ABOVE: I'd like to dive into his deep end.

BELOW: Keep reading for red-hot DNA, even more about All About Eve, Stacey Abrams on Biden's pick, UFOs revealed, underwear contests and thirst traps and more ...

ABOVE: More like that, here.

BELOW: Keep reading for a Bachelor's gay panic, a rimming strike, an Evangelical COVID-19 denialist goes down, naked Freud boys and more ...

ABOVE: Blond god.

BELOW: Keep reading for the death of a Desperately Seeking Susan cast member, COVID-19 causing record unemployment, hope in the form of a new ventilator, Kathy Griffin falls ill and more ...

(Image via Jacober Creative)

Jacober Creative's Instagram is featuring a weekly series of new designs meant to capture old films, everything from The Birds (1963) to Jaws (1975) to Gattaca (1997).

This week? Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) — see above.

Check out the others as they materialize here.

I saw Side Show in previews (review coming Monday, November 17, when the show opens) and took advantage of the opportunity to meet the last major cast member of Desperately Seeking Susan who I had yet to meet: Robert Joy. Joy plays the original daddy/conservator in Side Show and was, of course, Madonna's punker boyfriend in DSS.

Jimmmmmyyyy!

Waited afterward at the theater's incredibly awkward stage door area (actors find themselves walking down a long hall with patrons after the action ends) and Robert was, well, a joy—very nice. He signs with his right hand, but holds the Sharpie in his fist as he does it. He happily posed for a picture (I was bummed he'd just put on his hat). 

Joy recently turned 63.

Check out the time I met most of the DSS cast here, my favorite Madonna meeting here and meeting Laurie Metcalf here.

They all scream for it.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus & Joe Biden take a veep joyride.

WAIST OF SPACE: Khloe Kardashian loves cinchers.

Sexy Federico Diaz, a Ricky Martin ex, comes out.

Obama zings Boehner with Orange is the New Black jibe.

Another Bryan Singer/Gary Goddard sex suit.

Nate Berkus got hitched.

Bryce Johnson looks great naked. (Work Unfriendly)

Feel sore, or feel sorry, tomorrow. Like him.

Desperately Seeking Susan's NYC locations laid bare.

Ricardo Baldin looking good in his JAMs.

Oops! Britney Spears is about to get sued again.

Levi Michaels of Cocky Boys launches YouTube channel with “lighting” round.

Prove it!

As of midnight last night, it was exactly six years since my first post. It's been a tough thing to keep up with a dayjob and outside activities, and just when I think I might walk away, a valuable connection or interesting opportunity or a kind word comes my way. Thank you all for reading me.

Of whom are you more jealous?

Here are my favorite 100+ posts out of nearly 11,000. Please take some time to read (or re-read!) a couple and tweet or Facebook any you like.

xoxo Matt

The pocket pool championships were intense this year

BOY CULTURE

Boy-crazy

FROM BOY TO MAN: BC B.C. (2007): The entire history of my novell and novel Boy Culture as well as the movie version; might be my ultimate post.

Jonathon Trent & Derek Magyar make an Allan Brocka sandwich

BOY ON FILM (2006): An account of the NYC launch party for Boy Culture as it played the TriBeCa Film Fest.

I was left "Reeling" by the experience

FRIENDS AND "FAMILY" (2006): The movie version of Boy Culture hits Chicago.

No one would've mistaken me for Taylor Lautner

RAPT PUPIL (2006): The final night of Outfest with Boy Culture; I was fat but on the other hand got to meet Bryan Singer.

 

MY ART

 

Construction worker (shot this week) vs. James Dean

GUYDAR (since at least January 17, 2008) & ENDS OF THE WORLD (since at least January 13, 2008): Attractive men of the world—I got your backs. Your fronts, too.

i-i-i (phone)

Not totally built

Unaltered iPhone image that still blows me away

"Your pictures suck" (2008): An art critic attacks me, but not without sustaining some hits in return.

Let's call it a draw

DRAWN TOGETHER (2008): How my desire to draw related to my secret desire. One of my absolute favorite posts.

The shirtless one

LOST ANGELES (2009): My favorite photographic travelogue of L.A.

Even then, New Yorkers feared 9/11 was the beginning of the end

ART IMITATES LIFE (2006): My 9/11 and my distaste for grief tourism.

ME

Death of the party—Jeff in high school, already halfway through his life

BURNING MAN (2007): Tribute to my late high school friend and first romance.

Signed, sealed (eventually) delivered

LOST BOY FOUND (2011): There is a book in here somewhere.

Be Italian

CIAO HOUNDS: OUR TRIP TO ITALY (2011): Finally got José to Europe.

Death becomes here

ILLINOIS DEATH TRIP (2007): Ruminations on death while revisiting a past home, and the past.

Life is short...and meaningful

PASSING BY (2008): Mourning the loss of a person I only met once.

Lots more...

  The spell-binding Magic Club was the result of a late-breaking script change

TONS OF VIDEOS RIGHT HERE.

It was 24 hours of Desperately Seeking Susan for me this week, meeting Madonna on Wednesday for the celebration of her and Lola's Material Girl line and then meeting a surprisingly large contingent of the cast and crew of that '80s classic the following night when the Film Society of Lincoln Center hosted a 25th-anniversary screening.

Me with Seidelman, Blum, Arquette & Quinn

Tickets to the event and after-party had been hard to come by, and it's no wonder—on top of some members of the press, the 268-seat theater must have had at least 25 people who'd worked on the movie, plus all their guests.

Left to right, top to bottom: Susan Seidelman's intro; Rosanna Arquette's bond with—and Mark Blum's raunchy screen-test with—Madonna; rushing the film out in case Madonna was a "flash-in-the-pan"; and funny casting stories...