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2025 mixtape: whatever the mess, we’ll make the best of it

carrie — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:30:29 +0000

One of my hobbies is making annual playlists: songs that were new or important to me in 2025, carefully arranged in a way that makes it a replayable time capsule and shareable with friends. And I like to also write up why, to help others see what I see, and to also help me personally understand and express what I like. Because I’m an English major, I have the vocab to talk about what I like in…

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Stuff That Brings Me Joy: Delicious in Dungeon

carrie — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:41:36 +0000

I’ve spent the fall and winter heads down on some really unpleasant writing that I want to have done by January (which is also why I haven’t posted a comic on Hope Tantrum for awhile) and am taking a break from all that grimness to tell you about the best anime and manga I’ve devoured in a really long time. Combine a fantasy adventure dungeon crawler with a cooking show, let simmer over low…

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doing MATILDA in 2025, pt 2: being the Trunchbull

carrie — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:13:45 +0000

Part 1 was about Matilda and resistance, and part 2 will be a bit more personal, and most of it is about the role I’m playing. I’m playing Miss Trunchbull, the sadistic headmistress of Matilda’s school and one of the big villains of the story. I can’t believe how much fun this role is, and furthermore I can’t believe they chose me to do it. It’s the most physically and vocally demanding part…

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doing MATILDA in 2025, pt 1: “you gotta put it right”

carrie — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:38:36 +0000

2025 is an interesting year to be doing the musical MATILDA. I guess though, that 2025 is an interesting time to try and do anything at all that isn’t screaming, or staying frozen in horror. That’s what I did between last November and January of this year, freezing everything but the thumb required to operate my horror portal, keeping my eyes filled with fresh dread and doom.

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2024 mixtape: she can dance on her own

carrie — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:46:35 +0000

Well! It’s been awhile. Let’s warm up the blog by talking about music. Every year, I make a list of songs that are new to me in that year. (In some cases, there’s some older songs that come back because they’re suddenly more important, but this year all the songs were new to me.) Then I have all of these little memory capsules I can revisit later in case I need a blast of nostalgia.

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Bibliography for that Pathologic 2 Dramaturgy talk

carrie — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 20:27:53 +0000

Hi! I’m doing a talk at 6pm Central tonight about the ways theatrical history is crammed into the video game Pathologic. It will be on the Twitch channel edgecasecollective. Here’s the bibliography! Artaud, Antonin. The Theater and Its Double. 1938. Translated to English by Mary Caroline Richards, Grove Press, 1958. Auerbach, David. “Pathologic 2 and Ostranenie.” 29 May 2019, https…

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Stuff That Brings Me Joy: NSP; Extremely Singable 80s

carrie — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:38:38 +0000

This is the first in a series of drafts about the stuff I’m watching, listening to, playing. I did these now and then when I was keeping my journal online, and what better time to bring this habit back than when all my friends are bored? (And I need to start with this topic because I’m embarrassed at how pretentious my last blog post was.) One of my guilty pleasures out of the last five years…

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on being funny in a crisis

carrie — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 20:15:32 +0000

Junior year of high school was Brit Lit, one of my favorite classes in all of high school, and I adored my teacher, who was basically what you’d get if Oscar Wilde had come out of 1950s Bridgeport. He had an annual assignment for the Chaucer unit: each of us was to write an intro for a new character who was also on that trip to Canterbury. It could be anachronistic, it could be silly…

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if you stop working in tech and you don’t blog about why, does it count?

carrie — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 18:11:33 +0000

I’m wrapping up at Slack this week. I’ve been with these folks for 6 years, plus the 9 weeks I worked on Glitch the Video Game. I love the people there, and I’d recommend it as a place to work if you’re in tech and live in one of the cities Slack is located. I’ve been in tech for 15 years now. Yet, since I was in college, I have wanted to work in dramaturgy, or as a lit manager for a theater.

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Everyone Feels Weird on the Inside: best of 2018 CLR music

carrie — Wed, 22 May 2019 02:44:07 +0000

So now that my blog is officially open, let me talk about music for a bit. As a quick refresher: inspired by a pal Blaine from the original MLP community, I make a mix of my favorite songs every year. They become a time capsule for that year and always magically end up with some kind of theme to them that also matches a Big Mood I had for that year. Lots of these songs are about hating…

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