Christopher Reidy:
Is from Massachusetts. He is lucky to have lived through two and a half of the 20th century's most exciting decades! During the 80's he did a lot of dancing in Boston night-clubs and also managed to go to college at Boston University. He commuted to school from a town called Saugus which is well know for a lot of roadside kitsch and the first iron-works (which somehow allows the town to claim itself "the Birthplace of Steel"). The man who invented Wonder Woman was born in Saugus; and Chris thinks the town is missing out on a great revenue source. After college, Chris journeyed to Los Angeles for an exciting and eventful embrace in the arms of Hollywood. They/them was quite a moody mistress of a place; but Chris wouldn't trade that experience for the world! He's busily penning his mega-name-dropping-no-holds-barred-tell-all as you read this. Some of those names? Carol Channing, Henry Winkler, Morgan Fairchild, Ann Miller and Harvey Sid Fisher to name a few!
Chris currently lives in the mountainous Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest, Virginia. He does quite a bit of acting in local theater and has appeared in several regional television commercials; including the legendary "Lewis-Gale Emergency Room" spot. Chris lives with his husband Joseph and their two cats and two turtles. Chris is also a fully sanctioned citizen of Ireland and plans to visit his homeland soon.
BLOG INDEX:
August 2015: My First Novel, Wow!
June 2020: The Cardinal Rule (an essay re: plagiarism).
September 2020:
Fragrant Musings (info re: my perfume reviews).
November 2020:
How I Got Into Harvard Without Really Trying
December 2020:
So, Do You Want Long Novels or What?
Mrs. Reidy I Hardly Knew Ye
January 2021:
Be Careful When You Google Yourself
February 2021:
WWUWD (an essay about Walt Disney)
Bloggers Anonymous (includes a movie review of The Little Things).
Memories of Cicely Tyson
In With The Old, Out With the New
March 2021: T.M./Pat Pend
The Liberated Young Women of Saturday Mornings of Yore
Q and Maybe A
The Night That Changed the World (or was it morning?) (an essay about The B-52's).
Saturday Night Live Needs Seniors!
Massholes, Potato Heads and Yaw Cuzin' From Bawstin
Art From the Artist Part 2
Art From the Artist
Mean People
April 2021: My Intellectual Property Lawsuit
Mean People Part 2
An Open Plea to Fox TV
When a Whale Isn't Just a Whale
Memories of My Pal Linda
83 in the Shade is Now an E-book (I think)
Spec Jokes
May 2021: Third Time Wasn't the Charm
21st Century Problems
And Mr. The Opposite of Mean Person (an essay about Robin Williams).
More Mean People. And Some Not So Mean People. And Maybe Some People Who Were Just Shy?
The Great American Gun Show! (an essay about the proliferation of firearms in movies).
Third Time's the Charm
June 2021: Afraid I'm Naked
Q and A: The Theater
What Life Was Supposed to Be: A Gay Fantasia for Pride
Notes on Pride
I Think I Got It This Time
Time O' the Signs
My Sophomore Novel, 84 on the Floor: A Sneak Peek (the book is finished btw; just waiting for a publisher!).
July 2021: Career Paths Part 2
Career Paths, Vicissitudes, Makin' It or Not
Prospective and Perspective; Respectively
Talismans (an essay about John Travolta).
Covers to Covers
Men Are From Venus (worries about the environment).
August 2021: Was Charlie God? (an investigation into the metaphysics of Charlie's Angels).
Celebrity, Celebrity Endorsements
Why I Watch Soap Operas
Celebrity Products You Never Knew You Needed!
Showbiz Chat: The Brady's
TV Notes (a review of the Fantasy Island 2021 version).
Q & Q & Q & A's (a roundtable discussion re: creativity).
September 2021:
Toast of Both Coasts!
Spec Joke #2
Pangolin Pride! (worries about animals).
Let Them Eat Fish Sticks! (more worries about the environment and suggestions for change).
Those Glasses Are Killer! (some thoughts re: "murder shows").
Please Stand By...
What's Your Sign, Baby? (thoughts on fabularian Sagittarians).
October 2021:
Time Out
50 Shades of Fox News (a parody of the work of E.L. James).
Stealing Laughs (a look at comedy theft).
Why Would Anyone Marry a Royal?
Weird Things Found at Discount Stores
Cat-A-Blog (cat "Dad" newsletter).
Nicole Kidman Goes to the Movies: A Spoof
Anyone Can Make A Sitcom! Part 2
Anyone Can Make A Sitcom (a step-by-step creation of a situation comedy out of thin air and paper bags).
November 2021:
Anyone Can Make A Sitcom Part 3 (the script).
Vanity Cahds or A Reply To Chuck Lorre
The World's Oldest Profession & Moi
I Heart New York (but I don't think I'd wanna live there anymore...)
A Letter To Tom Hanks For My Mother
December 2021:
Yet Another Mean Person or Am I Above Pandering? or Myself, The Host and The Little Red Velvet Rope
The Synchronicity of Disco Nikes or Why Does This Person Keep Coming In and Out of My Life?
Anyone Can Make a Sitcom! Part 4 / The Final Script
Blue, Blue, My Mind Is Blue (an examination of the dirty mind).
50 Shades of Fox News / Part 2: Miss Laura the Victorian Spankstress
Is It Me...? (or is my stuff on TV already?).
Why I Wouldn't Make a Very Good Goodfella
January 2022
It's 2022
JAWS! The Musical?
7 Deadly Sins Card (#1 in a series)
Awards Season
My Dinner With Farrah
Does Everybody Love Aaron?
Dear Chloe Fineman
February 2022
What About Natalie and Emmaline?
Things to do When You're Bored (A sing-a-ling to Joni Mitchell's "Free Man in Paris").
A Memory for Black History Month
American Beeotch Company
Singing Shark Flick Flounders in Development Hell
Dear Blackish (or why did you make your father figure felonious?).
Comedy Sketch #1: Lady Bubbles (a spoof of the old Calgon commercial).
Celebrity Love Pass
Hey Hey Hey, Tina Fey-yay-yay!
March 2022
Just What Is "The Male Gaze" Anyways?
Thoughts On The Slap Seen 'Round The World
Jaws!...The Musical!
Celebrity Slut Support (No judgement. Okay, maybe a little judgement. (Judgment?).
That Time I Wore A Onesie
FOX News Ad Campaign
File Under Orwell
The One That Got Away (Thoughts On Adrienne Shelly)
Breakfast Burrito At The Tiffany Network
April 2022
A Second Missive to Chuck Lorre
Pretty Please
An Actor's Diary: Pt. 1
An Actor's Diary Pt. 2
Cat-A-Blog #2
Things To Do When You're Bored #2
May 2022
Revisiting Good Will Hunting (Although it Was My First Visit)
Comedy Sketch #3: Spinning Salad
Red Hot Reidys #1
Even More Technical Difficulties
Red Hot Reidys #2
Bro Woes
Red Hot Reidys #3
Ranking Reidys
An Actor's Diary: Pt. 3
I Just Got A New Roommate!
The Great "83 in the Shade" Giveaway!
June 2022
Grand Funk Railroad
Cat-A-Blog #3
Why Don't...? (an homage to Diana Vreeland)
Synchronicities (Or It's All Connected, Isn't It?)
Dr. Seinfeld: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Com
We Need to Talk About Woody...Again
Just Callin' 'Em Like I Sees 'Em
July 2022
An Actor's Diary: Part 4
#&!$ the F-Word
More Shit to Worry About 2022
Make Me An Offer Only Offer!
Art Therapy
Comedy Sketch #4: Whatever Happened to the Scotch Tape Store...?
August 2022
Please Stand By
Sung Genius (thoughts on Olivia Newton-John)
Gobstopper?
Things You Can't Unsee (like yours truly, twerking)
Practiquemos Nuestro Espanol
Podcasting! Yeah, I Don't Get It...
Road House Re-Make Blues (or, if you prefer, Road House Re-Write)
If You See Something, Say Something!
The Eyebrows Have It!
September 2022
3 Degrees of Reidy-ation
Jaws In 4-D
An Actor's Diary Pt. 4 (Oh, Wait, or Is This One #5? I Feel Like I've Been Doing This G-D Play Since My Voice Changed...)
Pop Culture Analysis: All's Not Well That Ends All Too Well (Or A Little Ditty 'Bout Jake and Ms. Swift)(?)
A Little Ditty 'Bout Jake and Taylor: Part 2
Let's End It All (Too Well): Jake and Tay-Tay Pt. 3
Move Over Harvard (Wink, Wink!)
October 2022
Dear Chloe Fineman Pt. 2
Meet Maggie Slater or (Taylor Who?) A video
What, Me Worry? Well, Actually, Yeah. I Have OCD
It's Official! I'm Butch!
Butch Too: Fantasy Football Fantasies
An Actor's Diary: The Final Chapter
Football: Share the Fantasy
Disney Sit-Com-A-Nomics
Daddy...Are You A Zaddy (an essay re: Christopher Meloni and his armpits).
November 2022
Photo Finished
Football: The Final Fantasy
Let's Write A Screenplay!
Seeing Star Crossed Stars in NYC or I Almost Walked Into Brooke Adams!!!
Uncaged Hearts: A Screenplay / Act 1
Baby Remember My Name (how to pronounce my highly mispronounceable surname)
Even More NYC Synchronicities
More Synchronicity (Number 7 Will SHOCK You!)
Maggie Slater; or My Niece the Rock Star
Miscellany of Self-Absorption?
Free? It Must Be Good! (Win a piece of original art...but wait, there's more!)
Have It Someone Else's Way: Fast Food Notations #2: Burger King
AHS NYC WTF? (AIDS as entertainment)
Gazing In My Navel In A Mirror
December 2022
The Best Effin' Rock Band Ever...
Happy Holidays From Macho Chris (video Holiday wishes)
Pop Culture Analysis: Am I Wrong or Is This Really Weird (and Kind of Unfair)?
Daddy Chris Will See You Soon...
A Man Named Taurus
January 2023
Hey, It's Not 2022 Anymore
Uncaged Hearts: A Screenplay / Act II
Heartfight: A Screenplay: Act II (New and Improved!)
I'd Like My Money Back Please
Things to Do When You're Bored Part 3 (Takes 1 and 2)
Pandora Spocks(es) (Includes a Seinfeld spec script: "The Peekers")
Sorry Boys, I Want My Money Back Again (Includes reviews of "The Banshees of Inisherin" and "The Whale"
February 2023
Saving Face
Human Generated Seinfeld Script
Heartfight: A Screenplay: Act 2 / Part 2
Filmed Comedy Sketch #?: Fun Times At the McDormand Diner
March 2023
International Women's Day 2023
Okay Uncle Walt...This Is WAR!
Heartfight: A Screenplay: Act 2/Part3
St. Louis Synchronicities
Can I Get Those Two Hours and Thirty-Eight Minutes Back? (An analysis of the movie: TAR)
Looking For Mr. Good Will 2
April 2023
Heartfight: a Screenplay Part 6
Creepy Pasta Calling
Heartfight: a Screenplay Part 5
...ceaselessly into the past
Looking for Mr. Goodwill Part 4
Heartfight: a Screenplay: Part 4
Hope Springs
More Looking for Mr. Goodwill or Should we Really Write a Fanfiction Screenplay? Probably Not; But It's Really fun, so I'm Gonna.
May 2023
Heartfight: a Screenplay: Part 10
Heartfight: a Screenplay: Part 9
Heartfight: a Screenplay: Part 8
Heartfight: a Screenplay: Part 7
...What a Feeling!
June 2023
Heartfight: a Screenplay: Part 13
Heartfight: a Screenplay: Part 12
Heartfight: a Screenplay: Part 11
July 2023
The Three Dragonflies
Seinfeld Script, Wanna Read Mine?
