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very convenient that there's such a clear bluey shibboleth, where you get on to some interview and all you need is to hear someone say "so bluey, he's... i mean, she's a blue dog"

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 1d

SALLY

Danielle Johnson @dwhren.bsky.social · 1d

I have baked many a Sally's recipe over the years, and just discovered that she lives near me in Baltimore after she did a flavor collaboration with my local ice cream shop a few weeks ago. It sort of blew my mind. Here's some info for you. www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/food...

How Sally McKenney Found Sweet Success With Her Baking Blog

To date, the Baltimore County baker has an average of 25-million page views each month on her website, which now includes 1,200 recipes and educational videos.

www.baltimoremagazine.com

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 1d

thank you!!! the irony of not being able to find information because all the seo is her blog

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 1d

surely someone has written this piece? pls tell me who sally is

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 1d

what is Sally’s baking addiction? who is Sally? how did she win the seo recipe game with such impressive totality

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 1d

yesssss only thing more satisfying than reading it is successfully recommending it thank you!!

i also wish there were 10 more!

Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 1d

she has three series, all great! for the gamache-y ones start with agony hill. for art history, o’ artful death

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 1d

you don’t have to remind *me,* I was firmly reprimanded at a family thanksgiving gathering in 1997!

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 1d

grumpy teen protagonist bravely drinks potion to save his sister

children absolutely furious; why not just pour potion on ground, why such an idiot, he could’ve just dropped it, sunrise was in like 5 minutes

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 1d

11yo: if she’s from the 1600s why did she ask to see his drivers permit

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 1d

particularly 90s joke topics about non-90s-specific things: fire alarm sprinklers, California, sneakers, daylight savings time

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 1d

what rules about hocus pocus is that at like 8pm bette midler, 17thC witch, doesn’t know what asphalt is, and by 9:30pm she’s doing a ska-flavored rendition of “I put a spell on you”

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 1d

flashback to the number of family movies that were oddly obsessed with virginity

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 1d

omg garry marshall

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 1d

otoh it is fun that the virgin who brings them back is a boy I guess?

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