M Steph Murray

I took 1 star reviews of #Barbie from furious men on letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler.

@tigerpantss Oh, that's right! I do love the one I have from US! Now if they'd just give their Geneva dress pockets, too.

I swear to everything that if some company would make a t-shirt dress with GOTDAMN POCKETS I will buy so many of them.

I’m headed out to a bar in my hometown on a summer Friday night.

Total student loan debt that would have been erased for millions of Americans: $400 billion Total cost of the Trump tax cuts that largely benefited the wealthy and corporations: $1.9 trillion This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

This makes me want to become a milliner. How do I do that? Do you want me to make you a hat?

A club where you sit in silence and untangle necklaces

I had forgotten what Men in Bars are like, and I think we need to shut this whole business down.

The Arizona borderlands are some of the darkest & least light-polluted areas left in the country. Flipping the switch on these 60 miles of border-wall stadium lights would obliterate the darkness & extinguish thousands of stars in one of the last places we can still see them.

Chicago academic pals! Do you have any grad students or advanced undergrad students who would be interested in TA'ing a writing class this summer? If so, let me know and I'll get you in touch with a colleague who's looking!

My younger kid just delivered her birthday wish list and item #1 is a ventriloquist's dummy. It's too weird a request to not honor it.

I’m spending Mother’s Day launching my work children into the world. Congratulations, @CMU_BXA class of 2023! @CMU_CFA @CarnegieMellon

@MegStEsprit @AbbottElemABC @parksandrec My slightly older kid loves those and Brooklyn 99 ("even though it's about cops"), The Office, The Good Place. I'll add Superstore and Rutherford Falls.

If my tween likes @AbbottElemABC and @parksandrec and dislikes shows with laugh tracks or live audiences, what would you recommend?

So, Cocaine Bear is definitely an allegory about motherhood, right?

Pittsburghers! Come see @CarlosGringo13 be fantastic tonight! @whitewhalebks is a cool place to be!

I've got 8 events to get through and then I can dissolve into a fine mist.

When yours (mine) is the flexible class that gets deprioritized and students are honest about that, the appropriate feeling is to know you’re entirely right about students’ excessive school/life loads and direct anger toward the right people.

Pals, I'm having coffee for the first time in nigh on 6 months and I can't promise that everything will be ok.

How to Grow Your Bangs Out So Much You Escape the Surveillance State: ow.ly/1e7U50GlIXR