If you don't like the scene where you are, you can find one elsewhere. Hell, or just make your own. WHIP IT and roller derby shows that you don’t need dirt bag men and can just surround yourself with kickass women!
EP 203: WHIP IT (2009)
15 years ago, Drew Barrymore and Elliot Page joined forces to deliver a fresh new take on the coming-of-age experience. There's more to girlhood than beauty pageants and pleasing Marcia Gay Harden. LET'S JAM!
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Remember that scene in 12 ANGRY MEN where juror 10 goes on a rant about the inhumanities a group of people he hates and rather than waste time arguing with him, all of the other men decide to stop listening to him and he never speaks again?
I think about that scene a lot.
Tonight, at a sold out screening of FACE/OFF, I heard someone in a sea of people say that John Woo makes "parodies of action movies."
This will haunt me until the end of my days.
I really love THE BEAR as a show, but I hate The Bear as a restaurant. The dominance of minimalist, fusion eateries like The Bear, especially post-2020, strip a lot of cities of their individual character and history as working class cities in the pursuit of "elevated" dining.
Paul Reubens is an icon. If it weren't for Pee-wee, we wouldn't have SpongeBob, the popularization of goths, superhero movies as we know it, or countless artists influenced by his abstract brand that taught us it was ok to be weird. Love to Paul and every character he gave us. ❤️
I am so sick of men thinking their opinions on SLEEPAWAY CAMP matter and I'm even more fed up with sites giving them money to say such uninspired, one-note bullshit.
And better yet, the picture of Angela's face that was brightened for MY article is used in this.
Fuck off.
Since watching I Saw The TV Glow, I've lost a lot of sleep. Not because of the horrors of the film but the ways we talk about it and how many choose to process it. I transitioned when society transitioned from analog to digital. I have a lot of thoughts.
Look at this cover. I wrote that story!
It was such an honor to interview Jamie Clayton (
@msjamieclayton
) about the new Hellraiser for this issue of
@fangoria
.
Also if you haven't seen
#Hellraiser
-- you should get on that. It's pretty damn good and available on Hulu.
A trans woman was voted best bartender in Cleveland! I am honestly pretty speechless right now so I cannot think of much to say other than thank you to all who voted. What this win symbolizes means so much more to me than the award itself. We did it fam!
Every month there is a wave of white trans women joking about how "we all had an oopsie little nazi phase 👉👈" and I'm going to need you all to shut the fuck up and stop acting like that is the a standard fact. That is a YOU problem, not a WE problem.
Anyone else love Paul Reubens' performance in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie so much that you resurrect a very affectionately worn-out
@peeweeherman
doll so it can get a new life after death as a fabulous, one armed vampire? No? Just me?
Seeing so many men be mad about
#BlackChristmas
is wonderful because *SPOILERS* the villains aren't men. They are BAD men. Just like any other movie but if y'all wanna tattle on yourselves by making it obvious how much you hate women then that's cool too.
"Whether you have a dick or not, if people think you do…then you do. Dr. Mrs. The Monarch is an example of someone who has succeeded in spite of that judgement both in The Venture Bros universe and in the evolution of how comedy is written in general."
BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974) is a masterpiece for many reasons, one of which is that it honestly portrays killers as lucky morons who benefit from incompetence rather than orchestrated geniuses.
Remember last month when I said I was working on article about "killer crossdressers" and hoped someone would pick it up? Well here it is! This is such a messy subject but I am very proud of this monster of a piece and am sooooo thankful to
@BDisgusting
for publishing it!
Currently writing about the "killer man in a dress" trope and what is and is not fair treatment of trans people in horror in general. What's fun is that this is kind of piece I probably SHOULD be getting paid for, but I'll just end up putting it out for free on Medium.
Without hyperbole, BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974) is the best film we have ever covered on TEAP. It is a landmark in teen cinema at a time where contemporaries were sparse and it is still one of the best horror films ever made.
It even makes me forget that I hate Christmas.
EP 117: BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974)
After three years, we've finally made our way through all three versions of
#BlackChristmas
. This week, we're talking about the one that started it all, Bob Clark's groundbreaking, feminist classic.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts!
@Veloci_trap_tor
You would ideally have some head in the beer. It’s not “wasted” per se and a nice bartender would give it a minute and reup before dropping it off with a reasonable amount of head.
