CBrachyrhynchos @cbrachyrhynchos@lgbt.io

#muisc:

KEXP is looking for "long songs" (Longer than 6:00) for midsummer. Some of my picks:

Kate Bush, "Sky of Honey" probably one of the few concept albums that stand up to repeated listening for me. If you really must cut it, "Aerial" would work.

Tom Waits, "Get Behind the Mule." 7 minutes, six stories about beautiful and broken people trying to live from day to day.

I have a lot of feels about Pose because I was about the same age as the house "children" in 1990. (And I'm two years younger than Porter.) Although I was in Indiana at the time, many of the same issues and dynamics were happening across the country. I also met radicalized HIV+ people who had little to loose and devoted their energy into helping others.

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I'm kind of worried about how they're going to deal with the high hopes expressed.

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Angel's sexual harassment/blackmail plot was uncomfortable, but I thought they immediately turned it around. No victim-blaming or even questioning. Just "hell no" and a well-justified beatdown for the harasser. It's a solution that only works in the age of film.

And the Elektra/Blanca rivalry is back on.

Apparently, the Marie Antoinette sketch was based on a ballroom performance.

I suspect that the older dancer given a full focus shot in the "know your history" scene is one of the multiple cameos of ballroom veterans.

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The mass graves are hearbreaking. The show doesn't pull any punches on that point.

I'm not sure the timing of the jump really works where Damon/Ricky are concerned.

The two focal points of this episode are Blanca and Pray Tell's embrace of radical politics via Act Up and on a secondary layer, Angel. Unfortunately Damon gets one line in the entire movie.

Billy Porter is charismatic as heck when he's in full-on preaching mode.

They pulled a nice bit of tension by mirroring the Angel/Stan first meeting from episode one, but nope, it's Blanca and dirtbag Stan doesn't make an appearance. He's probably off in Jersey nursing his internalized homophobia and transphobia.

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Angel is harassed and blackmailed. It's resolved with complete faith from her family and a beatdown for the blackmailler.

And, there's no Stan either. 👍

How D&D became gay

https://www.themarysue.com/how-dungeons-and-dragons-became-so-gay/

"This attack and the ensuing media circus are par for the course in 2019. In both my native United States and here in the United Kingdom, it always has been and still is open season on the bodies of (in no specific order) people of colour, indigenous people, transgender people, disabled people, queer people, poor people, women and migrants. I have evaded much of the violence and oppression imposed on so many others by our capitalist, white supremacist, patriarchal system because of the privileges I enjoy by dint of my race, health, education, and conventional gender presentation. That has nothing to do with the merit of my character."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/14/homophobic-attack-bus-outrage-media-white

Headcanon: The Doctor met the B52s, they had butter beans and there was a giant bird involved.

At least as plausible as Agatha Christie and giant hornets.

Not feeling serialbox's "The Triangle"

The two genders: Dry erase markers that can be daisy chained together and the ones that can't.

Version 2: 80% happy. The polypropylene was a pain and I need to mod the pattern.

#music: The Chambers Brothers, "Time has Come Today"

https://youtu.be/oAScA6YUT30

Another one for the cowbell mix.