Richard Linklater does not understand wine moms, but I DO! An Entirely Unhinged Roast of Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019), up now: YouTube: youtu.be/YiUcgq5G-UQ Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/laura...

I swear I did not intentionally make my stack of post deadline blowing off steam/Christmas vacation fun library holds this full of vampires it just happened

It's almost pointless to say at this point but truly I am baffled by the way that YouTube's caption editor seems to get worse every time I use it. And now I can't even be truly mad at it because well, at least it GAVE me captions instead of sitting in processing hell for multiple weeks!

Ok I'm late and I don't think I'm anywhere near the first person to say this but FOR THE RECORD if you have ever been interested in reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir I would absolutely recommend that you not watch any trailers for the upcoming film adaptation until you do.

Video's coming to you next week and will look like one of these things

Editing a readers theater segment for the upcoming video and wow I am so blessed to have so many cool colleagues who will do absurd bullshit like send me .wav's of themselves making "panicked noises" with barely any further instruction

PLEASE MAKE MORE OF THESE SO I CAN COMPLETE THIS

Fuck it Stranger Things 5 mid season finale is solid gold. One for the books. Play me the hits and play them well and I'm on my feet, no further questions.

OK look I know I am generally a terminal optimist about Kids These Days in re: popular fiction specifically but reading this as the first paragraph of an Acknowledgements section feels bad, man.

Dude there is at least one dissertation to be written about the choice to name Glenn Close's character in Wake Up Dead Man Martha. What a beautiful allusion.

btw we're on the timeline! I'm gonna do my damnedest to get this thing out before the end of the year and it WILL be up free with ads on YouTube! (+ ad-free behind the paywall per usual 😘) Looking like it's probably gonna clock in around an hour for once which is a fucking godsend.

Had to pull this clip for research purposes (somehow) and lord I remembered that this group of people blatantly tells their waiter that they will be sitting at this diner indefinitely without ordering any food but I am spinning out about it all over again anyway youtu.be/rWYej5ftErw?...

I have been thinking about "As there's some bricks to maybe, and my ma, and run in house" and cackling about it once a day minimum for five days now and I hate that I can't just say that because the doofuses with money legitimately think that's the same thing as a sitcom youtu.be/x1IFpHyhYWI?...

Happy Halloween! If you would like some spooky seasonal distractions from *gestures broadly* I have been facing all kinds of fears and documenting the process on Patreon. Vlogs are currently up from Midsummer Scream, HHN, Delusion, and The 17th Door with more to come. www.patreon.com/lauracrone

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

My (so far) yearly "did an immersive horror show + low key could've handled it being scarier" post, @timestar.bsky.social is a true pal for having the "oh shit I just remembered I'm SCARED" moment in perfect unison with me about 10 minutes before we went to hell or whatever

Fucking finally

Y'all Actually Romantic is literally the first Taylor Swift song I've ever considered a bop on first listen and I have no idea what to do with that

For the last month YouTube has been recommending me videos about the same BookTok "drama" and I keep clicking on them like a rube because I simply cannot bring myself to accept that this much hard drive space could be spilled over the fact that a self-published debut novel isn't very good.

FYI if you're in southern California, Vons will let you book a COVID vaccine appointment even if you don't say you're in a high risk group, which not all pharmacies will!

Idk bro something about this whole Art the Clown Funko Pop everywhere branding nonsense is just not sitting well with me! Haven't been able to successfully articulate the finer details yet but the vibes are rancid!

Can't decide if I actually want to make a War Of/The Roses video or if I just want to scream from the rooftops Y'ALL DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS IS A 250 PAGE BOOK ABOUT DIVORCE AND THE FIRST TIME IT SEEMS LIKE SOMEONE MIGHT GET KILLED IS ON PAGE 180. THE *FIRST* TIME.

