My neighbors had a baby and their six-year-old explained to me that the baby is “new,” that she herself is “kind of new,” that I am “almost old” and her parents are “full old.” And so. That’s the ages.
Heather Hogan
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your friendly neighborhood soft butch // she/her // @thesicktimes.org engagement editor // http://theheatherhogan.substack.com // #LongCOVID
I have a favorite new show of the year and I'm here to yell about it!! #SterlingPoint is funny and emotional and dramatic and has such classic summer vibes and is deliciously gay and I *highly* recommend it. Escape to a small Canadian island with me! www.autostraddle.com/watching-ste...
Watching 'Sterling Point' Feels Like Going To a Super Gay Summer Camp
When she gets to the Canadian island she has inherited, Annie meets the local teens, who happen to be a fun and vibrant group of mostly queer people.
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If she'd kept the main thing, the main thing, no one would be talking about it now.
Guy doing TikToks at the bagel shop was giving out stickers if you could convince him you’ve lived in NYC long enough to be a Real New Yorker. I said “When I moved here, a quarter got you nine minutes of dryer time at my laundromat, now a quarter only gets you six minutes.”
My W group chat has already deemed the Sirens the "Murder Mermaids," making them immediately 10,000 times cooler
The Cleveland Sirens are officially the newest team in the #WNBA!
Wife: How do you even use noise-cancelling headphones? It pinches the audio! Me: I don't know what that means but I know it's better than the alternative, which is me pinching off my own little neurodivergent head due to the torment of having to process multiple conflicting background noises!
Because my best friend and my wife grew up with Buffy and experienced the show during some of their most formative youthful moments, and I only watched Buffy well into adulthood, I never have anyone to talk to about the important fact of Joyce Summers being a gosh dang smokeshow!
Cousin: What’s the deal with Caitlin Clark? Me: Well…
Typewriter Type Fast
Alt: A hamster typing real fast on a little keyboard
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Nothing sums up mine and my wife’s “grumpy/sunshine” relationship quite like our Paramount+ login screen
Man at laundromat started in on me about my mask, called me “dangerous.” Other guy flew in all “Bro, is this children’s librarian gym teacher scaring you? You afraid she’s gonna give you a pep talk about literacy? So dangerous!” Very fair read, mister. 😂😷
Handed the barber my phone thinking I’d pulled up a photo of my normal dad haircut but actually it was
Wife: What’s the name of that space lady you love whose uniform is Toronto Tempo colors? Me: I don’t even know where to start getting upset about that question. Wife: I’m not wrong! Me: No, and that also is somehow upsetting!
Wife from living room: Get the fuck outta here! I don't want to talk to you! I don't want to see you! Me: *rushing downstairs ready to fight someone* Wife: God, I am so sick of AI popping up in every single program!!!! Get out of my face!
I’m in such a toxic relationship with Walgreens. When I need them to *fill* a prescription, it’s all “We’ll get to it when we can. Maybe today, maybe closer to Halloween.” But when they need me to *pick up* a prescription, it’s “Come get these pills right now or we’ll throw them in the street!”
Therapist: You truly don't care if she hates you? Me: Why would I care what someone thinks about me if I don't admire their heart? If I don't hold the life they live in high esteem? Is a rainbow worried about the mud? Therapist: Jesus. I hope I never give you a reason to leave me a bad review.
"The quiet normalization of COVID-19 in our society has come at the great expense of school-age children and adolescents." thesicktimes.org/2026/07/24/t...
If you’ve made a man furious by telling him that no, you haven’t read The Odyssey, because you don’t read books about straight men, finish him by explaining you DO like classics about gay men, such as Lord of the Rings.
There’s no one prouder of past me than present me around 5:30pm when the soup I put in the crockpot in the morning starts smelling so good. 😋🍲
Walked into the living room where my cat was lounging in the sun by an open window. I said “You are SUCH a cutie patootie.” And from outside I heard this lady go “Well, thank you!”
Little kid excitedly asking his mom “We’re getting Yoshi? WE’RE GETTING YOSHI?” He was getting more and more frustrated when she kept telling him he didn’t need a new Yoshi, he had Yoshi at home. I was like “Sorry to interrupt, these DOT spray-paints all over the sidewalk look like Yoshi eggs.” 🥹😂
Thank you to everyone who became a Sick Times Supporter during our recent summer sustainability fundraiser. Thank you for refusing to stand by as other publications and people in power put the COVID-19 pandemic and Long COVID crisis in the past tense. ❤️
If you’re wondering where I get my Heather Hogan-ness from, you should know that my grandmother has a whole herd of deer who come to her yard every day to hear her sing.
Caitlin Clark’s flopping isn’t just annoying — it’s becoming dangerous.
Caitlin Clark’s flopping isn’t just annoying — it’s becoming dangerous | Opinion
Clark has repeatedly berated refs after not getting calls replays show she doesn't deserve
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Veterinary specialist: You and your cat are the chillest patient/parent combo I’ve seen this entire summer. Me: She’s on gabapentin, I’m on Zoloft. 😌
fellow millennials, let's take a second to appreciate how great it feels to be in the prime marketing demographic catered to by all of the culture. I get now why boomers wanted it to last forever
Gillian Anderson has officially revealed the upcoming 1,478-piece LEGO set for THE X-FILES. The set is centered on Mulder’s office, paired with a forest clearing scene and a hovering UFO. Includes 8 minifigures, featuring Mulder, Scully, The Flukeman & more. August 4.
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