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Sara Benincasa
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Author, TV/film writer, actor. Writing about our tallest president.
SARATONIN: SaraJBenincasa.Substack.com
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Some academic news. 🥳
Me & Chad the Bird IN THE BAY AREA!
Saturday, January 17th at 4 PM
The Lost Church in North Beach, SF
Featuring an incredible lineup…
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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GREETINGS SAN FRANCISCO SKETCHFEST ATTENDEES! On the second weekend I’ll be haunting the city with @sabrinasee.bsky.social who produces Jodie Sweetin’s show so don’t miss the chance to have us yell at you IRL. Check out sfsketchfest.com for more info!
November 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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BREAKING NEWS: I will be at @sfsketchfest.bsky.social two weekends in a row. Pls advise the @sfchronicle.com & your local zinemakers.
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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The divine Chicago combo of Vosges Haut Chocolat x Smashing Pumpkins truly came through for this little Scorpio. Very grateful!
November 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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BREAKING NEWS: In 4.5 months these two have never been this close to one another except when fighting. Is this because it is cold?!
Grey and white 7 month old kitten sleeping beside grey 12.75 year old cat. Kitten is on green bedsheet leaning against white comforter. Cat is atop comforter.
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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It’s cumming, right? This app is for freaks.
November 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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UPDATE, FOUR MONTHS LATER: Now they beat each other’s asses daily and nap peacefully on either side of me. Charlie still eats separately from Polly because he steals her food.
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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MISSISSIPPI MASALA WAS GREAT MUCH RESPECT TO BELLA MAMMA MIRA NAIR AND DOTTORE MAMDANI A BEAUTIFUL SICILIAN MUSLIM FAMIGLIA open.substack.com/pub/sarajben...
How does one claim an obvious family member while not erasing their actual culture and family of origin? With respect to his parents, who are of Indian descent, and his birthplace, Uganda, as soon as I heard Zohran Mamdani quote Andrew Cuomo’s late father, three-term Governor of New York Mario Cuomo, in his acceptance speech - without using his name, and also saying he hopefully would never say Andrew Cuomo’s name in public again - I knew I was watching a friggin paisan.
November 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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One of the two feline models with whom I dwell. This is Charlie Chicago Catman, adopted from a cat rescue organization originally founded by a nun to care for animals while their elderly or ill owners received in-patient care…which is the most Chicago backstory I can imagine for a nonprofit.
Gray and white 7 month old kitten sitting on the back of a gray sofa in a sunny room
November 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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This genuinely is how I decorate year-round, with the exception of the actual pumpkin.
November 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Will I ever pick up those clothes on the floor from when I was frantically digging through the hamper to find a specific thing to hand wash? The world may never know.
October 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Wrote about my bizarre roommates (cats) in my free newsletter SARATONIN. Check it out at SaraJBenincasa.Substack.com
It can be tough to love a person and even tougher at times to let one love you, as people – you, me and everybody else – are notoriously capable of loving in ways that feel like hatred, like punishment. But the love of a cat, while surely dependent on one’s willingness to give them treats, is a pure and beautiful thing. It can also be inscrutable, even obscure, as they may demonstrate far greater affection for the person who lives with the person who feeds them, versus the one who is actually, technically and literally keeping them alive.
October 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Thanks to all the cool humans at The Paper Machete here in Chicago this past Saturday. Doing the show was an amazing way to spend my 45th birthday! My fellow performer Chad the Bird and I are co-hosting our monthly show CLASS! 10/30 at Lincoln Lodge. Come hang! www.eventbrite.com/e/class-with...
October 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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OoooooooAAAAAAAAAAH new Patreon post full o’ pics and a few words, too. www.patreon.com/posts/cat-fi...
A preview of a Patreon post entitled CAT FIGHT! BIRTHDAY PARTY! COSTUME PREVIEW! with assorted photos.
October 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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My witch hat is from a secret place full of secret things made by secrets and it is possessed by my headgoblins and it has batteries and it lights up.
A woman in a black wrap dress and a black witch hat on set holding a cup of coffee
October 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Come to a comedy show that’s also my 45th birthday party bc I don’t feel like renting a restaurant or clerb, hooray! 10/30 8 PM at Lincoln Lodge here in sunny Chicago. bit.ly/4h87VYr
October 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Please enjoy this moment in Chicago.
Various doll heads affixed to various recycled containers in a Halloween display at Andersonville Galleria in Chicago
September 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Polly the Demon Queen is my overlord and Charlie Chicago Catman (“CAT-min”) is my benevolent chaos therapist. She only punches him when he punches her first, which is frequent. He thinks they’re playing. She knows they’re not. In sleep they achieve détente.
A gray and white kitten and a gray adult cat sleeping on a white blanket atop blue tie-dyed sheets. The neck, head and face of a gray and white kitten photographed from below A 12 1/2 year-old gray cat actually allowing herself to be petted on the head even though she is typically ornery, sitting on a bright orange pillow A 12 1/2 year-old gray cat with green eyes sitting on an orange cushion and looking off to the side
September 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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INFLUENCED!
woman with auburn hair and glasses wearing animal print jumpsuit holding up paper bag from R&A sourdough
September 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Turning 45 soon. For my birthday, I want to help raise money for some kids whose parents were kidnapped by ICE here in the Chicagoland area. If the video isn’t of interest, I hope the GoFundMe is: www.gofundme.com/f/show-solid...
September 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Charlie Chicago Catman has gotten so big since July 🥹
A gray and white three month old kitten sleeping on a dude‘s foot on a grey couch
September 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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This 5.5 month old creature is amazing at cuddling and also at eating garbage and turning on the kitchen sink and running away.
Gray and white kitten in an empty white bathtub.
September 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Wrote about Molly Ivins and drinking and censorship and comedy and a bunch more. Check it out: SaraJBenincasa.Substack.com
Today I think Molly Ivins would be a great progressive, and a hilarious one, too. She was yanked back to New York City after she referred to a New Mexico chicken-butchering event as a “gang-pluck,” which is the funniest fucking reason to almost get fired in 1980, or ever.
September 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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His hobbies include climbing up my sweatpants, staring at the ice maker in wonder, stealing the big cat’s food and contemplating crimes against birds.
Face of a white and grey kitten looking through a window on which cars trees and utility poles are reflected.
September 10, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Wrote a little essay about Chicago and some other things. Shout out to Philly 😎 Rest of it is here: open.substack.com/pub/sarajben...
But there are no sweet fairy tales here, no simple triumphs. That viral video about the mayor sending out the salt trucks to block ICE wasn’t even true - that was footage from a big culinary event here called Taste of Chicago. Hey, I fell for it, too. Why? Because it seemed so genuinely fucking Chicago, that’s why. It is incredibly reassuring that people around the globe and Chicagoans believed such a move to be absolutely in character for the city of Chicago. You might be shocked if many cities pulled a stunt like that, but not Chicago, a city I can best describe as what would happen if Philly went to one therapy session and read one self-help book. The chaotic benevolence and freakish lust for life embodied by Philadelphians is on its own level, and God, do I love those lunatics. But Chicago, too, is its own beautiful thing - and funny as fuck.
September 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM