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She/her🏳️‍🌈 Cohost of @dawsonscritique podcast. Coauthor of I Remember Everything: Life Lessons from Dawson’s Creek.

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Julia Callahan
4 years
Today is the day! Our book I Remember Everything: Life Lessons from Dawson’s Creek is out today! I now feel justified that I have spent 20 years rewatching this show. Order at the link in the bio. #DawsonsCreek @dawsonscritique
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Julia Callahan
8 months
You know what Suzanne Collins does so fucking well? She wrote an insanely popular series and now I never hear from her. I don’t know her opinions on basically anything. I hope you’re somewhere warm and comfortable, enjoying your money, Suzanne. Thanks for not engaging with us.
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Pop Crave
8 months
‘The Hunger Games’ series officially crosses $3 BILLION following the release of ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.’
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4 years
Hey. You know who never hosted Parler? Your local indie bookstore. Stop fucking shopping at Amazon.
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5 years
Went to see why “He’s a Hispanic” was trending. Immediately regretted it.
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Kyle Griffin
5 years
Trump on Alex Acosta as Acosta resigns: "He's done a fantastic job. He's a friend of everybody in the administration ... The fact is, he has been a fantastic Secretary of Labor ... I'm with him. He's a tremendous talent. He's a Hispanic man. He went to Harvard."
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3 years
The fact that NBC has not hired Leslie Jones for every Olympics is truly nuts. I don’t give a shit what Michael Phelps has to say. Show me Leslie Jones narrating swimming.
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Julia Callahan
5 years
How many people have to get fucking killed at the mall and at school and at movies and at food festivals? Fuck Mitch McConnell for blocking the gun legislation that the house passed and fuck the NRA and its stranglehold on the Republican Party.
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Julia Callahan
3 years
Nancy Reagan is trending for some reason and just a not-so-gentle reminder that she was an entitled, self-serving monster, who is responsible for a great deal of human suffering.
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Julia Callahan
5 years
Man, fuck guns and fuck everyone who thinks that owning a gun is more important than the rest of us being able to feel safe from being shot literally anywhere at any time. The Gilroy Garlic Festival is a fun, dumb, kitschy local festival. And now it’s a fucking war zone. Fuck.
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Julia Callahan
8 months
All the lesbians on my timeline after hearing that Julianna Margulies rant:
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Julia Callahan
7 years
Is this not a still from Get Out?
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shauna
8 years
This photo of the Gingriches looks like the last thing you'd see before waking up in a bathtub of ice with one of your kidneys missing.
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Julia Callahan
5 years
Was let go from jury duty because i asked if we awarded money to the plaintiff, would that plaintiff actually receive the money because I’ve listened to so many episodes of @yourewrongabout where the winner of a huge settlement actually sees no money.
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6 years
@emilynussbaum We’re actively trying to get people to stop moving here so we can afford rent. It’s all a big conspiracy.
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Julia Callahan
3 years
@shadowkatie Totally. And it was Diane Sawyer which made me mad because, girl, you know what it’s like to be a woman in the public eye.
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Julia Callahan
7 years
April Ryan is a gift to this country in every way imaginable.
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7 years
Channeling Jennifer Holiday w/ @jeffsessions comment that he will "continue to serve" in his job. "and I am telling you I am not going!"
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Julia Callahan
8 years
Anyone born after 1984 needs to watch this video. This is what they fucking did to her when she worked.
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8 years
@KateHarding Katie Couric pressures Clinton to explain why she doesn't want to bake cookies:
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Julia Callahan
9 months
I am a third generation Californian and I have never heard of a scooped bagel. This is giving some jabroni who moved to California and is now cosplaying what he thinks Californians should be like.
@Ian_Gay_briel
Gay-briel
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new york needs to start turning californians away at the border what the fuck is this shit
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4 years
Reese Witherspoon’s character in #LittleFiresEverywhere having her books all arranged by color is a great touch to tell me that she’a going to be a total psycho.
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Julia Callahan
4 years
I keep thinking about the police and their role in mental health. Why isn’t there a different agency, one without the ability to use lethal force, that we can call when someone is having a mental health crisis?
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Julia Callahan
3 years
Some personal news: after 10.5 years @rarebirdlit , I’m moving to @IPGbooknews as the Western sales rep for indie bookstores! It has been such an honor and a joy to work for Rare Bird and I can’t wait to get back to my passion of working with indie booksellers full time.
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Julia Callahan
5 years
Parker Posey opened a door for me tonight while I was carrying multiple boxes of books and had a glass of wine in a paper cup between my teeth so every dream I had in the 90s, when I only watched 24 Hour Party People, Dazed & Confused, and The House of Yes, has been fulfilled.
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Julia Callahan
5 years
I just want to say that watching Kevin McCarthy stand in front of media and just lying his fucking ass off is still truly stunning. What a fucking joke the GOP is.
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Julia Callahan
5 years
I thought it was a fair question to ask, seeing as almost all the questions for the jurors were about whether or not they would be willing to award big settlements or no settlement, but the defense did not like it.
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Julia Callahan
4 years
Someone wrote me an email today about how disappointed they were in our company because their book is taking so long to get to them and it was the final straw and I responded that they should contact their elected officials about why they are defunding the post office.
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Julia Callahan
3 years
@TheKitchenista My mom made cioppino and I made foccacia. Not pictured, salad. This is Italian thanksgiving.
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Julia Callahan
3 years
I finished the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo today at a bar in Portland and I cried publicly and then gave my book to the woman serving me because she was asking about it and said she wanted to read it and just read books that entertain you and make you feel. That’s what matters.
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Julia Callahan
5 years
At some point, we may have to have a conversation as a nation about how it’s being treated when he does this to Joe Biden, a white man, and how it was treated when he lied through his fucking teeth about Obama and Hillary Clinton—not white men.
@grynbaum
Michael M. Grynbaum
5 years
CNN cuts back to @BrookeBCNN , who says: "We just need to note...everything he said about the Bidens is 100% wrong."
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Julia Callahan
7 years
They owe Hillary Clinton a presidency, actually.
@peterdaou
Peter Daou
7 years
THE GOP OWES HILLARY CLINTON AN APOLOGY
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3 years
I think about this at least once a week.
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3 years
A Fleetwood Mac biopic is inevitable someday, but they'll NEVER be able to match the drama of Stevie Nicks, 20 years post-breakup, turning to sing "I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you" directly at Lindsey Buckingham's soul
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Julia Callahan
4 years
I keep thinking about how much power a place like Flatiron Books has to get a book out there with seemingly no one engaging with the material, while smaller presses are so often trying to beg outlets to just give their books a try because the material is so good.
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Julia Callahan
3 years
Maybe next time she��ll think before she tweets.
@chris_notcapn
chris evans
3 years
Carrie Underwood is an anti-masker.
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Julia Callahan
3 years
I love that everyone’s reaction to this is why is Adele in Modesto? I mean I have the same question obviously.
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markus luther lee 🧊
3 years
adele was out here in cali going THRU it
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Julia Callahan
3 years
Guys. I’m sitting at a bar, reading a book. I might cry. This is all I want from this life.
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4 years
So Tiger King is just about multiple cult leaders that fight with each other. Am I getting this right?
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Julia Callahan
5 years
Someone run against this fucking pile of dogshit.
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Matt Schaefer
5 years
“Do something!” is the statement we keep hearing. As an elected official with a vote in Austin, let me tell you what I am NOT going to do. 1/6
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Julia Callahan
2 years
@emilynussbaum Anthony Bourdain has a great bit on it in Kitchen Confidential and he says basically everything is very time consuming and not fun or interesting to cook and hollandaise is stored at the exact right temperature to be absolutely foul.
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Julia Callahan
2 years
So @DivaLaci just said that Ronald Reagan was like Republicans’ Beyoncé on @yourewrongabout and I nearly crashed my car I laughed so hard. Holy shit that’s hilarious.
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Julia Callahan
4 years
Oh. Don’t mind me just walking down the street sobbing into my mask about Jessica Simpson and Willie Nelson singing Will The Circle Be Unbroken because of @yourewrongabout . Totally normal.
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Julia Callahan
3 years
The thing about A League of Their Own is it a movie that will make you cry a minimum of 4 times for completely different reasons. Also, it is the best sports movie ever made. Don’t @ me.
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Julia Callahan
2 years
This song still fucking SLAPS.
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Julia Callahan
5 years
@MLB @SFGiants So excited about this. Proud to be a Giants fan.
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Julia Callahan
6 years
How do I immediately get out of the thing I just said yes to: A memoir.
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Julia Callahan
3 years
@RealMerrinD Me waiting for this memoir:
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5 years
@IvankaTrump Finally going to a place you truly deserve to be.
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Julia Callahan
4 years
Look, I don’t wish death on people for the most part but I when I spent 10 days roaming the halls of a hospital, parked in an ICU with my father as he was dying, I hate that a though I had a lot was why is someone as great as my dad dying when someone as awful as DT still alive.
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Julia Callahan
5 years
@laurenthehough @yashar @Oprah ❤️❤️❤️ That is so damn hard.
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Julia Callahan
4 years
A reminder that this is Mike Pence’s fault.
@NPR
NPR
4 years
The worst drug-fueled HIV outbreak ever to hit rural America was in 2015. The CDC has deemed 220 U.S. counties vulnerable to similar outbreaks — but fewer than a third of them have working syringe exchanges, which can stop the spread of the infection.
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Julia Callahan
3 years
*laughs in Los Angeles*
@midwestern_ope
Midwest vs. Everybody
3 years
The Midwestern urge to drive 45 minutes to go to your favorite restaurant
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Julia Callahan
4 years
So Newsom is president now? I’m okay with that.
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Julia Callahan
2 years
The assault weapons ban.
@ThatEricAlper
Eric Alper 🎧
2 years
What’s something from the 90s you miss?
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Julia Callahan
4 years
I will publish it.
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Julia Callahan
5 years
I love when people tag my employer and complain about me because I yell about politics on here: a) as if my boss gives a shit; b) I run the fucking social media. You’re complaining about me to me. I’m just responding with an employee of the month photo from now on.
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Julia Callahan
3 years
My take away on Allen vs. Farrow is that Woody Allen is a fucking monster. I cannot believe Dylan Farrow is still standing, what a fucking amazing person. And I feel deeply for Mia Farrow but man, those feelings are complicated.
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Julia Callahan
2 years
Every time I look at the new King and Queen (is that her title?) I will think about the time he told her he wished he was her tampon. That fact never leaves you once you know it.
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Julia Callahan
3 years
Like people don’t understand the absolute joy of those two innocuous looking cups.
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Julia Callahan
7 years
@SFGate This is a terribly misleading headline.
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2 years
Obviously.
@CasaDupre
rhaenys, the queen who never was
2 years
Worst TV couples/ships ever?
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Julia Callahan
2 years
@MatthewACherry One Day at a Time.
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Julia Callahan
5 years
Say what you will about Guy Fieri, but Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives is such a good show to space out to in hotel rooms while dealing with stress and jet lag.
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Julia Callahan
4 years
Do NOT call me out like this.
@hey_ciara
Ciara Johnson | Solo Travel Queen
4 years
Idk who needs to hear this but it’s finally time to unpack that suitcase sittin in the corner of your room. We not going anywhere for a minute sis 😭
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@chaedria Hello. My father was an oysterman and I know a lot about this. 1) oysters spawn when water warms up so THAT is why you weren’t supposed to because they were either bursting full of reproductive material or VERY thin (more)
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Julia Callahan
3 years
@bensiegel @sbg1 @lisamurkowski Why don't you vote to make sure he literally cannot, Lisa?
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Julia Callahan
3 years
My kingdom for a comeback of the 90 minute movie.
