Aimee Knight
@siraimeeknight.bsky.social
Writer, editor, screen critic on Kaurna yerta. Neuroqueer as the day is long. Once called "Australia's foremost authority on weird little guys". She/her.
Stop Making Sense is the Jane Fonda Workout video for Autists (compliment)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Stop Making Sense is the Jane Fonda Workout video for Autists (compliment)
to ableist autistiphobes, i say: i hate people when they're not polite
October 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
to ableist autistiphobes, i say: i hate people when they're not polite
reading a lot of old profiles of david byrne, wishing i had a dollar for every time the journo makes a big to-do about the guy not making eye contact
October 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
reading a lot of old profiles of david byrne, wishing i had a dollar for every time the journo makes a big to-do about the guy not making eye contact
Among Diane Keaton’s many accomplishments is her 1987 directorial debut: the experimental documentary Heaven, about how people envisage life after death. It’s wacky, erratic, at times uncomfortable, and streaming in full on yt. Vale, DK 🖤
Heaven (1987) Documentary | History | Pop Culture | Diane Keaton
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October 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Among Diane Keaton’s many accomplishments is her 1987 directorial debut: the experimental documentary Heaven, about how people envisage life after death. It’s wacky, erratic, at times uncomfortable, and streaming in full on yt. Vale, DK 🖤
When I was 12, I recorded my own audience participation track to cassette, which I’d then listen back to, taking notes on how to punch up my jokes and delivery.
September 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
When I was 12, I recorded my own audience participation track to cassette, which I’d then listen back to, taking notes on how to punch up my jokes and delivery.
someone should give me—an autistic aunty with laser focus and great taste—a Dear Abby-type advice column (Dear Autie? Autie Aunt?), in which I dole out my incomparable autistic wisdom and opinions, i am not even joking
September 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
someone should give me—an autistic aunty with laser focus and great taste—a Dear Abby-type advice column (Dear Autie? Autie Aunt?), in which I dole out my incomparable autistic wisdom and opinions, i am not even joking
so i also have a big, beautiful autism announcement: i saw CATS on the weekend, will probably go again
September 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
so i also have a big, beautiful autism announcement: i saw CATS on the weekend, will probably go again
What a time to be pitching a hybrid memoir x travelogue that explores childhood, creativity, neurodiversity, education, nostalgia, and Jim Henson’s Muppets 👀
September 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
What a time to be pitching a hybrid memoir x travelogue that explores childhood, creativity, neurodiversity, education, nostalgia, and Jim Henson’s Muppets 👀
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BREAKING NEWS: The Muppet Show is returning! Set for 2026 on Disney+, in time for The Muppet Show's 50th anniversary.
www.toughpigs.com/muppet-show-...
www.toughpigs.com/muppet-show-...
BREAKING: The Muppet Show Returns! - ToughPigs
A new Muppet Show set in the Muppet Theatre is coming to Disney+ in 2026!
www.toughpigs.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
!!!
“Dicky’s daddy’s hand was shoved somewhere near Dicky’s brain stem. My throat was in my stomach. Their hearts were in vaudeville. But we were all in Kentucky.”
Mina Tavakoli at the ventriloquist convention is a new jewel in the crown of ‘curious outsider explores niche community’ journalism. Superb
Mina Tavakoli at the ventriloquist convention is a new jewel in the crown of ‘curious outsider explores niche community’ journalism. Superb
Planet Puppet | Mina Tavakoli
Nowhere did I witness the guardsmen at the gates of the mind — those responsible for self-consciousness and self-doubt — more swiftly outsmarted, pacified, or outright killed than in that room. And th...
www.nplusonemag.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:45 AM
“Dicky’s daddy’s hand was shoved somewhere near Dicky’s brain stem. My throat was in my stomach. Their hearts were in vaudeville. But we were all in Kentucky.”
Mina Tavakoli at the ventriloquist convention is a new jewel in the crown of ‘curious outsider explores niche community’ journalism. Superb
Mina Tavakoli at the ventriloquist convention is a new jewel in the crown of ‘curious outsider explores niche community’ journalism. Superb
Every day must surely be a day closer to finally seeing this www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
John Woo’s Next Film Is ‘A Half-Musical’ With Sparks: ‘My First Movie Where I Don’t Need A Stuntman’
Legendary Hong Kong director teases his upcoming Sparks movie – expected to be X Crucior. Read more at Empire.
www.empireonline.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Every day must surely be a day closer to finally seeing this www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
PLEASE i will read every single one of them
July 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
PLEASE i will read every single one of them
BRO one squillion percent
July 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
BRO one squillion percent
when i worked at borders in 2011, a man once asked me if we stocked 'Don Quickoats'
July 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
when i worked at borders in 2011, a man once asked me if we stocked 'Don Quickoats'
Surf’s up (mhmm, mhmm, mhmm) 🌊 I wrote about five of my favourite Brian Wilson songs for The Big Issue AU (though I was too sad, at the time, to mention ‘Ding Dang’) 🥕
The Brian Wilson Mixtape
Across the 1960s, The Beach Boys were a certified hit machine, with sensitive perfectionist Brian – like a cross between Phil Spector and a teddy bear – at the helm. But Brian’s body of work is more…
thebigissue.org.au
June 26, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Surf’s up (mhmm, mhmm, mhmm) 🌊 I wrote about five of my favourite Brian Wilson songs for The Big Issue AU (though I was too sad, at the time, to mention ‘Ding Dang’) 🥕
we did it! they were so beautiful! i think we accidentally saw two mating!
June 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
we did it! they were so beautiful! i think we accidentally saw two mating!
we’re just normal men
June 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
we’re just normal men
thinking a lot about these four, specifically
May 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
thinking a lot about these four, specifically
I’M SO PROUD OF HIM 😭
nathan fielder, drop your CAT-Q, brother
May 26, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I’M SO PROUD OF HIM 😭
nathan fielder, drop your CAT-Q, brother
May 21, 2025 at 5:12 AM
nathan fielder, drop your CAT-Q, brother
Uncredited script doctoring by Elaine May
What is one thing you fall for in a movie every single time?
May 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Uncredited script doctoring by Elaine May
Finally, some good news for once.
Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests
Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it
www.theguardian.com
May 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Finally, some good news for once.
An extract from my Muppet autism memoir got longlisted for a prize! Will this rush give me the courage to gatecrash the Flinders Uni Film Society's screening of The Muppet Movie tonight? (Jim, grant me the serenity to accept the eye contact I cannot return.)
CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest 2024 - CRAFT
CRAFT 2024 Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest November 13, 2024 – January 15, 2025 $3,400 Awarded Guest Judge: Donald Quist Thank you to all the writers who sent work to our 2024 Memoir Excerpt & Essay Co...
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May 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
An extract from my Muppet autism memoir got longlisted for a prize! Will this rush give me the courage to gatecrash the Flinders Uni Film Society's screening of The Muppet Movie tonight? (Jim, grant me the serenity to accept the eye contact I cannot return.)