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Also! I disagree with absolutely none of their well-articulated anti-me positions! That has to count for something! I have been found wanting, and I kind of find it vindicating! These thoughts in my head are all like that will smith meme, going like, “See? That. That’s what we’ve been SAYING.”

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It does, right? I mean knowing I occupy that much random access memory of someone I’ve never met. It’s low key thrilling, but I couldn’t for the life of me explain why.

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My oldest friend in the world just sent me a blistering, salt-the-earth, eye-wateringly vicious online takedown of me, and my entire deal, and I can only marvel at it. The specificity. The vehemence. Like, how I say certain words, etc. Does me finding it just hugely flattering make me a narcissist?

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Watching TRAITORS just white-knuckling it until the episode with the roundtable where there are only eight contestants left so they can sit at exactly the eight lunar compass points. It can’t just be me.

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Never forget that SEINFELD doggedly tried to make “mimbo” happen when “himbo” was already right there putting in the hard good linguisitc work without breaking a sweat

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I said scuzzy movie about a scuzzy subject. Great minds! Well. Minds, anyway.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s also about how her personal diagnosis changed her life and helped her change thousands and thousands of others. Proud of her, and her work, and this book. Thank you for humoring this distracting interlude of rank sincerity. We now return to our usual tiresome glibness.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s Pub Day for this book by my sister-in-law Sue, whom I love just a whole lot. It’s a book to help people navigate the cancer process, from diagnosis throughout treatment and after. It’s everything she is: warm, smart, encouraging. Mostly? Of use. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sue-w...

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From Sue Weldon, founder and CEO of Unite for HER and the national nonprofit's team of expert advisors, this is the essential, whole-person care guide for al...

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I lost 75 goddamn pounds this year and nobody’s mentioning it because my friends are all “we don’t talk about anyone’s bodies” and I get it but for fuck’s sake I gave up peanut butter on toast a thing of joy and have been lifting weights like Arnold so you can be a person and say good job bro

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Driving to the mall, 20 minutes away, burned a half of a tank of gas. Its brakes were woefully insufficient to its bulk. I replaced the pads every 6 months. I was gangly, soft-bellied, pear-shaped, closeted. I never felt sexier.

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My first car was a ‘57 Chevy. It wasn’t a sexy candle-apple-red coupe, it was a white four-door sedan. A barge. But it had the fins. My god, the fins. It cost 2,000 bucks. In 1985. My dad surprised me with it. He found it Hemming’s Motor News. His bible.

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RESOLVED: TRAITORS is a great show, but a bad game. It’s BLOOD ON THE CLOCKTOWER Day One, perpetually. There is no logic, no deductions, no data, only feelings. Feelings are great TV, but not satisfying gameplay.

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It’s Batman Day. I looked forward to it every year, as a kid. Running down the steps first thing in the morning and finding mom and dad lying in pools of blood. Then a hearty breakfast of popcorn and pearls. Then scouring the streets for a random tween to come live with us. Happy Grim Vigil!

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Today is Batman Day and also Talk Like a Pirate and both are fake and meaningless but there have been pirate versions of Batman over the years and when you squint at “Bat-Pirate” you get “butt pirate” which is a top-tier gay slur so I’m okay with it all.

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Editor Rose Friedman, who helped shape NPR's cultural coverage, dies at 38

Rose was a union gal, bless her. She was instrumental in getting NPR to hire me full-time, after years of them trying not to. You didn’t hear her voice, but you did. This sucks a lot. She made NPR so much better. www.npr.org/2026/09/18/n...

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Friedman was in her early 20s when she landed her first position as an editorial assistant at NPR. She became an editor and reporter, and a co-creator of the annual Books We Love reading guide.

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They’re trying to shame a gay candidate for posing in a harness when he was a hot young muscle twink and looked great. A harness. There are photos of me in jorts and a goatee in the 90s that should and would pre-empt any political career. Let’s focus on what matters people.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sam Raimi’s EVIL DEAD 2 is Taylor’s version.

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I mean there’ll be a lot to dismantle in DC once he’s gone, but I say we start with what he’s done to the Capitol dome.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Gained 80 pounds during COVID. Lost 65 so far. These last 15 aren’t budging, but I’ll shoo them away. Eventually. But what matters to me is that the flexed-biceps inner-arm divot, which went away the last five years, is back. Keep your waist size, your scale reading. The FBIAD is my metric.

