Glen Weldon
@ghweldon.bsky.social
Author, THE CAPED CRUSADE, NPR’s PODCAST START UP GUIDE. Unauthor, SUPERMAN: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY. Host, POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR.
Word of the Day Weldon, they call me.
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Word of the Day Weldon, they call me.
I got to talk to smart funny people about a book that didn’t give me what I wanted when I read it as I was coming out. And is all the better for it.
Revisiting James Baldwin’s ‘Giovanni's Room’ : NPR's Book of the Day
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Revisiting James Baldwin’s ‘Giovanni's Room’ : NPR's Book of the Day
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Revisiting ‘Giovanni's Room’ : NPR's Book of the Day
James Baldwin’s recent centennial birthday allowed us to discuss one of his most celebrated novels, Giovanni’s Room. Andrew Limbong and B. A. Parker are joined by NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour’s Glen W...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I got to talk to smart funny people about a book that didn’t give me what I wanted when I read it as I was coming out. And is all the better for it.
Revisiting James Baldwin’s ‘Giovanni's Room’ : NPR's Book of the Day
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Revisiting James Baldwin’s ‘Giovanni's Room’ : NPR's Book of the Day
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
I proudly belong to the cohort of Kirsty people who will always resent the Tracey people.
November 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I proudly belong to the cohort of Kirsty people who will always resent the Tracey people.
- 🙏 are the 🐭
- uh what
- 🙏 are the 🐭
- WTF does praise the mouse mean what kind of life advice is that
- 😐
- what
- BLESSED ARE THE MEEK LOL
- LOL i was about to go start a whole rodent death cult in your name
- oh oops lol
- maybe rethink this method of communication my guy
- uh what
- 🙏 are the 🐭
- WTF does praise the mouse mean what kind of life advice is that
- 😐
- what
- BLESSED ARE THE MEEK LOL
- LOL i was about to go start a whole rodent death cult in your name
- oh oops lol
- maybe rethink this method of communication my guy
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
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November 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
- 🙏 are the 🐭
- uh what
- 🙏 are the 🐭
- WTF does praise the mouse mean what kind of life advice is that
- 😐
- what
- BLESSED ARE THE MEEK LOL
- LOL i was about to go start a whole rodent death cult in your name
- oh oops lol
- maybe rethink this method of communication my guy
- uh what
- 🙏 are the 🐭
- WTF does praise the mouse mean what kind of life advice is that
- 😐
- what
- BLESSED ARE THE MEEK LOL
- LOL i was about to go start a whole rodent death cult in your name
- oh oops lol
- maybe rethink this method of communication my guy
Megyn Kelly out here in these streets stealing Gianmarco Soresi’s ephebophile chunk like no one would notice.
November 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Megyn Kelly out here in these streets stealing Gianmarco Soresi’s ephebophile chunk like no one would notice.
What did you think of your tour of the West Wing, Dame Smith?
November 13, 2025 at 4:05 AM
What did you think of your tour of the West Wing, Dame Smith?
Virtual trainer on treadmill has an amazing body and usually wears a clingy tank-top. As I follow him on runs and hikes I get to watch the people coming in the opposite direction.
I pass the time by predicting which ones will slyly ogle him as they pass us.
I’m VERY good at it.
I pass the time by predicting which ones will slyly ogle him as they pass us.
I’m VERY good at it.
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Virtual trainer on treadmill has an amazing body and usually wears a clingy tank-top. As I follow him on runs and hikes I get to watch the people coming in the opposite direction.
I pass the time by predicting which ones will slyly ogle him as they pass us.
I’m VERY good at it.
I pass the time by predicting which ones will slyly ogle him as they pass us.
I’m VERY good at it.
Whither the landfills?
Funko admits “substantial doubt” it can continue as a going concern amid crashing sales and mounting debt.
The Pop! maker warns of potential loan defaults without fresh funding or a buyout, after a 14% sales drop and $250M in obligations.
#Funko #PopVinyl #GoingConcern
The Pop! maker warns of potential loan defaults without fresh funding or a buyout, after a 14% sales drop and $250M in obligations.
#Funko #PopVinyl #GoingConcern
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Whither the landfills?
Planning a NYC trip cause I heard they got Shiera Law which forces everyone to be a grumpy badass and have insane sexual chemistry with absolutely everyone
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Planning a NYC trip cause I heard they got Shiera Law which forces everyone to be a grumpy badass and have insane sexual chemistry with absolutely everyone
Observing James Watson’s death by reading up on Rosalind Franklin.
He’d hate that. Bet he’s double-helixing in his grave.
He’d hate that. Bet he’s double-helixing in his grave.
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Observing James Watson’s death by reading up on Rosalind Franklin.
