Leah Carlson
@themingtacular.bsky.social
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Writer, podcaster, and expert on all things sexy vampires.
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New Teenage Bookbag episode! This month, we're discussing Pirates! by Celia Rees. This is one of those books that was SO formative for me that it's hard to overstate it
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Teenage Bookbag: Pirates!
Welcome to Teenage Bookbag, where your hosts Leah and Mary-Kate revisit the books they loved in middle school. For this episode, we're talking about Pirates!, by Celia Rees. Set sail with us back to t...
https://teenagebookbag.libsyn.com/pirates
11 days ago
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Leaning towards written, if anyone still reads anymore
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about 17 hours ago
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May we all write more beautiful, niche, cross-disciplinary things like this about our respective obsessions (Art history and Heated Rivalry are two of mine, so I am the exact target audience for this one)
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The Salt Lake Tribune
2 days ago
Skeptics of the proposed hyperscale data center in Box Elder County are sweating about a lot more than its energy demands and potential toll on water supplies.
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âSo much worse than I even thoughtâ: Utahâs âhyperscaleâ data center could create massive heat island near Great Salt Lake
Skeptics of the proposed hyperscale data center in Box Elder County are sweating about a lot more than its energy demands and potential toll on water supplies.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2026/05/07/utahs-data-center-could-create/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot
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Happy birthday to Amy Heckerling! Watch Vamps. It's not perfect, but it's delightful
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Episode 25: Vamps - Fang Club
This week, Bri and Leah are chatting about Vamps (2012, dir. Amy Heckerling). It was right up our alley. This episode is marked explicit for some light swearing. **Leah can do math most of the ti...
https://fangclub.buzzsprout.com/1832109/episodes/10271371-episode-25-vamps
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Ron Chan
3 days ago
Using the rules of linear perspective to combat ai slop can I get a hell yeah
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for
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I wrote about Dorothy Hughes and in a lonely place and I am so so so proud of this piece and đ„č please read it
www.rogerebert.com/features/how...
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How "In a Lonely Place" Changed Noir's Direction
A look at how feminine intuition shaped the noir genre through Dorothy B. Hughe's 1947 novel and Nicholas Ray's beloved film adaptation.
https://www.rogerebert.com/features/how-in-a-lonely-place-changed-noirs-direction
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The closer we get to June 7, the less chill I have
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Liz
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Maybe itâs because I live in Utah, but I think more people nationally should be talking about this one. A single data center larger than Manhattan in a drought-ridden state with a dying âgreatâ lake approved by a handful of rich guys despite massive disapproval. Itâs very, very, very bad.
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Not feeling like doing the "top 15 TV shows off the top of your head" prompt; but I will say that when my close friend asked me to name my 10 favorite TV shows a few weeks ago, she replied to my impromptu list by saying, "Well, you're kind of a bro"
7 days ago
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Related, TIL Michael Crichton was SIX FOOT NINE?!
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9 days ago
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I can't make myself want to watch season 2 of Beef (I think I just can't mentally commit to that many hours, it's not really about the show itself), but Oscar Isaac in the Criterion Closet is making me seriously miss Oscar's Podcaast She will rise again one day
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Brendel
10 days ago
Oscar Isaac was in the Criterion Closet and heâs the first guy who I think properly understood that he gets all the movies for free and just overloaded the bag
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Opening credit sequences are a lost art (combo of streaming & AI, imo), and I will never "skip intro" on a good old one even when I'm binge watching
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New Teenage Bookbag episode! This month, we're discussing Pirates! by Celia Rees. This is one of those books that was SO formative for me that it's hard to overstate it
teenagebookbag.libsyn.com/pirates
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Teenage Bookbag: Pirates!
Welcome to Teenage Bookbag, where your hosts Leah and Mary-Kate revisit the books they loved in middle school. For this episode, we're talking about Pirates!, by Celia Rees. Set sail with us back to t...
https://teenagebookbag.libsyn.com/pirates
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New Teenage Bookbag episode! This month, we're discussing Pirates! by Celia Rees. This is one of those books that was SO formative for me that it's hard to overstate it
teenagebookbag.libsyn.com/pirates
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Teenage Bookbag: Pirates!
Welcome to Teenage Bookbag, where your hosts Leah and Mary-Kate revisit the books they loved in middle school. For this episode, we're talking about Pirates!, by Celia Rees. Set sail with us back to t...
https://teenagebookbag.libsyn.com/pirates
11 days ago
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I will say that I do appreciate the brands that show larger sized models wearing the jeans, that does help (I have to shop for pants online, which I hate doing, to get tall inseams)
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12 days ago
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This was an interesting read, because I saw the trailer for this like 3 weeks ago and thought, "What the fuck is this movie, the vibes are so weird" Weird vibes explained!!
