Anna | Podcaster, librarian, artist, gardener
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British-Canadian in Canada. Into art, history, and plants. Listen to my podcast, Teen People; the podcast where I track down people who were in TEEN PEOPLE magazine.
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I wrote a scholarly essay on Skelly, the Home Depot skeleton:
"For the low, low price of $299.00 USD / $398.00 CAD, the 12-foot skeleton will give your home a gothic aesthetic on the scale of an eighteenth-century folly."
Read more on @nichecanada.bsky.social:
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"For the low, low price of $299.00 USD / $398.00 CAD, the 12-foot skeleton will give your home a gothic aesthetic on the scale of an eighteenth-century folly."
Read more on @nichecanada.bsky.social:
niche-canada.org/2023/10/31/f...
Foreign Body: On the 12-Foot Skeleton as Supra-residential Memento Mori
Editor’s Note: This is the sixth post in the Ghost Light II: Monstrosities series edited by Caroline Abbott. The 2023 theme of this series aims to problematise the notion of “monstrosity” in the envir...
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October 3, 2024 at 9:41 PM
I wrote a scholarly essay on Skelly, the Home Depot skeleton:
"For the low, low price of $299.00 USD / $398.00 CAD, the 12-foot skeleton will give your home a gothic aesthetic on the scale of an eighteenth-century folly."
Read more on @nichecanada.bsky.social:
niche-canada.org/2023/10/31/f...
"For the low, low price of $299.00 USD / $398.00 CAD, the 12-foot skeleton will give your home a gothic aesthetic on the scale of an eighteenth-century folly."
Read more on @nichecanada.bsky.social:
niche-canada.org/2023/10/31/f...
It is making me rather emotional to consider that Jane Goodall's childhood stuffed toy still sits on her dresser in London, and is presumably waiting for her to come home from her speaking tour
October 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
It is making me rather emotional to consider that Jane Goodall's childhood stuffed toy still sits on her dresser in London, and is presumably waiting for her to come home from her speaking tour
Weird that @theguardian.com is calling their liveblog "US politics" as if this isn't also Canadian and Mexican politics. And as if the US president isn't posing a threat to Canadian sovereignty and our very statehood.
February 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Weird that @theguardian.com is calling their liveblog "US politics" as if this isn't also Canadian and Mexican politics. And as if the US president isn't posing a threat to Canadian sovereignty and our very statehood.
Bizarre to me that mainstream news orgs are softening and normalizing the idea of the US "annexing" Canada. Consider this definition from an unrelated story in The Economist: "This usually follows military occupation."
So, the correct term is "invade" not "annex".
So, the correct term is "invade" not "annex".
January 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Bizarre to me that mainstream news orgs are softening and normalizing the idea of the US "annexing" Canada. Consider this definition from an unrelated story in The Economist: "This usually follows military occupation."
So, the correct term is "invade" not "annex".
So, the correct term is "invade" not "annex".
On the latest episode of Teen People podcast, I speak with Lisa Whittington-Hill about her essay collection GIRLS, INTERRUPTED (Véhicule Press, 2023); a timely work of non-fiction that challenges longstanding media portrayals of famous women. soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepo...
Girls, Interrupted: Lisa Whittington-Hill on Winona Ryder, Courtney Love, and Amy Winehouse
Teen People is inspired by my collection of TEEN PEOPLE magazines. Published between 1998 and 2006, TEEN PEOPLE featured real teens in every magazine. Two decades on, I track down TEEN PEOPLE's real t
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December 30, 2024 at 2:42 AM
On the latest episode of Teen People podcast, I speak with Lisa Whittington-Hill about her essay collection GIRLS, INTERRUPTED (Véhicule Press, 2023); a timely work of non-fiction that challenges longstanding media portrayals of famous women. soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepo...
On a new episode of Teen People podcast, I speak with Lisa Whittington-Hill about her essay collection GIRLS, INTERRUPTED (Véhicule Press, 2023); a timely work of non-fiction that challenges longstanding media portrayals of famous women. soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepo...
Girls, Interrupted: Lisa Whittington-Hill on Winona Ryder, Courtney Love, and Amy Winehouse
Teen People is inspired by my collection of TEEN PEOPLE magazines. Published between 1998 and 2006, TEEN PEOPLE featured real teens in every magazine. Two decades on, I track down TEEN PEOPLE's real t
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December 15, 2024 at 2:25 PM
On a new episode of Teen People podcast, I speak with Lisa Whittington-Hill about her essay collection GIRLS, INTERRUPTED (Véhicule Press, 2023); a timely work of non-fiction that challenges longstanding media portrayals of famous women. soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepo...
Just thinking about the fact that the artists, heritage workers and craftspeople being applauded at Notre Dame rn would have degrees and educational pathways that would earn them so much online hate from the very people who are happy their guy is there this evening
December 7, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Just thinking about the fact that the artists, heritage workers and craftspeople being applauded at Notre Dame rn would have degrees and educational pathways that would earn them so much online hate from the very people who are happy their guy is there this evening
I know times are tough, but I have to say it: it is way too early to put up your Christmas tree. I've been out raking leaves this morning. The neighbours mowed their lawn. My roses have buds. I'm in SE Ontario, Canada. We haven't had even a hint of snow here. It's still fall. #FlowerReport 🍂
November 17, 2024 at 6:36 PM
I know times are tough, but I have to say it: it is way too early to put up your Christmas tree. I've been out raking leaves this morning. The neighbours mowed their lawn. My roses have buds. I'm in SE Ontario, Canada. We haven't had even a hint of snow here. It's still fall. #FlowerReport 🍂
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My theory is that Jack Vettriano was doing AI art before AI art
October 22, 2023 at 1:54 AM
My theory is that Jack Vettriano was doing AI art before AI art
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"It's such a joyful thing, to be Jewish, I think. But we hold two truths at the same time."
In 2022, I spoke with Rabbi Andrew Oberstein on Teen People, the podcast where I track down people who were in Teen People magazine as youths. Hear more from him here: Soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepod/andrew
In 2022, I spoke with Rabbi Andrew Oberstein on Teen People, the podcast where I track down people who were in Teen People magazine as youths. Hear more from him here: Soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepod/andrew
Right place, right time: Rabbi Andrew Oberstein's leap of faith
In 2005, Rabbi Andrew Oberstein was a budding theatre kid in Los Angeles, when Teen People magazine invited him to interview Sandra Bullock. "I loved Miss Congeniality," he told me, "so I thought, 'wh
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October 21, 2023 at 2:37 PM
"It's such a joyful thing, to be Jewish, I think. But we hold two truths at the same time."
In 2022, I spoke with Rabbi Andrew Oberstein on Teen People, the podcast where I track down people who were in Teen People magazine as youths. Hear more from him here: Soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepod/andrew
In 2022, I spoke with Rabbi Andrew Oberstein on Teen People, the podcast where I track down people who were in Teen People magazine as youths. Hear more from him here: Soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepod/andrew
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Sarah Ditum's book, TOXIC, is a scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities (including Britney, Paris, and Lindsay), and how Y2K-era blogs and tabloids shaped the way we see ourselves, our bodies, and our lives. soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepod/sarah-ditum-toxic
Part I: Sarah Ditum on the 2000s:
In part one of a two-part interview, I speak with Sarah Ditum about her new book, TOXIC. It’s a scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities: Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lo
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April 3, 2024 at 11:11 PM
Sarah Ditum's book, TOXIC, is a scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities (including Britney, Paris, and Lindsay), and how Y2K-era blogs and tabloids shaped the way we see ourselves, our bodies, and our lives. soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepod/sarah-ditum-toxic
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Jenny Mushkin Goldman was 17 when anti-abortion protestors ambushed her high school in 1999. Over two decades later, she recounted these events with me, in a timely examination of protest, radicalization, and the long undoing of Roe v. Wade. On Teen People podcast: soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepod/jenny
The one where we talk about reproductive rights
Jenny Mushkin Goldman was 17 years old when a group of anti-abortion protestors ambushed her high school, in the summer of 1999. TEEN PEOPLE magazine was there to capture the scene, and quoted Jenny i
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June 28, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Jenny Mushkin Goldman was 17 when anti-abortion protestors ambushed her high school in 1999. Over two decades later, she recounted these events with me, in a timely examination of protest, radicalization, and the long undoing of Roe v. Wade. On Teen People podcast: soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepod/jenny
'Twas ever thus
People really are out in public with the gnarliest coughs right now
November 15, 2024 at 12:24 AM
'Twas ever thus
I wrote a scholarly essay on Skelly, the Home Depot skeleton:
"For the low, low price of $299.00 USD / $398.00 CAD, the 12-foot skeleton will give your home a gothic aesthetic on the scale of an eighteenth-century folly."
