“school of rock” made me think beer tasted like cream soda for some reason and i was ultimately disappointed
Abigail Rosenthal
@abigailrosenthal.bsky.social
romance reader, concert goer, culture editor @chron.com
when america wrote “ventura highway” it was with the dream that it would one day be used in a tiktok selling me CAKES Sticky Circles nipple covers
do big & rich know that they’ve become queer icons for “save a horse ride a cowboy”
i yearn for the rush of back to school shopping
my colleagues @chron.com have a cool roundtable up this afternoon about the anniversary of Bourdain's Houston episode of Parts Unknown. I really liked @abigailrosenthal.bsky.social's contribution: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
In the wake of Frank Beard's death I remembered the time ZZ Top put out their own version of the Houston rap classic "25 Lighters" www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Remembering ZZ Top's weird, perfect tribute to a Houston rap classic
Inspired by Lightnin' Hopkins and a classic Houston rap banger, ZZ Top had an idea.
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at the risk of sounding stupid, why are apps this much bigger lately???? please give me my storage back
“i didn’t know this would be so sad” - my husband as we listen to an audiobook about tuberculosis, the leading cause of death from infectious disease
seeing a lot of these so-called driverless tesla cybercabs with drivers in them
I spent way too much time looking for this, but I think I found it. Incidentally that pizza place, which opened up at least 10 years ago, just closed last year
Abigail Rosenthal@abigailrosenthal.bsky.social · 3w agoi think about this early pandemic meme at least once a week
Since August 1, 2016—50 years to the day after the UT Tower shooting—it’s been legal to carry concealed firearms into most public university spaces in Texas, including classrooms. When the law went into effect, UT Austin students reacted by brandishing dildos.
‘Cocks Not Glocks’ at 10
A decade on, the iconic campus protest has come to symbolize a time of relatively free expression.
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all my posts fester in obscurity until @kissphoria.bsky.social finds them
i think about this early pandemic meme at least once a week
“the thing with these instagram reels is one tells me i have CPTSD, one tells me i have OCD, and one tells me I’m a virgo. which one is it.”
indoor pools have such an evil energy to me
my empty bottle of pink gin for a norwegian life of luxury @chron.com www.chron.com/culture/arti...
I wish I was Erling Haaland's dead raccoon
Oh, to be a taxidermied drunken raccoon, whisked away to Norway.
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clocking into my part time job (love island)
My dispatch from Houston's Oranje Fan Walk, where I discovered why they call it "the beautiful game." www.chron.com/culture/arti...
At Houston's Dutch Orange Walk, I found the heart and soul of the World Cup
In an unlikely, unwalkable city, two cultures came together, united by the beautiful game.
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sometimes i'm doing real journalism and sometimes i go to work and say "can I please just make a photo gallery of the England hooligans getting rowdy at a pub in Dallas" and @abigailrosenthal.bsky.social thankfully says yes: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Please enjoy photos of plastered England fans drinking a Dallas bar dry
England fans had a smashing time drinking nearly $30,000 worth of beer at a Dallas pub. The photos are incredible.
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i would never let a man make me breakfast on love island. those pancakes are way too thick. pathetic.
i can't get enough of people discovering stuff about america and i love every bit of it www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Tourists are discovering (and loving) these very American things
Imagine coming face-to-face with a longhorn for the first time.
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between charli xcx’s “ss26” and olivia rodrigo happy depressed girl summer
