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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 2h

In re: BOOTS on Netflix

Gurl Metal Jacket?

Full Lamé Jacket?

Full Metal Jackée?

…

Full Metal Jackée. That’s it. That’s the one.

ATTENTION FOLKS WE ARE OFFICIALLY GOING WITH FULL METAL JACKÉE. THANK YOU FOR BEARING WITH US AS WE CAME TO THIS DECISION.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton’s 1987 directorial debut, the documentary HEAVEN, is streaming on Tubi.

It’s a weirdly moving film, that yeah, sure, takes some cheap shots at evangelicals, but it does so just by letting them talk.

Including some deeply homophobic weirdos who seemed like fringe lunatics, back then.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome, sister.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Coming Out Day. If you’re still in the closet, stay there until you feel safe.

But know that things are better on the other side.

It’s like going bald. It’s traumatic as hell, but then you look back and realize: That hair was bad hair and it was doing you no favors.

You’re better off now.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 2d

It’s National Coming Out Day Eve.

Be sure to leave poppers, the COMPANY! Original Cast Album, a copy of the 1978 Jill Clayburgh vehicle AN UNMARRIED WOMAN and a flattering light jacket that’s perfect for this time of year by the closet door tonight.

Oh and a kale salad for the reinqueer.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 3d

BOOTS drops on Netflix tomorrow. I’ll have a mini-review in Friday’s PCHH Newsletter, but I’ll answer the most burning question now.

Yes.

Yes, after they shave his head, eventually you DO get past the main actor’s uncanny resemblance to Trixie Mattel out of drag.

Yes.

… Eventually.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 9d

youtu.be/0uNEEfQKfwk?...

a woman of no importance 1982 with patricia routledge monologue

YouTube video by Bada Jozsef (Joe)

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 9d

youtu.be/HJ6FbtnPiVw?...

Talking Heads - Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet 1998 - Patricia Routledge

YouTube video by Movie archive

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 9d

RIP Patricia Routledge.

Oh sure, she could do broad comedy yes sure KEEPING UP APPEARANCES I’m aware of it sure.

But it’s her work with Alan Bennett that shows how deft she was - finding the pathos but never giving into it. USING it. Letting her characters surprise themselves - and us. THE GOAT

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 9d

THE APPRENTICE started it all of course.

Which makes ALL THE SENSE IN THE WORLD

Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 10d

The rise and ascendency of pop culture about branding and marketing (SHARK TANK, “product-origin” movies and series, entrepreneur podcasts, this new miserable Fallon thing) has me out here in these streets like

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 9d

It was a bright cold day in October and the 60 MINUTES stopwatch was striking thirteen

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 10d

The worst! It’s like volunteering to attend a timeshare presentation, only instead of cash you’re rewarded at the end with having attended a timeshare presentation.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 10d

“You’re hurling yourselves into the gears of industry! You’re flinging yourselves across the sacrificial altar and adjusting the spotlight to highlight your exposed necks and torsos!”

“Shhh shhhhh shhhhh grampa. It’s all right. Let’s get you back to bed. Someone’s overtired.”

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 10d

The rise and ascendency of pop culture about branding and marketing (SHARK TANK, “product-origin” movies and series, entrepreneur podcasts, this new miserable Fallon thing) has me out here in these streets like

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 10d

I have lived long enough to see the embarrassingly sophomoric kitsch-art that graced the sides of vans and boardwalk t-shirts of my youth reemerge and swarm across my social media as cringeworthy AI imagery, like cicadas of cheesiness.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 11d

Nick’s right. It’s abs and speedos vs. cider and donuts.

Rise, my layered sisters. Swaddle yourselves in rollneck cardigans. Summon servants to feed you Stilton, apples and walnuts. Swap out the clear liquor for the brown. Watch Roger Corman/Vincent Price movies.

The time is ours.

nick andersen @nicktheandersen.com · 11d

i maintain there are two types of homosexual.

the june gay and the october gay.

october gays — it’s finally our time.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 11d

Back in 2011, as a government shutdown loomed, I tweeted a series of dumb jokes about what a post-shutdown DC would look like.

Looking back at them now, they seem like I was describing a utopia. Comparatively.

glenweldon.tumblr.com/post/3107116...

Glen Weldon, Writr — During the Government Shutdown

glenweldon.tumblr.com

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 13d

My life is fine. The Thunderpuss remix of my life is awesome.

I mean there’s probably a choker. For starters.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 13d

For the love of god, somebody repress this dude’s entirely focus-grouped joy.

Forbes @forbes.com · 14d

As late-night television declines, The Tonight Show host is preparing for tomorrow by building an entertainment empire based on his irrepressible joy. With the launch of his new marketing competition show, On Brand, he’s getting down to business.

Jimmy Fallon On The Future Of Late Night And Being A Super Marketer

As late-night television declines, The Tonight Show host is preparing for tomorrow by building an entertainment empire based on his irrepressible joy. With the launch of his new marketing competition show, On Brand, he’s getting down to business.

www.forbes.com

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 14d

The thing the critics who praise PEACEMAKER opening credits (I am among their number!) www.npr.org/transcripts/... inevitably miss is that the choreo is fucked.

For it to work as what it’s parodying, it needs to be tighter. MUCH TIGHTER.

This is just fratboys mugging through “Greased Lightning”

'Peacemaker' is a one-man (and one-joke) army : Pop Culture Happy Hour

The HBO Max series Peacemaker stars John Cena as a shiny-helmeted super soldier who loves peace so much he's willing, even eager, to slaughter folks to get it. It's a direct spinoff of the 2021 film T...

www.npr.org

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 14d

Rescued from my dead mom’s stuff: My ENTIRE childhood. In two volumes.

It explains … I mean, everything.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 14d

“It’s Adam and Eve, not Adam and ALL ABOUT EVE”

-Bigots, if they had any goddamn verve or elan at all

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 16d

Me on the left.

F on the right.

You have just learned everything there is to know about our 26-year relationship.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 17d

Y’all remember when we weren’t living inside a cheesy underwritten genre movie with thinly drawn villains or nah

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 17d

INTERIOR: COFFEE SHOP. DAY.

SFX: Light, indistinguishable chattering of customers/staff. A typical morning.

OPEN ON: EXTREME CLOSE UP of phone on table. Phone vibrates. Screen lights up, showing:

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