Marguerite Croft
@mcroft.bsky.social
Mom, Anishinaabe, Clarion West alum, part of team Point Mystic. Also, I write stuff.
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MOJO celebrates Brian Wilson: the genius who hymned the American dream and its shadow flipside with raw spirituality and symphonic sophistication.
"Music takes what’s inside me and puts it into the world..."
www.mojo4music.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
MOJO celebrates Brian Wilson: the genius who hymned the American dream and its shadow flipside with raw spirituality and symphonic sophistication.
Saw Ella McCay tonight. It felt both sweetly nostalgic and fresh, a film with elements from other eras talking about our now. I loved how the main storyline seemingly diverted into small stories that illustrate the film’s heart. I left the theater delighted and full of hope, which I deeply needed.
December 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Saw Ella McCay tonight. It felt both sweetly nostalgic and fresh, a film with elements from other eras talking about our now. I loved how the main storyline seemingly diverted into small stories that illustrate the film’s heart. I left the theater delighted and full of hope, which I deeply needed.
A delightful thread
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
A delightful thread
Turned on The X-Files and ALL the Gen Z Thanksgiving dinner attendees were immediately and totally sucked in. I’m delighted. (“Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space’” for the sweet potato pie, of course)
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Turned on The X-Files and ALL the Gen Z Thanksgiving dinner attendees were immediately and totally sucked in. I’m delighted. (“Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space’” for the sweet potato pie, of course)
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Because it's Friday! This song is a legend any day of the week.
The Cure - Friday I'm In Love
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November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Because it's Friday! This song is a legend any day of the week.
Husband is reading ACOTAR. I’m having the best time watching him take the emotional journey. He was about to DNF the series in book one when a character used physical coercion on the FMC—he said if she didn’t kill this other character as soon as she had the chance, he was done with the series.
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Husband is reading ACOTAR. I’m having the best time watching him take the emotional journey. He was about to DNF the series in book one when a character used physical coercion on the FMC—he said if she didn’t kill this other character as soon as she had the chance, he was done with the series.
I want a metal cover album of songs from PBS with proceeds going to the CPB. I want the bands to run the spectrum of metal and I want them to not forget 3-2-1 Contact and The Electric Company. Gwar was meant to cover Tom Leher’s “Silent E.”
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I want a metal cover album of songs from PBS with proceeds going to the CPB. I want the bands to run the spectrum of metal and I want them to not forget 3-2-1 Contact and The Electric Company. Gwar was meant to cover Tom Leher’s “Silent E.”
Not a surprise, but: Going through my closet and struck by the excellent quality of clothes from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s. Even 2000s. All of it usable for quite a while to come while clothes bought last year, even earlier this year, from retailers whose goods once lasted years are falling apart.
November 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Not a surprise, but: Going through my closet and struck by the excellent quality of clothes from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s. Even 2000s. All of it usable for quite a while to come while clothes bought last year, even earlier this year, from retailers whose goods once lasted years are falling apart.
If I owned a movie theater, I’d show The Crow every October 30th and encourage people to dress up. And we’d play the soundtrack in the lobby.
October 31, 2025 at 3:58 AM
If I owned a movie theater, I’d show The Crow every October 30th and encourage people to dress up. And we’d play the soundtrack in the lobby.
What NaNoWriMo alternates are folx using this November?
October 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
What NaNoWriMo alternates are folx using this November?
2025 and I’m still grateful for Y Kant Tori Read
October 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
2025 and I’m still grateful for Y Kant Tori Read
Oh friends! Happy Halloween month! Garth Marenghi’s conversation with Mike Flanagan is live! youtu.be/q7dyWmIPXFk?...
Garth Marenghi meets Mike Flanagan - GARTH MARENGHI’S SKULL-FLUSHER
YouTube video by Garth Marenghi
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October 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Oh friends! Happy Halloween month! Garth Marenghi’s conversation with Mike Flanagan is live! youtu.be/q7dyWmIPXFk?...
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Gotta be honest - it was absolutely impossible not to laugh. My face hurt by the end of this.
Cackling at @mikeflanaganfilm.com trying to remain composed as Garth Marenghi describes the plot to his script for Bitchfinder General 🤣
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Gotta be honest - it was absolutely impossible not to laugh. My face hurt by the end of this.
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Hey peeps, many library cards will give you free access to Kanopy! Here are some horror movies they have in their library: The Vourdalak, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Train to Busan, Exhuma, Oddity, Let the Right One In, The Wicker Man, Birth/Rebirth, Titane, Starve Acre, Ganja & Hess.
