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Meredith Guthrie
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Transplanted Texan. Media scholar at Pitt. Co-chair of Disability Studies and Disney Studies at MAPACA. Loves baseball, movies with explosions, and being contrary. She/her.
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December 1st and Ive already been Whammed. (Kids and I made gingerbread houses and I put on a Christmas playlist so it would be festive. I Whammed myself!)
An image from Apple Music of the singer George Michael wearing wrap around sunglasses and a button up white shirt. He’s smiling. The image is the cover for the song Last Christmas by Wham!
December 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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🎶It’s not really Christmas until you hang the Death Star on the treeeeee🎶
A Christmas tree with a small plastic Star Wars ornament featuring the Death Star
November 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Yay! My old marching band in the parade! They played one of my favorite Bjork songs, too!
A picture of a television showing the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade. The LD Bell High School marching band is on screen.
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Here’s your annual “get your mammogram” selfie. Mammograms suck, but everyone at the imaging place was really kind and that goes a long way!
A white woman with long reddish hair in a braid poses for a selfie in front of a mirror wearing jeans and a hospital gown top.
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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I saw this Christmas ornament at Target yesterday and am very confused. Not offended, mind you! Just…baffled. (I had to wait for 45 minutes for a prescription med to be ready at the pharmacy inside Target, so I did a fair bit of just wandering around)
A Christmas tree ornament. Supposedly. It’s a figure that has a large Jack o lantern head and is wearing death’s black robes, but instead of a scythe it’s holding a giant candy cane. I’m confused.
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Taught youngest the term “jarlic” (for ”a jar of minced garlic”). Kid immediately says “I put the gar of jarlic on the jround.” and I died laughing.
A small glass jar with a blue and yellow label that says minced garlic and a blue and yellow top that says minced garlic. It’s full of minced garlic. It’s jarlic! I know people can get snobby about jarlic, but it’s nice to have when you’re in a hurry.
November 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Sometimes we really just need to see something good. Speaking of which, here’s a picture of Rufus (he had to wear the Donut of Shame for a few days because he injured his toe somehow. It’s doing a lot better!)
A brown and white basset hound is lounging on a couch. He’s looking really dog-nified
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Don’t forget to vote today, US friends!
A hand holding a sticker that says “I voted n’at!” (N’at is a Pittsburgh expression meaning “and that.”)
November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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We actually got the Halloween decorations put away and I put the (completely unhinged) Thanksgiving outfit on Moose the Goose. I feel on top of life.
A plastic porch goose is wearing a brown crocheted sweater with a white collar. On its head is a brown face mask that covers its eyes. On the mask are blue embroidered eyes and a red turkey waddle gizzard thing. The goose’s yellow beak pokes out of the mask. It looks so silly and unhinged.
November 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Herbert the skeleton dressed as a 1970s detective for Halloween.
A plastic skeleton sits in a suburban front yard. He’s wearing a light blue trench coat and a black old timey hat. He has a fake mustache and a plastic light up cigar in his mouth. He looks great!
November 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Happy Halloweeeeeeeen! It’s chilly out today so I put on two capes. I’m officially a witch detective for Halloween. (Which detective? A witch detective!)
A white woman is wearing a purple sweater, brown pants, a brown tweed cape, and a black costume cape with sparkly stars on top. She’s also wearing a black witch hat with sparkly stars.
October 31, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I made this witch costume for our porch goose, but it fits Gorfold (our creepy knockoff Garfield) weirdly well… 🧶
A creepy knockoff Garfield stuffed animal is wearing a black crocheted cape with a pop up collar and a witch’s hat. He also has on a bow tie that has a jack o lantern in the center
October 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Rufus says “innocent doggo!”
A rust colored basset hound with some white on his chest is laying down and looking at the camera with a very serious expression.
October 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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This game is so long the score doesn’t all fit. The first inning is slowly being pushed off screen
A screenshot of the box score of the Oct 11 Tigers Mariners playoff game, currently in the 15th inning. The first inning score is only partially visible because it won’t fit on screen.
October 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Our vet suggested getting a cat tree to help our cats get along better. We got a big one for the basement and a little one for the living room. I hope it helps!

Bee the cat helped assemble the little one. (We’re leash training her, so she’s still wearing her harness here. It’s a little askew.)
A small gray cat sits in a fuzzy gray box. The box will become part of a cat tree. Kitty is performing quality assurance. A small gray cat sits on the fuzzy gray base of a partially assembled cat tree.
