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Georgiespelvin | Thoughts & Commentary

Personal essays, notes, and ideas worth sharing.

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Why I Keep a Notebook Instead of a Journal

By Jessie Edwards
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How to Make a Home in a City That Constantly Changes

By Jessie Edwards
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On the Relationship Between Routine and Creativity

By Jessie Edwards
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The Unlikely Muse: How Routine Rescues Creativity Between Gigs

By Jessie Edwards
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Why a Routine Is the Most Creative Thing You’ll Ever Do (Even When You’re Broke and Between Gigs)

By Jessie Edwards
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The Jack-O’-Lantern Shirt: What a Heart-Shaped Nose Does to a Costume

By Jessie Edwards on Monday, October 19, 2026

The first thing I notice is the nose. Not the round eyes, not the smile — the nose. On the orange jack-o’-lantern face printed on this shirt, the nose is a heart. That’s a choice, and it changes the whole read. Most carved pumpkin faces I’ve seen on stage or in shop windows go for …

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The ‘Yes I Can Drive A Stick’ Shirt: Reading the Joke in the Witch Hat and Broom

By Jessie Edwards on Sunday, October 18, 2026

Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. This is not an independent review. The first thing I noticed on the Yes I Can Drive A Stick Funny Witch Broom Halloween Women shirt was not the words. It was the hat. A cream, engraved-style pointed witch hat sits at the top of …

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The Grumpy Ghost Shirt: Reading the Joke in ‘This Is Some Boo Sheet’

By Jessie Edwards on Saturday, October 17, 2026

Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The ghost has its arms folded. That is the first thing I notice, before the words, before the pumpkin tucked at its side. A bedsheet ghost with its arms crossed is not haunting anything. It is waiting. It is standing in line at the …

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The Salted Butter Shirt: A Costume That Reads Before You Speak

By Jessie Edwards on Friday, October 16, 2026

On the shirt, a butter stick stands upright. The wrapper is printed with blue vertical lettering: SALTED BUTTER. Not unsalted. Not a generic yellow rectangle. The word salted is the whole point. I keep looking at this graphic the way I look at a costume sketch taped to a dressing room mirror. It is not …

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The Left-Pointing Arrow: Reading the Tweedle Dee Half of a Two-Person Costume

By Jessie Edwards on Thursday, October 15, 2026

TWEEDLE DEE sits at the top of the shirt in heavy block letters. Below it, in the same distressed type, the line I’M WITH DUM. And then the arrow — a left-pointing arrow, the kind of blunt directional mark you’d find on a cardboard sign taped to a folding table. That’s the whole design. No …

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