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Best of 2022: My Five Thousand Word Dissertation on the Greatness of Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

It took me a solid week of furious effort and three viewings of Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, but I have written what I think is the definitive 5000 word manifesto about the Citizen Kane of “Weird Al” Yankovic-themed parody biopics.

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Exploiting The Joy of Trash: The Toxic Anti-Feminism of Self-Help Guru Marabel Morgan

The fascinatingly, poignantly terrible anti-feminist Marabel Morgan wrote the best-selling non-fiction book of 1974 in The Total Woman (with some ten million copies in print) and appeared on the cover of both Time and Mrs. Why has she been forgotten and why do her ideas suddenly feel so horrifyingly contemporary?

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