Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I will cut adrift. I will sit on pavements and drink coffee. I will dream. I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim - this fine October. Virginia Woolf 163
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The series reprise in the summer of 1979 helped me survive 13 weeks back at home with the parental units and a suburban life that was now alien to me after freshman year in the Big City. Oh. And don’t touch the figs. 030
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I may have found a job as a wireless operator 110
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Well, if you like that Taschen book, you’ll love this… 120
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026BOTD Mary Shelley At 21, she wrote one of the first science fiction novels, Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus (1818), and reminded us that we are all responsible for the monsters we create. 030
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Why did two gender-bending celebrities die within 24 hours of each other? I think the deaths of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry reminds us that gender is a spectrum, and that we we are here to live our authentic selves and practice kindness to one another. 040
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I first heard Dolly's “I Will Always Love You” covered by Linda Ronstadt on her 1975 album Prisoner in Disguise, that included the handwritten lyrics from Dolly and the other songwriters on the album; on her lyrics, on the lower right, Dolly adds “thank you Linda" 151
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026That dressing room was once used by the Haynes sisters when they played there #TCMParty #ValleyOfTheDolls 080
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026If we’re going to do the 60s, then where’s Herb Albert and The Tijuana Brass? #TCMParty #ValleyOfTheDolls 191
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026To be taken as needed #TCMParty #ValleyOfTheDolls 0111
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Sharon Tate #TCMParty #ValleyOfTheDolls 0131
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Sharon Tate would have been a terrific Bond girl #TCMParty #ValleyOfTheDolls 291
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Gillian presents…The Odyssey collection #TCMParty #ValleyOfTheDolls 0171
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The Neely O’Hara reviews montage always reminds me of… #TCMParty #ValleyOfTheDolls 181
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026— I didn’t know Samantha Morton is in it, and she’s brilliant; she was in Elizabeth: The Golden Age and the series The Serpent Queen — I didn’t know John Leguizamo is in it and his role appears throughout the film — read all about in the Emily Wilson translation 010
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026— some of the dialogue is a tad too much 2026, and it would have been better if it was period adjusted — the visuals are stunning — Calypso reminded me of Ursula Andress in Dr. No — Circe is terrifying — in the Cyclops encounter, they skipped over a plot detail that addresses Odysseus’ faults 110
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Doug Goes to the Movies, or, It’s Just My PGDMFO THE ODYSSEY: a review in 70mm IMAX, as Christopher Nolan intended Topline: it was thrilling 110
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I’m for horseless carriage rides in Central Park 040
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Been thinking things over, and wonder if I’ve taken this whole longevity thing too far… 030
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026After all the harm Hunter Biden has been through, self-inflicted and inflicted by others, having had so much of himself literally stripped publicly, I wonder if there’s something liberating about it for him, after choosing the path of recovery instead of self-destruction. No one can hurt him now. 020
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This is the flag of the City of Los Angeles. The colors represent prominent California crops: olive trees (green), orange groves (gold) and vineyards (red), and the city’s Spanish and Mexican roots. 100
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026TIL There are three gay porn films in the permanent collection of the Museum of of Modern Art: “Sex Garage” & “LA Plays Itself,” both from 1972, and “Sex Tool” (1975), all directed by Fred Halsted. Coming soon? To #TCMParty, that is. 🤔 010
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026What caught my eye in a scene at the psychiatrist’s office: a box of Kleenex, and if you grew up in the 1960s-1970s, you were very familiar with this particular design #AnUnmarriedWoman #TCMParty 070
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Happy Bastille Day! Celebrating the country that gave us Frenchy things, like champagne, Catherine Deneuve, and the word 'Non!' 🇫🇷 Santé 🇫🇷 020
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Obituary from Michael Fanone, former MPD-DC officer who defended the Capitol on January 6, 2021 181
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026From Michael Fanone, former MPD-DC officer who defended the Capitol on January 6, 2021 020
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026BOTD, David Hockney Nichols Canyon (1980) 020
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Professor Marvel reports he has spoken to Mitch McConnell for about 20 minutes, but then his crystal went dark 010
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026TCM again scheduling LGBT content in the wee hours… If you haven’t seen Gus Van Sant’s debut film MALA NOCHE (1986), based on a novel and shot on 16mm, in black-and-white, in Portland, Oregon… #TCMParty, set your DVRs… 12:00am Pacific / 3:00am Eastern 150
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The Bicentennial in 1976 was celebrated with books like this, an almanac that chronicled key events in the nation’s history from year to year; it coincided with a presidential election year that POTUS Ford lost because he pardoned Nixon, a denied accountability that had repercussions decades later. 050
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026“I was going to make espresso” That line got a big laugh in 1974 because espresso was a new thing in the country at the time and was considered rather hoity-toity and elitist #YoungFrankenstein #TCMParty 4707
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Yes, on Young Frankenstein, but there is another that stands the test of time. Checkin to the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, but remember that dinner is served promptly at six, and those who are tardy do not get fruit cup. 230
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Unfortunately I can’t get excited for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence because of how the event is being abused and hijacked. Nothing like the Bicentennial in 1976: a very different national spirit then, and a celebration that included this groovy logo. 0100
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Diego Rivera Sailor at Lunch (Fusilero marino), 1914 070
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Funny. I was just thinking about her the other day. For an assignment in my seventh grade German language class, I told a story, in German, based on the scandal, using photos clipped from the newspaper; I named Wilbur Mills “Helmut” and translated the strip club as”Der Silberne Pantoffel" 020
Douglas Hardy 🏳️🌈 @douglashardy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Arms akimbo, as defined in The Visual Dictionary, New York City edition, 1980: He stood at the Sixth Avenue entrance to the park, shawlless, with arms akimbo, confident that, at 20, the Monte Cristo sandwich and sundae he had Rumpelmayer's at the Hotel St Moritz would not go to his hips. 040
