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Cake day: September 13th, 2025

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  • Do not underestimate silent film! My kiddo loved them as a toddler. Here are some great starters:

    • The Cook (Roscoe Arbuckle)
    • Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton)
    • Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin)
    • A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès)

    Very engaging with way more visual gags than we usually see nowadays, few title cards, and a chance to talk with your kid about what is happening on screen (Ooh no, Charlie is stuck in the lions cage! How is Buster going to get on that runaway train?)

    And eventually when they’re a little older, getting your kid to sit down with you to watch Scorsese’s Hugo (2011). It is an absolutely magical loveletter to early film, particularly Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon.














  • A lot of scholars point out that homosexuality wasn’t really a concept in the ancient world. Neither was marriage for love or anything other than a means to perpetuate genes and familial property. But what was very much a concept was machismo. Being a “bottom” (in different terms back then) was considered degrading and “womanly,” and that was typically the issue at hand, according to many scholars, such as DanMcClellan, Robert Alter, and Jerome Walsh.