Meredith Guthrie
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Meredith Guthrie
@meredithea.bsky.social
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.
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!)
December 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
🎶It’s not really Christmas until you hang the Death Star on the treeeeee🎶
November 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Yay! My old marching band in the parade! They played one of my favorite Bjork songs, too!
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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!
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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)
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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.
November 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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!)
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Don’t forget to vote today, US friends!
November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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.
November 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Herbert the skeleton dressed as a 1970s detective for Halloween.
November 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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!)
October 31, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I made this witch costume for our porch goose, but it fits Gorfold (our creepy knockoff Garfield) weirdly well… 🧶
October 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Rufus says “innocent doggo!”
October 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This game is so long the score doesn’t all fit. The first inning is slowly being pushed off screen
October 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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.)
October 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Rufus thinks he’s a big weird cat (this is where our kitty Bea usually hangs out)
October 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Halloween! I always love decorating the yard with the kids. We made groups of spooky pals.
October 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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
October 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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
October 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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!)
September 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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
September 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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
September 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
My youngest made this truly inspired portrait of our knock off Garfield, Gorfold. Please behold and enjoy.
September 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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.
August 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
It is glorious outside right now, Pittsburgh friends. Go outside now before it becomes a billion degrees with a million percent humidity.
August 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM