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Lena Dunham and Alissa Bennett’s podcast The C-Word has got to be my favorite of all time. As gen-z’s premier princess of ignominy, the comprehensive knowledge and history put into each episode has definitely helped me reckon with my own status as a controversial queen in a canon of women who have been gutted by the court of public opinion since pop culture’s dawn. This is some excellent broadcasting, and a project with this much heart and dedication is well worth the subscription to Luminary. Nothing makes my heart sing like long deserved vindication.
Nov 10, 2022
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Best podcast in town- i love those catty girls
Dec 12, 2023
laura & charles are The Final Word, imo, on popular culture!!!!!! their scope varies widely, from the met gala to sydney's "gay museum" to personal anecdotes etc etc.... their episode on piss counter-culture is probably the one i think about the most, as well as laura's queer autofiction piece "Horseshoe Theory/Hoof Restoration Very Satisfying" (sooooo beautiful)
Jul 15, 2024
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Join nunjournal and me at bird brain reeducation camp! Escape your gilded cage if only for a moment and allow us to brighten your day.
Episode 1: Escape the Pod
Emma Watson's pubic hair oil and Brown nepotism slay degree, jojoba oil, the struggles of yuppie pod life, the definition of birdbrained, Mormon mommy bloggers, backlash against aspirational girlboss lifestyle and pressure to have it all, linea alba, the undervaluation of feminized labor, the dehumanizing evils of food delivery apps and the status of gig workers as an underclass of people, Wall-E as prescient dark dystopian film, Dr. Hole and Ariana's border town upbringing, Julia Fox and Emrata's intellectual posturing, Your Fav is Problematic's twisted world that we're all just living in, cultural Protestantism vs. Catholicism, exercise as punishment, movement as hygiene, cankles, an exhaustive list of American Girl dolls and their lore from Kiddles Kidpedia, America as a country of failsons, trad LARPing, regretful parents, being dusty and crusty, House of the Dragon's swaglessness, Dr. Hole's Bridgerton trauma, retroactive victimization of Shelley Duvall and her legacy, Asia Argento's grooming scandal, and our excitement for our triumphant escapes from the pod.
Episode 2: Cackling Kamala
How ASMR could have saved Jeffrey Dahmer, Ariana's newfound interest in ASMR, Dr. Hole's misophonic rage, fundamental antisocial brokenness, and love for hot baths, Top of the Lake, Blue Maga, whether Kamala is brat, Ariana's cracker-sona Mackenzie, Trump losing his rhetorical sauce, Dr. Hole's Hillary Clinton hot sauce slay, reactionary rightoid delusions, Red Scare podcast host coomer sandpaper pussy and pelvic floor atonia, carnivore diet, inflammation as more than just a buzzword, the Ballerina Farms saga, why beautiful men look better without facial hair, Mormon soaking, upcoming buzzy trad wife influencer horror novel and film adaptation Yesteryear, and an update of life out of the pod.
Episode 3: 365 Temperate Girl
Dr. Hole's rediscovered hatred of pop music, listening to a song about getting dicked down so hard you can't walk in the middle of Subway, female welders, the rightoid monopoly on culture war issues and moral outrage, the arrest of living Roblox character Bobby George, salt of the earth libtards, GMO weed, potent fermented nootropic placebo beverages, adaptogens, Bella Hadid's brain colonizing bacteria, why Alton Brown is zaddy, and Adam Driver's GI bill Julliard education swag. Finally, Dr. Hole drunkenly rage baits Ariana about the perils of alcohol and the party lifestyle.
Sep 2, 2024
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Madonna. Julianne Moore. Willem Dafoe using his weird middle-heavy distended body to fuck them both. Madge domming the fuck out of Dafoe (she pours hot wax on his cock and fucks him with it! She gives him a handjob in an elevator full of people! He eats her pussy and gets his back cut open by shards of glass!) This movie is awesome. Had me feeling like a 12 year old boy discovering Cinemax after his parents went to bed.... watch it on Tubi! A legal erotic thriller that had my twat twitching!
Jan 30, 2024
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Did this for the first time back in July. I have never chain smoked more cigarettes or laughed harder than I did that night. Go to a drama bookshop or a library, pick out something random with an ensemble big enough to fit your group, and just go crazy. It’s pure fun and so silly but also really creatively engaging. We read some new-ish work called Family Furniture and it was pretty terrible, but it was a great time stumbling through it. All you need is a living room and the chutzpah to get choicey and you have a night made!
Nov 10, 2022
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Best gluten free pasta… nutty flavor, great texture, reminiscent of whole wheat… my life is so boring and slow and i’ve become a girl who recommends gluten free pasta. Whatever.
May 6, 2024