News & Notes (7/21/23)
Steeeeeeeeeriiiiike Two! (Thoughts on the WGA strike)
Heartfight: A Screenplay / Pt. 14
Playing Gay: Gay for Pay: Gay Today; Gone Tomorrow (Wonderings about who would/could/should play gay characters; and wondering why we have to wonder)
August 2023
Baring My Sole (Some thoughts about feet; famous and otherwise)
Some Questions for Myself, From Myself
Heartfight: A Screenplay: The Complete Script
It's Hip to Be Hollywood Square: or, If You See Something Else, Say Something Else (And even more IP complaints)
September 2023
Teen Alert! (One of many "conversations" with the Tina Fey Army that bivouacs in my brain (don't ask)
Return to the Valley of the Dolls! (My thoughts on a "reboot" of the '67 movie)
Sitcom #2: "Pages" (Working Title)
Heartfight: A Screenplay / Part 15
Let's...Write...Another...Sitcom...Pilot!!!
Barbie: The Other Side of Ken (A short, erotic film starring Barbie. A.K.A. "Of Human Blondage")
October 2023
Comedy Sketch #5: Watch What Happens Live with the 90 Day Naked and Afraid Real Housewives
PAGES: The Sitcom Pilot / Part 3
Beyond Synchronicity!
PAGES: The Sitcom (Pilot) / Part 2
IYSSSS (If You See Something, Say Something)
How Long Must I Pay These Dues? (Video/Song by Ronee Blakley)
November 2023
Note: Apparently, I didn't write any blogs that month???
December 2023
Happy Boxing Day (Belated) (Video)
The Hallmark Christmas Movie for the Restivus!
If I Were You...(an advice column, of sorts)
January 2024
Hallmark X-Mas Movie: Pt. 3
2024 Oscar Noms (or is that 2023? I'm always confused by this)...
A Hallmark Movie for the Restivus! Part 2
If I Were You...(2nd in a series)
February 2024
An Open Letter to Nicole Kidman and AMC Theaters: Part 2
My Date With Tippi (a link to an article on Medium, re: meeting Tippi Hedren)
Wait, what? Or: Synchronicity in Reverse; or, If You Will: Synchropocrisy?
A Conversation with Two Tinas / Part 2
Somehow, High Blood Pressure Feels Good In a Place Like This...
True Love (TM/Reg./Pat.Pend./All Rights Reserved)
A Theoretical Conversation With Teena and Tina in a Parallel Galaxy or a Super-Universe; or: I Told Two Galaxies About Two Universes and They Told Two Universes and they Didn't Tell Two "Multiverses" Because Multiverse is so Disney
A Hallmark X-Mas Movie: Pt. 4
Another Art Give-A-Way?
March 2024
A Hallmark X-Mas Movie Pt. 6 (Cumming Home for Christmas)
Jean G. and Me
March 26th, 2024: News and Notes
Hallmark X-Mas Movie Part 5
A Second Epistle from St. Christopher to St. Charles (Or Why Did This Get So Religiousy?)
An Epistle From St. Christopher to Chuck of Lorre
Gentle Reminders (IP bitching)
More Songs That Remind Me of Women / Part 2
Songs That Remind Me of Women
This Is No Longer Entertaining (more IP bitching)
Stars In the Hourglass
Freelance Comedy Sketch: Barbra Knows Best
April 2024
Looking For Mr. Goodwill Pt. 5; or Yeah, I Know I Said I Wasn't Going to Write Any More of This Until I Received $250,000.00 Dollars; But This Scene Keeps Coming Into My Head and I Must Obey Calliope
An Open Letter To Robert Zemeckis, et. al. / Part 3
More Meloni! Now With More Melon!
An Open Letter to Bob Z., Tom, Robin and Santa: Part 2
An Open Letter to Robert Zemeckis and Santa Claus
An Actor's Diary: April 2024 (The Light Triad)
Hallmark X-Mas Movie Part 7: Cumming Home For Christmas
Pre-Taped (Filmed) Comedy Sketch / Alt. (R. Gosling "Ken" Tie-In)
Untitled Filmed Comedy Sketch (Ryan Gosling)
Freelance Comedy Sketch: Skewlboyz II Men
Freelnce Comedy Sketch: Pom-Pom Moms
May 2024
nO, Canada! (A spoof, as who would ever have imagined we could piss off Canada?)
