The life-force suckers were pop culture’s reaction to the soul suckers ronnie rayguns and margaret “milk snatcher” thatcher (AKA reagan-in-a-dress), and the gen’l suckiness of the selfish AF 80s.
See also giant monsters/mutants as pop culture’s reaction to atomic weapons; zombies as reaction to the mindlessness of shrub jr (bush, jr); etc.
The Playhouse came into being when I was already in my 20s, but hell if I didn’t drag my exhausted-or-hungover-from-Friday-night’s-partying/show/s/clubbing self in front of the TV most Saturday mornings at 10! Same with my friends. It was hysterical when someone said today’s secret word at a bar or club on Sat night, and a buncha punks and goths all screamed.
More accurately, Reagan was Maggie-in-a-suit. She was fucking Britain up for a year and a half before Reagan was elected.
I thought that might’ve been the case. Misogyny rides again !
How is “the UK had an authoritarian right-wing Prime Minister who happened to be a woman” any kind of justification for misogyny?
B/c she was herself a horrid tory misogynist who was so abusive?
I’ll edit the post.
I wish Paul Rubens had gotten the role of Neo in the Matrix.
I’d love to see him in another Buffy movie
Every couple of weeks I host movie night at my house. Of course this week to honor Paul we are watching Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.
Along with every movie I compile 30 mins of shorts in a pre-show that we watch before the film. (kinda like an old school movie house playing cartoons and news reels) This week I have curated some wonderful Pee Wee and Paul Ruben clips that I thought my fellow mutants might enjoy:
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