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Posts by Gina Arnold

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Mystery Train The film "Elvis Presley In Concert" and the book "Mystery Train" at 50 in conversation.

I went to see the new Elvis documentary "EPiC" so I could disappear into what Greil Marcus once called The Old Weird America. Here's what I wrote in my substack about it. Thanks as always for checking it out - it's free, no need to subscribe. Cheers!
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The ‘Sinners’ Movie Syllabus - AAIHS The 'Sinners' Movie Syllabus is a curated educational resource inspired by the 2025 film 'Sinners,' directed by Ryan Coogler. This syllabus delves into the multifaceted historical, cultural, and socia...

Wow! #Sinners www.aaihs.org/the-sinners-...

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Analog Days Ray Davies at the Fillmore, 10-12-95

open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote a column about death. And the Kinks. Thanks as always for checking it out...

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AI translation just keeps getting better! This woman actually said: "5 billboards along the 880."

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Love it!

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The Unbearable Whiteness of Skiing Milan, music and maybe some miracles at the Winter Olympics.

I wrote about Alysa Liu and the winter Olympics because of course I did! Thanks for checking it out...it's free! open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/...

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Money Changes Everything Bad Bunny at Superbowl Sixty, Feb. 8, 2026, Santa Clara, CA

open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... Only four days late with my thoughts on Bad Bunny. I know, it's not necessary, but it's always worth thinking about things from a Marxist perspective...thanks for checking it out!

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Query. Is Mariah Carey Italian? #olympics

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Muddy Waters Letter From London Pt. 2: A visit to Eel Pie Island

open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... I wrote about going to Eel Pie Island. Thanks for reading, as always - it's free!

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A Riot Of My Own Letter from London, part 1

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!

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Pass this way Bob Weir, R.I.P.

open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... Check out my obituary for the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir, R.I.P.

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2020 Academy of American Poets Prize On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin

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Real Gone Notes on the new film "Song Sung Blue" (currently playing at a theater near you.)

gina19e.substack.com/p/real-gone?... I wrote about the new movie "Song Sung Blue"..thanks for checking it out!

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"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.

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Hi. We're puffins. Cream puffins

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To Be Jolly What I think about when I think about 2025

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/...

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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.

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Looks so good Holly! Congrats!

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Your back is up against the wall. All looks lost. Who is coming to save you? Film stills only. #filmsky

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Baby Ivy is excited for the weekend.

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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.

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!

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Hey, I teach both the Postman and Winner texts mentioned herein. And have just been laid off. Good times.

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Please enjoy this picture of my cow kitten. Her name is Ivy and she is 6 weeks old and weighs 1.3 lb.

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Small world after all Tsunami's Loud Is As and the old weird world of my youth

open.substack.com/pub/gina19e/... Thanks for checking out my stack - it's free!

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I recently had a book proposal rejected by an editor which included the line, 'this is all very interesting but who really cares about the Pixies?' Or words to that effect. Sigh.

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don't you mean "AND" not but? I would love to see Gilbert and maybe Pavlov too just for the fun of it.

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Honestly I sort of enjoyed it.

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Give the past a slip Devo and the B-52s at Shoreline Amphitheater, Oct. 16, 2025

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! :(

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Because the world is so kooky I made cookies that look like sliders today.

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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.

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