Jessica Gentile
@volumeknobjess.bsky.social
Youth Services Librarian/ pop culture writer/ minions expert
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On avoiding the void...
Courtesy Stuart Murdoch's latest novel and a glowing craft project.
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My latest reads, my latest craft, my latest attempt to keep moving forward in difficult times …
At Home Depot next to a xmas minion and Olaf there was an inflatable nativity scene, which prompted my toddler to ask “WHAT SHOW IS THAT FROM??”
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
At Home Depot next to a xmas minion and Olaf there was an inflatable nativity scene, which prompted my toddler to ask “WHAT SHOW IS THAT FROM??”
The hardest part of making anything, art especially, is trying, trying and trying until something comes to fruition. If a book, a song, a film etc reaches your heart, reach out and tell the creator. Sometimes a small acknowledgement of effort is enough to keep going open.substack.com/pub/jessicag...
On Trying to Try
Some people always write everything down.
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October 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The hardest part of making anything, art especially, is trying, trying and trying until something comes to fruition. If a book, a song, a film etc reaches your heart, reach out and tell the creator. Sometimes a small acknowledgement of effort is enough to keep going open.substack.com/pub/jessicag...
I’m trying to try, ok
On Trying to Try
Some people always write everything down.
open.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I’m trying to try, ok
in case anyone’s wondering where my mental state’s at right now I just made a quackpell roan
September 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
in case anyone’s wondering where my mental state’s at right now I just made a quackpell roan
helluva day to start reading the new george saunders, 30 pages in and it reads like a climate change, christmas carol dystopia
September 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
helluva day to start reading the new george saunders, 30 pages in and it reads like a climate change, christmas carol dystopia
that’s moi espresso
Seth Rogen Revives ‘The Muppet Show’ as a Disney+ Special Starring Sabrina Carpenter
The 2026 event is meant to serve as a backdoor pilot.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
that’s moi espresso
shout out to the lady at the Labor Day food truck festival who karaoked “hopelessly devoted to you” in broad afternoon daylight
September 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
shout out to the lady at the Labor Day food truck festival who karaoked “hopelessly devoted to you” in broad afternoon daylight
How did i not know that James Patterson wrote the Toys R Us kids jingle?!?!? Hanging my head in shame because that’s the most on-brand piece of trivia I didn’t know until today.
August 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
How did i not know that James Patterson wrote the Toys R Us kids jingle?!?!? Hanging my head in shame because that’s the most on-brand piece of trivia I didn’t know until today.
Everything I know about New Age music, I learned from the Nickelodeon commercial breaks of my childhood
August 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Everything I know about New Age music, I learned from the Nickelodeon commercial breaks of my childhood
the only instance where I’m pro-ska
On Saturday, August 16, hundreds of Latinx punks gathered at MacArthur Park for an evening of anti-authoritarian cumbia and hardcore ska punk as one of the venue’s 10 free summer concerts.
By @jwhendricks.bsky.social
Full story: lataco.com/ska-punk-mac...
By @jwhendricks.bsky.social
Full story: lataco.com/ska-punk-mac...
August 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
the only instance where I’m pro-ska
Reposted by Jessica Gentile
had I not given birth to my child I would know her as my own simply because she got the most excited over seeing a tertiary (at best) character at sesame place
August 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
had I not given birth to my child I would know her as my own simply because she got the most excited over seeing a tertiary (at best) character at sesame place
had I not given birth to my child I would know her as my own simply because she got the most excited over seeing a tertiary (at best) character at sesame place
August 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
had I not given birth to my child I would know her as my own simply because she got the most excited over seeing a tertiary (at best) character at sesame place
KETCHUP SMOOTHIE TIME!
August 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
KETCHUP SMOOTHIE TIME!
Spoiler alert: it’s not just the screens
The Other Reasons Gen Z Parents Aren't Reading to their Kids
How free pizza, talking dogs and celebrity posters helped me love books as a child.
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August 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Spoiler alert: it’s not just the screens
wordle dad update
July 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
wordle dad update
Reposted by Jessica Gentile
Would anyone read an essay about the the polarities of masculinity and fatherhood as viewed through the timely lens of early 2000s reality tv staples “the osbournes” and “hogan knows best”???
July 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Would anyone read an essay about the the polarities of masculinity and fatherhood as viewed through the timely lens of early 2000s reality tv staples “the osbournes” and “hogan knows best”???
I am VERY available to write this piece!
Would anyone read an essay about the the polarities of masculinity and fatherhood as viewed through the timely lens of early 2000s reality tv staples “the osbournes” and “hogan knows best”???
July 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I am VERY available to write this piece!
Would anyone read an essay about the the polarities of masculinity and fatherhood as viewed through the timely lens of early 2000s reality tv staples “the osbournes” and “hogan knows best”???
July 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Would anyone read an essay about the the polarities of masculinity and fatherhood as viewed through the timely lens of early 2000s reality tv staples “the osbournes” and “hogan knows best”???
Reposted by Jessica Gentile
the new pulp album is evidence that once every few decades something good can happen
June 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
the new pulp album is evidence that once every few decades something good can happen
trying to figure out where “getting 8 teeth removed” sits on this week’s discomfort scale. right now it’s somewhere between dealing with blood in my toddler’s pee and dad’s worsening cancer
May 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
trying to figure out where “getting 8 teeth removed” sits on this week’s discomfort scale. right now it’s somewhere between dealing with blood in my toddler’s pee and dad’s worsening cancer
my current favorite thing my 2 yr old does is call any physical greeting card, an “EMAIL”
May 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
my current favorite thing my 2 yr old does is call any physical greeting card, an “EMAIL”