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Lauren Larson

@lonlozzin.bsky.social
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Writer at Texas Monthly, menace elsewhere

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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Step 4: “Decide there is a grace period wherein, if the cockroach disappears quickly enough, you will be able to persuade yourself you did not see it at all. Leave the room, resolved that if the roach is gone when you return it never existed to begin with.” by the inimitable @lonlozzin.bsky.social
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
ok I’m really going to need you all to stop, drop & read this great feature by @lonlozzin.bsky.social for the @texasmonthly.bsky.social on all woman buhurt team the Dallas Mythics. All incredibly badass with some amazing photos by Chad Wadsworth to accompany it www.texasmonthly.com/culture/dall...
A photo by Chad Wadsworth of a woman wearing a medieval tabard and plate armour getting prepped for a fight A photo by Chad Wadsworth of a studded leather jerkin lying on the floorA photo by Chad Wadsworth of a woman in full plate & maile armour A photo by Chad Wadsworth of a buhurt match in action, someone in full plate is swinging an axe at some other knights
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The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Check out this week's SLR featuring @chrisalmeida.bsky.social, @kaibirdbiographer.bsky.social, @faith-hill.bsky.social, @lonlozzin.bsky.social, @jayshams.bsky.social & more mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...
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☀️ The Sunday Long Read: Influencers, Ice, Romance Slump
The week's best journalism. Every Sunday.
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Lauren Larson @lonlozzin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Is Irving the Venice of Texas or is Venice the Irving of Italy? I found out, for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...
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These Suburban Gondoliers Have Seen 10,000 Proposals. Here’s What They’ve Learned About Love.
Often privy to multiple marriage proposals a day, the gondola king of Irving has learned a thing or two about the affairs of the heart.
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
obsessed with @lonlozzin.bsky.social look behind the scenes at Prestonwood Baptist Church’s annual extravaganza "The Gift of Christmas," featuring three camels, two zebras, 1,200 cast members (including angels and a Santa who fly in on wires), and so much more www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/...
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Behind the Scenes at America's Most Extreme Christmas Pageant
Prestonwood Baptist Church’s 'The Gift of Christmas' features pyrotechnics, lasers, elves on trapezes, peacocks, and a flying Santa. Oh, and a nativity.
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Lauren Larson @lonlozzin.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
There is no better score for These Times than a choir of dinosaur skulls moaning about the apocalypse. For @texasmonthly.bsky.social, I wrote about SMU's "dino choir" www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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SMU’s Dinosaur Choir Was 75 Million Years in the Making
The Dallas school’s reptilian-inspired band uses models of ancient skulls to play eerily abstract tunes.
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anna walsh @annamccachren.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I now think of @lonlozzin.bsky.social when I go to a Buc-ee’s bathroom thanks to this piece www.texasmonthly.com/style/bucees...
the hallway at a Buc-ee’s in Mississippi leading to the bathrooms, with paintings hanging on the wall
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Lauren Larson @lonlozzin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Your outie loves astrology, speaks fluent Spanish, and can offer you insurance for a low low rate www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/b...
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He Sold His Likeness. Now His Avatar Is Shilling Supplements on TikTok.
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Lauren Larson @lonlozzin.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I want to glow up like CHILI'S. Loved this piece from @paulaforbes.bsky.social for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/food/chilis-...
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How Americans Fell Back in Love with Chili's
The chain based outside Dallas has mounted a stunning financial comeback in recent years by leaning into its Texan roots and mobilizing Gen Z fans on social media.
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Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I profiled Hideo Kojima for SSENSE. He was funny and also very, very confident.
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Hideo Kojima: The Creator
Inside the mind of one of our greatest living world-builders.
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Lauren Larson @lonlozzin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I love this @texasmonthly.bsky.social profile of Noah Hawley, especially how he talks about his wife here. Nothing performative and Wife Guy-ish about the admiration:
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Lauren Larson @lonlozzin.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Some pool reading from the pool canon @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/travel/best-...
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A Highly Opinionated Deep Dive Into Five Texas-Shaped Pools
We traveled 1,400 miles across the state to sample our watery best.
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Lauren Larson @lonlozzin.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“There’s no couth, I guess. That’s probably an old Texan word, but I just wish people had a little more couth right now.” Wrote about the content creators posting from the flood zone for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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First Came the Flood. Then Came the Influencers.
