Mike Barthel
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Mike Barthel
@mikebarthelauthor.com
Writer/critic/researcher/musician in DC. Fiction lotsa places. Writing a speculative novel and a book for DUP “Singles” about “Party in the USA.” mikebarthelauthor.com
Making music as APOPHRA https://apophra.bandcamp.com/
Same energy
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Definitely “Queenagers” is the name of a CW show about a boarding school for European royalty.
November 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
“If I’m in luck I might get hugged”
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Also got Betty!
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
She’d had a few glasses of wine and I think probably meant that she and her friends read Vonnegut as teens. But I think the equivalent teens these days are also reading lit fic of some sort.
November 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
That was my feeling, yes.
November 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Pumpkin pie done, tart shell blind baked for cranberry curd, apple pie filling precooked (new technique this year, see how it goes)
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I’m taking boy twin to the Marjorie Post house, he’s loving it.
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I thought about this post too long and my brain composed an EDM song where a pinched voice repeats “milk, milk, lemonade, milk, milk, lemonade” over the build and then just before the drop it goes “turn the corner [down an octave, robotic] fudge is made”
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Yeah, she’s too determined for confessional to work as a mode for her—even her inspirational songs have this undertone of implied vengeance against her foes.
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I was definitely shown how to do it by my dirtbag friend in middle school at our local supermarket and then never again.
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM