{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Brittanie Shey","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/brittanieshey","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"119257","username":"brittanieshey","bio":"I am a writer and knitter based in Houston, TX, and currently living in London, UK. This blog is a repository of links and my short thoughts on subjects including fiber arts, architecture, folk horror, perfumery, weird history, creativity and much more. 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Now He’s Coming Clean.\n</a> — NYT</p>\n<p>Never been a huge fan of Sly but this is truly one of the most candid celebrity interviews I’ve ever read.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://brittanieshey.micro.blog/2026/10/07/sylvester-stallone-hid-his-struggles.html","date_published":"2026-10-07T13:32:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Brittanie Shey","url":"https://brittanieshey.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F40%2F119257.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"brittanieshey"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"13:32","date_timestamp":1791379937,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w6sokbegnxs4bc2bfdcvsztr/post/3mxc2miei7d2b","https://www.threads.com/@brittanieshey/post/DeMeUOCEftt"]}},{"id":"98812833","content_html":"<p>In the wake of the Cornell 7 news, its worth reading Caitlin Flanagan’s longform expose from 2014 on the <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/03/the-dark-power-of-fraternities/357580/\">history of social college fraternaties</a> and the extremely dependent relationship American universities have with them.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>While the fraternities continued to exert their independence from the colleges with which they were affiliated, these same colleges started to develop an increasingly bedeviling kind of interdependence with the accursed societies. To begin with, the fraternities involved themselves very deeply in the business of student housing, which provided tremendous financial savings to their...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://brittanieshey.micro.blog/2026/10/07/in-the-wake-of-the.html\">brittanieshey.micro.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://brittanieshey.micro.blog/2026/10/07/in-the-wake-of-the.html","date_published":"2026-10-07T13:19:10+00:00","author":{"name":"Brittanie Shey","url":"https://brittanieshey.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F40%2F119257.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"brittanieshey"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"13:19","date_timestamp":1791379150,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w6sokbegnxs4bc2bfdcvsztr/post/3mxbzv7uctq2n"]}},{"id":"98765859","content_html":"<p></p>\n<br>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In 1890, an artist from Ohio picked up a pencil and captured Galveston’s streets in a way a photograph never quite could. George Elbert Burr — who would later become one of America’s most respected printmakers — was passing through Texas and stopped long enough to document what he saw.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>This was before the 1900 hurricane — when Galveston was one of the biggest and most prosperous cities in the South — and thus, before the seawall. <a href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/galveston/comments/1ux4zfc/comment/oxyqujq/\">According to a commenter,</a> in the 19th century, the city required buildings to have plank or brick sidewalks. I love learning new things about Galveston history.</p>\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/galveston/comments/1ux4zfc/comment/oxyqujq/?context=1&amp;screen_view_count=2\">Reddit...</a></em></p> <a href=\"https://brittanieshey.micro.blog/2026/10/06/in-an-artist-from-ohio.html\">brittanieshey.micro.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://brittanieshey.micro.blog/2026/10/06/in-an-artist-from-ohio.html","date_published":"2026-10-06T17:27:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Brittanie Shey","url":"https://brittanieshey.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F40%2F119257.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"brittanieshey"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-06 17:27","date_timestamp":1791307674,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w6sokbegnxs4bc2bfdcvsztr/post/3mx7xn7osqa2y"]}}]}