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Crystal Kile
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Founder & Librarian | College of the Alien Information Theory Book Club | Greater Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States of America

See also @alieninformationtheorybookclub Instagram & Substack
Poptart Show

Sat 29 Nov 2025

America at 250: Here comes Santa Claus

open.spotify.com/playlist/7hv...
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Thanksgiving Parade 2025

Theme and title float

Don’t Let the Turkeys Get You Down

Boynton, Sandra. (1986). Don’t Let the Turkeys Get You Down. Rev. ed. of: The Compleat Turkey, c 1980. New York: Workman Publishing Company.

See also “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum,” cornbread dressing
November 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
America at 250: The Battle for Chattanooga at 162

While field tripping at Bragg Reservation (Chickamauga-Chattanooga NPS), Joint Study Group America at 250 re-enacts the Union infantry rout of Confederate HQ, an event of the afternoon of 25 November 1863.
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
America at 250: #Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1863

22-25 November 2025 is the 162nd anniversary of The Battle for Chattanooga

“The Battle for Chattanooga in 4 Minutes”

via The American Battlefield Trust YouTube channel

youtu.be/YpeqJictmNQ
November 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
America at 250: A History

Class 19: Money, Power, and Progressivism

Beverly Gage is John Lewis Gaddis Professor of History, Yale University

youtu.be/aPo25QyOhMI
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I

Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)

www.imdb.com/title/tt3172...

Streaming via Tubi (US)

See also: The Collected Works of Phoebe Glockner

II

Foxes (1980)

www.imdb.com/title/tt0080...

Watch: youtu.be/zZrCIRtJiNQ
November 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
III

Foxfire (1996)

www.imdb.com/title/tt0116...

See also: The Collected Works of Joyce Carol Oates

MIDNIGHT

Reckless (1984)

www.imdb.com/title/tt0087...

See also:

Footloose (1984)

www.imdb.com/title/tt0087...
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Cinémathèque

14-21 November 2025

“Nobody’s Girl”

This program is rated R for sex, sexuality, and gender studies appropriate for mature adolescents
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
III

A program of patriotic music for Veterans Day

jerichobrassband.org

at University of Tennessee - Chattanooga

7 pm
Tue 11 Nov 2025
Roland Hayes Theater
Free

Made possible through the cooperation of Arts Build and Congressman Chuck Fleischmann (TN-3)
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Chapel

Veterans Day 2025

College of the Alien Information Theory Book Club
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“Descent Into Denial”

Discussion of the James Marcus “trans dad of a young adult daughter” piece in the *New Yorker*

Plus: The ongoing adventures of The Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine

Lagniappe: Viral transmission of the SEGM continuing education credit opportunity for pediatrics
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Sex, Sexuality, and The Gender Troubles Studies

Let us gather around this week’s episode of Informed Dissent

for

“Descent Into Denial”

via Substack
open.substack.com/pub/informed...

via YouTube
youtu.be/J4lakD1N15M
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
America At 250: A History

Reconstruction

Is it over?

with Professor David Blight, Sterling Professor of American History, Yale University

Class 14
youtu.be/k3ejQ28hGFI

Catch up to Class 16

Art: “Reunite America” by Michael Braley, Braley Design, c 2024-25
www.commarts.com/project/3813...
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Studies

Here comes the Practical Gender Unicorn Equitation and Care float

It’s a salute to

“The Metaphor of Gender,” Sasha Ayad’s post-“Gender: A Wider Lens” podcast (2025- )

youtube.com/@themetaphor...
November 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
What’s up?

Here comes Frank_Ape with Tips for Arists With Original Characters

Hello Frank_Ape!
November 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
November 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Chapel Halloween

Here comes VBS Inherit the Wind aboard the “Halloween Folklore Help Desk” float!

Topics include

“Fairytale creatures”
with Dr Juliette Wood
youtu.be/i61jkjPtMuw

and

“Witches”
with Dr Mikki Brock
youtu.be/NbPH9TcrRl4

with

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_...
October 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Here we are posing as M*A*S*H characters with a 1952 military police jeep from the Vital collection after communing with Audubon CHA and Friends of Harrison Bay State Park.

We experienced buffalo interface, then departed.

Thanks for the hospitality, Vital Farms crew.
October 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
America at 250: Week in Review

When: Saturday 18 October 2025

Where: Vital Farms up off Hwy 60, TN-29

The VBS Inherit The Wind Chapter of Joint Study Group America 250 at College of the Alien Information Theory Book Club arrived at Buffalofest 2025 in time for prayers.
October 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Chapel

America Held Hostage
Day 276

On the America at 250: A History channel

The cruel war begins

Note Tennessee held out to the end and so did Virginia and North Carolina

Your assignment: Engage your historical imaginations via the US Civil War memorials near you

youtu.be/yZ7LuXxEQVA
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
October 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Chapel

America Held Hostage
Day 275

Please join us as we welcome Jamie Reed

She is a sex realist Generation X American woman, a lesbian mom, and a founding convener of the Informed Dissent podcast.

You know her as the St Louis youth gender clinic whistleblower

open.substack.com/pub/jamiesmi...
October 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
America at 250: No Kings II

America held hostage by a second Trump Administration: Day 272
October 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Tip o’ my pro-democracy mass protest day hat back at ya

I’m glad and fascinated to observed activated gentlemen around me getting in touch with their inner frogs

May it be an overture to The Lost Lads of Pepedom:

Join US
October 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Poptart Show

“Don’t Panic”

Friday 18 October 2025

open.spotify.com/playlist/1rA...
October 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM