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Lord Byron Bunch

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Perpendicular, hanging on a cable car | Threw it all away for 32 animals sewn together in a coat | Are we getting into botany, Doctor? Are we flowers?

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Did you just pee on the rug?" Maybe. "The very rug you're sitting on right now?" It's raining outside. My penis is delicate and averse to water. "Do you not feel even one twinge of guilt?" Me? Are you kidding? It's like I've been living with a stranger for the last 11 years.
Rug-pee-er.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We shall thrust our hands into the fisting gloves, slowly, one by one. You will like it. #TCMParty #QueenBee
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If I recall correctly, a key definitional component of camp is that it can't *know* it's camp. But I suspect that Crawford read the script and understood the over-the-top approach that had to be taken with her character. It's only entertaining if it's played as a parody. #QueenBee #TCMParty
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Betsy Palmer and Mercedes McCambridge were near voice twins. Seriously. Close your eyes and listen. #QueenBee #TCMParty
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Make character with people!" Learn it. Love it. Live it. Win all the crowns. #TCMParty #QueenBee
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of my favorite things about my new home is that you walk out of my building's front gate and into a Val Lewton movie.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Still slowly unpacking from the move and putting things in their proper place. Penis Pokey as backdrop to a scale model of the Now Voyager Buick station wagon. I’m beginning to suspect that at least one of my bookshelves might be one of those homosexuals I’ve been hearing so much about lately.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dave Karger: "One of the things Paul Rudd talks about in his chapter about Withnail and I is..." Me [sotto voce]: "Withnail and me, Dave. Withnail and *me*." #TCMParty
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Paperless billing is cool... until you move to another state and need to prove your residence for such reasonably important things as registering to vote and getting a new driver's license.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Surely, I'm not the only one... #TCMParty #TheLastRun
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Elder gay's hometown makes cameo appearance in old movie. #TCMParty #Bewitched
Screengrab from a train travel montage in the 1946 film Bewitched showing a map of Illinois and signpost for Clinton superimposed over a farm landscape.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just gonna say this once, hash-tag-free, and get on with my life. Film directors who are hardcore fetishists are not my favorite type of film directors. I do not enjoy movies that feel hermetically sealed and overdetermined. They make me itch.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As of twos days ago, I am, once again, a Chicagoan. But for the fascists, I likely would've retired in DC, a beautiful city I'd come to love. And yet I'm happy to return to a city that still feels like home to me, even after a 13-year absence. Which one of u somsabitches is gonna bake me a cake?
Nelson Algren, legendary Chicagoan, on the streets of Chicago, ca. 1968.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Who's your daddy? The only mildly amusing thing about moving is that it's rather like conducting an archeological dig into your own past. The dude from College Hunks unearthed this old portrait from IML today. "Uh, do you want to keep this, sir?" "Yes, but only because you called me sir."
Me, age 40-ish, in leather daddy gear.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Last night I dreamt that a shirtless Ricardo Montalbon—in jodhpurs!—was getting massaged by another man. The other man turned out to be Red Skelton. I shall never dare to dream again. #TCMParty #NeptunesDaughter
Red Skelton massages the shoulder of a beautiful young Ricardo Monalban in Neptune's Daughter.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Both my parents were born in homes with no indoor plumbing or electricity. My mom's family didn't have electricity until she was 11 years old, in 1946. Mom didn't live in a home with indoor plumbing until she married my dad and moved to town, in 1955. Behold the Illinois tenant farming system.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Dollar Store Jean-Pierre Aumont, for classic cinema fans on a tight budget. #TCMParty #KillersKiss
Actor Jamie Smith in a screengrab from Kubrick's Killer's Kiss.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I shall bite my tongue throughout tonight's tribute to a certain (almost) octogenarian. I shall bite my tongue throughout tonight's tribute to a certain (almost) octogenarian. I shall bite my tongue throughout tonight's tribute to a certain (almost) octogenarian. I shall bite my... #TCMParty
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"I'm not the kind of person anything happens to. You should know that." I adore this screenplay. #TCMParty #TheMoreTheMerrier
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Think pink. Oh, the places we go and the things we see. An encounter with balloons on his evening walk.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I worship All About Eve, but how I wish it included a brief scene in which we see Karen Richards sucking gas out of that Mercury's tank like a pro. #TCMParty #AllAboutEve
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
June has some very special canapés for you. #TCMParty #NowVoyager
Roasted wieners in buns.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The disembodied head of Eugene Pallette sequence is what makes Vertigo the greatest movie of all time. #TCMParty #Vertigo #SUTS
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Elder gay fires off another round of acerbic skeets. #Laura #TCMParty
Clifton Webb, bathtub, typewriter.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My dreams are typically populated with dead or otherwise lost relatives, friends, and pets. Once, however, I dreamt that the then-alive Katharine Hepburn had died. She died the next day. I've worried about the auguring powers of my dreams ever since. #TCMParty #SuddenlyLastSummer
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I remember very little from my "vacation" at the state asylum. But I do remember wandering the halls and thinking, "Does this dress make me look too bosomy?" #TCMParty #SuddenlyLastSummer
