Kathryn VanArendonk

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has seen our suitcases; is Not Pleased

I assume pink pony club is widely popular for exactly the same reason that I like it (good to rewrite so it’s about your pets)

today a Trader Joe’s employee overheard me on a call with my dentist, and when I finished, he said “dentists, man. My 92 year old grandma had so many bridges, when you went to kiss her you needed an EZPass.” poetry is everywhere

was out in the garden and then went heads down on a deadline, and then popped out of my office to hear VOICES IN MY SUPPOSEDLY OTHERWISE EMPTY HOME had no idea my husband was working from home this morning, was jump scared by mine own family

after realizing that the nearest white male owner of a car dealership could’ve won this election as long as he was under the age of 70, I have decided to turn off the debate

I got a root canal today and now I am, for some reason, watching this guess which is more painful

the bear s3! still great in scenes; a mess overall www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Bear Is Trappedwww.vulture.com Carmy can’t move ahead when he’s haunted by his past, and neither can season three.

a girl from the “pink pony club,” according to 7yo: - Jean jacket that says “pink pony club” - pink tshirt - teal “stretchy pants” - pink and white tevas - she rides bikes - you can see her purple pony tail under her bike helmet

some days I don’t think about my midwestern heritage, and some days I come very close to pitching “all the times someone in house of the dragon should’ve said ‘ope’”

we have, as a family, been playing this game called vampire survivors, and I am absolutely not a video game alarmist, am very open to letting kids play lots of video games but I think maybe that game has given me brain damage

7yo’s current preferred sandwich is Nutella + sour cream and onion potato chips this is innovation on a level I had not considered possible

I am prepared to call it: the proven winners meteor showers verbena is the annual of the summer

the two guys who’ve been busking in Penn Station on Wednesday nights lately do a decent Mrs Robinson

yesterday i got a request to do a radio hit about Bridgerton, and in a pre-call I learned the framing was "isn't it terrible that this is essentially porn, and there's no sense of propriety or dividing line between porn and mainstream TV?" based on my response they decided not to book me lmaooo

overhearing an enthusiastic young person in this coffee shop musing about how nice it might be to go to grad school, doing my best not to appear suddenly next to their table like the ghost of grad school future

NOW VARLEY THE BUGS www.vulture.com/article/brid...

Three Seasons of Bridgerton Culminate in One Line Readingwww.vulture.com “There is only one way to deliver that, and that is with urgency.”

to be clear, i love this little turn of phrase but it also makes it sound like she's an old timey newspaper editor or something? get on the horn and search up more info about that new city councilman!

does anyone else's kid use the phrase "search up" in the same way you'd use "google" as a verb? I can't tell if it's widespread or just a funny quirk of my kid, who is always telling me to please search up some youtube phenomenon, or to search up socks that look like boba, or etc

had a fun time with bridgerton while also thinking it has some real structural flaws that it cannot paper over with vibes www.vulture.com/article/brid...

Bridgerton Just Can’t Pull Off a Climaxwww.vulture.com But it almost doesn’t matter when the foreplay is this good.

this scene also made me want to claw my brain out

If anybody is curious about exactly the moment that this season of "The Boys" made me break and say, "Fuck you, you satire-anemic ghoulish simpletons," it was the bat mitzvah scene in the second episode. Anyway... for fans of the show... Happy "The Boys" Premiere Day!

look i know this is probably not on the top of the list of things you care about today, but you simply would not BELIEVE how many other plants are related to mint

so many days this time of year are a brave act of me actually sitting inside and doing the job that i am paid to do rather than driving to the nursery and buying more plants

today I’m spending time talking about the portrayal of law enforcement on tv, and then more time talking about what if the Tudor period had a marginalized community of shapeshifters

I do serious, important work www.vulture.com/article/hous...

It’s Not Too Late to Fix House of the Dragon’s Color Warswww.vulture.com It should be Team Gold versus Team Red.

VILLAIN

I am married to a man I started dating via aol instant messenger

Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: I still buy songs on the iTunes Store

7yo just announced that Oreos are an endangered species in our house but an invasive species in her tummy, and maybe I do talk too much about native plants hmmm

unfortunately I have brought my now-literate child to a broadway show and so she has discovered there is a harry potter play

being an elected official in the state of new york should immediately qualify you for some kind of screening process screening for what, i'm not entirely clear. but SOMEthing

children are fundamentally mysterious creatures and there’s just no way to know what they will and won’t like incredibly, mine seem to resent me waking them in the morning by bellowing JUNE IS BUSTIN’ OUT ALL OVER, and truly who could predict that!