the tarring and feathering scene in HBO's John Adams series does a good job with representing the public violence in places like Boston in the years leading up to independence. #KenBurns #HATM www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMeB...

The central problem that emerged in Episode 1 of Ken Burns's new documentary about the American Revolution is that while he wants to integrate a wide range of voices and the historians responsible for this broader perspective, he refuses to allow it to disrupt a traditional and familiar narrative. 🗃️

Other things I liked: The inclusion of Native Americans and not just as additions but as the people controlling much of this land. The inclusion of Phyllis Wheatley voiced by Amanda Gorman. #HATM

im uploading a bunch of past writing and presentations ive done about music, fandom, and celebrity death:

Hey guys—I rescued this little baby I named Arrow last week, and as such I need to raise some money for his vet bills coming up. I’ve put together a listing of pins I have left to sell, pls DM me for anything. Books are also still available on my Ko-Fi, and vinyl on my Discogs!

To Everyone in every occupied city of America, tonight: Yes, we have been here, before. And yes, we can fight tyranny, again -- and win. If you need inspiration, look no further than our own past. And heed the words of John Adams. #TheAmericanRevolution #KenBurns #HATM #Freedom #Democracy

Here you go. More info on Sibyl Ludington, the female midnight rider. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-... #HATM

No, Hancock & Adams didn’t flee into the night as soon as Paul Revere arrived at the Lexington parsonage. Hancock wanted to stay and fight, and it took hours to get him into a carriage. #HATM Furthermore, he could have stayed in the parsonage, and the redcoats would’ve marched by half a mile away.

Had the same thought #hatm

Yes, London told Gen. Gage to arrest rebel leaders. Yes, Hancock and Adams were in Lexington. But Gage aimed for provincial artillery and other military supplies in Concord, beyond Lexington. The narration fudges the difference. #HATM

lol Samuel Seabury, so maligned by Lin-Manuel #AmericanRevolution #HATM

Witch hunts are basically an American past-time since 1692 😒 #HATM

Great point about switching identities from British to American, or as John Adams said the Revolution was a mental event. #HATM

SNEH: These committees just sound like McCarthyites #HATM

Paul Giamatti reprising his role as John Adams #AmericanRevolution #HATM

Dissolving the House of Burgesses was a big mistake. #HATM

The fact that one of the most galvanizing and celebrated moments of the lead-in to the American Revolution was a bunch of white guys doing redface is one of the least surprising things in American History. #HATM

Exactly. It gave them an excuse to say they didn't know who was involved if they were caught and also permission to be reckless or "savage" while dressed that way-kind of like the rebel yell. #HATM

Benjamin Carp's *Defiance of the Patriots* is a must read on the Boston Tea Party. I was surprised to read that this event was not a significant part of the early histories of the American Revolution. It's a wonderful example of the distinction between history and memory. #KenBurns #HATM

Unpopular opinion - the Boston Tea Party was terrorism. #hatm

Hard reminder that most early Americans viewed Africans as a product like livestock . #HATM

So many references to colonists being enslaved by Britain. The irony was lost on them. #HATM

The Committees of Correspondence... the @bsky.app of the late Colonial era. 🤓 #HATM