It's 9:30 AM on a Friday. I am lying in bed, phone in hand. I've been in this position for nearly two hours. By this time, I have caught up on celebrity gossip, scrolled Reddit and Twitter, and finished my daily Wordle (yeah, I’m one of those people). I have moved on to Instagram when … Continue reading Religious Phanatic
For the first time in probably a decade, I hear the opening guitar riff of Will Smith’s 2002 hit song “Black Suits Comin’ (Nod Ya Head),” the theme song for the film Men in Black II. It should be noted that I am not watching Men in Black II as I am hearing this. I am not even … Continue reading I Went to the Prison-Themed Parking Lot Circus So You Don’t Have To
As I was researching our most recent Sinisterhood minisode, I decided to search Spotify for some songs about Dallas that I may not have heard before. Up popped Willie Nelson’s “Dallas,” an old favorite. Then I scrolled to Alan Jackson’s “Dallas,” a hit by anyone’s standards. Of course, Spotify offered me the theme song to the … Continue reading In Defense of “Dicked Down in Dallas”
It was the fall semester of my sophomore year in high school. 2002. A weird time for anybody - being a sophomore in high school and all. But also a weird time for being an American - being post-9/11 and all.My school was especially hard to navigate as far as cliques was concerned. I was … Continue reading 9/11/2002
Early one morning the week before Christmas I was scrolling through Twitter while drinking coffee. A woman tweeted that she tried showing a clip from the BBC game show Taskmaster to her family while visiting for the holidays. The tweeter's parents watched in silence through all the parts she thought would make them laugh. Her sister pity-scoffed … Continue reading Don’t Look, Ethel!
Bouncing balls. Jumping children. Painted faces. Squeals. Screams. Laughter.Last weekend, Paris and I found ourselves the only childless couple at a four-year-old’s birthday party in a mini gymnasium. Kids flew around the foam-covered floors and walls, flipping and jumping, and sometimes landing upright.One particularly runty kid, the younger sibling of a party attendee, flipped off … Continue reading Hook, Line, and Sucker
It was the first weekend in December 2021, and for the second time in a calendar year, Paris and I were walking through the parking lot of Medieval Times on our way to a matinee show.“We were just here,” I said, but he reminded me it had been months earlier. But was “months earlier” in Medieval Times … Continue reading Journey Back to the Times
When we were little, my sister, Shannon, told me that she knew Santa was real. She had seen Rudolph in real life, so it stood to reason that if Rudolph was real then Santa was, too. I believed her, of course. I was only about five, which would make her about ten. That meant she … Continue reading The Night I Met Santa
The third Saturday in October, I woke up to a text from my sister, Shannon. She let me know that she and her husband, Aaron, were headed to the State Fair of Texas with my four-and-a-half-year-old niece. I screamed to Paris, who was in the shower, that as soon as he was out, we were … Continue reading That’s Fair
We just wrapped up our seven-city, eight-show tour performing Sinisterhood live for fans and friends across five states. If you made it to a show, thank you so much! It was great to see all your lovely faces. If not, good news – we’re releasing the episodes on the feed, and we put up some behind-the-scenes video … Continue reading All the Things I Forgot About Traveling
Heather vs. the World 