Don’t miss L’île atlantique on Arte tomorrow

September 19th, 2008, 17:15 | 4 comments

I haven’t seen the French film L’île atlantique/Insel der Diebe, but the theme young criminals is always enticing. Why, it’s a film based on a novel by Tony Duvert, who died recently.

The film will be screened tomorrow, Saturday 20th September 2008, on Arte at 23:00. Try to catch it – I will!

Here’s what Arte wrote (in German) at the film’s first screening in 2005.

German Wikipedia has a another description (also in German) of the film.

Category: Movies

Milkyboys.net hacked!

September 19th, 2008, 10:50 | No comments

The boy blog Milkyboys.net (not to be confused with Milkboys.org) has been hacked.

Category: News & Politics

Saggy jeans law ruled unconstitutional

September 18th, 2008, 19:36 | 2 comments

Last summer, a Florida teenager was arrested and had to spend a night in jail because his jeans were saggy enough to expose 10 cm of his boxers. He risked fines or jail for “indecent exposure”. Seems I’m not the only one obsessed with the in-your-face beauty of sexy skater boys…

Now a judge has decided that the law is unconstitutional, reports BBC today.

Picture from Saggers España.

Category: News & Politics

The teenage soccer boy from Adidas

September 18th, 2008, 14:07 | No comments

The championship is over, but I still have the ad.

Category: Sports

Patrik 1,5 – a teenage boy in a gay family

September 17th, 2008, 13:03 | No comments

We’re back from a week’s vacation, during which we attended the premiere of Ella Lemhagen’s new film Patrik 1,5 (Patrik, Age 1.5), about a gay male couple who wants to adopt a child. Due to a typographical error, they think their new child will be one and a half years old – but he turns out to be 15. And unbelievably gorgeous at that, but since the gays are portrayed as the only normal people in the village, that is no problem.

The film is a traditional feel-good movie with Desperate Housewives aesthetics and a schoolbook script. And the execution is impeccable. Well done, Ella! I even shed the occasional tear.

On a symbolical level, the film is proof of how lovable gay men are these days. A little bit too lovable, it seems, since they are not allowed to have any flaws at all. Indeed, all straight people in the film are portrayed in such an unfavourable way that they sort of create the ugly background that makes the gay men’s normality shine even brighter. I think that’s what’s called overcompensating.

Category: Movies

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