And one of my favorite pics from our old stoop was this one from the start of lockdown. With all the shitty mess and shitty people in the world, we have kept going and never stopped loving each other. That is why she is the best Valentine.
"Fuck 'em all but us."
"I do Hank Hill handyman work not because I'm a man, but because I'm gay." -- My Valentine,
@Veloci_trap_tor
(Pictured: One of my all-time favorite photos of her after she built a platform for our mini-grill.)
Alice Cooper really went and made a 50 year career out of making some of the most solid and least pretentious concept albums ever and we don't talk about that enough.
Farewell to the great Roger Corman, whose body of work is beyond massive, and whose influence on the genre is literally immeasurable.
Our condolences to his friends, family and many fans. Thanks for everything, sir.
For a film about criminal profiling, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS does very little to understand what made its murderer. Here we look at the history of cruelty and indifference towards trans people paralleled by a culture that would create "Buffalo Bill".
Today I learned that
#TransDayOfVisibility
started the same year I came out (2009). I don't make a what-to-do about existing but I know many people in Ohio had never met a trans person before me. That visibility matters, especially for trans people who weren't out yet themselves.
This is the kind the place in the midwest where you'll pay $13.99 for chicken parm and they'll give you 3 whole breasts on a pound and a half of noodles. It's the best meal of your life.
Finally watched
#Freaky
(LOVED IT) but I want to remind everyone that a trans read of a film is not the same as characters/stories being trans. If you think body swap films are "transphobic" then you're saying you believe trans people are basically just wearing costumes.
The first teaser trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie gave us a taste of Jack Black’s Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key’s Toad, and of course, Chris Pratt’s Mario.
Today isn't exactly what we planned for but it is still ours. Having to cancel our actual wedding sucks and the last year and a half in general sucks, but being with you makes it all suck way less. Happy first anniversary, BJ. I love you now more than ever.
Seeing some angry takes that THE HOT CHICK and now FREAKY are “trans stories.”
If you think body swap films are inherently trans, then you are saying that someone wearing another gender as a disguise is the trans experience.
Trans reads ≠ trans stories.
Your take is bad.
I don't know how to interact with queer people who have only ever existed in intensely queer circles (large cities, et al). There is this stink of superiority where a sizable part of some gay identities are built on mocking all other queers who aren't like them.
For
#WiHM
I'm celebrating one of my favorite horror films ever by defending the problematic fave Sleepaway Camp from the perspective of a trans woman and why it is one of the best films about gender expression ever made.
I dunno, man. I'm not bothered by the quality or people liking/not liking a horror movie. I just am wondering where these recurring, aggressive defenses of slasher films were in 2019.
There are just a lot of inconsistencies with some people that I find.... interesting. 🤷♀️
In other bartending related news, I just designed a new cocktail comprised of black tea, 6+ herb simple syrup, lemon, and booze. I christened it "Lofi Hip-Hop Teas to Relax/Study To".
I keep seeing so many ads for THE WHALE and I really don't need to watch Aronofsky dehumanize and exploit people for his own acclaim (again) to know that Brendan Fraser can showcase how unbelievably charming and talented he is in his character's death. I have always known.
35 years ago, John Woo released one of the greatest films of all time! If you haven't, or haven't recently, watched THE KILLER, then you really should do something about that.
I don't really have a metric to prove it but My Chemical Romance's video for "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" feeeels like one of the most perfectly made pieces of teen media ever.
The responses to my article yesterday have been a mixed bag but mostly positive. My biggest takeaway, however, is that some cis people had THE AUDACITY to tell me, a trans person, on Trans Day of Remembrance, what transphobia is. I mean, goddamn....
If we insist on continuing to mine every last shred of nostalgia out of the 1980s then could we at least make fictional horror hosts integral side characters again? Because I love them.
OH MY GOD, SHE'S A BOOK!
I am so excited to finally announce that
@bjcolangelo
and I wrote a book about SLEEPAWAY CAMP and its production, release, and impact (both good and bad) of its queerness in and out of horror world.
I also think it is really rude for them to repeatedly dust the Iron Giant off for this after the studio buried the film just to spite the people who made it.
it's very cool that The Iron Giant ended with it asserting that it would not be a weapon, and then directors keep putting The Iron Giant in their movies as the big destructive robot