Summer Block Lizer
@summerblocklizer.bsky.social
The Awl, Catapult, The Toast, The Rumpus, McSweeney's, Longreads, and so on. PhD student. My brand: taxidermy, shipwrecks, medieval lit, Halloween, Los Angeles.
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I just described my home's interior design scheme as "someone is running a Montessori preschool out of this haunted museum."
Writing a holiday letter this year but I don't want it to come off like I'm just bragging about my kids so I plan to include one absolutely devasting criticism of each of them.
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Writing a holiday letter this year but I don't want it to come off like I'm just bragging about my kids so I plan to include one absolutely devasting criticism of each of them.
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"The Skeleton Dance, a five-minute Disney short from 1929, contains everything I look for in a horror movie today: it's weird, old, uncanny, and unselfconsciously terrifying."
- @summerblocklizer.bsky.social
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2016/03/28/d...
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www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2016/03/28/d...
Danse Macabre: Disney's "The Skeleton Dance" - Bright Wall/Dark Room
"The Skeleton Dance," a five-minute short from 1929, contains everything I look for in horror: it's weird, old, uncanny, and terrifying.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:54 AM
"The Skeleton Dance, a five-minute Disney short from 1929, contains everything I look for in a horror movie today: it's weird, old, uncanny, and unselfconsciously terrifying."
- @summerblocklizer.bsky.social
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2016/03/28/d...
- @summerblocklizer.bsky.social
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2016/03/28/d...
Grad school party time
October 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Grad school party time
The Pasadena Experience
When the good/interesting downtown restaurant expands to a new location closer to you in the suburbs and its like 35% worse -- Daddy's Delight
May 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The Pasadena Experience
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no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good
March 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good
Proud that my husband @zaplazer.bsky.social was there supporting high-speed rail for California.
Remarks disrupted by protesters who gathered behind the curtain chanting “build the rail”
February 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Proud that my husband @zaplazer.bsky.social was there supporting high-speed rail for California.
This is what I was born to do.
December 15, 2024 at 5:04 PM
This is what I was born to do.
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I love Edward Gorey’s theory of art:
“Art…is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.”
“Art…is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.”
June 4, 2024 at 8:45 PM
I love Edward Gorey’s theory of art:
“Art…is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.”
“Art…is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.”
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I meant to make a note in my notes app to buy Christmas lights but I got distracted while typing - looked down and realized I’d typed “darkness”
November 18, 2024 at 10:38 PM
I meant to make a note in my notes app to buy Christmas lights but I got distracted while typing - looked down and realized I’d typed “darkness”
I just described my home's interior design scheme as "someone is running a Montessori preschool out of this haunted museum."
November 18, 2024 at 1:12 AM
I just described my home's interior design scheme as "someone is running a Montessori preschool out of this haunted museum."
I'm sorry but what the fuck is going on here
April 19, 2024 at 7:04 PM
I'm sorry but what the fuck is going on here
I remember listening to the Mountain Goats' "This Year" in 2016, the year I got divorced, and thinking, "This song is especially relevant to me now, in this year," and I've thought that again every year since.
March 31, 2024 at 5:06 AM
I remember listening to the Mountain Goats' "This Year" in 2016, the year I got divorced, and thinking, "This song is especially relevant to me now, in this year," and I've thought that again every year since.
Ahead of my time
February 5, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Ahead of my time
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Thank you to the Newberry Library for getting me to the Magnificent Mile just in time for peak tweed season! And the Grad Conference was fabulous too!
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February 4, 2024 at 3:44 AM
Thank you to the Newberry Library for getting me to the Magnificent Mile just in time for peak tweed season! And the Grad Conference was fabulous too!
@summerblocklizer.bsky.social @noraepstein.bsky.social @yasminehachimi.bsky.social
@summerblocklizer.bsky.social @noraepstein.bsky.social @yasminehachimi.bsky.social
Yes ladies you can have it all (moderate cardiovascular fitness and a working knowledge of Peter Lombard's Sentences)
January 29, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Yes ladies you can have it all (moderate cardiovascular fitness and a working knowledge of Peter Lombard's Sentences)
Just remembering Halloween 2019 when one of our neighbors gave the children plastic baggies filled with loose grapes and unwrapped, unsweetened baking chocolate.
October 25, 2023 at 2:42 AM
Just remembering Halloween 2019 when one of our neighbors gave the children plastic baggies filled with loose grapes and unwrapped, unsweetened baking chocolate.
Just referred to myself as an "Augustine girlie" in the group chat
September 1, 2023 at 11:11 PM
Just referred to myself as an "Augustine girlie" in the group chat
Kids made the mistake of saying they were bored.
August 20, 2023 at 10:02 PM
Kids made the mistake of saying they were bored.