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Settle in for live theater and some geomagnetic activity because it’s astronomical midnight and we’re tuning in to season 3, episode 13 “Northern Lights” (Original airdate January 26th, 2000. Written by Gina Fattore and directed by Jay Tobias). Be prepared for a stunning display of nature’s majesty aka Pacey’s physical comedy and brooding goddess as well as Joey on the worst date of all time, Andie having breakthroughs, and Henry instantly setting a new standard for worst date of all time. You could try romancing us by following us on instagram (@dawsonscreeps) and twitter (@dawsons_creeps). Our antiracism doc is linked on insta and our Spotify playlist Dawson’s Creeps - Do You Want to Dance Tomorrow will really set the mood for your opening night after party. We’re taking a break next week for Yule but we swear on Pacey’s fake sideburns that we’ll be back soon!

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Black and Pink is a prison abolitionist organization supporting LGBTQ and HIV-positive prisoners. They host an annual holiday card campaign and invite you this year to “send some holiday love to 15 inside members in honor of 15 years of Black & Pink!”

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Get ready to dance around the kitchen and stare contentedly at your one true love for HOURS Creeps cause we’re taking a “Weekend in the Country” (Original airdate January 19th, 2000. Written by Jeffrey Stepakoff and directed by Michael Katleman). Your stay at the Potter B&B includes Joey’s terrible customer service, Pacey’s sainthood, a rare visit from Bodie, and an even rarer word of praise for Henry from us. Plus a hot, hot, hot reveal we’re sure none of you saw coming! For more content that’s hot and revealing, follow us on instagram (@dawsonscreeps) and twitter (@dawsons_creeps). Our antiracism doc is linked on insta and our Spotify playlist Dawson’s Creeps - Do You Want to Dance Tomorrow is perfect for excruciatingly awkward kitchen dancing with your friends. Love IS the hardest wood.

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Kick off your shoes and pitch a tent Creeps cause this week we’re “Barefoot at Capefest” (Original airdate January 12th, 2000. Written by Hadley Davis and Bonnie Sikowitz and directed by Jan Eliasberg). Your humble hosts get louder and angrier as both Jen and Jackers are drawn into romantic entanglements with the spawns of Satan, another Capeside adult torments our friends for no reason, and Dawson spouts off about principal’s daughter privilege cause it’s the only privilege he doesn’t have. Can you spy us spouting off on twitter (@dawsons_creeps) and instagram (@dawsonscreeps). Our antiracism doc is linked on insta and you can listen to our Spotify playlist Dawson’s Creeps - Do You Want to Dance Tomorrow without getting up at the asscrack of dawn and sitting through 20 other bands first. Witters aren’t quitters! 

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Color of Change phone bank for the runoff election in Georgia: “virtual Black Joy Textathons at our computers to chair dance to good music and take action to continue building our ideal community!” Weekday evenings through Jan 4th.

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Put on your shower sandals and hang a Starry Night poster in your dorm cause we’re going to college in season 3, episode 10 “First Encounters of the Close Kind” (Original airdate December 15th, 1999. Written by Leslie Ray and directed by Greg Prange). Of all the slime creatures to torment our gang, we meet a banged monster named A.J. that out slimes em all! Plus we get perennial teen Biance Lawson in the Capeside mix and a rare glimpse of Boston’s thriving gay buses. Board our gay bus on twitter (@dawsons_creeps) and instagram (@dawsonscreeps). Our antiracism doc is linked on insta and you can listen to our Spotify playlist Dawson’s Creeps - Do You Want to Dance Tomorrow while you cheerfully murder a TA. I concur!

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In DISHONOR of the secret of the patronizing, racist ooze aka A.J. please consider purchasing something from this resource list of native owned brands. In the actual frozen wasteland that is New England and not North Carolina, one of these blankets would go down a treat.

It’s not directly related but you can also see the blog post about stereotypes and racist mascots Gabby wrote for her old job here. It includes a reference to the documentary Reel Injun which was directed by a native filmmaker and has some good commentary on stereotypes and white washing specifically. 

Even if you’re not “into pigs now” like Gabby, there’s plenty of other subjects depicted in the lovely and vibrant prints available from black artist Tabitha Brown on Etsy. 

As a born and bread Masshole, Gabby has visited the Alcott Orchard house in Concord several times and read multiple LMA biographies but her fave is Marmee and Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother by Eve LaPlante. Really get to see how much LMA’s dad was a Joey’s dad style dipshit.

Zoe endorses Maya Deren’s At Land while Gabby was failing to remember the title of Meshes of the Afternoon. Both well worth your surreal and dreamy time.

Inside the Thrilling, Chaotic Writers’ Room of Dawson’s Creek

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Hold on to your girdles Creeps, the chemistry and explosive snail trailing of this episode are about to blast those dancing shoes right off your feet. That’s right, we’ve started peaking on season 3 with episode 9 “Four to Tango” (Original airdate December 1st, 1999. Written by Gina Fattore and directed by James Whitmore Jr). We wrap up the Jen and Pacey two step, Dawson does the chill swaying of the very stoned at a Grateful Dead show, Jack considers filling his dance card with eligible gays, and Joey and Pacey waltz closer to something wonderful. For more wonderful content, follow us on twitter (@dawsons_creeps) and instagram (@dawsonscreeps). Our antiracism doc is linked on insta and you can listen to our Spotify playlist Dawson’s Creeps - Do You Want to Dance Tomorrow is perfect for a solo rumba. See you anon with the next stages of this screwball mating ritual!