Read more on @nichecanada.bsky.social:
niche-canada.org/2023/10/31/f...
"For the low, low price of $299.00 USD / $398.00 CAD, the 12-foot skeleton will give your home a gothic aesthetic on the scale of an eighteenth-century folly."
Read more on @nichecanada.bsky.social:
niche-canada.org/2023/10/31/f...
Foreign Body: On the 12-Foot Skeleton as Supra-residential Memento Mori
Editor’s Note: This is the sixth post in the Ghost Light II: Monstrosities series edited by Caroline Abbott. The 2023 theme of this series aims to problematise the notion of “monstrosity” in the envir...
niche-canada.org
October 3, 2024 at 9:41 PM
I wrote a scholarly essay on Skelly, the Home Depot skeleton:
"For the low, low price of $299.00 USD / $398.00 CAD, the 12-foot skeleton will give your home a gothic aesthetic on the scale of an eighteenth-century folly."
Read more on @nichecanada.bsky.social:
niche-canada.org/2023/10/31/f...
"For the low, low price of $299.00 USD / $398.00 CAD, the 12-foot skeleton will give your home a gothic aesthetic on the scale of an eighteenth-century folly."
Read more on @nichecanada.bsky.social:
niche-canada.org/2023/10/31/f...
Breaking my silence on this app to say that apparently Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #387,748 when I signed up!
October 3, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Breaking my silence on this app to say that apparently Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #387,748 when I signed up!
I interviewed film critic @aduralde.bsky.social about his book, HOLLYWOOD PRIDE! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
We talk BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, gay marriage, and what happened when Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich were photographed having too much fun at Carole Lombard's birthday party 👀
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We talk BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, gay marriage, and what happened when Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich were photographed having too much fun at Carole Lombard's birthday party 👀
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Film critic, author and podcaster Alonso Duralde on his book, HOLLYWOOD PRIDE
Alonso Duralde joins me to talk about his new book, 'Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film'. Published in May 2024, 'Hollywood Pride' presents a history of f
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July 1, 2024 at 2:08 PM
I interviewed film critic @aduralde.bsky.social about his book, HOLLYWOOD PRIDE! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
We talk BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, gay marriage, and what happened when Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich were photographed having too much fun at Carole Lombard's birthday party 👀
soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepo...
We talk BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, gay marriage, and what happened when Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich were photographed having too much fun at Carole Lombard's birthday party 👀
soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepo...
Jenny Mushkin Goldman was 17 when anti-abortion protestors ambushed her high school in 1999. Over two decades later, she recounted these events with me, in a timely examination of protest, radicalization, and the long undoing of Roe v. Wade. On Teen People podcast: soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepod/jenny
The one where we talk about reproductive rights
Jenny Mushkin Goldman was 17 years old when a group of anti-abortion protestors ambushed her high school, in the summer of 1999. TEEN PEOPLE magazine was there to capture the scene, and quoted Jenny i
soundcloud.com
June 28, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Jenny Mushkin Goldman was 17 when anti-abortion protestors ambushed her high school in 1999. Over two decades later, she recounted these events with me, in a timely examination of protest, radicalization, and the long undoing of Roe v. Wade. On Teen People podcast: soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepod/jenny
People really are out in public with the gnarliest coughs right now
June 28, 2024 at 10:07 PM
People really are out in public with the gnarliest coughs right now
So far the one guy is out-talking the other guy, which is not a good sign.
June 28, 2024 at 1:29 AM
So far the one guy is out-talking the other guy, which is not a good sign.
