San Bernardino County Sun, March 10, 1954. British trans woman Roberta Cowell didn't get nearly as much ink in the US press as she did in the UK press, unsurprisingly, and what coverage she did get in the US press was far more negative, also unsurprisingly. (The UK's transphobia is relatively new.)

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

SITTING ON A PARK(ish) BENCH

Brian Wilson: I’m going to need 9 years and this list of musical instruments only made in the mountains of Nepal to create my masterpiece, it’s called Goofy Goo Bananas

New York Daily News, March 10, 1967. William Shatner and crew aboard our spacecraft in NBCTV's Star Trek faced the menace of a horrendous out-of-this-world creature who seemingly could not be killed. Here's a series which offers attention-holding science-fiction hocus-pocus.

Mount Vernon Argus, March 10, 1967. Meanwhile back at the Woodlawn Ladies Bowling League, the team known as the Star Treks came in fifth following the Rockettes, the Tigers, the Tops, and the Jets.

Cincinnati Enquirer, March 10, 1967. At times, Star Trek looks like space-age extension of West Side Story. The sharks and the jets, however, pack, ray guns instead blades and they confine their antagonisms to each other and the guys from the galaxy up the road.

LA Times, March 9, 1980. The Z Channel's rep was that it was for "real" cineastes, showing un-commercial fare—emphasizing dismissed, underrated, and forgotten films, some would say—but the Channel often dipped into the mainstream. It scored the pay-cable premiere of the first Star Trek movie, even!

Fresno Bee, March 9, 1967. Tonight on DRAGNET, our heroes face off against Swastika-bearing Nazis in a chilling episode titled...um..."The Candy Store Robberies." Strange but true: back in 1967, craggly old white dudes like this thought fascism was a *bad* thing! What a difference 59 years makes.

I think he looks like he's about to announce that the Bajoran workers have taken control of Ore Processing and have three minutes to surrender before neurozine gas is vented into the compartment.

Nottingham Evening Post, March 9, 1954. ROBERTA COWELL'S OWN STORY The extraordinary truth is that, three years after Bob Cowell disappeared, Roberta Cowell appeared. The young man who had been a husband and the father of two children, became Roberta, a sensitive young woman—and a potential wife.

god has a plan, and it's to bring a human soul into the world, give it zero chance for redemption, and then torment it in hell for all eternity, oh okay god is a murderous lunatic, got it, cool cool

When i asked my mom if people who lived in remote locations somewhere who had never had any chance to learn about Christianity went to hell when they died, and she said yes, and when I asked why, she said what amounted to 'well that's just the cost of doing business'

I used to think the words “Infectious Disease” could not possibly get more metal. I was wrong

Defensive men will argue that it's paranoid/hysterical to understand this truth about men. I no longer care about coddling men's fragile egos on this subject. Unless you are standing up against misogyny and calling out your friends for sexist comments, you are also the problem. Yes, all men.

[Madeline Kahn] Everything that's wrong about her is sexy. You look at her and think, What beautiful translucent skin on such a big jaw; what a statuesque hourglass figure, especially where the sand has slipped. (1974)

West Central Tribune, March 9, 1967. STAR TREK. A truly ingenious spaceage story, of particular interest to serious s-f fans. Kirk and Spock encounter a monstrous creature. The manner in which the monster's being is identified and then controlled, is a fascinating fictional tour de force.

Muncie Evening Press, March 9, 1967. There is talk of adding a second genie to "I Dream of Jeannie" to liven things up. It is also expected that the new Jerry Lewis variety hour will follow it on that night, with "Star Trek" moved into the Friday night column.

Say what you will about Duolingo, but at least it's brave enough to have gay characters.

Madeline Kahn in Peter Bogdanovich's 1972 WHAT'S UP, DOC? is one of those handful of times in film history that someone received an "Introducing" credit and did not immediately disappear into obscurity.

Subgenre: pop divas playing nutty dames who upend the lives of nerdy academics--so, spiritual remakes of BRINGING UP BABY--but which also openly acknowledge their debt to Bugs Bunny / Looney Tunes cartoons, and with titles that are questions. WHAT'S UP, DOC? and WHO'S THAT GIRL.

Forgotten now is that the UN designated 1975 to be International Women’s Year. It inspired Hari Narain Verma and Amrit Verma to write the reference book Indian Women Through the Ages, which was published in 1976 and included an entry on Persis Khambatta.

It’s only a big “conversation” when you act like it has to be? With our kids, the one sort of tough part was telling them that some in the world still disapprove of gay people. But that those prejudiced people are wrong. Otherwise no big deal. Now, talking with them about Death - THAT was hard.

This was on a telephone poll around the corner from my house in San Francisco on March 8, 2011. Some people have known for a long time that Gavin Newsom was not to be trusted. (Much longer than 15 years ago, tbh.)

Miami Herald, March 8, 1964. Elvis Presley gave the younger generation something to hang on to which their usually permissive parents openly disliked. The Beatles have none of this somewhat sinister quality that Elvis represented for adults. They don't have the quasi-sexual, quasi-aggressive note.

Oakland Tribune, March 8, 1967. I just finished watching Mr. Spock on "Star Trek" (don't throw this away yet) and they say he is not capable of love. Well if he isn't, how come he was born? I mean if his parents didn't have any emotional feelings, how come they had him? —Mrs. Spock, Lafayette.

Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, March 8, 1967. In Character When Jill Ireland came down with the measles recently while shooting an episode of NBC-TV's "Star Trek," she said: "You'd think I would come down with something a little more exotic than measles, like Vulcanian Virus at least."

After Rob Lowe's character explains that not all sparking white wine is champagne in Penelope Spheeris' 1992 Paramount film WAYNE'S WORLD, Wayne replies: "Ah, yes, it's a lot like STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. In many ways it's superior, but will never be as recognized as the original."

Las Cruces Sun-News, March 7, 1967. Leonard Nimoy, best known as "Mr. Spock," co-star of NBC-TV's space drama, "Star Trek," will be the principal speaker at the annual affair honoring all intercollegiate athletes at New Mexico State University.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 7, 1967. Leonard (Shappy) Shapiro, the Pittsburgher who has been working in the Hollywood studios for the past 20 years or more, is presently the assistant director of Star Trek. Mr. Shapiro, by the way, was married to the late Jean Wald, the local girl bandleader...

I am almost certain that Maggie Gyllenhaal's THE BRIDE! was not the first time I've seen Jeannie Berlin in a movie and thought to myself "Hey, it's Angelica Huston!", but looking at Berlin's filmography it's unclear when the last time would have been.

Sidney Daily News, March 7, 1967. Once the location of the best of legitimate American theater and the famous Ziegfeld Follies, the marquees that adorn 49th Street in Manhattan, New York, now scream the titles of sex movies to passerby.

Variety, March 7, 1973. A quote-heavy ad for 6 RMS RIV VU at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway, in which Jerry Orbach's "happy openness" (Walter Kerr, Sunday N.Y. Times) finds him being praised as "a warm and gentle kind of clown" (Leonard Harris, CBS-TV).

Today, I received my first paycheck since March 2025. I need to not get too used to it because it's a short-term gig which is supposed to be over by the end of this month, but still, wow. It's been a while, and not something I expected to happen so soon. (Counterpoint: it took a very long time!)

Young people are seeing through him.

Not one of these ghouls knows a trans kid, understands anything about the actual circumstances or humanity of trans kids, or gives a shit. To them, trans kids play a purely symbolic role: they are a Weak Other that can be abused as form of collective self-soothing. So fucking gross.

It is repulsive to me -- morally, aesthetically, politically -- on a scale that I genuinely don't know how to describe. It's just so deeply, deeply gross, to be so filled with weakness that you abuse other, weaker people to feel better. What a horrible kind of human, to do that, to *allow* that.

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

this is a thomas riker appreciation post. like this post if you think william t riker can suck it and fake sideburns are sufficient disguise to steal a combat vessel

New York Daily News, March 6, 1964. Get Your Copy of the Beatle Book RECORDED BEATLE HITS! Beatle lovers! A great new book! Words, guitar chords, piano accompaniments to "She Loves You," "I Wanna Be Your Man," "Please Please Me," many others. Handsome pics, Beatle biographies! $1.95.

First they came for the trans people, and I said nothing because I wasn’t trans. Then they were like actually I’m pretty sure you are trans and I said no I’m not and they went okay well show us your penis then and I said what no get out of my face and they said that one’s a girl get her

Variety, March 6, 1968. You may think white genocide is a new problem, but game shows (as well as some television stations in the South) have been afflicted by the existence of people of color for over 55 years. Please give generously.

London Daily Herald, March 6, 1954. From the initial media coverage about Roberta Cowell, a British trans woman: "The sex change at such a 'late' age and by a man who was a father must be unprecedented, says the Daily Herald doctor. Such a complete change usually happens in the 'teens."

Boston Globe, March 6, 1967. Leonard Nimoy, co-star of "Star Trek," NBC's hit series, was home for the weekend. Primary reason for the trip East was to wrap up arrangements for his first LP record album, "Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock," in which he sings, narrates and does dramatic bits.

"You’re now using Gemini on your iOS device." "With Gemini on iOS, you can get help writing, creating, learning, and more." "Don’t rely on responses from Gemini as medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice." "Gemini can make mistakes, including about people, so double-check it."

Rochester Times-Union, March 6, 1967. Too Busy for 'Star Trek' Tuesdays Why are you going to change "Star Trek" from Thursday night to Tuesday night? We protest! We enjoy it on Thursdays because on Tuesdays we are too busy. How long do you think "Star Trek" will last? We enjoy it immensely.

I could have given this bloated Vienna sausage some benefit of the doubt with how he uses his platform under his bullshit guise of “hearing all sides” but this abhorrent take from a smooth brained troglodyte is extremely dangerous. He also looks like his blood pressure is gonna blow out his ears.

Every so often I'm tempted to rewatch SERENITY for the first time in decades--mostly because I adore Alan Tudyk, tbh--and then I think I should probably rewatch FIREFLY first, which is just not going to happen. I thought the show was just okay in the Oughts, so it's not worth my time now.

I keep going back and forth on whether my current workplace is a starbase or a starship. My inclination is to call it a starship because of my personal biases (VOY > DS9), but it's a ginormous building designed to look like a castle, and it has two helipads. So, yeah, it's a starbase.

Anyone who thinks political commentary in the 80s was nuanced and invisible and didn't get in your face should revisit V some time