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The United American Indians of New England's National Day of Mourning is on Thanksgiving (Nov. 26th) in Plymouth, MA. They also have a resource with ways to be involved if folks can't attend in person.

The Daily just had a deep dive ep about the challenges U.S. food banks and the exponentially growing number of food insecure folks are currently facing. For this food based holiday that should also be about repenting for our white devilry, find your local food pantry to donate or volunteer or make a donation to the Feeding America network of food banks. 

Zoe couldn’t stop singing the praises of Sweetwater Sound - you can thank them for our newly sonorous tones. (Ah, the divine irony - ed.)

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Grab your giblet bags and give thanks creeps because we’re gobbling up season 3 episode 8 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Original airdate November 24th, 1999. Written by Heidi Ferrer and directed by Jim Charleston). If you guessed that Bodie was coming to dinner in an episode which shares a title with a film famously about an interracial relationship, you guessed wrong! But we do get some catharsis for Jen, her cult-leader mom, Pacey melting pilgrim long johns across this great nation, and did you know that Joey’s mom is dead??? For more startling revelations, follow us on twitter (@dawsons_creeps) and instagram (@dawsonscreeps). Our antiracism doc is linked on insta and you can listen to our Spotify playlist Dawson’s Creeps - Do You Want to Dance Tomorrow while you eat a giant turkey dinner alone.

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In honor of whitey’s pillaging and destruction day aka thanksgiving, donate to the Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund.

Find out more about the United American Indians of New England and the Day of Mourning.

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HALLELUJAH FOLKS we have escaped from the haunted graveyard of unresolved election results we recorded this episode in! Join us on the other side for season 3 episode 7 Escape from Witch Island (Original airdate November 17th, 1999. Written by Tom Kapinos and directed by James Whitmore Jr). We talk the OTHER podcast episode we’ve recorded about this nugget, try to dissect the labyrinthine emotions of Joey and Dawson, and are electrified by a pairing the world was too timid to embrace. Embrace our erotic energy on  twitter (@dawsons_creeps) and instagram (@dawsonscreeps). Our antiracism doc is linked on insta and you can listen to our Spotify playlist Dawson’s Creeps - Do You Want to Dance Tomorrow while crafting your wiccan rituals. 

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Now let’s flip the senate! Donate to Fair Fight in Georgia.

Watch the trailer for the Jennifer Hudson Aretha Franklin biopic Respect - Saycon Sengbloh aka Capeside conspiracy stud plays Emma Franklin!

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Today has been hard. Please enjoy a soft offering from yours truly with season 3 episode 6 “Secrets and Lies”  (Original airdate November 10th, 1999. Written by Greg Berlanti and Alex Gansa and directed by Gregory Prange).

Content warning for mentions of sexual violence. Let the images of a bronzed Mitch and Pacey makeup journey ease your vexed soul while Pacey and Joey deliver the only justice this country needs. Get into our spirit on twitter (@dawsons_creeps) and instagram (@dawsonscreeps). Our antiracism doc is linked on insta and you can listen to our Spotify playlist Dawson’s Creeps - Do You Want to Dance Tomorrow if we have a tomorrow to listen to it in. See you on the other side creeps, remember always that your internet daddies (us) love you. 

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Ah those giants of film noir - Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep, Rita Hayworth in Gilda, Orson Welles in The Lady from Shanghai, and… Dawson? Dick Leery takes to the streets in season 3 episode 5 “Second Summer”  (Original airdate October 27th, 1999. Written by Gina Fattore and Tom Kapinos and directed by Lou Antonio). The dank back alleys and funhouse mirror mazes of Capeside are also populated by a hardboiled gas dock worker who never wears a bra and is just trying to keep a dizzy dame outta trouble and a couple a platonic BFFs stalked by a low down dirty Freshman. Keep up with our low down dirty antics on twitter (@dawsons_creeps) and instagram (@dawsonscreeps). Our antiracism doc is linked on insta and you can find all the smokey crooning you could possibly ask for on our Spotify playlist Dawson’s Creeps - Do You Want to Dance Tomorrow? Creamsicle you l8ter.

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We have a lot to say about  The Haunting of Bly Manor and The Haunting of Hill House. Should we do a limited edition Patreon podcast about them?? DM us to say no.

Gabby got all of her late summer name info from this Slate article Let’s Choose a New Name for Indian Summer.

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Spit out your mouth guards and get ready for your closeups Creeps because this is season 3 episode 4 “Home Movies” (Original airdate October 20th, 1999. Written by Jeffrey Stepakoff and directed by Nick Marck). It’s time for the big game, an Oedipal showdown with our fathers, and to christen our teeny tiny boats. Question: would you buy merch from our imaginary Irish pub The Fallen Mule yes or yes? What if all proceeds went to The Capeside County Home for Unfortunate Urchins? Let us know on twitter (@dawsons_creeps) and instagram (@dawsonscreeps). Our antiracism doc is linked on insta and you can find all your favorite football hype songs on our Spotify playlist Dawson’s Creeps - Do You Want to Dance Tomorrow? Mitch’s half-digested bologna, out!

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Watch This is Paris on Youtube and sign the petition to “Shut down the abusive Provo Canyon School.”

Gabby spoke right out of her butt, offensive “Indian” team names and mascots are still a big problem in Masshole high schools and nationwide and also Newton probably isn’t even involved. Learn more about why these mascots and names are shitty and get some tips for educating kids about them in this blog post Gabby wrote for her old job.

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