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12 days ago
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There is nothing like trying to find new jeans to make me feel frumpy
13 days ago
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: bakery in the front, single screen rep cinema in the back
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14 days ago
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Didn't love Over Your Dead Body; but going in I did not expect so much Timothy Olyphant, so that was a lovely surprise for me personally
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Episode 2 of Teenage Bookbag is coming on Tuesday (4/28)! We're shifting gears to discuss a book that 11-year-old me was well and truly obsessed with: Pirates! by Celia Rees (Photo credit to my co-host and her perfect treasure chest coffee table)
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Oscar Goff
17 days ago
Anyway, the proper rating for 90% of films is either âtwo and a half stars (derogatory)â or âtwo and a half stars (complimentary).â
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19 days ago
I will never forget the experience of seeing LEAVING NEVERLAND at its Sundance premiere. For
@avclub.com
I wrote about a devastating, definitive documentary about surviving sexual abuse that cannot be erased.
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The Jackson estate can't hide Leaving Neverland from those who've already seen it
A suppressive legal battle turned the moving Sundance documentary Leaving Neverland into a ghost haunting the Michael Jackson biopic.
https://www.avclub.com/leaving-neverland-michael-jackson-documentary-you-cant-see-estate-cant-hide
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ACLU
19 days ago
Evergreen reminder this 420: No one should be in prison for weed.
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Without stating your age, post your favorite film from the year you turned 18 (I can't pick)
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20 days ago
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I love this for many reasons, not least of which is the fact that I live with a man who is 6'8" and so know all about the shenanigans of tall men exaggerating their own height and also other tall men's height in comparison to their own
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Finally caught up with Peter Hujar's Day (on the Criterion Channel), and I adored it
21 days ago
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Oscar Goff
22 days ago
For Boston Hassle I reviewed THE CHRISTOPHERS, one of Steven Soderberghâs warmest and most human movies in ages (and sadly, if he keeps on using AI, for ages to come).
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REVIEW: The Christophers (2026) dir. Steven Soderbergh // BOSTON HASSLE
https://bostonhassle.com/review-the-christophers-2026-dir-steven-soderbergh/
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Thinking about sending a letter with my taxes this year that begins, "Dear imperialist swine"
25 days ago
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Did a diy avocado face mask this weekend for a bit, but it's actually made my face feel really nice
25 days ago
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To be clear, looking at a co-star like he wants to eat her up IS the skill set
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27 days ago
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You, Me & Tuscany is what I mean when I say that a rom-com lives and dies by its leads. Terrible script and purely serviceable filmmaking; but Halle Bailey *sparkles* and Regé-Jean Page looks at her like he wants to eat her up. And I ate it up. It was cute, chemistry kept it afloat
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Doing some freelance research that involves going through university Common Data Sets, and I just found one form from 2007 that's been answered in Comic Sans font
about 1 month ago
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Emily C. Hughes
about 1 month ago
do you ever think about the time
@hellafitzgerald.bsky.social
wrote the greatest lede in history in an essay about Magic Mike XXL? yeah me too
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It's always nice to look at an old, abandonded draft of an essay and realize that it's basically finished and you actually like it
about 1 month ago
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Criterion Channel
about 1 month ago
Willem Dafoe x Martin Scorsese's THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988)
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Top 3 films of 2026 (so far)? Ooo, probably (in no order) Bone Temple, Send Help, and Forbidden Fruits. Horror all the way down đ€
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about 1 month ago
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ZoĂ« âBaddie Proctorâ Quinn
about 1 month ago
fuck a firefly revival, give me the rest of Glow
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I am working on posting more regularly myself on my site, BUT I do publish guest posts occasionally. I can't provide you prestige, but I'll edit & host your work and pay you for it. Trying to do my part to make the internet a more interesting place!
www.delayedresponses.com/guest-post/
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about 1 month ago
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Tell me the manager of this AMC is a woman without telling me the manager of this AMC is a woman
about 1 month ago
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I think it's only a matter of time before I start sincerely referring to Rock of Ages as a film maudit and everyone starts shunning me
about 1 month ago
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On the one hand, I will not get my dream podcast crossover project (Oscar Isaac in a vampire movie), but on the other hand... WAGNER FUCKING MOURA
deadline.com/2026/04/wagn...
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Wagner Moura Joins Kristen Stewart In Panos Cosmatosâ Vampire Thriller âFlesh Of The Godsâ As A24 Picks Up U.S. Rights
Wagner Moura has joined 'Flesh of the Gods,' a vampire thriller from Panos Cosmatos that A24 has newly boarded as U.S. distributor.
https://deadline.com/2026/04/wagner-moura-joins-flesh-of-the-gods-a24-1236771141/
about 1 month ago
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I'm practicing a ukulele cover of "Pop! Goes My Heart" and another of "Accidentally in Love" from Shrek 2 for the next open mic, in case you doubted my commitment to the bit. (Except the bit here is learning to play the songs that my two-year-olds with eclectic musical taste enjoy.)
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about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
I think the best way for Mike White to cement his cross-genre legacy would be for him to produce a reality show in which players compete to be cast on the next season of White Lotus
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rax âlevon honkersâ king
about 1 month ago
reading a book about a bad person will in fact turn you into one. authors are lying to you about this because theyâre all bad people themselves
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This should be doing the rounds as regularly as that Tom Holland lip sync battle, repost and share widely
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about 1 month ago
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Nothing has made me love a 90 minute movie like being a parent of small children. Anything longer and I can't finish it between their bedtime and mine
about 1 month ago
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This Netflix 13 Going on 30 remake news is so fucking depressing
about 2 months ago
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Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy
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about 2 months ago
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