Yay! Hope you can make this great game

Have you ever used Twine? It's pretty easy to learn for making text-based games: twinery.org

I made this one with it a few years ago: www.mallorycarra.com/invoicegame/

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

Two pictures of the pillsbury dough boy: once is on a purple background with the caption “he is risen! happy Easter!”, and the other is tan and brown, similar to a cracker, on a white background saying “he is not! Happy Passover!”

It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.

A ½ review of Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) This is the kind of movie that makes you hate movies. I hated this movie over 20 years ago when I first watched it, and it made me never want to watch a STAR WARS movie again. More than two decades la...

I did it. I survived The Worst STAR WARS movie. letterboxd.com/mallorycarra...

Image of a meme: Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at the TV, but in his other hand he’s got a Symbicort inhaler

Accurate 💯

An old tweet from me on Oct. 25, 2023: "I also just lost a two-year battle with my soon-to-be former insurance when it comes to covering my long-acting inhaler. Wild that asthmatics have to go through so much just to breathe."

I'm just glad THE PITT is bringing this and so many other medical issues to the mainstream. Proof from the other site that I've been dealing with this for years. I'm now on a generic, Breyna, which is fine, but it's no Symbicort.

Asthmatics have long known that Symbicort can cost upwards of $500 *with* insurance for a single inhaler. My doctors told me to hoard them while my fancy corporate insurance covered it (and then the insurance stopped soon after).

A screenshot of an asthmatic teen patient's mother on THE PITT. The closed caption says, "I've been giving him albuterol every hour."

A screenshot of an asthmatic teen patient's mother on THE PITT. The closed caption says, "He used to be on montelukast and Symbicort."

A screenshot of a doctor on THE PITT and closed caption dialogue on screen. Someone asks, "Mel, EpiPen."

Love to recognize the names of my own medications on THE PITT, like it's an old friend making a cameo on my favorite show.

This week, it was the Asthma Trio™️ -- albuterol, Symbicort, and montelukast (and an ER regular, EpiPen). And they mentioned the cost issues with Symbicort.

Dr. Robby has gone too far

This would be a major improvement on "And Just Like That."

I'll always have a soft spot for college newspapers (WSN 4ever) and I currently teach in a student newsroom. Also very proud that the current Daily Trojan EIC is one of my former students and the DT Magazine co-editor is one of my current students (she did not conduct the interview).

DT Dialogues: Recording live with Mallory Carra! - Daily Trojan A Q&A on the unexpected evolutions of the film and journalism industries.

Honored to be featured in The Daily Trojan Magazine, talking about my career journey: dailytrojan.com/2026/04/01/d...

Those who dole out harassment cannot handle even a modicum of criticism because they thrive off of belittling others to feel big

I love LAUSD Spring Break (because LA traffic is light and I don't have kids).

We need Gawker back now more than ever.

I'm up to this movie in my STAR WARS prequel rewatch and I'm looking forward to experiencing "I hAtE sAnD 😩" and the worst flirting ever recorded in cinematic history again.

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A ★★★★ review of Age of Audio (2024) Seen at the LA premiere at the Art Theater in Long Beach, CA As someone who has worked in podcasting in various capacities since 2017 (including a full-time stint at Spotify's Parcast Studios), I appr...

Imagine how wild it was for me to watch this cool indie documentary about the history of podcasting and see a whole montage of my 2023 layoff from Spotify 🫠 . Part of podcast history, I guess... letterboxd.com/mallorycarra...

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! My #LastFourWatched: I finished the original STAR WARS trilogy and now I’m constantly asking everyone if I really have to watch the prequels again 😫 bsky.app/profile/lett...

What a way to end Spring Break!!

(For those who don't know, RTPC is USC's term for non-tenure faculty.)

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My grey and white snowshoe cat, Butters, flopping around inside a laundry hamper that is now his.

My grey and white snowshoe cat, Butters, clearly claiming this laundry hamper, meant and purchased for laundry, is now his and meant for Cat Only. To be henceforth known as "Butters' hamper."

I had no idea cats loved hampers so much. I just thought my cat was a weirdo who loved them.

+1 to everything Karl is saying here. And also:

The *logic* of the metaverse press coverage in 2021-22 was, “there is SO MUCH money and SO MUCH engineering talent pointed at this stuff that it is bound to amount to something.”

That’s facially reasonable, so it gets repeated every time.

I painted a sunset in the mountains with acrylic paints on a small canvas. At a bar!

Others: Go to a journalism happy hour to network with other journalists.

Me: Goes to a journalism happy hour, meets a crafters group on the patio, bonds with them instead, paints this quick lil acrylic piece on canvas, and gets added to the group chat!

why are men

My cat Butters, a grey and white snowshoe cat, is basking in his victory by lying upside down in what was supposed to be my hamper, but he also commandeered that. It's his hamper/world, we just live in it.

My cat Butters, a grey and white snowshoe cat, mid-meow, declaring victory over his quest to liberate this bag of food from the closet and be eaten with reckless abandon by him.

The scene of the crime: an open closet door, a bag of food that was once on a high shelf now on the floor, clawed open by a little cat named Butters.

My cat Butters secretly knows how to open closet and cabinet doors, especially the closet where I keep his food. Last night when I got home, I found the closet door open, a bag of food from a high shelf on the floor, clawed open, and him proudly meowing about his victory and making air biscuits.

please do not boil the professors, they don't like it.

A pie chart showing that 100% of respondents picked KPop Demon Hunters for Best Animated Feature in my Oscar Pool for USC Annenberg students.

My favorite stat from the Oscar Pool I ran for the Annenberg students this year: 100% of respondents picked KPop Demon Hunters for Best Animated Feature. The only certainty. #Oscars

The USC podcast I produce is recording a LIVE episode in April! Prof. Chip Zukoski, the podcast and event host, is an incredible speaker and science professor who is an expert on data center issues. Also, there will be pizza!

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