Mr. Steed
@mrsteed
Lapsed academic. Author. Often NSFW. Not a tame lion. Metro NYC. My essays: mrsteed64.blogspot.com My erotic novellas, both in print and ebook format:
This Pictonico! game is so dumb. Let me go play it for another 45 minutes. Just to be sure, y’know.
Rewinding to that time @erostakles.bsky.social drew my portrait (totally to scale, honest). #FCF
For some reason, today I’ve remembered what a huge youthful crush I had on Ōzn, the blond one in Ēbn Ōzn, whose one perfect hit 80s single, ‘AEIOU Sometimes Y’ was part semiotics lesson, part trickster narrative about hooking up with a Swedish gal.
My entertainment for the evening. I had a good time with this dorky little show.
The Sheep Detectives (2026) begins as Village Green Preservation Society whimsey and animal hijinks, then in the third act takes a pants-shitting detour into a confrontation of mortality and the implications of sentience and fuuuuck, I was not expecting it to get THAT DARK.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) offers the same biting pleasures as the original, until the three-quarter mark when it goes sentimental and as mushy as a fine Belgian chocolate melting on the heated European Nappa leather seats of a Lamborghini. The AI simulacrum of Kenneth Branagh is remarkable.
This week on my #TomodachiLife island, Michelle Visage plays her Seduction album for anyone who'll listen, Jennifer Coolidge has a solo fashion show, Ryan Gosling makes a mural of Morgan Freeman from rose petals, and the gang takes a group photo.
I’m pretty sure that in a couple of months, my memory of the Dan Levy Netflix crime comedy Big Mistakes (2026) will be of unrelenting shrieking and machine-gun dialogue delivery with the volume turned up to 11. But Laurie Metcalf and Elizabeth Perkins are great.
My latest short novel, the science fiction-themed A Globe Granite Underfoot, hits the ground in one week. I'm donating all my proceeds to The Trevor Project for this one, so you'll be supporting a great organization as well as getting a good, sexy read. Here's a quick link: bit.ly/4151Jt1
In #TomodachiLife news, to my mystification, no less than five residents have fallen head over heels with Edgar Allan Poe, who's oblivious to their infatuations. Noah Wylie bums out anyone who hangs around with him, and Ryan Gosling has taken to running around town in a disco jumpsuit.
Pizza Movie (2026) is a college comedy starring that one kid from that Netflix show and that other kid from that sitcom which ran 9 seasons longer than it should've. It filches a drug trip structure from 2012's 21 Jump Street, and yet turns out amiable enough, though it's no Gen Z Harold & Kumar.
Edgar Allen Poe, Sophia Petrillo and her daughter Dorothy Zbornak, Elphaba, and I have been getting acquainted all afternoon in the new Tomodachi Life sequel. I'm trying not to think about the fact there's no Orchestra Hall for us to perform in.
Happy 25th anniversary to Animal Crossing, whose original release was my first day-one videogame purchase. (Which wasn't easy back in 2002 when the NA version was released, because retailers weren't expecting anyone to buy it.)
I'm sad no one is talking about the gently comic series American Classic (2026), about a family of thespians with a struggling theater, despite a charming cast that includes Kevin Kline and Laura Linney. For the dozen of us who loved 2003's Slings and Arrows, it's a show that resonates.
Scarpetta, the very latest Nicole Kidman murder mystery limited series, lacks the expensive real estate and luxe ensembles I usually expect from a Nicole Kidman murder mystery limited series, but it does feature Nicole Kidman bedeviled by both mystery and Jamie Lee Curtis. I guess that's something.
I was “on vacation” when “Wuthering Heights” (2026) debuted, so I “missed” all the “discourse” around this self-indulgent, ridonkulous “film” that takes a hot, steaming slash all over Emily Brontë’s “literary legacy.” Honestly, just listen to the Kate Bush song.
Have you seen 1987’s Housekeeping? It’s an often overlooked favorite of mine.