something I hadn't been missing

It may not exactly be news when The New Republic publishes some hideous bigoted bullshit, but I have to say I was a little surprised that they pulled Dale Peck from the back bench of bitter hatchet-job artists to write a piece about how Pete Buttigieg is the wrong kind of gay (which they've since removed from their site after nearly everyone said "WTF"). This really takes me back.
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movie/book review roundup 6/19

For the two or three people who read any of this stuff, I thought I'd start putting some links here to the book and movie pieces that I put on other sites—but in batches, so it's not a whole lot of posts. For better or worse, this has become the main kind of writing I do these days.

Movies: Near Dark (1987, ****, rewatch), The Artist & the Pervert (2018, ****), The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019, ****), Godzilla (1954, ****, rewatch), Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019, ***), Toad Road (2012, ***½), The Dead Don't Die (2019, ***), Good Omens (2019, ***½), Swamp Thing (1982, ***), A Dog Barking at the Moon (2019, ****), and three shorts from the Frameline festival.

Books: Just the Swamp Thing stuff. I'm reading prose pretty slowly these days.