When I was a juvenile there was a sense that the more X's there were, the dirtier it must be. I should note here that at that same time there was an Adult drive-in in the suburbs of Dayton. How'd they manage that?

It was much funnier than I expected it to be. Also interesting, although I forget the name of it, is a documentary Netflix had about pre-code Hollywood which was really an eye-opener, and the one they have about Grindhouse cinema and its ways of first getting aroung the code and then later, exploiting the rating…

'Sweet Sweetback's Badaass Song' is a perfect example of a film that is more "important" than it is "good". I'm glad to have seen it, but I can't imagine ever watching it again.

I like etc.—In the early days of registration (before avatars and profiles) there was a rash of imposters (as there will be from time to time) who would post using the names of prolific people (like myself) only using the number 1 for "l" or zero for capital "O". This led to "hilarious" flamewars and bad blood between…

That's all I could think of whenever he'd come on as Mycroft in the Granada Sherlock Holmes series.

Amen. Of course, when I used to go, I knew a lot of guys who were bisexual in order to get chicks but that's just what the 80's were like.

"I don't think transvestites, gays and what not were that shocking by 1975"

"I'm sure there are parts of the country where they are in the bible belt I guess"

Where you see it and with whom makes a big difference (and so does when). I used to go in Boston in the late 80's and the cast there was top notch. The guy who played Frank was a 7 foot queen who could command the audience and entertain independant of the film, so the floorshow was anything but an afterthought there.…

'Rocky Horror' was a Pansexual Punk Rock Pageant In the late 80's
—and it was one of the few places where a high school kid could encounter queer culture without judgment. In high school back then nobody was out of the closet but all the freaks and theater kids went to 'Rocky' and all bets were off. Suddenly in that…

turdblossom—Anyone so inclined may easily do so (I've given more clues than that over the years)—my assumption is that nobody would want to.

And yet Kip and Henry had to dress as women to keep their modest room at the Susan B. Anthony Hotel for Women.

"some cracks in the construct"

Jesus could have been born anytime. The old liturgy linked his birth with Spring and the new liturgy linked it with the Winter Solstice—but these are both arbitrary aspects of mythmaking and come from attempts to retcon through scripture and make sense of events that were largely unrecorded and unremarked upon at the…

Ever seen the apartment on 'The Monkees'? It was carazy!

That's incredible madbeatnik—how widespread was that? I lived in like five different states in the 70's and I've never seen that comic before.

I thought he was. I may be misremembering that from an old George Carlin bit—he talks about that Archie Bunker type being essentially his parents' generation: "We served in what you call your uh World War Two there my friend…That was the big one."

That Archie—always with the mot juste!

Hmm…possible Feminist TV:

'Wee Pals' was a transitional strip—and important in its own way. Before that, you didn't see minorities in the gag comics (as opposed to the serialized ones like 'Dondi', 'Tarzan' or 'The Phantom'—unless you go back to the era when those you did see were pickaninny or coon stereotypes) until the late 80's, and then…