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Tod Goldberg
3 years
Why the fuck is this James Bond movie THREE HOURS?!?
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Julia Callahan
5 years
I want you all to know that the insane crush I’ve had on @paulapoundstone since approximately 1995 was not misplaced. She wore the best suit I’ve ever seen and read the riot act to @ALALibrary attendees who hadn’t read the Mueller report. It was perfect.
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Julia Callahan
5 years
Thoughts and prayers.
@axios
Axios
5 years
Kellyanne Conway said in a CNN interview this morning that she was grabbed, shaken and screamed at by a woman at a Mexican restaurant late last year.
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Julia Callahan
4 years
I just, who the fuck is flying right now? Guys, I usually fly 2-6 times a month. I’m guessing the next time I get on a plane will be in 2021. Unless you’re stuck somewhere and need to go home, or medical/political staff moving around I do not understand how you’re flying anywhere
@mudede
Charles Mudede
4 years
The pandemic has shown the public how very hard it is for leaders to make socially significant decisions without worrying about, considering at length, and finding ways to make concessions to what is always locked in the short-term, the business interest.
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Julia Callahan
8 years
Welcome to womanhood.
@marcushjohnson
Marcus H. Johnson
8 years
Trump got covered like he deserved a medal just 4 showing up, while Clinton got covered like she had to get a 5.0 GPA or else its a failure
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Julia Callahan
4 years
@rachsyme Nothing beats a smooth butternut squash soup with some roasted pepitas and a drop of cream on top.
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Julia Callahan
6 years
Hey, if you’re in LA, the feminist book club at @lastbookstorela is reading @nicole_soojung ’s All You Can Ever Know to discuss in November. You should join us.
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Julia Callahan
3 years
Well well well @skylightbooks is 25 and for the past 15 of that 25 they’ve been my neighborhood bookstore and my favorite place and I love them so much. Happy 25, Skylight!
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Julia Callahan
5 years
@ktumulty He committed a genocide so perhaps no to this insane statement.
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Julia Callahan
2 years
I hate retweeting shit like this but I am just here to say that I’ve been thinking so much about the complete absence of joy from these people. They’re just so fucking miserable all the time. And so hellbent on inflicting that misery on everyone.
@JasonSCampbell
Jason S. Campbell
2 years
Dennis Prager complains about a school sign reading 'The world is better because you are in it': "What a stupid message. Plus it's not true. What has any 5th grader done to have made the world better because he or she is in it?"
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4 years
One of the many things I hate about Amazon is that they have desensitized people to how expensive shipping can be. Particularly international shipping, which is outrageously expensive.
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@Nicole_Cliffe My mom named her nemesis squirrel Donald Trump because 'they have the same hair and they both won't go away.'
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Julia Callahan
3 years
Not too long after Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd movie, I did an event with Sondheim at UCLA and he told the audience he thought that the West Side Story movie was the worst adaptation of anything he had done and Sweeney Todd was the best best. 1/2
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Julia Callahan
3 years
When I worked at @BookSoup we did an event with Rue McClanahan for a book she wrote. I was up at the front of the store while Rue was signing in the back and Betty White walked in and asked me where Rue was. I walked her back and you could hear the people in line freak out. 1/
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Julia Callahan
3 years
The thing that hurts most is when something big happens in your life and your dad is no longer there to be proud and you have to just know he would be and imagine the conversation.
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Julia Callahan
2 years
Between Johnny Depp and Rick Caruso a whole lot of celebrities are showing us EXACTLY who they are this week. Good lord.
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Julia Callahan
4 years
@RepDeanPhillips As far as I can tell, no one protesting to not be murdered by police has tried to kidnap an elected official.
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Julia Callahan
3 years
Honestly just a truly perfect moment of television.
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Julia Callahan
5 years
Did you know that the city of Los Angeles once had a rail system that looked like this? I think about what would have happened if this had been purchased by the city and run as a public utility all the time.
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Julia Callahan
5 years
And I’m crying. Look at this amazing woman and all she does to expose the harm evangelism causes. What a legend.