He’d hate that. Bet he’s double-helixing in his grave.
He’d hate that. Bet he’s double-helixing in his grave.
I’ll take Online Content Ruthlessly Laser-Targeted At Me for 1000 please Ken
youtu.be/8qya3eTjNMQ?...
youtu.be/8qya3eTjNMQ?...
PODCAST: PAUL F. TOMPKINS on Season 20, Episode 9 | Taskmaster
YouTube video by Taskmaster
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November 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I’ll take Online Content Ruthlessly Laser-Targeted At Me for 1000 please Ken
youtu.be/8qya3eTjNMQ?...
youtu.be/8qya3eTjNMQ?...
This is my sandwich. There are many like it but this one is mine. My sandwich is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My sandwich, without me, is useless. Without my sandwich, I am useless. I must eat my sandwich true. I must eat heartier than my enemy who is
November 6, 2025 at 11:59 PM
This is my sandwich. There are many like it but this one is mine. My sandwich is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My sandwich, without me, is useless. Without my sandwich, I am useless. I must eat my sandwich true. I must eat heartier than my enemy who is
Now ICE has gotta be scared of subs like they’re merchant ships crossing the Atlantic in 1942.
November 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Now ICE has gotta be scared of subs like they’re merchant ships crossing the Atlantic in 1942.
Ham sandwiches out here in these streets, unindicted, just roaming free as you please
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Ham sandwiches out here in these streets, unindicted, just roaming free as you please
St. Peter, yesterday:
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
St. Peter, yesterday:
The real question is how she found the address of his home pit.
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The real question is how she found the address of his home pit.
Today is All Hallow’s Day.
All the Hallows.
All of them.
Except for one.
This one.
All the Hallows.
All of them.
Except for one.
This one.
November 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Today is All Hallow’s Day.
All the Hallows.
All of them.
Except for one.
This one.
All the Hallows.
All of them.
Except for one.
This one.
Social media just paid for itself.
October 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Social media just paid for itself.
Tonight I can get away with asking folks the one question I’m forced to keep to myself the other 364 days of the year:
“And who are YOU supposed to be?”
“And who are YOU supposed to be?”
October 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Tonight I can get away with asking folks the one question I’m forced to keep to myself the other 364 days of the year:
“And who are YOU supposed to be?”
“And who are YOU supposed to be?”
BUGONIA isn’t peak Lanthimos, and hoo boy that final needle-drop is mystifyingly bad. Poisonous. But Stone and Plemons are great. Shame they’ve been cut to seem like they’re not in the same movie.
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'Bugonia' may or may not be about aliens; it's definitely about alienation
Director Yorgos Lanthimos' latest is about cousins who kidnap a CEO, convinced she's an alien.
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October 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
BUGONIA isn’t peak Lanthimos, and hoo boy that final needle-drop is mystifyingly bad. Poisonous. But Stone and Plemons are great. Shame they’ve been cut to seem like they’re not in the same movie.
www.npr.org/2025/10/31/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/31/n...
Annual reminder that the fake spider webs you stretch across your front porch look nothing like spider webs and instead just look like you murdered a sweater and have hung up its flayed corpse as a grim warning to all other knitwear.
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Annual reminder that the fake spider webs you stretch across your front porch look nothing like spider webs and instead just look like you murdered a sweater and have hung up its flayed corpse as a grim warning to all other knitwear.
Hark! I sense on this night the veil twixt this world and the realm beyond, where the restless dead roil and rut and wail in hunger for the souls of the living, thins to merest gossamer, so gimme a Zagnut or I’ll TP your crepe myrtle
October 31, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Hark! I sense on this night the veil twixt this world and the realm beyond, where the restless dead roil and rut and wail in hunger for the souls of the living, thins to merest gossamer, so gimme a Zagnut or I’ll TP your crepe myrtle
I hate Gay Halloween. What do you mean you’re going as Thranduil’s Elk sniffily ghosting the Dwarves of Erebor.
(jkjk I love Gay Halloween)
(jkjk I love Gay Halloween)
October 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I hate Gay Halloween. What do you mean you’re going as Thranduil’s Elk sniffily ghosting the Dwarves of Erebor.
(jkjk I love Gay Halloween)
(jkjk I love Gay Halloween)
As a kid I found Mischief Night way scarier than Halloween because I knew ghosts didn’t exist but my 7th-grade bullies given license to exert their sociopathic will upon the defenseless cul-de-sacs of suburban Philadelphia very much did.
October 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM
As a kid I found Mischief Night way scarier than Halloween because I knew ghosts didn’t exist but my 7th-grade bullies given license to exert their sociopathic will upon the defenseless cul-de-sacs of suburban Philadelphia very much did.