{"id":347,"date":"2001-01-01T21:59:23","date_gmt":"2001-01-01T21:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/01\/01\/east_side_ecsta\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T09:44:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T14:44:45","slug":"east_side_ecsta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/01\/01\/east_side_ecsta\/","title":{"rendered":"East Side Ecstasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If you watch any documentary before you die,<\/strong> you really ought to watch <i><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0119040\">East Side Story<\/a>,<\/i> an incredible look at communist musicals in East Germany and the soviet Union. Man, it\u2019ll get your heart pumping to watch those men sing about the glories of their tractors, or watch textile-mill ballet sequence. Of course, now that I think about it, you also should make sure that before you die you see such other incredible documentaries as <i><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0073076\">Grey Gardens<\/a>,<\/i> <i><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?Crumb+(1994)\">Crumb<\/a>,<\/i> and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0120370\">Trekkies<\/a>.<\/i> Any of those will be a great reminder that reality can be so much more fascinating than fiction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/aquathumb.jpg\" width=\"72\" height=\"108\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" \/>On a totally different pop-culture note, I\u2019ve found myself talking with lots of guys recently about how they also always thought that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seanbaby.com\/superfriends\/aquaman.htm\">Aquaman<\/a> was totally hot. So it\u2019s not just me. It\u2019s almost weird how often this has been happening, like some great pent-up surge of homosexual <i><a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/define.asp?key=zeitgeist*1%2B0\">zeitgeist<\/a><\/i> blowing a gasket. A friend spontaneously got me a totally hot Aquaman poster by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexrossart.com\/\">Alex Ross<\/a> for my birthday. Another announced he\u2019s planning on fulfilling a lifelong dream and getting an Aquaman tattoo. Various other guys, when I\u2019ve started to mention who the hottest superfriend was, beat me to the punch by screaming out, \u201cAquaman!\u201d This has been even more startling than the realization a few years back that the homos all seemed to have a thing for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobafettfanclub.com\/\">Boba Fett<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you watch any documentary before you die, you really ought to watch East Side Story, an incredible look at communist musicals in East Germany and the soviet Union. Man, it\u2019ll get your heart pumping to watch those men sing about the glories of their tractors, or watch textile-mill ballet sequence. Of course, now that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/01\/01\/east_side_ecsta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;East Side Ecstasy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics","category-ultracultural","category-ultragay","category-ultranerdy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71774,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/71774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}