@C_Stroop
Chrissy Stroop
5 years
So, I've never been this nervous to put anything on the internet before (and I'm not exactly known for my milquetoast takes), but happy Pride everyone! #TuesdayMotivation #PrideMonth
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Julia Callahan
6 years
You know what is up? Your local indie bookstore.
@gregotto
Greg Otto
6 years
PrimeDay and amazon is down? OOOF
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Julia Callahan
3 years
Can we just dub the hour between 3 and 4 nap time and agree to not get anything done? Like you don’t send me emails, I won’t send you any. Let’s all nap for an hour.
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2 years
As someone who did this I want to say do not do it to yourself. It is not worth it and you then spend your 30s unlearning this absolute garbage.
@FinBizJedi
bearishbiasjedi
2 years
Unsolicited career advice: Work your butt off in your 20s. Forget about work-life balance & all the other BS you hear about. You're still young, can test yourself physically & train your mind to work under long, intense pressure. Identify limits, have fun & keep fit for energy.
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Julia Callahan
3 years
I got to see and hug my grandparents yesterday. Hadn’t seen them in over a year. My grandpa is 94 and has trouble remembering things and asked about my new job and then reached in his wallet and gave me $20. And my heart is not used to this level of sweetness.
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Julia Callahan
5 years
@aminatou Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. I still have no fucking clue how it is possible to pull off a debut this insanely good.
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Julia Callahan
3 years
'Britney' is the best Britney Spears album, and there are a lot of great Britney Spears albums, but literally there is not a miss on the whole thing.
@MTVNEWS
MTV NEWS
3 years
For #WomensHistoryMonth , we’re examining iconic eponymous albums from pop queens brave enough to own their names. @britneyspears ’s ‘Britney’ reflected a young star coming of age under a lens, and it was a message we ignored and should’ve known better
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Julia Callahan
3 years
Starting Yellowjackets. Wish me luck. I have had a crush on Christina Ricci since at least 1992 so this is going to be a ride for me.
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Julia Callahan
5 years
The world lost a good one today. Rest peacefully, Pop. Thanks for teaching me all about the important things in life.
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Julia Callahan
4 years
Clearly not, Chris. We’re a mess and a goddamn half.
@notcapnamerica
chris evans
4 years
Are white people ok?
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Julia Callahan
4 years
Took my dad’s employees out to dinner with my mom last night and we all wore his company shirts. It is a testament to how beloved my father is and was that multiple people came up to us in the restaurant and hugged us and gave us condolences and told us how much he meant to them.
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Julia Callahan
1 year
This is just to say that Amazon picks up books at all distributors it buys from but indie bookstores are shipped books mostly via UPS so I think you can guess where this strike is going to be felt the most. Go in and buy books you weren’t expecting to at your local indie.
@RdotSpoon
🩷 Rebekah Weatherspoon Book Updates! 🩷
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An indie book publisher I follow on the Tiktok just reminds me/us that the impending UPS strike will impact publishing a lot. UPS is a carrier for a lot of book distribution avenues. We should be prepared and be chill about it. UPS workers need our support.
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Julia Callahan
1 year
My sweet Italian grandpa died last night. He survived Mussolini and was a radioman in the Pacific Theater in WWII. He also was a great cook and gave the best immigrant recipes to me which are absolutely unusable. What a treasure. I’ll miss him.
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8 years
If you aren't tuning into this podcast, you should be. So great.
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Julia Callahan
5 years
Truly do not understand adults with no kids who enjoy camping.
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Julia Callahan
3 years
This is literally the only answer to this question. No need to discuss.
@hulu
Hulu
3 years
What is the best sports movie of all time?
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Julia Callahan
5 years
I see that @theferocity is on Terry Gross today so I can count on the fact that my mom will tell me all about his book, which I recommended to her a week ago after seeing him and Roxane Gay in LA, when I call her tonight.
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5 years
“Anyone who enjoys camping is a monster.” - @patrickhinds speaking my truth on @TrueCrimeObsess
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