The Good Will Hunting "Sequel" Script (Incomplete / Industry Standard Format)
GHOSTS IN THE MACHINES
Now You Can Ask Nicole Kidman About AMC and Excedrin P.M.!
Don't Ask Me Why I Remember This or Some Really Dumb Commercials From Back In the Day
Where I Was and What I Was Driving
Hasta Luego Matteo: The Matt Damon Musings / Part 6
Matt-A-Blog Part 5: Zaddy Pinskimbo ("Pinskimbo" a word I invented as a fun synonym for "man-spread")
Mattie/Zaddy? Part 4
Mattie, Are You a Zaddy? Part 3
Mattie, Are You a Zaddy? Part 2
Mattie...Are You a...Zattie? (First entry in a series of blogs about gazing at Matt Damon's...oranges...no, apples, of course!)
June 2024
Heaven Knows What Happens Now: Brats as Us: Part 5
Andrew M., The Brat Pack and Me, et.al. / Part 4
Brat Pack Part 3: The John Hughes Effect
The Molly Mob: A Response To Mr. McCarthy Part 2
Molly Ring Leader: or; A Response To Mr. McCarthy's "Brats" (First of five blogs examining the Pop culture moment of "The Brat Pack")
Dream Starter Kit
People Who Need Sexy PEOPLE (a plea to People Magazine for more "sexiness." Or any sexiness)
The First Annual Phoney Awards
Oh, Mr. Damon...One More Thing...
Travelling Fellows
July 2024
Cumming Home for Christmas - Part 9: A Hallmark Movie for All of Us
Sexy Persons Doing Mean Stuff (Includes an advice entry from C.P.Whiffington: The Fine Art of the Nip-Slip)
Retro-Review: St. Elmo's Fire
Prom-O-Rama or Plug-A-Palooza!
Chrisbooksalon: A Forum For Literary Discourse (re: Jean Genet and Mishima)
A Hallmark Movie for the Restivus: Cumming Home for Christmas / Part 8
August 2024
(In the blogs for this month and September, I was writing about It Ends With Us, GQ Magazine, "Gaysploitation" and Deadpool and Wolverine. There was a lot of cross-pollination between the blogs. I apologize for any confusion).
Batching It! Part 2 / GQ / Canoe, Canoe?
Batching It
IEWU Part 3: What Would Hugh Do?
It Trends With Us Part 2: It Ends With Hugh
It Trends With Us (a look at the PR sitch around the movie: It Ends With Us)
Prada Saugus Part 2
Meanwhile...Back In Saugus
September 2024
Mind Your G's and Q's: The Bocce Affect
A Public Memo to Molly or Murphy's Flaw
Back In Saugus Again of Down, Down, Down; would the fall never come to an end!
IYSSSS (If you see something, say something) Pt. ? or...I Am My Own IP, Am I Not? Or: Brave New Tina, Same Old World?
The GQ Affect: Botching the Bocce Batch
Batching It! Part 4 / Wrap Up
St. Elmo's Fire / Retro-Review - Part 2
Batching It - Part 3 / Brooney Vs. Ryjack / ...and can we talk about GQ?
October 2024
St. Elmo's Fire 2: Still Burning After All These Years
Again With the St. Elmo's...Sequel Ideas Edition
...He's Supposed to Say...Part 2
...He's Supposed to Say...(a look at Brian Jordan Alvarez, English Teacher and mor IP bitching)
The Short and Long of It; or: More Synchronicity; and/or more misc. (One degree of Martin Short)
Policia de Ensueno (what ended up being a blog on how I would zhoozh Doctor Odyssey (even though nobody asked me to)
The Real Housewives of Tucumcari or SNL, May I Be So Bold...? (a sketch about a sketch)
Comedy Sketch #5; Watch What Happens Live With the 90 Day - Naked and Afraid Real Housewives
Cumming Home for X-Mas Part X: A Hallmark Christmas Joint
November 2024
People Who Need Sexier People
Thanks Other Tom (An homage to Tom Villard)
Sat In Our Laps / Part 3: Trivialities
On Thrid Thought
This Just In...Part 2: The Gronkowski Equation
This Just In... (A conversation with Jean Seberg and Edie Sedgwick about the importance of mental health. 1st of 3)
Sat In Your Lap / Part 2
SAT IN MY LAP or; Is My Smartphone the Universe? or; How About A Game of Trivial Pursuit (an imaginary talk-show with very special guest, Barbra Streisand (1 of 3)
The Biggest Mix-Up, You Have Ever Seen! Or, well, maybe not...but this is some interesting Synchronicity! (How Big Brother has confused me with a different Christopher Reidy)
Cumming Home for Christmas: A Hallmark...hold it...reverse...An American Greetings Joint (Formerly a Hallmark Joint): Part 2
...Live From Maricopa County...it's...
