Matt Baume 🏳️🌈
@mattbaume.bsky.social
Writer, YouTuber, small mammal. I tell fun stories about pop culture history. He/him.
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> Book: gaysitcoms.com
> Podcast: sewersofparis.com
> Hedgehog: 🦔
> Videos: youtube.com/mattbaume
> Bonus videos: patreon.com/mattbaume
> Book: gaysitcoms.com
> Podcast: sewersofparis.com
> Hedgehog: 🦔
Cannot get over this unfinished visual effect smacking Ariana in the face
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Cannot get over this unfinished visual effect smacking Ariana in the face
Fantastic stuff happening in Google search results, as always
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Fantastic stuff happening in Google search results, as always
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November 19, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Select discography:
Something strangely peaceful about this email I got from my tax preparer
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Something strangely peaceful about this email I got from my tax preparer
I'm watching videos about Pride events in various German towns and every pup in Leipzig is looking at this twink like he's a squirrel that just fell into a doggy daycare
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I'm watching videos about Pride events in various German towns and every pup in Leipzig is looking at this twink like he's a squirrel that just fell into a doggy daycare
To anyone dismayed about not getting Muppet Knives Out don't worry because they basically already did that in 1979 with Liza Minnelli and it's a perfect (Emmy-nominated!) episode of TV that you can enjoy right now!
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
To anyone dismayed about not getting Muppet Knives Out don't worry because they basically already did that in 1979 with Liza Minnelli and it's a perfect (Emmy-nominated!) episode of TV that you can enjoy right now!
The AI filter makes the "regular person" look as outlandish as Ace
November 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The AI filter makes the "regular person" look as outlandish as Ace
Lol I think this was the inspiration for a holiday promo that I photographed for a bar back in 2013, truly a deranged project
November 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Lol I think this was the inspiration for a holiday promo that I photographed for a bar back in 2013, truly a deranged project
Do yourself a favor and call out of work sick today so you can spend the afternoon gazing upon the work of Richard Amsel
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Do yourself a favor and call out of work sick today so you can spend the afternoon gazing upon the work of Richard Amsel
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November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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And I think posting about this great book that came out 46 years ago is a much better use of everyone's imagination than posting about a bad one coming out next month. So! Let's do that instead.
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
And I think posting about this great book that came out 46 years ago is a much better use of everyone's imagination than posting about a bad one coming out next month. So! Let's do that instead.
Pretty much any library has The Neverending Story in print or ebook. Copies are like $6 at used bookstores, which compared to the expense of thinking about BAD books is a real bargain.
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Pretty much any library has The Neverending Story in print or ebook. Copies are like $6 at used bookstores, which compared to the expense of thinking about BAD books is a real bargain.
...and also, how cynicism and despair turn beautiful ideas into lies that make people easy to control.
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
...and also, how cynicism and despair turn beautiful ideas into lies that make people easy to control.
...you can read about Falcor the luck dragon. (Or whatever.) I mention this in connection with The Neverending Story because the book & movie have some nice things to say (in different ways) about how books can be seeds that grow jungles...
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
...you can read about Falcor the luck dragon. (Or whatever.) I mention this in connection with The Neverending Story because the book & movie have some nice things to say (in different ways) about how books can be seeds that grow jungles...
...paying attention to toxic art is EXPENSIVE. Your brain pays a little tax for every moment you spend with a book you don't like, sinks a little deeper into a swamp. It's fine to say "I will give this thing 5 cents worth of thought, just enough to decide I don't need it in my life," and then...
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
...paying attention to toxic art is EXPENSIVE. Your brain pays a little tax for every moment you spend with a book you don't like, sinks a little deeper into a swamp. It's fine to say "I will give this thing 5 cents worth of thought, just enough to decide I don't need it in my life," and then...
But also, I keep seeing on my timeline that some unkind media-politics people are involved in a new memoir, and a lot of folks have been beguiled into posting AT LENGTH about these awful people & their awful writing. And I think there's a simple reason not to do that:
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
But also, I keep seeing on my timeline that some unkind media-politics people are involved in a new memoir, and a lot of folks have been beguiled into posting AT LENGTH about these awful people & their awful writing. And I think there's a simple reason not to do that:
I've been reading the novel of The Neverending Story lately, and I think it's something that you should read too, for a couple of reasons. First, and most important, it's a lot of fun! I love it. Very different from the movie, which I love too.
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I've been reading the novel of The Neverending Story lately, and I think it's something that you should read too, for a couple of reasons. First, and most important, it's a lot of fun! I love it. Very different from the movie, which I love too.
lol great operation they’re running over there
November 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
lol great operation they’re running over there
High time for a revival of that famous musical comedy, "Toot! Toot!," previously known as "Excuse Me," featuring hunks in khakis
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
High time for a revival of that famous musical comedy, "Toot! Toot!," previously known as "Excuse Me," featuring hunks in khakis
The gay man who co-wrote the 1939 screenplay for The Wizard of Oz also wrote a song called "You're So Cute, Soldier Boy," and I'm obsessed with this art for it
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The gay man who co-wrote the 1939 screenplay for The Wizard of Oz also wrote a song called "You're So Cute, Soldier Boy," and I'm obsessed with this art for it
Personally I'd have paid him three times just to keep wearing these shorts but that's why I don't run Hollywood
November 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Personally I'd have paid him three times just to keep wearing these shorts but that's why I don't run Hollywood
No livestream this week -- I'm chugging away on a script -- but instead please enjoy this collection of thirteen (!!!!!) Marx Brothers movies in their entirety. I personally recommend starting with A Night at the Opera but you really can't go wrong with any of them: archive.org/details/they...
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
No livestream this week -- I'm chugging away on a script -- but instead please enjoy this collection of thirteen (!!!!!) Marx Brothers movies in their entirety. I personally recommend starting with A Night at the Opera but you really can't go wrong with any of them: archive.org/details/they...
And here he is, hard at work on a composition, circa 1957. Imagine telling that little boy what his writing would someday become!
November 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
And here he is, hard at work on a composition, circa 1957. Imagine telling that little boy what his writing would someday become!
Before he wrote Wicked, Gregory Maguire specialized in children's literature, and I came across this absolutely charming photo of him from 1992, three years before Wicked was published:
November 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Before he wrote Wicked, Gregory Maguire specialized in children's literature, and I came across this absolutely charming photo of him from 1992, three years before Wicked was published:
I have to track down a lot of movies on physical media for my videos but I didn't think it was so much that stores would start listing them by the pound
November 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I have to track down a lot of movies on physical media for my videos but I didn't think it was so much that stores would start listing them by the pound