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You're In A Lesbian Pulp Novel From 1958! What's Distracting You From Work And Causing Your Heterosexual Coworker Nora To Glance Curiously…
The Chatner has been astonishingly ill and in bed all week.
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Daniel Lavery
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Advice Everyone Should Follow
I'm planning on getting around to some of these myself
Feb 6
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Daniel Lavery
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The Sad Butler Movie Index
(If the Butler Movie breaks on the side of emphasizing dignity, it’s sad; if it breaks on the side of emphasizing hauteur, it’s happy.)
Feb 3
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Daniel Lavery
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January 2026
The platonic equivalent of r/deadbedrooms and friendship crop rotation
"This creates its own problem when all your friends have known you for the same length of time, like how farmers need to practice crop rotation or else…
Jan 30
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Daniel Lavery
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Signs You're A Doctor In A Midcentury Novel
“Have you still got those yellow pills I gave you?” “Your father’s heart is weak. You must never tell him this; it would weaken his heart.” “The best…
Jan 27
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Daniel Lavery
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Everything Beebo Brinker Eats and Drinks in the 1962 Lesbian Pulp Classic "Beebo Brinker"
You'd never guess how many times Beebo Brinker defiantly drinks milk in the lesbian pulp fiction "Beebo Brinker" Chronicles.
Jan 23
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Daniel Lavery
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They Got Me At Last. I Became A Cyclist
“I’m just like you,” I want to say, instead of “On your left.” This isn’t who I am, not really. It’s not the wheels, but the feet that matter.
Jan 19
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Daniel Lavery
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A Biblical Exegesis of P.D. Eastman's "Go, Dog, Go"
"Work, dogs, work!" Exodus 5:9: “Let more work be laid on them, that they may labor in it.”
Jan 12
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Daniel Lavery
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I'll Tell You This For Free: Never Get The First Vitamin They Tell You To Buy
Elsewhere: I wrote about visiting gay bathhouses for Coyote last week.
Jan 6
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Daniel Lavery
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December 2025
What Every Non-Fiction Book Is Called Now
we all remember the “tiny things we know to be small” title crisis of 2022 but we ought not overlook nonfiction titles like
Dec 29, 2025
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Daniel Lavery
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The Best Lines From John Collier's "His Monkey Wife"
"Mr. Bernard Shaw would have been delighted. So was the chimp.”
Dec 16, 2025
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Daniel Lavery
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"The Shop Around The Corner" Without Any Christmas or Romance Is Still A Pretty Good Movie About Luggage Inventory
“That’s a new silver fox!
Dec 12, 2025
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Daniel Lavery
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