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!
This week’s question comes from Christie via our upcoming minisode on the Murdaugh Murders (Part 2). Christie asked:Can you ask for a transfer of venue out of state?In an upcoming Sinisterhood minisode on the Murdaugh Murders update - part 2, Christie asked whether Alex Murdaugh could ask for a change of venue outside the state if the jury pool … Continue reading Legal Question: Can you transfer venue so hard that you leave the state?
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
This question comes from Jamie via the form. Jamie asks:Say we lived in one of the many fictional universes where doppelgängers exist. If my doppelgänger commits a crime, could I be charged for it?Thanks for the question, Jamie! We covered doppelgängers in our February 2021 minisode on Patreon. As we discuss, the word doppelgängers originated in … Continue reading Legal Question: If your DNA is the same, can you get framed?
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
This week’s question was sparked by watching the new movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife. No spoilers, but in the movie, a character is arrested and demands to make their one phone call. As I was thoroughly enjoying that movie (seriously - go see it! I laughed. I cried. I cried talking about it later. I loved it!), I … Continue reading Legal Question: If there’s something strange and you get arrested, who ya gonna call? YOUR LAWYER
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
This week’s question is from Frank via the form. Frank asks:I was watching The Trial of the Chicago 7 and was wondering. Could you file to have a judge removed from your case?Hi Frank! This is a great question; thanks for asking. I have not watched this movie, but I am somewhat familiar with the … Continue reading Legal Question: Recuse Me, Please
Heather vs. the World 