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MalCrushMonday is a weekly newsletter full of musing, yearning, and giggling. Vulnerable, imperfect, thoughtful, and silly, MCM is for anyone and everyone who’s ever had a crush.

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  1. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    Vol. 171: Dresses, Bags, Rings (opens the original)

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    🐓 bobrauschenbergamerica with Available Light Theatre October 29-November 14 🐓Hello! If you missed it last week, you simply must read Anna’s #PalCrushMonday. Anna is delightful and generous and thoughtful and hilarious and we giggle endlessly when we hang out and she is truly one of my absolute favorite people I’ve met since moving back to Columbus. GO READ IT.1<

  2. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    #PalCrushMonday: Anna Soppelsa (opens the original)

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    Hello friends in my phone!As me and Mallory, who usually writes this newsletter says, it’s me!!Anna Soppelsa!!From the show!!Because famously, that’s how Mal and I met! We both had the incredible opportunity to work with Available Light Theater on their production of The Apiary where Mal was a beleaguered boss who needed to keep these goddamn bees alive and I played four different people.Two who were normal, one who died gruesomely and one who was Bryn and took a million selfies.<a class="image-

  3. Issue · Sep 15, 2026

    Vol. 170: Deciding to be happy (opens the original)

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    I am trying to make better choices in the New Year! The Jewish New Year, that is. So I haven’t been smoking weed if I have rehearsal the next day and I haven’t been texting people who don’t want to hang out with me1 and I’ve been trying to move my body in ways that feel joyful and eat nourishing foods. Just trying to do what I can to be the best version of myself I can be. And guess what? I DON’T THINK IT’S WORKING YET.I want to smoke weed and I want attention and I want to feel go

  4. Issue · Sep 8, 2026

    Vol. 169 1/2: A correction (opens the original)

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    I have realized that yesterday was, indeed, Labor Day and not Memorial Day. As I mentioned, it was a WEIRD WEEKEND.Yours, thoroughly embarrassed, Mal

  5. Issue · Sep 8, 2026

    Vol. 169: #MCMD (opens the original)

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    EDIT (Tuesday, 9/8/26 at 5:53 am): I have realized that yesterday was, indeed, Labor Day and not Memorial Day. As you will read below, it was a WEIRD WEEKEND.Did you know that on popcorn packaging it says expressly to not use the “Popcorn” button? WHY IS THAT.Ok everyone, this week was mostly good except for the date I went on at a park where a man asked, “have you ever even slept in a tent?”1, assumed I was an only child<a class="footnote-anchor" href="#footnote-2" id="footnote-anchor-2" target

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