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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I *know* I'm going through it because what the fuck do you mean it's taken 3 weeks for the words "Kevin Aymoz Jack Sparrow Short Program" to cross my desk?

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ugh, @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social on my favorite regularly 2hr+ long podcast, I Hate Bill Maher? Perfect synergy for me, personally.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I keep expecting him to pop up this week, like the Cat in the Hat.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Watching Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire on screen scratches the same competency porn itch on my brain that formed through being a kid on a heavy 90s Star Trek diet.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Last ridiculous estate sale post: I found this Polaroid of Robin Williams shooting the 1989 Disney short Return to Neverland. I bought it for my husband who *adored* Robin. Posted it on Insta not thinking it was a huge deal, and came back to FIVE offers to buy it off us, haha.

Polaroid photo of Robin Williams at Disneyland wearing a Goofy hat.

Robin Williams in the same outfit but it’s a still from the Return to Neverland short and he’s next to Walter Cronkite.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I never do this (I should do this more often) but if you're stuck thinking on the NHJ piece from this weekend, maybe consider picking up my book, ADMISSIONS. I did K-9 at my local public schools, and 10-12 at the PWI boarding school my dad attended in the 1970s. bookshop.org/p/books/admi...

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Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

NAMED A BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 BY ESQUIRE "[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she -- or any Black stud...

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

bookshop.org

Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So I did go back and purchase an Edith Head piece. We immediately took it down to the framer in Studio City who’s done all our collection framing. She was *so* excited to see it and that made my heart happy.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

went to an estate sale on a whim this morning. ended up easily being the single best sale i've been to all year. there was (perhaps still is, i hope) a man named tom in studio city who had the most fabulous collection of costume design and classic hollywood bits and bobs stuffed inside his bungalo.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I formed a new-to-me sentence this morning. “If you rub your binkie all over your penis it cannot go in your mouth.” 🫠

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My friends with young kids cry real tears whenever Ms. Rachel once again does not fail them. That’s real. And it matters.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

YOUR RIVIAN TRUCK DOES NOT BELONG IN A COMPACT PARKING SPOT YOU HAVE RELINQUISHED THAT PRIVILEGE.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this tom cruise interview is THE most frustrating thing i have read in ages. this is not a knock on the writer at all, who is trying his damndest to get a real answer out of a man who is intent on making paragraphs out of generalities.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Among other things, today is my 9 year anniversary of moving to Los Angeles.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This same order is being delivered to me not by UPS, not by USPS, FedEx, OnTrac, or any of the usual carriers you've heard of. No no, a Door Dasher will be dropping off my order of SavagexFenty bras.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Bent down to pick up dog poop and saw four of the largest mosquitoes I’ve ever seen in LA sitting on my jeans. It’s going to be an absolutely vile few weeks.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When the tariff charges are more than the state taxes on your very necessary order of new bras. Great country. Great time. Love it here.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Caught that video of Oli Marmol going off on the ump who was telling a ROOKIE MAKING HIS MLB PITCHING DEBUT!!!!!! that he was wearing his fitted inappropriately. Racism is alive and well in my favorite Major, but kudos* to Marmol for that read. (*and to me for saying one [1] about the Cards.)

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We had laundry to get through last night, so on went the new season of Master Chef. They have them separated into teams by continents this season, and at one point a woman says, with her whole chest, “Europe is known for its flavours.”

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

For years "Where are you from?" required 3 levels of answers. "Jersey" --> "A small town-- Maplewood." --> "Like 30min outside the city, my backyard was kitty-corner to Newark and Irvington." Been out at a bunch of networking events this week the longing gasps "Maplewood" now elicits is truly wild.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

So we made the mistake of introducing my kid to the concept of marching bands and the song 76 Trombones. He now has a little baton that he waves around like a tyrant while shouting “MARCH” and pointing at the speaker until we turn on the god damn Music Man.

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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 26/08/2026

weird to accuse the onion of AI content when new boys from Brown are being produced every day

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It’s 10:30am on a Saturday and the baby and man who live here are awake now and we’ve already had one Jax Taylor sighting while grabbing bagels.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It’s 8am on a Saturday, I have watched one episode of The Vampire Diaries and am now catching Malcolm X from the beginning with commercials on terrestrial television. And that man and baby who also live here aren’t even awake yet 😎

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

People are SUFFERING. We have to stop acting like everything is okay. It’s not okay. The conditions under which we ALL are living are killing us.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Confession: When I was making $32k a year working for a non profit and paying rent in NYC I used to write US history and English essays for high schoolers for extra money. I could charge $75-$100 a page. This is a concrete income source for recent college grads that AI has taken from us.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

How I’m spending most of my time at the moment.

18 month old toddler in a white tank top, jeans, Nikes, and sunglasses, covering his face.

18 month old toddler in a white tank top, jeans, Nikes, and sunglasses, looking away from the camera.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The way I am CONSTANTLY trying to get out of Vegas a day early. I always book for one more day than I should, forgetting that no matter how much fun I’m having or how many great friends I’m seeing, 72hrs is the absolute maximum time I can be in this city…

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'll be in Vegas for Star Trek LV this weekend... kind of! Have not actually decided how much I'm going to the con yet, but realistically I'll see if I can pop in on Sunday. I *will* however be at some ancillary events in the evenings, and will be around to hang during the day Fri-Sun.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Got up a little early and checked in on the Olivia Pope/Tony Stark crackship tag on TikTok. Things have escalated quickly. They got babies now.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The cops wouldn’t even do anything when my neighbor drunk drove into my parked car and then tried to pretend like nothing had happened. Our amazing apartment super sent over the security video within 24hrs and everything.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

great weekend to sit back and remember that 👑 garcelle is the only real housewife in the mcu.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

yo, they’re saying danny booko looks like a vorta clone over in the bravo subreddit. (this message will find the people it’s meant to find.)

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Oh also, touring a school/daycare as a former associate admissions director? Baybeeeee, I’m still vibrating.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Are we all getting our skates rebaked post pregnancy? Is this a thing? I only skated for about 20 minutes and my immediate conclusion was that I need a rebake and a good sharpening.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I’m off work this week but we kept our childcare going. Yesterday I drove up to a friend’s place in the high desert to write, and this morning I toured a daycare, hit an estate sale, and went skating for the first time since Cowboy Carter came out. I would kill at this stay at home mom shit.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

17 months postpartum update: I can still do a loop jump.

Two empty sandals and one left foot in a fully laced up figure skate on an ice rink floor.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

We’re taking the toddler to the Reptile and Pet Expo this weekend and I have already warned my husband that we may be coming back with an emotional support emerald tree boa.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Got me out here mad at Mark DeRosa *and* supporting the Red Sox smh…

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The “with Toni Collette” credit in the Singleton Shaft never fails to take me out. Somehow a shock every time.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A LHP randomly getting appendicitis in the middle of a season is very Cubs core.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Do I Have a Flat Tire or is He Trying to Holler?: An LA Commute Story

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The Babylon soundtrack is woefully underrepresented in the Playlists for When It Happens conversation.

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The American Library Association is auctioning off a bunch of the classic celebrity “READ” posters along with a bunch of other full sized literacy posters. This is going to fix so many of my problems, I just know it. movieposters.ha.com/c/search/res...

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Fucked up and did not charge a single thing, MacBook included, before leaving the house to write this morning 🤡

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Kendra James @kendrajames.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I’m in season 3 of The Good Fight (I know we’ve been doing this rewatch forever but getting through the last season and a half of The Good Wife was a slog) and my favorite thing about it is how since season 2 they now suddenly just live in Gotham City.

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