I started 42nd grade this week, just as Texas asked whether college really needs a fourth year. So, I wrote about three-year degrees, getting lost, Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the strange things that somehow become an education. timothybraun.substack.com/p/a-postcard...

"Don't dream it, be it," spoken as Dr. Frank-N-Furter. R.I.P. Tim Curry.

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." R.I.P. Dolly Parton, one of the greatest there ever was and ever will be.

I saw the new Spider-Man movie. Sometimes you don't go to the movies to watch a story; you go because a story has been waiting years to find you. The movie is what you get when someone finishes a sentence you’ve been trying to say for years. A new Braunologue. 🕷️🗽 open.substack.com/pub/timothyb...

Matt Damon, John Bernthal, American mythology, grace, and the stories we tell ourselves about who gets to come home, and on the five minutes that separate rescue from regret. My newest Braunologue. open.substack.com/pub/timothyb...

I've returned to Chicago for the first time in 33 years. Last time, I came with Colin Keith to get tattoos, but I chickened out. This time I'm here for a 25th wedding anniversary, and I decided to finish what I started three decades ago. It's a new Braunologue. open.substack.com/pub/timothyb...

This Postcard from The Braunologue is about satire, theatre, @theonion.com , Infowars, and why comedy has always been one of civilization's oldest forms of truth-telling. open.substack.com/pub/timothyb...

Sometimes the stories we write aren't waiting for publication. They're waiting for the next person who needs them. The new Braunologue revisits a story I wrote for a friend's kiddo a decade ago, and for a friend's kiddo today. open.substack.com/pub/timothyb...

Is RFK Jr. a Batman villain or a Spider-Man villain? Batman fights ideas. Spider-Man fights consequences. What category do we place Kennedy in, especially now that disabled students are moved from the Department of Education to Health and Human Services? open.substack.com/pub/timothyb...

“My father is the person who showed me how to say 'May I please have’ to servers and bartenders..." Every Father's Day, the internet fills with lists of things our dads taught us. This year, I'm writing about the things my father never taught me open.substack.com/pub/timothyb...

Seven years ago today, Dusty died. For ten years, Dusty's job was convincing me to go outside and pay attention. Turns out he's still pretty good at it. The hardest thing about losing a dog isn't losing the dog. New Postcard from The Braunologue. open.substack.com/pub/timothyb...

“Glen Powell has the sexual energy of a guy who owns jumper cables and remembers your dog’s name.” Yes, Twisters is the best Hallmark movie, and I’m kicking off a series of summer movie essays with extensive research and academic recklessness. open.substack.com/pub/timothyb...

The singer wasn't Hootie. The Blowfish weren't fish. Civilization may simply be a collection of mutually agreed-upon Hooties. A new Postcard from The Braunologue. #TheBraunologue open.substack.com/pub/timothyb...

A new Braunologue: "Bread, Circuses, and Pay-Per-View, or History Doesn't Repeat Itself, But It Occasionally Books the Same Venue." Don’t worry, kids. I have a cute piece coming out on Sunday morning about tornadoes and romance movies. open.substack.com/pub/timothyb...

Filling out health information and trying to figure out what "2 pots a day" is equivalent to coffee servings.

A few thoughts (a.k.a. postcard) on Boots Riley, absurdity as resistance, and why sometimes the only honest way to talk about America is through surrealism, telepathy, giant people, and anti-capitalist chaos. open.substack.com/pub/timothyb...

“When you grow up, your heart forgets to dream.” This week’s Braunologue is about wonder, impermanence, public art, breakfast tacos, and why human beings keep making beautiful things as we lost our Austin troll. open.substack.com/pub/timothyb...

Today, we lost Sonny Rollins, who once disappeared from the world to practice saxophone alone on the Williamsburg Bridge because he believed he could still become better than he already was. RIP to the patron saint of starting over. open.substack.com/pub/timothyb...

I wrote a short piece (a.k.a. a postcard) on the loss of Colbert. open.substack.com/pub/timothyb...

I feel this, this deep thought.

Every time I try on a top at Vuori that is not a hoodie I whisper “Now witness the power of this fully armed and operational battle station” as if I’m the Emperor in Star Wars.

Come visit ours in Austin.

Celebrating Bruno’s project “Keeping Austin Psychedelic: Sound and Memory in the Age of Skyscrapers,” a work on legacy, music, memory, and identity. This project has won the Kozmetsky Center of Excellence Civic Showcase Award. His dad came in all the way from Buenos Aires.

Took my honors class to Pease Park to research our project “Failure, the Troll, and the Art of Making Something Beautiful Anyway” Public art, community identity, environmental restoration and the role of “failure” in creative innovation. We had Tacodeli. twas a fine morning.

These guys literally look like Marvel villains.

"When you have a great script, you don't need to improvise", and yet she was amazing at it. R.I.P. Catherine O'Hara.

The cat named after the Antichrist is in the way of the game I wish to watch.

I am making my football sandwich now so it has time to think about what it needs to do come game time tonight.

An inch of freezing rain and a dusting of snow has turned Austin into a Toboggan slide, and flummoxed the dog named after hot meat. It’s time to hunker down, but there is no emoji for hunkering, so it is time for 🍕 🏈 and a Gilmore Girl marathon 🤷‍♀️

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