"I don't knock my country for what it is - I knock it because I share the dream of so many of us as to what it can be." ~Rod Serling 1970

I just started watching a gay romance series from Japan called PUNKS TRIANGLE, in which a fashion student who loves the punk scene ends up paired with his punk idol (who is in disguise) on a fashion project. The idol is the most attractive person I have ever seen. My jaw dropped. Gay shookedness.

that’s him

Fun Fact: Diane Keaton directed an episode of Twin Peaks. Granted, it was the unfortunate post-Lynch S2 era in which James wandered off to that other town for that primetime soap storyline and Ben went crazy for the Civil War and Windom Earle was Windom Earle-ing with giant chess pieces and shit.

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Another one of my “in retrospect, I was a baby gay” memories unlocked: When my family moved to a rural part of the county and we took to regular video rentals, Working Girl (1988) was one of my favorite movies. I think I was about ten years old.

GREAT MOMENTS IN K-POP CREDITS:

I hasten to once again point out that George Clooney was at the scene of this crime.

As a society, we haven’t really reckoned with the unspoken truth that the Spencer’s Gifts era of The Facts of Life coincided with the arrival of George Clooney.

Last week, I watched the penultimate episode of a show and it devastated me so profoundly that I was wrecked for days. So now I’m about to watch the finale of said show. Oh boy.

My humanity is, I hope, marked by my compassion, and my compassion is a compass that allows me to recognize any murder as senseless.

that’s him

Superman (2025) has hit digital, and I’ve now watched it two more times, bringing me up to five (5) viewings so far. God, I wish I could bottle the feelings this movie gives me.

“We saw you from across the bar and we really dig your vibe. Can we buy you a drink?”

Whatever happened to predictability?

The problem with doing a new Match Game in 2025 is that the ‘70s Match Game thrived on puns, double entendres, cheese, and the boundaries of what the stars could actually say or write. And, it was a group of boozy middle aged celebrity partygoers playing what was, essentially, a party game.

This tells you every fucking thing you need to know. I hope he falls down the stairs.

The word “legend” is overused, but not in this case. One of the best to ever do it.

"Separating art from the artist" is always a complicated conversation. But when an artist says they are going to use their art's proceeds to further hurt marginalized people, don't just believe them, SHUN THEM. The Trans community needs your support more than you need ANOTHER fucking Harry Potter.

Just saw a “What would make *this* Superman kill someone?” post and my God, people, we have a Superman that believes in kindness and helping others and being good and can we please enjoy that for five freaking minutes without lingering on moral compromise as endemic to the human experience?

gotham has three world class universities with great liberal arts programs, but the city has cut its discretionary budget to the bone to fund the police. that's why when the joker takes over the mob there's a bunch of low level goons ready and eager to wear facepaint and do coordinated dance numbers

Fine, let the maga freaks have a Superman they can relate to.

🎶 The boys and in some cases gals are back in town

Sorry Superman ain't flying around, randomly putting brown people in swamp prisons. That must be hard for you. Thoughts and prayers and whatnot.

At one point the Nazis announced over the radio that when they caught her they were going to rend her into 309 pieces and she got all excited that they knew "her score"

the one thing bluesky is missing

Shout out to the guy next to me in the theater who shouted out JIMMY OLSEN That guy knows what’s good

Every time Jimmy Olsen was on screen the audience reacted like the Fonz just walked in

It's been a long time since I've felt an audience leave the theater in such a palpably good mood as I did at SUPERMAN today. Just this pleasant, energetic hum. I saw a guy in a Tapout shirt holding the door for an old lady.

A lovely review from one of my favorite film fans.

If someone comes out and criticizes the new Superman movie as “political” or “woke,” they’re telling on themselves that they’ve realized that they are the bad guy in their particular story. It’s kind of enjoyable to see.

Reminder: Hurt people hurt people. If you see someone acting in a way that is cruel or unkind, it evidences a hurtful brokenness at the core of that person. It is not your responsibility to fix that person. Tend to the hurt. The answer is always to answer the hurt with kindness and love. Always.

Make most superhero comics for kids. “Superhero stories woke me up to my own potential. They gave me the basis of a code of ethics I still live by … I had no need for faith. My gods were real, made of paper and light, and they rolled up into my pocket like a superstring dimension.” - Grant Morrison

Just to be clear, since it apparently has to be explained to one of the OSTENSIBLE LEADERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: the “cruel crusade against trans kids” and “ripping healthcare away” from Americans are NOT two different things. Trans kids are Americans. Trans care is healthcare.

I like how the words “DICK VAN PATTEN” sneak up on you in this gif. At first you’re like, “Oh I think that’s a photo of Dick Van Patten” and then it’s like SURPRISE STARRING DICK VAN PATTEN!

‘80s sitcoms vastly overstated the number of opportunities I’d have to be pressured into smoking pot and experience harrowing encounters with pedophiles. Also, I haven’t ever been trapped in a discarded refrigerator.

Tickets to the early screening of Superman acquired. Look up.

I choose to believe that my uncle fought in the Korean War and my dad fought in the Vietnam War for my freedom to admire sexy muscular Korean and Vietnamese guys who post short gym videos on social media. 🫡

No better time than Pride Month to declare that I, too, like watching two males going at it phallocentrically, and the more I watch, the more I’m getting used to it.

It pains me to say this, so much that I’ll try to make this is the only time I say it: I think it’s time to give Doctor Who a rest. Come back in ten years, refreshed and renewed. I will always, always, always love Doctor Who, but things need to stop sometimes.

oh no I accidentally engaged with a Styx ad on Facebook and now the algorithm thinks my interests are all Styx and Styx-adjacent help

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Hasbro enlisted Britta Phillips (the singing voice of the original Jem) to revive and reimagine the music of Jem and the Holograms.

Look at SHINee racking up their highest ever release date sales. Proud of the guys. ❤️

I watched an episode of I Live Alone from last year in which DOYOUNG from NCT shyly and awkwardly went to the market and then went to try to see fireflies for the first time with his brother, and the joy and wonder on his face - oh no, he charmed me. Now I have to listen to his album.