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The thing I like most about Suddenly, Last Summer is that it's not Raintree County. #TCMParty #SuddenlyLastSummer
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I wish that TCM would stop reinforcing the notion that Hepburn and Tracy's relationship was one of the great OH love affairs. No doubt they clicked, on screen and off, and that she was committed to keeping her troubled dear friend alive. But there are many types of love in this world. #TCMParty
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A Main Line socialite's frigidity turns her husband into an alcoholic and compels her father to abandon her mother for a chorus girl. I like this movie, but on a basic level, it doesn't make sense to me, for reasons having little to do with changing mores. #TCMParty #ThePhiladelphiaStory
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Post your favorite Disney Princess. Wrong answers only. #WorldDisneyPrincessWeek #TCMParty
The duck lady from Freaks.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Every time John Dehner shows up on my TV screen, I'm like, "Helllloooo Daddy!" Which is mildly embarrassing, given that I'm in my early 60s. #TCMParty #CriticsChoice
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The day I join the TCM Wine Club is the day it introduces the Esther Howard Pinot Noir (a 30-day prescription of penicillin included with every bottle). #TCMParty
Character actress Esther Howard, drunk again.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Gone with the Wind launched the snood craze of the early 40s. (WWII helped a bit, too.) What's stopping you from launching a snood craze of your own? Get busy, snoodphiles. #GoneWithTheWind #TCMParty
Vivien Leigh donning a snood while looking at her reflection in a broken mirror in Gone with the Wind.Barbara Stanwyck (with Henry Fonda) donning a snood in The Lady Eve.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
*whispers* Out of Africa is my favorite Meryl Streep performance. #TCMParty
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My favorite sequence in Out of the Great Waldo Africa is when Robert Redford takes Meryl Streep and Susan Sarandon up for a spin in his bi-plane and things don't end well for Susan and Meryl is like, "Oh, but look at the lovely vistas!" #OutOfAfrica #TCMParty
Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in a bi-plane in a screengrab from Out of Africa. Susan Sarandon clinging (unsuccessfully) to the wing strut of a bi-plane in The Great Waldo Pepper.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Late 1940s maternity wear Barbra is my favorite Barbra. #TheWayWeWere #TCMParty
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The name "Peckerwood" is even funnier because, Hello! Forrest Tucker! Peckersequoia, more like it. #TCMParty #AuntieMame
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Do most viewers even get the "Mr. Babbitt" insult anymore? This English major grows old. #TCMParty #AuntieMame
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Double Touch of a Velvet Life. One out of every four Broadway stars in the late 1940s was a murderer. #TheVelvetTouch #TCMParty #SUTS
Shelley Winters and Ronald Colman in a publicity still for A Double Life, the 1947 film in which Colman plays a Broadway star who murders Winters's character.Leon Ames and Rosalind Russell in a screengrab from The Velvet Touch, the 1948 film in which Russell plays a Broadway star who murders Ames's character.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
They both love soup... and snow peas... and talking and not talking...
Natalie Harp and her sugar daddy, Donald Trump.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Of all my peak-pandemic retail-therapy purchases, this painting is the only one I don't regret. He watches over me... while wearing protective goggles. He knows what he's doing. It's been a pretty big day in this household, I'll tell you. #TCMParty #CaryGrant #SUTS
A painting of Cary Grant wearing racing or scuba goggles against a colorful but muted abstract-expressionist background.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: "Hi, I'm my sociopathic older sister who lured my toddler-aged twin brother and me onto the porch roof outside our nursery window and then locked the nursery's door from the inside to thwart our mother's attempts to rescue us." RIP, Twisted Cyster.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The thing is, up until the mugging and kidnapping sequence, #TheOutOfTowners does a pretty good job of realistically portraying the evergreen horrors of traveling in the US. Or just traveling in general. I LOVED traveling when I was young(er). The love fades. #TCMParty
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You will never find her picture next to "Subtle" or "Understated" in the fully illustrated version of Merriam-Webster. But, oh my, she was a helluva lotta fun. #TCMParty #BackStreet #SUTS
Susan Hayward, Super Star.
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'd never noticed until now how very, very thin the lovely Virginia Grey was. Not a criticism or veiled diagnosis. I was naturally thin for most of my life until suddenly I wasn't. You're damned if you are. You're damned if you aren't. #TCMParty #BackStreet
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
One wonders: Did Susan Hayward give co-star Vera Miles tips on how to play a drunk harpy on film? Seriously, this is, like, one of three films in today's lineup in which Hayward doesn't get soused. #TCMParty #BackStreet #SUTS
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Lillian Roth: What an absolute delight in any film she shows up in, be it #AnimalCrackers or #LadiesTheyTalkAbout. I'd give my eyeteeth or even a testicle to listen to a bootleg recording of late-career, cabaret-artist Roth imitating Susan Hayward imitating Roth in #I'llCryTomorrow. #TCMParty
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Odd. I'll turn on my TV for the delight of watching Claudette Colbert do anything—nun drag, open an envelope, read the phone book. But I don't think I've ever named her as one of my favorite classic film actresses. Clearly, I need to have a talk with myself. #TheNoirCollective #ThunderOnTheHill
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is quickly turning into the Old Habits Die Hard episode of Murder, She Wrote. I'm not complaining. #ThunderOnTheHIll #TheNoirCollective
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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Why is Claudette suddenly donning all-white? The semiotics of nun-wear are well outside my wheelhouse. #ThunderOnTheHill #TheNoirCollective
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