October 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Hey peeps, many library cards will give you free access to Kanopy! Here are some horror movies they have in their library: The Vourdalak, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Train to Busan, Exhuma, Oddity, Let the Right One In, The Wicker Man, Birth/Rebirth, Titane, Starve Acre, Ganja & Hess.
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"I had to work 10 times harder than the average man just to get the same level of recognition," Jane Goodall told us in 2020. "But once I had made a name for myself, I let the data speak for me."
Jane Goodall on Fighting Sexism and What Chimpanzees Taught Her
Jane Goodall discusses what keeps her motivated six decades into her career and how she combated sexism.
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October 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"I had to work 10 times harder than the average man just to get the same level of recognition," Jane Goodall told us in 2020. "But once I had made a name for myself, I let the data speak for me."
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Jane Goodall, from a March 2020 Paste Magazine interview: www.pastemagazine.com/article/jane...
October 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Jane Goodall, from a March 2020 Paste Magazine interview: www.pastemagazine.com/article/jane...
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Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.
October 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.
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What a queen.
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
What a queen.
Reminded myself today that Open Culture is still a thing! www.openculture.com
Open Culture - The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web.
Discover thousands of free online courses, audio books, movies, textbooks, eBooks, language lessons, and more.
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September 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Reminded myself today that Open Culture is still a thing! www.openculture.com
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A TRC Day listicle for CBC. Enough books here to keep you going through the winter.
"These books helped me understand the willfulness of that not knowing and peoples' willingness to believe other stories about those schools."
www.cbc.ca/books/patty-...
"These books helped me understand the willfulness of that not knowing and peoples' willingness to believe other stories about those schools."
www.cbc.ca/books/patty-...
Patty Krawec's 'must-read' books to reflect on the Indigenous experience in North America | CBC Books
Sept. 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. The Anishinaabe Ukrainian author and activist recommends 18 titles to read today and beyond.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A TRC Day listicle for CBC. Enough books here to keep you going through the winter.
"These books helped me understand the willfulness of that not knowing and peoples' willingness to believe other stories about those schools."
www.cbc.ca/books/patty-...
"These books helped me understand the willfulness of that not knowing and peoples' willingness to believe other stories about those schools."
www.cbc.ca/books/patty-...
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“Every time we go and harvest #Manoomin, we are acting in resistance, we are acting in resilience, and we’re thriving as people.”
The good berry: #Anishinaabe resilience through the harvest of Manoomin canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the...
The good berry: #Anishinaabe resilience through the harvest of Manoomin canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the...
The good berry: Anishinaabe resilience through the harvest of Manoomin
Throughout the Great Lakes, Anishinaabeg communities work together to sow the seeds of success for wild rice
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September 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
“Every time we go and harvest #Manoomin, we are acting in resistance, we are acting in resilience, and we’re thriving as people.”
The good berry: #Anishinaabe resilience through the harvest of Manoomin canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the...
The good berry: #Anishinaabe resilience through the harvest of Manoomin canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the...
And this dude named Matt dancing around the world…
September 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
And this dude named Matt dancing around the world…
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Remember when viral videos were just like a really high dude being awe struck by multiple rainbows?
September 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Remember when viral videos were just like a really high dude being awe struck by multiple rainbows?
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A great creator's essay from the great Michael Chabon on one of the best books I've ever read (and one of the most fun books to work on I've yet worked on).
Silver and Gold
On the 25th anniversary of *The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay*
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September 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A great creator's essay from the great Michael Chabon on one of the best books I've ever read (and one of the most fun books to work on I've yet worked on).
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We all know ‘tragedy’ comes from Greek.
‘tragos’ = goat
‘aeidein’ = to sing
So ‘tragedy’ originally meant “goat song.”
Not to be confused with the GOAT song, which is probably “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.
‘tragos’ = goat
‘aeidein’ = to sing
So ‘tragedy’ originally meant “goat song.”
Not to be confused with the GOAT song, which is probably “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.
September 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We all know ‘tragedy’ comes from Greek.
‘tragos’ = goat
‘aeidein’ = to sing
So ‘tragedy’ originally meant “goat song.”
Not to be confused with the GOAT song, which is probably “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.
‘tragos’ = goat
‘aeidein’ = to sing
So ‘tragedy’ originally meant “goat song.”
Not to be confused with the GOAT song, which is probably “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.