Gina Arnold
@ginanarchy.bsky.social
...Nearby is the country they call life.
Author: "Route 666," "Kiss This," "Exile in Guyville," "Half a Million Strong".
Substack: Bring Me Giants.
https://gina19e.substack.com/
Author: "Route 666," "Kiss This," "Exile in Guyville," "Half a Million Strong".
Substack: Bring Me Giants.
https://gina19e.substack.com/
open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote about going to Eel Pie Island. Thanks for reading, as always - it's free!
Muddy Waters
Letter From London Pt. 2: A visit to Eel Pie Island
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January 26, 2026 at 10:19 PM
open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote about going to Eel Pie Island. Thanks for reading, as always - it's free!
gina19e.substack.com/p/a-riot-of-... I wrote a review of "Riot Women" currently on britbox. I wish I liked it more! Thanks for reading. It is free!
A Riot Of My Own
Letter from London, part 1
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January 21, 2026 at 1:00 PM
gina19e.substack.com/p/a-riot-of-... I wrote a review of "Riot Women" currently on britbox. I wish I liked it more! Thanks for reading. It is free!
open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... Check out my obituary for the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir, R.I.P.
Pass this way
Bob Weir, R.I.P.
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January 14, 2026 at 4:33 PM
open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... Check out my obituary for the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir, R.I.P.
gina19e.substack.com/p/real-gone?... I wrote about the new movie "Song Sung Blue"..thanks for checking it out!
Real Gone
Notes on the new film "Song Sung Blue" (currently playing at a theater near you.)
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December 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
gina19e.substack.com/p/real-gone?... I wrote about the new movie "Song Sung Blue"..thanks for checking it out!
Reposted by Gina Arnold
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
Hi. We're puffins. Cream puffins
December 26, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Hi. We're puffins. Cream puffins
Trying to be more positive about the past as we head into the future, so I wrote about my wonderful trip to a desert island back in January. Thanks as always for checking it out! 'tils free, as always. open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/...
To Be Jolly
What I think about when I think about 2025
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December 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Trying to be more positive about the past as we head into the future, so I wrote about my wonderful trip to a desert island back in January. Thanks as always for checking it out! 'tils free, as always. open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/...
I am on a train to SF and there are a number of noisy young ladies in my car who are clad in their undies.
December 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I am on a train to SF and there are a number of noisy young ladies in my car who are clad in their undies.
Baby Ivy is excited for the weekend.
December 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Baby Ivy is excited for the weekend.
open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote a new stack on a couple of memoirs - and the times we live in. Thanks for checking it out - it's free!
The horror the horror
"Whatever Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate To", and other books that describe the way we live now.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote a new stack on a couple of memoirs - and the times we live in. Thanks for checking it out - it's free!
Please enjoy this picture of my cow kitten. Her name is Ivy and she is 6 weeks old and weighs 1.3 lb.
November 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Please enjoy this picture of my cow kitten. Her name is Ivy and she is 6 weeks old and weighs 1.3 lb.
open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... Thanks for checking out my stack - it's free!
Small world after all
Tsunami's Loud Is As and the old weird world of my youth
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November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote about losing my job and seeing the B-52s on the same day. Sorry for the melancholia, the times are not so great. Thanks as always for checking it out, it's free! :(
Give the past a slip
Devo and the B-52s at Shoreline Amphitheater, Oct. 16, 2025
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October 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote about losing my job and seeing the B-52s on the same day. Sorry for the melancholia, the times are not so great. Thanks as always for checking it out, it's free! :(
Because the world is so kooky I made cookies that look like sliders today.
October 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Because the world is so kooky I made cookies that look like sliders today.
Someone is impersonating me on Xtwit. If you, or anyone you know, gets an email purporting to be form me, and saying I will write an article about you if you pay me, please know that it is fake.
September 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Someone is impersonating me on Xtwit. If you, or anyone you know, gets an email purporting to be form me, and saying I will write an article about you if you pay me, please know that it is fake.
The other day I had the choice of seeing the Who live, or "Spinal Tap: The End Continues" at the movie theater. Do you think I made the right decision? Thanks as always for reading! open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/...
The Song Remains The Same
"Spinal Tap: The End Continues" - at a theater near you.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The other day I had the choice of seeing the Who live, or "Spinal Tap: The End Continues" at the movie theater. Do you think I made the right decision? Thanks as always for reading! open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/...
Do you think they mean "dogpatch"? Get a human copy editor, #sfchronicle. #typos
August 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Do you think they mean "dogpatch"? Get a human copy editor, #sfchronicle. #typos
open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote about seeing Diana Ross at the Stern Grove festival yesterday. Thanks as always for reading and sharing - it's always free, just click on through...
In the name of love
Diana Ross at Stern Grove, August 17, 2025
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August 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote about seeing Diana Ross at the Stern Grove festival yesterday. Thanks as always for reading and sharing - it's always free, just click on through...
gina19e.substack.com/p/be-like-wa... I wrote a little essay about seeing the Mekons in Santa Cruz and here it is :)
Be like water
Mekons at Moe's Alley, July 29, 2025
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August 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
gina19e.substack.com/p/be-like-wa... I wrote a little essay about seeing the Mekons in Santa Cruz and here it is :)
Whale fin spotted off Manresa Beach this morning, post tsunami, post Mekons. I guess there is a morning after.
July 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Whale fin spotted off Manresa Beach this morning, post tsunami, post Mekons. I guess there is a morning after.
open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... Reposting a blog I wrote about #tomlehrer last year. RIP, sir. Such a grand addition to the 20th century musical canon!
That was the week that was
Revisiting the music of my parents: Tom Lehrer
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July 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... Reposting a blog I wrote about #tomlehrer last year. RIP, sir. Such a grand addition to the 20th century musical canon!
open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote a little thing about seeing David Lee Roth at the Mid-State Fair in Paso Robles last week. Thanks for checking it out - it's free to read, as always. (Photo of my favorite metal band.)
Under the covers
David Lee Roth at the Chumash Arena, July 22, 2025
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July 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote a little thing about seeing David Lee Roth at the Mid-State Fair in Paso Robles last week. Thanks for checking it out - it's free to read, as always. (Photo of my favorite metal band.)
open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote a little thing about punk rock in #Superman - not Rock N Roll High School, as pictured, although I do discuss that as well. Thanks as always for checking it out - it's free!
Man and Superman
"Superman" and the politics of punk
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July 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote a little thing about punk rock in #Superman - not Rock N Roll High School, as pictured, although I do discuss that as well. Thanks as always for checking it out - it's free!