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Somehow July has marched onward, despite my belief that we're hovering somewhere in the midst of April, and Comic-Con took up far more time than I expected, but as we both spent time in a hot tub with the voice of Cyborg from Teen Titans (he was with his kids, it was adorable as heck) and I heard a guy in the elevator ask his friend, incredulously, how he had cholera... again, I will chalk this up to a success.

There have been a ton of amazing slash distinctly gothic headlines over the past few weeks so allow me to grace you with a few:

On a related note, I managed to build a Chrome extension (thank you GitHub) for my friend Tyler, who wanted something that will translate your everyday web-browsing to a more gothic experience.

Derrick Wang has written a one-act opera about Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Antonin Scalia (they are very good friends) and RBG is excited about it:

I thought the idea of taking the two of us and including this lovely duet toward the end — “We are different. We are one.” — was a good one. So we start out with Scalia and his rage aria. “The justices are out of line, how can they possibly spout this?” And then I tell him the great thing about our Constitution.

New York Magazine wrote about William Carlos Williams's This Is Just To Say becoming a meme (after a fashion), and while I had already loved this phenomenon, I love diving deeper into it.

Today, in shrines to dead animals: In Toronto, a raccoon died on the sidewalk, and when Animal Services didn't pick it up, it went viral on social media (and a shrine was built). In Bangladesh, an obese 100-year-old crocodile (he already lives at a shrine) has died because he ate too many sacrificial goats and chickens.

Etcetera: Documenting #pizzacrimes. Cuddle up with a Jurassic Park VHS pillow. Weird Pinterest.

xoxo,
Emily