Alan
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Alan
@sometimeskysen.bsky.social
Former reader. Attempted gamer. Currently blogging about old movie musicals. He/Him
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Spent most of this year working on a new thing to revive my old blog, and I finally started publishing it today: I'm going to watch over 1,000 movie musicals, in chronological order.
Starting Today: 100(+) Years of Movie Musicals
Back in January, I was catching up on the final year of the Musicalsplaining podcast, when a thought entered my head. “There are so many movie musicals I haven’t gotten around to yet&#8…
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BBC articles about trans women in changing rooms continue to be blatantly biased. This one keeps up the trend of refusing to use any pronouns for the woman in question, even quite noticably only using her first name so they avoid calling her "Ms" (which they used for all the cis women mentioned).
Darlington nurses penalised for trans complaint, says lawyer
Closing submissions are being made in an employment tribunal brought by eight female nurses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Last night I watched Lady of Burlesque, a film adaptation of the novel The G-String Murders by Gypsy Rose Lee. I actually jumped back a bit in my timeline to watch it because I thought I'd missed it by mistake when I did 1943.
November 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Noticed Firefox had quietly added some AI stuff in my browser. Was easy enough to turn off, though.
November 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Got my bi-annual "you're still on the wait list" text this week. Five and a half years!
November 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Very important factor to this
November 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Today's film was a disappointing biopic. Sorry, no Halloween theme here (are there any horror musicals in the 1940s?).

My Gal Sal (1942)
My Gal Sal (1942)
Another biopic of a 19th Century songwriter, My Gal Sal (dir. Irving Cummings) stars Victor Mature as composer Paul Dresser. Starting out making music for medicine shows, Dresser's fortunes change when he meets actress Sally Elliott (Rita Hayworth), who starts using his music in her shows. Elliott likes Dresser's songs but dislikes the man himself, finding him low class and arrogant; somehow this doesn't stop them from forming a relationship.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Constantly having to close and reopen the bsky app today (which resets me to the top of my feed) just to be able to load replies, real pain in the arse
October 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Me: I don't think I'll watch this 70m movie tonight, I don't want to stay up too late.
Also me: *plays Hearthstone for an hour*
October 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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idk why this concept is difficult to grasp for a lot of people and doesn't take priority over wether or not liking wizards makes you a good person. Dont give her money! The money funds evil! its truly that simple
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I'm gonna have to figure out Linux I guess. Not sure I'll be sticking with windows much longer.
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I'm at the end of 1943 now and I think it's safe to say the conga craze has died out. 8 musical movies across three years (1940 to 1942) featured a conga, and that's just from the movies I watched.
Watching a 1942 film, a conga number starts up and I'm like "oh god, another one?" Then the number I'm watching turns into "I Hate The Conga". Guess they were aware the trend was getting a bit much lol
October 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM