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Allison Epstein's avatar

1. Baba Yaga is the ancient old witch from like Slavic fairy tales who lives in a house on chicken legs, wears giant scarves, eats a lot of soup, hates everyone, and curses strangers for coming into her yard. I identify with her on a deep and existential level. Forget cottagecore; let's make 2024 the year of CroneCore. Let me stay inside with my soups and my blankets and my malaise.

2. I feel like every school board in America would have a problem with me right now, but some of my former middle school teachers do subscribe to the newsletter!!

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Mark Dolan's avatar

CK: Another great profile -- Allison: I've peeked at your Substack and LOVE the fertile comedy goldmine the Popes are! When my kids were young we did some home religious instruction. I picked up a book that provided one page synopsis of all sorts of Saints. I would find names of some of our attendees for a change of pace. When my kids got a hold of the book and shared the absurd stories of what constituted "saintlihood" the book mostly became a punchline. What seemed reasonable and amazing hundreds of years ago often doesn't age very well. It is amazing what we revere once we examine it a bit more.

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