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Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast

@procopster.bsky.social

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Author of Spatchcock. Very fond of gin. spatchcock.substack.com

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Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New at Spatchcock: Eat your mondegreens. spatchcock.substack.com/p/yummy-stuff

Girl with a cartoon tomato on her spoon.

Roasted Greek-style stuffed tomato.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I was far less stylish, but I had big dreams.

Me with Ann Miller's prints

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Happy Caturday

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The Sound of Music necktie, early 1990s. Designer unclear. Possibly Dries Van Noten.

Silk The Sound of Music tie, early 1990s.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Bring working guillotines back into our classrooms.

Three high school students behead carrots with a guillotine.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I've devoted this week to celebrating the Cherry Smash, a refreshing beverage that's great with our without booze. Have one on hand for your next barbecue meltdown. Susan Hayward movie reference included at no additional charge. spatchcock.substack.com/p/cherry-smash

Cherry Smash with gin.

Alcohol-free Cherry Smash.

Movie poster of Smash-Up The Story of a Woman! starring that throaty wonder, Susan Hayward.

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Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Who wore it better?

Stan Laurel admires Oliver Hardy's tie.

Joe Rogan at the desecrated White House wears his tie very short.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Post an eye, if the spirit moves you.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Jane admires a bulge

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Amarena cherry & almond coffee cake in honor of Coffee Cake Month, which is a thing that does not exist. spatchcock.substack.com/p/may-is-cof...

Cross section of an Amarena cherry and almond coffee cake.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Quote with your vibe of you were a vampire

Carol Channing drinking champagne in a WWI era biplane.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

American television commercials were overrun with little boys during the late Nixon era. Read into that what you will. Also, an oddly satisfying deviled ham recipe.

Mason Reese in a stovepipe hat on the cover of a 1973 TV Guide.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The Balcony, two ways.

Le Balcon, Édouard Manet, 1868-69.

Le Balcon, René Magritte, 1950

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Elsie is not happy about Leo spending the 4th of July in Lampedusa.

Elsie the cow, Rotolactor spokesmodel and mass deportation fan girl.

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Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

What do Argentinian soap stars, potted palms, and diapers have in common? The answer to this and other questions can be found at: spatchcock.substack.com/p/down-argen...

Belgian movie poster for the film Down Argentine Way (1940)

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Will she do if the first two are no longer available?

Karolyn Grimes and James Stewart as ZuZu and George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The word "Bleak" in white letters with Pres. Tr*mp standing between the letters b and l.

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Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Name a movie starting with the letter "C" #moviesky #filmsky

Movie poster of the 1977 film Chatterbox, starring Candice Railson as a woman with a talking vagina that has a mind of its own.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I just realized I've got a Georgian bottle of something in that same color.

Bottle of orange Georgian wine.

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Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This was Mme. Planty. She was perfect.

Cape Sundew in a floral teacup.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Who wore it better?

AI generated image of an alcoholic wannabe supervillain in a tight fitting stars & stripes outfit.

Liberace in a subtle-for-him stars & stripes get up dripping in patriotic fringe.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Just a reminder that Cher's status as a fashion icon comes from her mother's (Parisian flâneuse on right) side of the family.

Cher's mother, Georgia Holt, wearing a burlap sack dress and bucket on her head as Paris couture in I Love Lucy.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Don't be like Tim Cook.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

If you accidentally time travel back to 20th century Italy and need to make a phone call, I’ve got you covered.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Christmas sunrise.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Roger Ebert has proclaimed my 2026 "dreary and terminally depressing,"

Amintyville Horror Movie Poster

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Lord Peter Wimsey, without monocle.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Wishing a happy belated birthday to my secret childhood crush, Dick Cavett.

Dick Cavett in white briefs & socks holding a book entitled "A New You."

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Once seen in that Prince John wig, never forgotten.

Claude Rains as Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938]

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

If you see this, post a vampire who isn't Dracula.

Undead mug of tepid stool water Stephen Miller.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

If you see this (and you feel up to it), post four female characters you love.

Angela Lansbury as Eleanor Shaw Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate.

Maggie Smith as Diana Barrie in California Suite.

Rita Moreno as Googie Gomez in The Ritz.

Jean Hagen as Lena Lamont in Singin' in the Rain.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Au reservoir, Prunella.

Image of Geraldine McEwan (left) as Lucia and Prunella Scales (right) as Miss Elizabeth Mapp

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I am an otter spotter.

California sea otter relaxes on a Sunday afternoon.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Current mood:

Black & white still of a white man with an expression of ecstasy in evening dress placing a woman's fingers in his mouth from the Luis Buñuel film L'Age d'Or.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

On the Bridge of Sighs one year ago today.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Bye bye Hulu.

Image of my Hulu cancellation that starts, "We'll miss ya, Michael."

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Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Muppet theatre critics Statler and Waldorf up in the balcony.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Pro tip: Do not watch Ordinary People alone if you're the surviving sibling of a preferred older brother who died young. #RIPRobertRedford

Robert Redford and Timothy Hutton sitting on outdoor bleachers discussing a scene during the shooting of Ordinary People (1980).

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Pretty sure it was a combination of fashion and censorship.. but I fear I've driven the convo off topic. Delighted and slightly envious of your trip!

Elvis Presley in tighty whities during army medical exam.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000

Anthony Perkins looking creepy in Psycho (1960)

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Maya Angelou and Jessica Mitford (Treuhaft) playing Boggle.

Maya Angelou and Jessica Mitford playing Boggle.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Tell me you're a fancy boy without telling me you're a fancy boy.

Eight year old me posing with a block of cement with Ann Miller's hand and foot prints.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

My bird of the day.

Tiny tufted tit-tyrant on a tree branch.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Please do Nicholas Clay's swimsuit next.

Actor Nicholas Clay in black swim trunks with lower ass cleavage on display.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Spending a quiet Father's Day alone with dad.

Cremated remains in a blue velvet box.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Puppet King Friday XIII on a balcony.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Nun wearing black high heels.

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

So layered and very hard to pull off. They knew the venture was a risky one.

Pousse-Café cocktail

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

With all the awful things happening in the world, I still manage to find myself upset by the Trivago guy's teeth.

White man in a light blue crew neck sweater with abnormally large, unnaturally white teeth,

Michael Procopio, Ironing Enthusiast @procopster.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Ophelia floating in delicious broth. (Sent to me by the always charming @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social )

A painting by J.E. Millais of a now-mad Ophelia floating in a brook shortly before drowning from Shakespeare's Hamlet Photoshopped into a bowl of S.E. Asian-inspired broth with rice noodles.