Callum McLean

Writer @ Podcaster @2heartspod My boltcutters? Fetched. He/him/his. Find me at @practicallycal.bsky.social

[Callum McLean @practically_cal]

3 years 6 months since, but I finally got around to getting this little beauty published. Thank you @australianplays, @StateTheatreSA, friends, family- everyone, basically. Always love ❤️ x https://t.co/9hAdeur1Kj #australianplays #plays #queer

Photo: Elina Sazonova

[Shane @McClellandShane]

“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

This is a world breaking moment.

If everything feels a bit extra fucked--its because the people of earth are expected to swallow this and move on.

[Dr Sheep Person Podge @noplaceforsheep]

I strongly object to antisemitism being singled out as an exceptionally severe form of racism in Australia.

This year we’ve had the highest number of Indigenous deaths in custody ever, despite a RC.

Racist attacks on Muslim women have increased 200% since Bondi.

[Cameron is CONFESSING 🪩 @madonnasoldmore]

WHAT inside St. Peter’s Basilica??

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

[Callum McLean @practically_cal]

“I saw Greta Gerwig the other day. I was like, thanks.”

[Erik Davis @ErikDavis]

Completely agree with everything @JamesGunn says here about “superhero fatigue”

- via @GQMagazine

[Callum McLean @practically_cal]

@josh_snares I want to see the Whomobile and SUV battle it out

[Katya @oceanbullock]

you are not born gay, you see julie andrews perform ‘le jazz hot’ and become gay.

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Captain Cook:

"All they seem'd to want was for us to be gone."

Botany Bay, 30 April 1770

[Callum McLean @practically_cal]

@starwarsteen678 I LOVE their dynamic in these scenes and I feel like I never see it talked about! Waterhouse is eating it up - the grin he flashes Baker is priceless

[Slayerfest 98: A Queer Podcast @slayerfestx98]

Me, delusional on NYE

[Callum McLean @practically_cal]

Terrific.

[Films to Films @filmstofilms_]

“THE HOURS” opened in theaters 22 years ago today.

[𖧧 @mothintoflames]

kafka ─ diary entry

[Callum McLean @practically_cal]

@josh_snares They played the trailer at the Sylvester McCoy event in Sydney today and when they said it was 90 minutes everyone BOOED. Wild scenes.

[Callum McLean @practically_cal]

@josh_snares Like a dog with a bone

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Uma Thurman and Phoebe Dynevor to star in romance movie ‘THE HOUSEKEEPER.’

It follows Danni (Thurman), housekeeper at Manderville Hall who begins an affair with young and beautiful visitor, the novelist Daphne Du Maurier (Dynevor).

[Callum McLean @practically_cal]

@OmgMoreJames Video games? Oh blergh no, hate them! I’m an alcoholic ginger beer gay now.