NEVER BEEN KISSED (1999)
May 29, 2024 at 12:01 PM
NEVER BEEN KISSED (1999)
Sarah Ditum's book, TOXIC, is a scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities (including Britney, Paris, and Lindsay), and how Y2K-era blogs and tabloids shaped the way we see ourselves, our bodies, and our lives. soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepod/sarah-ditum-toxic
Part I: Sarah Ditum on the 2000s:
In part one of a two-part interview, I speak with Sarah Ditum about her new book, TOXIC. It’s a scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities: Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lo
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April 3, 2024 at 11:11 PM
Sarah Ditum's book, TOXIC, is a scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities (including Britney, Paris, and Lindsay), and how Y2K-era blogs and tabloids shaped the way we see ourselves, our bodies, and our lives. soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepod/sarah-ditum-toxic
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I wrote what is perhaps the first scholarly essay on the 12-foot skeleton:
"For the low, low price of $299.00 USD / $398.00 CAD, the 12-foot skeleton will give your home a gothic aesthetic on the scale of an eighteenth-century folly." niche-canada.org/2023/10/31/f...
"For the low, low price of $299.00 USD / $398.00 CAD, the 12-foot skeleton will give your home a gothic aesthetic on the scale of an eighteenth-century folly." niche-canada.org/2023/10/31/f...
Foreign Body: On the 12-Foot Skeleton as Supra-residential Memento Mori
Editor’s Note: This is the sixth post in the Ghost Light II: Monstrosities series edited by Caroline Abbott. The 2023 theme of this series aims to problematise the notion of “monstrosity” in the...
niche-canada.org
November 2, 2023 at 12:27 PM
I wrote what is perhaps the first scholarly essay on the 12-foot skeleton:
"For the low, low price of $299.00 USD / $398.00 CAD, the 12-foot skeleton will give your home a gothic aesthetic on the scale of an eighteenth-century folly." niche-canada.org/2023/10/31/f...
"For the low, low price of $299.00 USD / $398.00 CAD, the 12-foot skeleton will give your home a gothic aesthetic on the scale of an eighteenth-century folly." niche-canada.org/2023/10/31/f...
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As a teen, James Frankie Thomas modelled a prom dress in a 2004 issue of TEEN PEOPLE. Now, he's the author of a compelling novel, IDLEWILD. Set in Manhattan in the early 2000s, IDLEWILD is told through narration, fanfic, DMs, lists and stage direction. More: soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepod/jamesfthomas
James Frankie Thomas on his homoerotic, post-9/11 campus novel, IDLEWILD
As a teen, James Frankie Thomas modelled a prom dress and smooch-proof makeup in a 2004 issue of TEEN PEOPLE magazine. Now, he's the author of a compelling novel, IDLEWILD, published by The Overlook P
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November 29, 2023 at 3:09 AM
As a teen, James Frankie Thomas modelled a prom dress in a 2004 issue of TEEN PEOPLE. Now, he's the author of a compelling novel, IDLEWILD. Set in Manhattan in the early 2000s, IDLEWILD is told through narration, fanfic, DMs, lists and stage direction. More: soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepod/jamesfthomas
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When Heather (not her real name) was in Teen People in 2005, she described how coming out changed her life. The article stayed with Resi Ibañez for years, so they reached out to me to see whether I could track it down for them. Was I successful? Find out: soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepod/resi-ibanez
"I'm writing the book I needed": storytelling with poet-historian Resi Ibañez
Resi Ibañez is a poet, public historian, and community organizer in Lowell, Massachusetts. We connected on Instagram, when they sent me a DM asking if I could track down a TEEN PEOPLE article they re...
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February 3, 2024 at 3:33 PM
When Heather (not her real name) was in Teen People in 2005, she described how coming out changed her life. The article stayed with Resi Ibañez for years, so they reached out to me to see whether I could track it down for them. Was I successful? Find out: soundcloud.com/teenpeoplepod/resi-ibanez
Tomorrow (02/20) on Teen People podcast:
Sarah Ditum speaks with me about her new book, TOXIC, a scathing reexamination of celebrity culture in the 2000s; the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and tabloids fed by paparazzi who'd do anything to get the shot.
Sarah Ditum speaks with me about her new book, TOXIC, a scathing reexamination of celebrity culture in the 2000s; the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and tabloids fed by paparazzi who'd do anything to get the shot.
February 20, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Tomorrow (02/20) on Teen People podcast:
Sarah Ditum speaks with me about her new book, TOXIC, a scathing reexamination of celebrity culture in the 2000s; the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and tabloids fed by paparazzi who'd do anything to get the shot.
Sarah Ditum speaks with me about her new book, TOXIC, a scathing reexamination of celebrity culture in the 2000s; the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and tabloids fed by paparazzi who'd do anything to get the shot.