Good to see I am not alone in my reaction to a classic

I just spent a full hour convinced that my copy of House of Leaves had fully disappeared from my bookshelf and I'm struggling to think of a more apt or disturbing book for that to happen with

New video up now for patrons and Nebula subscribers. It is personal, weird, and messy, and while I'm working on a project that will repurpose a lot of the research and writing that went into it, this version will never be available this side of the pay wall.

Me when I attempt to attend my first haunt in 16 years and I accidentally end up at a preview of a Christian maybe hell house disguising itself as a photo opp

Behold the prettiest loaf of bread I have baked so far

Final post of the night: a heartwarming reunion between those arrested and released and their comrades back outside the MDC, and protesters are setting their tables and chairs back up after a hasty exit earlier. This is, at this point, routine.The occupation continues.

Another horrific series of press rights abuses tonight at hands of LAPD. Initial reports are 4 journalists injured (several bleeding), 3 cameras broken, 5 put in zip ties. All in defiance of state law, a judge's order, and chief's signed order. LAPD can't police itself. Maybe the judge will.

I asked the cashier at a local bookstore what she'd recommend to someone who wanted to read a romantasy and she said Bridget Jones's Diary and I have no idea what to make of that

Today's dispatch from Romantasyland is wow I do not *get* One Dark Window. Usually I can at least see what's appealing about a book that isn't for me but it is genuinely baffling to me why this book is so popular! (A problem of my imagination, to be clear, not a knock on people who liked it!)

Hello. My church held an in-person service this weekend for the first time since the LA ICE raids started two months ago and I would like to tell you about it.

Ok I would like to update this take with the corollary that BOTM applying the Sprayed Edge Tax to THEIR PICKS so that the only way to choose that book is with the upcharge is VIOLENCE. I paid for my annual subscription! In what world does that not pay for any twelve of their selection of books?!

It was meet and right to give [YouTuber] flak for calling nerd girls an "underutilized resource" but the underlying point of "bro why are you always talking yourself into crushing on girls you would not even enjoy hanging out with" was always a good one and it's wild that it's still this relevant.

Just had an encounter with a grade A asshole driver that had me yelling at my closed windows "I WOULD NOT LIKE TO MEET YOU!" and I don't think I could have come up with that outside the heat of the moment but I am now confident it's the most scathing insult I personally could give anyone.

Been reading some duds for romantasy research but whoa I'm instantly sold on The Cruel Prince

This is so petty as a person who made a whole video essay about Riley Sager being a not very good writer but 95% of the criticism I hear of Survive the Night, specifically, grinds my gears like nothing else

I just got carded buying tonic water, what are we doing here

Apropos of nothing I am starting a thread of cooking hacks I learned working in a corporate kitchen that I use at home all the time. Been meaning to do this for a while and I'll add stuff as I think about it!

Another guy at this noise demonstration in Pasadena is just wailing on a mailbox. Absolutely unhinged wailing on a mailbox. Hard to say it’s not fascinating to watch a man just go ham on a mailbox.

Dude at this bar just stopped me as I was walking by and went "excuse me, what's that story about a bunch of kids on an island?" And when I said Lord of the Flies he and his buddy just straight up flipped out, they'd clearly been struggling with that one for a WHILE

I'm only an hour in so I could be proven wrong but I am extremely nervous I'm about to repeat this journey with The War of the Roses

I am once again watching Ever After and once again struck by the realization that this is a PERFECT FILM

we're live in 5 minutes!! 💞

My dad read me the whole Chronicles of Narnia at least 3 times and the whole Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy when I was surprisingly old tbh, danced onstage with me at the '09 Hair revival on Broadway, and showed me Tron, and I don't think I can overstate the importance of any of those on my identity.

VindiCATION youtu.be/N_QpZq-1cy0?...

LAPD and LA Sheriffs tried to prevent two large protests from joining together in downtown and both departments ended up hitting EACH OTHER with impact munitions from across the same interesection.

I'm a progressive Christian, and I've been to a lot of Christian and interfaith political actions. In my direct experience, the reason these actions remain comparably peaceful even when overall tensions are high is OVERWHELMINGLY that the cops leave us alone.