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red letters
It used to be almost impossible to watch cool movies. If you were lucky, your had access to an independent video rental store with some personality. We had a Blockbuster
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Veneno
Veneno is a bio-drama miniseries from Spain about La Veneno—a trans hooker who was “discovered” by a TV tabloid show in the mid 1990’s and who became a hypersexualized, circus figure on talk shows. For a younger generation of trans women, she was a representational icon at a time where there was no room for…
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…by the sharp lapel of your checkered coat
Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat! This delightful tweet from Linda Holmes sent me down the rabbit hole this afternoon exploring “Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat” and learning a little more about its composer, Frank Loesser. “Sit Down” is a showstopper from the musical Guys & Dolls: the gambler Nicely-Nicely bullshits a temperance congregation…
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geek fascism
To my mind, there is no better place on the internet where highbrow and lowbrow mingle freely and in various novel mixtures than the Los Angeles Review of Books. Their contributors feel young and fresh compared to other “serious” book review outlets, their interests range from narrow academic topics to popular culture and any given…
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Get Used to It
We’re Here [HBO]. Three drag queens not named RuPaul take a Priscilla/Too Wong Foo tour through small towns across America to stage drag shows and use their power to validate and heal local queer scenes. I loved gay culture, like so many of us did, before I loved my gay self. I loved the sense…
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2020 Oscars
It was the Oscars tonight! I watched the full telecast for the first time in several years tonight, and thought it was a surprisingly inspiring and life-affirming broadcast. Here’s my picks of winners and losers this year. Winners Parasite. The winner that everybody is going to be talking about tomorrow is Parasite. The best case…
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Drag Race All Stars
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9Ud613P5lw] Very excited.
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Mad Men & The Beatles
Readers who legitimately do not give a shit about Mad Men may still be interested in my comments on the Beatles album Revolver after the embedded YouTube video. I have no interest whatsoever to blog seasons of television or do recaps or anything that needs to be timely or consistent, but I do want to say that…
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Waking Belle
Saw the new Beauty and the Beast 3D rerelease tonight. I don’t have any special thoughts about the movie, as it has always been one of my favorites. I was a little too young to see it in theaters, however, and it did remind me that even now with high definition televisions and movie players…
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Downton Abbey and the Freight Train of Progress
From the Downton Pawnee tumblr. Andrew Sullivan linked to a couple of different articles trying to explain the (unexpected?) popularity of Downton Abbey in the United States. For Newsweek, Simon Schama makes the case that the show is a snob-ridden piece of Hallmark-y tripe: There are many things wrong with the Republic in 2012, but when historians…
