Author, THE CAPED CRUSADE, NPR’s PODCAST START UP GUIDE. Unauthor, SUPERMAN: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY. Host, POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR.
Glen Weldon
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I will always remember the time they reviewed WONDER WOMAN and Dana and Julia talked about how surprised and thrilled they were to see Diana go over the top of the WWI trenches.
In that moment, they got superheroes. After years of dismissing them.
Great critics are open to moments like that.
Oh Spotify. Sure, you changed your icon to a disco ball. But when THIS is your cultural reference for this song, you will never be any ally.
“Notably.”
That word does not mean what you think it means.
The best Batman villain will always be the Riddler, whose whole vibe has always been way more queer than Catwoman’s. Yeah, she’s got a leather catsuit, but he’s a question mark made flesh.
The Joker? I’m aware of his work. I can’t not be. Bitch is omnipresent.
He’s Gotham’s truffle oil.
There’s gall, there’s nerve, there’s temerity, there’s absolute brazen grasping shameless bald-faced hypocrisy, and then there’s AppleTV congratulating SCHMIGADOON! on its Tony win.
So the Slate Culture Gabfest is ending and that sucks. They are the gold standard. What I measure myself against.
I was lucky to go on it once and tried to explain that PCHH felt to me like their annoying, bratty little sister, always stealing their sweaters without asking and stretching them out.
Yes, DISCLOSURE DAY’s Boomer understanding of both how news gets made and consumed is mystifying, and undercuts the climax.
But.
We stay in that room, at the end. We don’t cut to “ONE YEAR LATER” or whatever.
What happens after is left to us to decide.
I mean DISCLOSURE DAY is fine and all but there are no queer people or musical numbers in it.
Like, at ALL.
Make your weekend box office plans accordingly.
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I’ve lived through the last 10 years of bad intentions and the cynical undermining of institutions so in my head what happens next is anything but unifying and uplifting and empathetic.
But that’s my version. The ending advocates for a nobler vision, but allows for my realist one.
Respect.
Glen Weldon
Glen Weldon
It's camp. It's drag. A Stormaganza is coming and the Glamazonian Express is in trouble!