October 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Rufus thinks he’s a big weird cat (this is where our kitty Bea usually hangs out)
A brown basset hound is sleeping on the very top of a couch. He’s smooshing down the cushion, but he looks very comfy
October 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Halloween! I always love decorating the yard with the kids. We made groups of spooky pals.
An orange skeleton with a jack o lantern head sits on the steps of a front porch. On his shoulders sits a smaller white skeleton. Next to them stands a white ghost, then a plastic goose wearing a jack o lantern tern costume. A lawn ornament of Jack skellington and his dog from Nightmare Before Christmas stand next to an inflatable black cat decoration. The cat is wearing. A red cape and has red devil horns
October 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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I made a teensy basset hound. Rufus (real basset) for scale. This is very much a first attempt. I stink at amigurumi, but this is how you get better at stuff! 🧶#crochet
A hand with bright orange fingernails holds a tiny crocheted brown basset hound. A real brown basset hound with a white muzzle looks at a tiny brown crocheted basset hound. He is not impressed.
October 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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I finished the scarf/cowl I was working on. I realized at the very end that I’d slooooowly been leaving out rows, making it narrower, almost since the beginning. Ugh. I’d already woven in all my ends & this scarf will be wound twice around my neck, soooooo... I don’t think you can tell? 🧶 #crochet
A crocheted striped rainbow scarf (it’s rainbow except for there is no orange stripe) A smiling woman in glasses wearing a striped crocheted scarf. The scarf is wrapped twice around her neck. Cozy!
October 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Thank God for podcasts. The arrival time on my map keeps climbing and I’m doing a lot of just sitting still. I left the house at 8:10, so it’ll take me over an hour to go about 10 miles. (Don’t worry. The car is at a complete standstill and has been for 10 minutes!)
A shot of a car’s touchscreen with the map showing an arrival time of 9:14 and the maintenance phase podcast.
September 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Middle kid got their braces off yesterday. That’s my last kid done with braces, yay! (As someone who grew up without dental insurance, this is a Huge Deal.) I don’t put pictures of my kids on social media, so here’s a picture of the scarf I worked on in the waiting room. 🧶 #crochet
An almost rainbow striped crocheted scarf is piled up in someone’s lap, alongside the ball if green yarn and the crochet hook (The scarf lacks orange, but has all of the other rainbow colors in order)
September 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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I'm working on an academic presentation on disabled Barbies and (in looking at Every Single Barbie/Ken Made Today) I came across this Ken. He has nothing to do with my paper, but he is so great:

1. Amazing outfit. 14/10, no notes.
2. I LOVE how "no thoughts, only vibes" his expression is
A collectible Ken doll. The box has the word "Barbie" crossed out in favor of a large Ken logo. Ken is written in a rockstar font and is inside a black heart with a lightning bolt through it. He's wearing a black fringed vest, no shirt, black pants with a large Ken belt buckle, and a long white faux fir coat with a red lining. the lining has pictures of horses on it. He has a platinum blonde mullet and an animal print black headband. His face has a pleasant and blank expression. He is perfect.
September 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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My youngest made this truly inspired portrait of our knock off Garfield, Gorfold. Please behold and enjoy.
A 1980s themed portrait of a knock off Garfield plush toy named Gorfold. The background is dark and has several laser lines going across it. The lines intersect each other, but not at 90 degree angles. On the right we see Gorfold. He looks almost entirely unlike Garfield. He is orange with darker orange stripes. He is smirking and he has bulbous green eyes. He’s wearing a bow tie with a jack o lantern in the middle of the tie. In the top right corner is a semi transparent picture of Gorfold’s profile. Altogether, this is magnificent.
September 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Today in “My Dog Is Too Smart,” Rufus figured out how to get to the cat food (which is in the yellow bowl behind him, on top of a tall sideboard cabinet) and now he is just farting all over the place. Too smart and too stinky.
A brown basset hound is standing on a chair at a dining table. He is looking at the camera pretending to be innocent. He is not. Behind him is a sideboard table that’s several inches taller than the dining table. On it is a bowl that used have cat food in it , a cat fountain, and a grouchy gray cat named Bea.
August 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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It is glorious outside right now, Pittsburgh friends. Go outside now before it becomes a billion degrees with a million percent humidity.
A view of Heinz Chapel, a smallish neo gothic chapel on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. It is surrounded by small trees and a beautiful blue sky. It’s a great day out!
August 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM