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Sarah Welch-Larson

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Sci-fi gremlin. I write for Bright Wall/Dark Room and co-write the Seeing & Believing newsletter.
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Thank you!

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Gorgeously observed piece. A joy to read.

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Same hurricane, different infrastructure crisis—our neighborhood pumping station went out because of the rain from Beryl’s remnants. Thinking of you and hope you get your power back soon!

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Love too wake up to a boil order

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Had a consultation with a personal trainer today and we have definitively confirmed what I have always suspected: I’m weak as hell

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If you’ve seen the movie or don’t care about spoilers, I am willing to get incandescently angry about a specific costuming choice from the denouement that demonstrates a certain level of aesthetic sloppiness

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Pretty sure ours was a big orange-yellow bowl with the Blockbuster logo on the side, because its original use was for popcorn before it became the de facto barf bowl

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Have officially hit the part of aging where I need reading glasses. Eye doc told me I shouldn’t get bifocals yet, so now I get to juggle my regular glasses, my prescription sunglasses, and my new reading glasses wherever I go, like some short-sighted clown

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The vuvuzela has been going on long enough that it isn’t funny any more, but if it keeps going on for at least another hour it will get very funny again

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Some kid on our block has a vuvuzela

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MAXXXINE helped me figure out what hasn’t been working for me in Ti West and Mia Goth’s X series:

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My husband’s galaxy-brained take of the week is that Jack Antonoff : Taylor Swift :: Christopher McQuarrie : Tom Cruise, in that Antonoff and McQuarrie tend to encourage Swift and Cruise to dig deeper into their respective comfort zones rather than branch out

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This is the grown-up equivalent of calculating how much you’re paying tuition per class session in undergrad

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No motivation to go to the gym more powerful than realizing just how much you’re paying for your gym membership

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Today I declare my backyard’s independence from poison ivy

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stop saying “phil collins didn’t need to go that hard on the tarzan soundtrack.” he did. it was his job.

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I think three other locations elsewhere in the country closed yesterday too. Usually here one theater closing means yet another AMC will open in its place.

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Yeah, looks like they closed quietly and unexpectedly.

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Dammit, I liked that movie theater too

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South Loop Showplace Icon movie theater closed forever today, which means an even greater dearth of movie theaters on the South Side

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If you're looking for some leisurely Sunday-afternoon reading, we've got a new Seeing & Believing for you, where we review JANET PLANET and (one of my more anticipated films of the summer) Jeff Nichols's THE BIKERIDERS:

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No feeling in the world can touch how great it is to get back on a bike after months of being unable to ride

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That’s classified information but we did reach about the same level of joy when Josh realized just how much ska was on the soundtrack

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Delighted to report that GROSSE POINTE BLANK remains an extremely Sarah movie

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Canned beer is pretty high up there too. I’m a simple lady of simple tastes, and I’m glad I can continue to taste them thanks to the miracle of modern medicine

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Re-upping this one now that we’re a few days out and FURIOSA is on VOD

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The facial numbness just magically wore off all at once right as I slid a pizza into the oven, and I already believe that God is real but boy howdy God is real

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Not sure how I feel about the dentist’s office playing Spirit in the Sky on the radio as I wait to have a cavity filled

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Wear cargo shorts around the house. Wear cargo shorts to the store. Be seen pumping gas in your cargo shorts. Do summer right and live this glorious fearless life

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A pox on the USPS customer service phone tree

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The thing about THE BIKERIDERS is that I could watch Mike Faist active listening forever

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Knitters who like to undo and redo their WIP

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Those kids have killer chemistry and it made an already enjoyable movie that much better!

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For the afternoon road warriors: I wrote about FURIOSA and the ways that objectification and revenge play nice together

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For the afternoon road warriors: I wrote about FURIOSA and the ways that objectification and revenge play nice together

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