After the July 4 disaster, independent content creators arrived in the Hill Country alongside news reporters, marking an uneasy merging of social media and journalism.
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Lauren Larson @lonlozzin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
As @texasmonthly.bsky.social has covered the floods this week we've all had our editor Aaron Parsley in our thoughts. His family's tragedy was horrific, and the fact that he was able to share it here, so clearly and movingly, is extraordinary. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”
The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.
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Lauren Larson @lonlozzin.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Many Texans can't remember a Hill Country summer without Crider's. I'm so grateful to the Moores for taking the time to speak with @texasmonthly.bsky.social while they were grieving. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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On Its Hundredth Anniversary, Crider’s Reckons With a Hundred-Year Flood
The Hill Country rodeo and dance hall will open again, but not this summer.
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Lauren Larson @lonlozzin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I wrote about a Texan who discovered, at age 40, that she was a prodigy in a very unusual and very dangerous sport. For @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...
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At 40, She Discovered She Was One of America’s Best Free Divers
Sara Burnett went from an introductory course to a world championship in just over a year.
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Lauren Larson @lonlozzin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Texas Monthly writers drive a lot, so we know a good rest area when we see it. Here's an ode to the potty architects who made some of our faves @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/travel/prett...
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How a Small Texas Architecture Firm Designs the State's Prettiest Rest Areas
An award-winning highway stop outside of Falfurrias is just one of Corpus Christi-based Richter Architects’ notable “transitory spaces” across the state.
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Lauren Larson @lonlozzin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
An ultra-rare Excellent Media Job, senior writer at @texasmonthly.bsky.social 🤠https://www.texasmonthly.com/about/jobs-and-internships/
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Since 1973, Texas Monthly has chronicled life in contemporary Texas, reporting on vital issues such as politics, criminal justice, the environment,
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Lauren Larson @lonlozzin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
An excellent dive into a thing I rarely think about in spite of eating fish approx. 100 times a week, from brettmartin.bsky.social www.gq.com/story/the-et...
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The Ethical Assassin: One Man's Quest for the Perfect Way to Kill a Fish
What if there were a perfect way to kill a fish? To make it suffer less, taste better, and extend its shelf life so significantly that more people might enjoy more kinds of fish all over the world? An...
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Lauren Larson @lonlozzin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Congrats to J.K. Nickell and @texasmonthly.bsky.social, who won an ABA Silver Gavel Award today for this fantastic feature about a Dallas eviction lawyer's heroics www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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The Eviction Cure
What happens when a hotshot Dallas attorney gets ticked off about thousands of his fellow citizens being thrown out of their homes in violation of the law? Courtroom fireworks, for starters.
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Lauren Larson @lonlozzin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Preparing to make my first Buc-ee's acquisition. I wrote about the (actually super involved) process of curating art for the Buc-ee's bathroom galleries for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/style/bucees...
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Texas's Hottest Art Gallery Is the Buc-ee's Bathroom
The convenience chain's expertly curated collections for every location serve as a springboard for photographers and painters.
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Lauren Larson @lonlozzin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I wrote about the mammouse, an early breakthrough in the effort to resurrect mammoths, for @texasmonthly.bsky.social and for myself because I love furry little freaks www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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The Guy Who Wants to Engineer Woolly Mammoths Has Engineered . . . Something
Meet the woolly mammouse, a triumph of genetic editing—and optics.
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Lauren Larson @lonlozzin.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🎵bass boys bass boys, what you gonna do🎵 www.texasmonthly.com/travel/big-b...
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The Men Spending $1,000 a Day in Pursuit of Big Bass
Meet the weekend warriors stalking double-digit lunkers on the state’s many private lakes—which themselves cost landowners small fortunes.
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Paula Forbes @paulaforbes.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
bad news for texan fans of fx show the bear: i can confirm that the "crew ➡️" and "the bear ➡️" production signs spotted in east austin yesterday were for the austin-based production company that is also called the bear thebear.us
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Sandi Villarreal @sandivillarreal.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Come for the nuns, stay for the accidental undertaker. A Lauren Larson special— www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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When the Catholic Church Ran a Public School in Small-Town Texas
In a bizarre precedent to today’s debates over faith in the classroom, a local ISD let nuns run its school for twelve years. It went about as you’d expect.
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