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Also in her defense: She was a sociopath. Her roving eye of Sauron happened to land on me, that day. Which meant that was one less puppy she vivisected, so you know: Yay.

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Reviews are meant for other readers, not the author. Reading that felt like the time I overheard a girl in high school tell her friends I had the ugliest body she’d ever seen in her life. In her defense, I WAS a pear-shaped kid. And that comment sent me into the gym for, oh, the last 42 years.

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My oldest friend just sent me a Goodreads review of CAPED CRUSADE that was like “when he was a kid his mom must have told he’s funny and he believed it.” Provably false! Mom never found anything about me remotely funny. What you’re picking up is self-generated, militantly maintained delusion.

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I regret nothing. I REGRET NOTHING.

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I could tell I was making them comfortable but my god the sparkly mica chips in the pleather and the unnatural redness of the wig; it was the first time I realized that there were other gay superhero nerds in the world. I hope the guy who dressed as Batgirl that night is out there and he’s happy.

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One time I got very drunk at the Miss Addams Morgan pageant and at the end of the night I met this couple who were dressed as ‘66 Robin and Batgirl and her costume was so specifically, exquisitely correct I detained them for a long time complimenting their attention to detail.

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Batgirl's Revolving Wall (with timer)

She pressed a secret button on her vanity and her wall revolved. I mean sure yes fine ok I wanted to be her and look as great as she did and wear candy apple purple vinyl or whatever, but real talk it was the whole revolving wall secret lair thing that made me gay. youtu.be/f_eZAtwDS6c?...

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Ladies and Gentlemen. Please stand for our National Anthem, followed immediately by a bootleg of Chita and Gwen doing ‘Hot Honey Rag’ on the Mike Douglas Show.”

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Curious what else they put on their Jumbotron to depict the dire state of America - I mean, BESIDES the jacked internet bro in his underwear. I guess it’s good that the guy who runs AV at the Eagle found a side hustle, in this economy. He can even use the same video mix.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

From the NPR Fall TV Preview. The heart wants what it wants, people.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sorry. I wrote “crashes” because I remembered Miller’s steroidal Dark Knight Returns, not the original, gentlemanly version.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“Criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot,” Bruce Wayne scoffs, in his sumptuously appointed study. But when a bat crashes through his window, his literal immediate reaction is “It’s an omen!” Hypocrisy is the lingua franca of rich white guys.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I mean I’m not from Jersey but I grew up close enough that I could whip a battery and hit it so guess this works. I did spend my formative years manifesting a reaction formation to my parents’ DelCo accent, so that might complicate things a bit, hon.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The silence on the soundtrack is so clean, but you can hear the pops and scratches on the celluloid. I love everything about it. It’s so hopeful, is the thing. It’s the filmmakers believing in themselves.

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There should be a name for the beat that the characters in classic comedies take just after the delivery of a punchline. That pause. The silent reactions. Sometimes there’s a kind of inquisitive “What’s that you say?” grunt. It’s a “hold for laugh,” of course, but more specific than that.

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PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Here are a few options for the Sorting Hat. WB: DON’T CHANGE THE SORTING HAT. PRODUCTION DESIGNER: No I get that it all still has to look like the place in Florida you know writ large, but I thought we could like maybe tweak like the brim on this one prop? WB: THE HAT STAYS.

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I last saw it when I was 12, yet still I remember Flaherty’s solo number verbatim: “Woman, you’re such a mystery to meee! I’m too obsessed with my masculiniteeee! How I wish that I could be in your league! When in fact I’m just a filthy sexist piiiig (sobs)!”

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Moranis as Libby’s husband, who does NOT get her or her play, trying to convince a local tv reporter that people should come see it: “You get a meal with it. It’s a good piece of beef.” A mensch. Also, not for nothing, my dad at every reading of mine he ever attended.

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It is a rich text that tried to warn 12-year-old me about what infernal delights awaited me were I ever to become a theater critic. It is merciless about local theater. It is scathing. Scabrous, even. It is also hugely empathetic, and human, and true.

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