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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Is 2026 the year I try this website again? Who can say

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

My first piece for the NYT, on Erica Taylor! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/s...

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Social Media’s Midlife Makeup Guru

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The beauty industry suddenly wants in on the over-40 consumer. I wrote about it: open.substack.com/pub/heywhate...

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The Beauty Industry Is Suddenly All-In On Gen X

After ignoring us for years

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 23/05/2025

OK, hear me out. Pedro Pascal. Viola Davis. Much Ado About Nothing. Broadway. License to print money.

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Blue-winged Warbler in the Hudson Valley, NY (a bit blurry- practicing my digiscoping skills!)🪶

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Tree Swallows, the second best bird to have nesting in my bluebird box 🪶

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Kinda terrible phone pic, but here is the Central Park leucistic White-throated Sparrow 🪶

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Perhaps you had a metal lunchbox? A Wonder Woman doll? Garbage Pail Kids? Right this way for how our nostalgia is being sold and the lingering viral Grimace effects: open.substack.com/pub/heywhate...

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Selling Our Childhoods + An ‘80s Power Suit Resurgence

From lunchboxes to Star Wars + what is 'boom boom' fashion?

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I find it pretty dystopian how celebs are selling grifty menopause products. So I wrote about how they are using the beauty industry playbook to do it open.substack.com/pub/heywhate...

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Don’t Buy What the Hollywood Menoposse Is Selling + Gen X Commercials

Using beauty industry tricks to sell menopause products + Super Bowl ads

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The waterfall recently seen in “Severance,” as snapped by me a few winters ago. It’s in Minnewaska, my favorite NY state park

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Hello from Panama, where I am having a prettyyyyy good time 🪶

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

“Finding joy among the shit” is pretty much what I need right now. Our latest: clubbing for old people open.substack.com/pub/heywhate...

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Clubbing for Old/Tired People + Lisa Lisa Gets a Biopic

A new nightlife phenomenon for middle age + freestyle fans, rejoice

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

So, how do I set the cooking section to be the home page of my NYT app?? I really can’t click into that headline mess everyday

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

My woo woo belief is that I think those toe separator things can fix a lot of problems

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Best of 2024: A pair of mulga parrots, male on the left, from one of my trips to Gluepot Reserve this year. These small parrots are insanely colourful. I always joke that they look like they got stuck in a paint factory 😄 🪶 #birds

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Are you even a Substacker if you don’t make recommendations? Behold, our first recs newsletter, including skin care thoughts from moi (it is NOT a gift guide🤪) open.substack.com/pub/heywhate...

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Holiday Movies and Music Recommendations + '90s Hair is Back

From Nicole Kidman in 'Babygirl' to Gen X celebrity memoirs to winter skincare.

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

So @fawnianewyork.bsky.social and I turned an unhinged text exchange into a dual byline, fully reported story about Pedro Pascal and bookazines. I’ve never had so much fun open.substack.com/pub/heywhate...

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‘OMG, Why Is Pedro Pascal on Teen Beat?!’

An exhaustive investigation into how Pedro Pascal's career, his online fans' horniness, and the dying magazine industry collided

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

‘70s Kenny Loggins: surprisingly hot! (Loved the yacht rock doc)

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Watching years-old videos to explain to me how to decide if someone is “babygirl.” Maybe it’s time I left the internet for good

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

A life affirming documentary to watch, with tons of ‘80s nostalgia as a bonus

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I’m annoyed I didn’t watch Somebody Somewhere sooner. What a kind, beautiful show

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Fawnia Soo Hoo @fawnianewyork.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

And an early, supersized news edition of Whatever Nevermind, feat. my ode to Idris Elba, a very Gen X-y ep of Las Culturistas + a take from @cherylanneny.bsky.social et moi on a childhood holiday song that didn't age well (and wasn't great back then either): open.substack.com/pub/heywhate...

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Ripping Off the (40th Anniversary of) Band Aid + Idris Elba x 'Masters of the Universe'

Confronting the problematic fave holiday song + Idris hangs with He-Man

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

As I’m embarking on holiday music, I have to wonder: what happened to Harry Connick Jr, the premiere crooner of the ‘90s? (Cancelled? Broadway? Netflix? All of the above?)

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I really have no idea what to buy two college age young men for Xmas. They laugh when I show them clothing options

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I just got an email about the always-anticipated Bath and Body Works Candle Day sale, and I think I can tell you without breaking the embargo that on one of the categories they have a purchase limit of … 24. Who is buying 24 candles at a time?! (I’ve written about BBW a lot. I love its fans so much)

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Elrenniel @elrenniel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

logging on

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This week @fawnianewyork.bsky.social and I rounded up a bunch of Gen X-adjacent news, including the discourse around the 40th anniversary of Band Aid (still problematic!), the return of Vera Bradley, and Idris Elba in the new He-Man movie open.substack.com/pub/heywhate...

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Ripping Off the (40th Anniversary of) Band Aid + Idris Elba x 'Masters of the Universe'

Confronting the problematic fave holiday song + Idris hangs with He-Man

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

My favorite #NYC tradition is to walk past the Macy’s parade set up the day before

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate! (These two don’t - seen in upstate NY via old iPhone zoom) 🪶 #birds

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I just agreed to write a beauty story for the first time in a while. Could pitching be next?!

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Ok I may have too many social medias because I just almost posted something here meant for Substack Notes. Have to keep all the various personas where they belong!

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

“My Old Ass” is a little gem of a film

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Need some joy in your social media? Critters!!!

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Lifer Greater Flamingo, seen in Portugal. Incredible to find in the wild #addBirder

A flamingo with its head down eating in a mud flat

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Are the Pedro Pascal fan pages here yet

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I’ve been following ‘80s nostalgia accounts for a while, and it’s getting dark in that corner of the internet. Tales of grifting and scary political rants right this way (h/t to @taylorlorenz.bsky.social and @jamiecohen.bsky.social for helping me decode the chaos) open.substack.com/pub/heywhate...

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The Dark Underbelly of '80s Nostalgia Accounts + Boyz II Men Biopic

'80s flashback Instagram is not all neon-colored joy + '90s news bits

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Bluesky fed Jesus Jones into my discover feed and I’m not mad

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

So I got (over the counter) orthotics and I’m sorry to say they have improved my life by at least 27% but also they cost FORTY EIGHT DOLLARS

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

My co-writer Fawnia (who for some reason I cannot tag here?!) interviewed Tricia (Mary Catherine Garrison) from “Somebody Somewhere” and it is just so good. Amazing quotes about aging and … press-on nails: open.substack.com/pub/heywhate...

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The Gen X Show You Should be Watching + Embodying The Boss

'Somebody Somewhere' star Mary Catherine Garrison is 'ready to take on the world' + Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Tried this place a year ago. Again I ask⬇️⬇️

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Omg should I post stuff here or …?

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Cheryl Wischhover @cherylanneny.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

I haven’t seen Barbie yet. I’m going Friday and am still dressing in pink damnit

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