Oh, St. Elmo...one more thing...
Good Niece Finding (Video)
December 2024
Pink ReThink Part 5: Happily Ever Over
Pink ReThink Pt. 4
Pink ReThink Pt. 3
That's What He Said / He Said, She Said
That's What He Said
...He's Supposed to Say...
Pink ReThink / Part 2
ReThink: Pretty In Pink (The first of numerous blogs concerning a "polyamorously" reimagined reboot of John Hughes' Pretty In Pink)
Blowing Smoke (a response to Late Night with Seth Meyer's depictions of cigarette smoking)
Prevailing Visibility / Part 3
Prevailing Visibility / Part 2
Prevailing Visibility (a 3 part IP bitch-a-thon with Shelley Duvall and friends)
The Other Tom: Part 3
The Other Tom: Part 2 (more re: the late Tom Villard)
January 2025
Sueplicity! (TM/Reg./All Rights Reserved/Pat.Pend) ( IP complaints)
Pretty In Pink ReThink / Part 12...No, wait! Make that a Taylor Swift "13," For Good Luck!
Oh, That Talk of Opportunities (That time I met Andrew McCarthy (in the future)
Pretty In Pink ReThink / Part 11
Pretty In Pink ReThink / Part 10
Notes Etc. January, 2025
Heartfight Is Go!
Prayers to the Saints for the City of Angels
Pretty In Pink ReThink / Part 9: Molly, You're On!
Pretty In Pink ReThink / Part 8
It's 2025: Mock Power!
Pink ReThink / Part 7
Pretty In Pink / ReThink / Part 6
February 2025
Ad-Ed Value
Some Thoughts For BHM, 2025
Breaking Ad: A Roundtable Discussion of an Ad Campaign with Mr. Don Draper and Mr. Darrin Stephens
Amy, What You Gonna Do (For Me)? (a discussion of stereotyping with Special Guest Star: Amy Poehler)
Banshiite of Diminshiren (another look at an ad campaign)
Pretty In Pink ReThink / Part 15: First Draft Script (Industry Standard)
Motion Pictureverie (a look at the Oscar noms for 2024)
The Pits (being an examination of the mostly male underarm)
Bloody Fuhhhh-naaayyy! (In Praise of the delightful Mr. Matt Berry)
Pretty In Pink ReThink / Part 14 (...then we'll go our separate ways...)
March 2025
Some Movies for Women's History Month: March 2025
Tough Love In New Canaan / Part 3
Tough Love In New Conan--err--Canaan / Part 2
Tough Love In New Canaan (first of three blogs concerning IP, Sex Workers, and Uncle Oscar(TM/ Reg./Pat.Pend)
Ad-Ed Value 2: Eccentric Bugaboo (even I'm not sure what this title means)
April 2025
Doublin' Down on the Troublin' Down On the Rocky Road to Dublin or: An Examination of Sinners Part 3
Troublin' Part 2: Queries, Theories and Quelle Suprisezys!
The Rocky Road To Troublin' Or: Queries for Mr. Coogler (1st of 3 blogs posing some questions about the film: Sinners)
Notes of Springtime - 2025: I Don't Want That On Me...(mostly my two cents on how to fix some of Warner Bros. probs)
The Statsue of Liberty of Liberty / Part 2: Y Ahora, Anora!
The Statsue of Liberty (a dialogue about legal affairs in LaLaWood, with Special Guest Star, Miss Sondra Locke)
Got Milky? (did wanting strange toys make me a weird kid? And what about wanting them now?)
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