Kelly McClure
@wolfievibes.bsky.social
💻 Senior Culture Editor at salon.com, currently in my Natty Gann era. https://www.kellymcclurewritesstuff.com/
Ariana Grande may want privacy, but unfortunately, the dangers of her alarming thinness are worse than ever. As I lay out here, MAGA influencers demand women be starved and frail. This isn't just personal. It's political. www.salon.com/2026/08/05/h...
How Ariana Grande's body became political
MAGA influencers want women not just thin, but weak
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I knew how to want everything at the farmers market. I just didn’t know how to shop there.
I was a farmers market failure
I knew how to want everything at the farmers market. I just didn’t know how to shop there
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in which @wolfievibes.bsky.social answers the argument, “They’re just men when they’re not saving the world, they should be allowed to date” with an emphatic: No they shouldn’t! www.salon.com/2026/08/03/s...
Spider-Man should give up romance and focus on his job
When it comes to saving the world, maybe Peter Parker's love life should be his last priority.
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Danny is what happens when women spend their whole lives politely laughing at men who are annoying as hell.
In "The Valley" finale, Count Bookula drains our patience
Danny Booko's cringey vampire impression caps his season as its biggest source of secondhand embarrassment.
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This is how I test a watermelon at the supermarket
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump taps on Lindsey Graham's casket
Thinking about the gay on “The Valley” who sharted at Chili’s.
The glove snap took me out at the knees.
Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 2w agoGillian 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.
While reading my commentary for @salon.com on "The Vampire Lestat" being a study in nature versus nurture, I recommend listening to "Brutal Love" and "Loneliness" for a full interactive experience, because that's what I was listening to while writing it.
"The Vampire Lestat" is a study in nature versus nurture
Lestat may be a bitter star, but his brutal love is the meteor above it.
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Saw L7 play at a tiny venue called The Barn in Riverside in the ‘90s and it remains one of the best times I’ve ever had at a show. People were hanging from the rafters. This just really sucks.
Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · 3w agoL7 bassist Jennifer Finch has died at 59 following a battle with brain cancer. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Summer!!! Wheeeee! You liking this heat? You loving it?? Yahooooo!!! Good. Gooood. So HAPPY FOR YOU.
Well, The Odyssey was worth how ever many millions and billions it took to make it. The most movie ass movie to ever be a movie. 10/10.
Currently eating a Waldorf Salad from Trader Joe’s and praying I don’t shit myself to death.
I’m glad that old guy who got jettisoned into the air by the bison is doing well because I want to laugh at the picture of a grandfather being launched 20 feet into the air by a strong cow but don’t want to be mean
"I think 20-30 years from now, we’re going to say, ‘Why are more people not concerned about the way that folks are being treated right now. It’s inhumane.” Please give @carynrose.bsky.social's interview with Margo Price a read. www.salon.com/2026/07/14/m...
Margo Price's furious protest songs meet the moment
Price reflects on reviving songs by Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and Blaze Foley for "Days of Unrest."
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On a happier pop music note, my colleague @colemanjspilde.bsky.social is right. Madonna's new album is both amazing and genuinely moving, as the nearly 70-year-old singer looks back over her truly bonkers life. Plus, it's got a good beat and you can dance to it. www.salon.com/2026/07/08/m...
Madonna's irresistible contradictions
With "Confessions II," Madonna reworks her scrapped biopic into an autobiographical album worthy of the big screen.
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I can't stop listening to this. It's like my soul travels to another dimension for a moment when those harmonies hit. Pure dopamine piped through my headphones. (Tori Amos and her backup singers covering "Poison & Wine" by The Civil Wars)
While fondling the hand soaps at Trader Joe’s, the strap of my purse snapped and the bulk of it fell to the ground. Every woman around me stopped their shopping to quietly look down at it, picking their own omens.
Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital
i'd given up hope being able to talk to Kim Thayil for this when I got an email while sitting outside Nats Park waiting for Springsteen: "Can you talk to him on Friday?" drove home thursday, spent all day friday speed-reading so I could talk to Kim at 7pm: www.salon.com/2026/06/09/k...
Kim Thayil's "A Screaming Life" will make you hear Soundgarden differently
Rich with perspective, the band's lead guitarist revisits Seattle's music scene and the loss of Chris Cornell.
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If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.
