Columbo meets an early pro-sporno Having given up on Netflix and the 21st Century, I’ve been watching Columbo – Amazon Prime Video have the first seven seasons (1971-8), gloriously restored, and digitally remastered in HD. Always a high-production value show, it can now be… Read More »The Curious Case of the Killer Buttocks
Mark Simpson on the rise and rise of ‘American air’ (London Times Magazine, 2003) ‘This is my home, this is America!’ a canned, generic male power-ballad singer, possibly on loan from those naff Gillette commercials, warbles over the P.A. The… Read More »Global Cooling: The Rise & Rise of ‘American Air’
ABC News tells us that ‘Metrosexual is out – macho is in’ It offers little evidence of this assertion other than a product-placement style interview with the editor of a glossy men’s magazine who will clearly say anything to sell his mag, including… Read More »The ‘New Macho’ – Just Older, Saggier, Daggier Metrosexuality
Just in time for the World Cup the July issue of the re-launched OUT features an essay by yours truly on the post-metrosexual pornolization of sport – or what I dub ‘sporno’. Here’s a (breathless) taster: ‘Sportsmen on this side… Read More »Sporno: where sport & porn meet & produce a spectacular money shot
Is Superman gay? This ‘pressing’ question about what the Man of Steel does with his flying package (‘is it a bird? is it a plane?’) when it’s not held in by industrial strength spandex seems to be enormously exercising the media in the run… Read More »Superman and his Supersexuality
When, I wonder, am I going to receive my fee for my makeover of the Tory Party? Metrodaddy, alias yours truly, appears to have been cast as the (reluctant) queer eye of the British Tory guy. As yet another sign… Read More »Queer Eye For the Tory Guy