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amandalehr.bsky.social
the lehr witch project
@amandalehr.bsky.social
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Skeleton with some meat on it. The Audacity, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Electric Lit, Bright Wall/Dark Room, The Novelizers, a box to be opened in the event of my death.

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thank you for giving me this recovered memory from RAMONA THE PEST
“Why don’t you turn on the dawnzer?” Ramona asked, proud of her new word… “it give a lee light. We sing about it every morning in kindergarten.”
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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whenever someone walks by with a Great Dane, i feel compelled to watch it pass like this:
Black and white photo of the enormous SS President Grant Steamship gliding parallel to crowd of people watching with great interest. Seattle, 6/12/1926.
September 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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the broth thickens
Image of beloved red-headed can-stacking baby from Wikipedia page for autism. Boy is wearing a red sweatshirt and white sweatpants, facing away from the camera as he stacks cans almost to his own height. In the background, an open cabinet of cans is visible. A red circle has been drawn around a cluster of Campbell’s Soups.
August 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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not to brag, but the vet just diagnosed my son as “handsome, sweet, and dumb”
Handsome black cat sitting like a sphinx, but with his bubblegum-pink tongue tip poking out. His green eyes stare vacantly into space.
August 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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how it feels to chase an episode of THE GILDED AGE with THE KNICK
Santa Monica Meme houses: on the left, a pink and purple Barbie Dream House-esque mansion, trimmed in white that makes it look even more like a plastic toy. On the right, a fortress of what resembles black adobe with few windows and an arced roof.
July 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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I took this exact picture on Sunday 💀
Copy of Stendhal’s THE RED AND THE BLACK in the “Literature Only” slot on back of airplane seat
May 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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“he doesn’t look like a pope — he has too much hair”
Tedesco, frowning, seated, and serving.
May 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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just spent 5 min looking for a shirt i was already wearing
Tattooed Guy Pearce in MEMENTO holding open his blue button-up shirt and staring at his ink in perplexity
May 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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one from me on the OONN today: how giving your medical history can feel like becoming a museum exhibit

drop-dead gorgeous artwork by @soladraws (find her on IG!)

thanks as always to my co-editor @iangoldstein.bsky.social

See it all here: outofnetworknetwork.substack.com/p/ladies-and...
Drawing of person (OP) from the waist up. She has pale skin and a pixie haircut. Looking gently downward, she holds open her torso like a medicine cabinet with three “shelves.” Inside, tiny doctors in scrubs stand on the different levels like dolls in a dollhouse. They inspect the colorful internal organs with bemusement. Near the heart, one doctor holds up a tiny tuxedo cat (a ringer for OP’s own pet) and playfully looks at her tummy.
May 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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cool cool cool
“Guess I’ll die” meme with shrugging older man in red shirt
April 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Pierbattista Pizzaballa, it’s time
Sloppily doctored screencap from CONCLAVE: a weary Cardinal Lawrence saying “Let us pray that God will grant us a Pope who[se name fits perfectly into the ‘NINJA TURTLES’ theme song”
April 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Today’s OONN: surprise bills for a surprise stay in the NICU with surprise twins

thanks to @kmaiolatesi and Sandi Marx (plus, her twins, Kira and Lindsey)

outofnetworknetwork.substack.com/p/twins-in-t...
Drawing of woman sitting on doctor’s exam table (in front of a huge American flag) holding twin babies. The doctor smiles and waves: “Good morning! This is America, so for bringing new life into the world that’ll be $500,250 in 1988 dollars.”
April 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Today on the OONN: a truly wild ride courtesy of Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell!

Read and subscribe (if you haven’t already): outofnetworknetwork.substack.com/p/my-bonus-u...
Female patient on exam table in stirrups. Female doctor with crossed arms says “you have 2 uteruses.” The patient touches her belly in alarm and shouts “Where?!”
April 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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she’s going to get that third rat
TV showing THE PITT — Drs. Mohan and King smiling at one another. In between them, a small tuxedo cat stands in front of the screen like she’s part of their huddle.
April 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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i am so fucking late
OP’s hand holding a curbed copy of NEW JERSEY ROADMAPS OF THE 18TH CENTURY, complete with a small woodcut of a gentleman on horseback.
April 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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no i said no i won’t no
Curbed copies of Joyce’s ULYSSES and Melody Beattie’s CODEPENDENT NO MORE
March 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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ok, now i’ve caught up, i got closer than i thought
Split screen of poolside Michelle Monaghan looking at a greying Australian woman in horror.
March 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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the art / the artist
Dining room table on a severe tilt because one leg has been blown out to the side by *someone* jumping up on the same corner every day for a year. Close up of OP’s hands cradling the head of a black cat with green eyes. He stares at the camera with a blank, unrepentant expression. Two vampire fangs protrude over his lip.
March 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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she’s back
A tall forsythia blooms bright yellow in front of a row of old apartment buildings — white with bay windows, bright red brick, brown with balconies. Tips of a wrought iron fence peek into the foreground. The sky is blue above with fluffy clouds
March 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Park Chan-wook is such a real one for sharing his Catholic Priest Vampire Zola fanfic
Wiki blurb for THIRST (2009) which states it’s based on Therese Raquin and about a “Catholic priest who turns into a vampire as a result of a failed medical experiment”
March 1, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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everything ok, babe? you’ve barely mocked the meat you feed on
February 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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the exact moment she realized we’d gotten a catsitter
POV: looking down at a tiny tuxedo cat with socks and a purple collar. Her golden eyes are wide with apparent shock and reproach.
February 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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how i feel when your dog clunks his head in my lap and you tell me “this is weird, actually” bc he “hates most people” and is “kind of bitey”
La Vue tapestry of medieval maiden with a smiling unicorn putting his forehooves in her lap
January 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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sidebar: he should have been in CONCLAVE
Russell Crowe in a cassock brandishing a cross as THE POPE’S EXORCIST
January 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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me, in the 30 seconds after overhearing a woman describe a “spirit occupying a building,” before i realized she was talking about a Spirit Halloween:
Father Amorth (Russell Crowe) rides a red and white scooter in a cassock in The Pope’s Exorcist
January 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM