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CAT SCRATCH FEVER: What doesn’t kill you makes you crazy By Krista Madsen There are various ailments from which I imagine you could easily lose your mind. A bad case of tinnitus that has your ears buzzing like a mosquito in your inner canals at all times. Vert... More »
THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE GNOME: In your garden or abroad By Krista Madsen I interrupt my plan to dig into Yellowjacket’s cannibalistic tendencies, no joke, to try to get into the mood of the season, refrain from eating any people, and share some holiday cheer alr... More »
PLANCHETTE: Communing with the living and the dead By Krista Madsen I’ve never felt like I could achieve fluency in a second language when—especially as a writer—I could spend my life trying to master the first. There are so many words left to learn! Case in p... More »
EXQUISITE CORPSE(S): The Uncanny Art of Animal Assemblage By Krista Madsen One spring day about a year ago when everyone emerges to do yardwork, my next door neighbor in my country outpost in the Catskills, an elderly man who is there even less than I am, came... More »
WEREMOTHER: Nightbitch & Yellowjacket By Krista Madsen Give me a long four-day weekend (Thanksgiving) and I’m most likely—as my former Home|body title here once alluded—to avoid extra-housal socialization, and shower as seldom as humanly allowable. I keep my h... More »
SHOW & TELL | ICHABOD’S HEAD: A guest tale rises from the rich soil of Sleepy Hollow By Krista Madsen– Today in rebellion against Black Friday, during which (as an adamant buy-less-er) I do anything but scour sales—my spawn and I will instead: decorate a dead ... More »
THE ANATOMY OF A HOTDOG: My Month of Meats By Krista Madsen My favorite part of riding this flowstate (sometimes achieved when I’m following my creative instincts to the fullest) is when everything I encounter starts seeming to connect. Case in point: the minu... More »
UGLY PAGEANT PART 3: Monster Myth By Krista Madsen Lest it seem from the Ugly Pageant’s parade of Toys (winner: Boglins) and Film Villains (winner: The Fly) that most rotten eggs come from the 1980s and/or the bottom of some twisted kid’s closet in the USA, it... More »
THE UGLY PAGEANT—MOVIES: Who’s the foulest of them all? Part 2 By Krista Madsen– In pretty distractions: this week there was a hilarious Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest in New York City, for which multiples of young curly-mopped boys (including a brief ca... More »
THE UGLY PAGEANT—MADTOYS: Who’s the foulest of them all? Part 1 By Krista Madsen– I have a rule about Halloween: no cute costumes allowed. If you have to be a princess, it should be a dead princess, or a gross princess, or a scary princess. Ugly-only is my reb... More »
By Barrett Seaman– It just seems to keep growing—and with it, the crowds that come from nowhere and everywhere. By the time the annual Tarrytown Halloween Parade got underway around 5:00 p.m. Saturday, spectators had already filled every space along the parade... More »
By Jeff Wilson– Local residents gathered in Tarrytown’s Warner Library on October 23 for a public feedback session about the prospect of adopting Project MOVER, an e-bike sharing program currently up and running in Ossining. The program is available there ... More »
By Barrett Seaman– When Tara Scheller launched her yoga program using stand-up paddleboards (SUPs) as a core-strengthening exercise, the little beach at Horan’s Landing on the Sleepy Hollow/Tarrytown border seemed an ideal place to introduce novices. Later, in... More »
By Shana Liebman– While not one of the wave of new Irvington coffee shops, Wildcraft Baking Company has been steadily gaining fans since it opened in 2022. Tucked away at 1 Bridge Street behind the train station, the gluten-free bakery has become a beloved des... More »
MOON-PULLED: Going tidal & other lunacies By Krista Madsen– Humans are constituted of about 60% percent water. The gravitational force of the moon pulls at bodies of earthly water and gives them consistent bulges called tides. So I’ve often wondered in the nig... More »
CREPUSCULAR: Going out on a liminal By Krista Madsen– Ever since Flannery O’Connor packed so much meaning onto the toilet stall in Wise Blood, I have believed that the liminal spaces are where it’s at for the best writing. I am pulled to these in-between, indi... More »
HOWLING FANTODS: A compendium of irritable unrest By Krista Madsen– Some people get a lyric stuck in their head, me, I get the whole howling fantods. I’ve been walking around for some time now—perhaps tapping into the collective frenetic mood of the season of ... More »
RAT SUMMIT: Musophobics stand by By Krista Madsen– I guess since we’re winning the war on drugs (fentanyl and other opioid overdose deaths are down so significantly and suddenly, scientists are scratching their heads) now it’s time to attend to the rats. Heari... More »
