For this week’s episode, we’re diving into the Sewers of Paris archive to revisit a chat with the wonderful Carlos Maza. You may know Carlos from the brilliant videos he’s produced, analyzing news and media. Or you might know him from the big queer fuss he caused last year when he shone a spotlight on the rampant harassment and discriminat...
2020-02-20 23:40:03 +0000 UTC View PostWe're back with another Cozy Pants podcast! This week we're diving into the sexy lore of Disney's Slue-Foot Sue (but not too deep, because we don't want to die in the vacuum of space). We play a little what's-her-name with someone named Vonda, which honestly sounds like a name I'd make up. The topic of mermaids comes up, as it often does; as wel...
2020-02-17 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week is Lee Gambin, who always knew he had a place in the world of cinema. An obsessive collector of VHS tapes as a kid, he grew up to host raucous film screenings and to write extensively about his great love — classic film and particularly horror. Despite his favorite films being full of frights, he’s never found them scary. ...
2020-02-13 23:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostHugh Ryan is a writer, researcher, speaker, and also the subject of a recent episode of The Sewers of Paris. You might remember a few weeks ago when my guest Michael mentioned Hugh’s book, When Brooklyn was Queer, and Hugh was kind enough to sit down for a chat about his own favorite books — pulpy sci-fi novels, which filled his middle schoo...
2020-02-06 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWell, I've completely misunderstood the difference between a beloved Agatha Christie mystery, a board game from the 80s, and a slapstick comedy starring Nathan Lane. But who can blame me? This week on Cozy Pants, we talk a bit about Mars Attacks -- not the movie, but the collectible card phenomenon. We develop a new card game based on werewolf f...
2020-01-28 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week is Scott Shoemaker — you heard his partner Freddie on the show last month. Like Freddie, Scott’s great passion is live weird theater, such as his ongoing series where he plays a boozy pill-popping version of Ms Pac Man, or his annual Christmas show where he finds new ways every year to ruin and then hastily repair the holi...
2020-01-23 23:33:51 +0000 UTC View PostHello hello, we're living our fantasy on this week's Cozy Pants with a tiptoe through the classic fantasy film Willow. Surprise, it has a lot of problems! (And also a few very very good things, all of them women.) I also engage in an excruciating round of What's-Her-Name, and reflect on what little Disney's Robin Hood has in common with actual N...
2020-01-21 14:01:08 +0000 UTC View PostYou might’ve seen that the show Jeopardy just invited three of its greatest winners of all time to participate in a championship showdown this week. And I thought it would be a good time to dig back into the Sewers of Paris archives for a chat with the contestant I consider the greatest Jeopardy player of all time, Louis Virtel, revisiting 2020-01-16 22:46:03 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's Cozy Pants podcast, we're tossing coins at The Witcher -- which we agree is better than Game of Thrones, at least at the end! It manages to make a fantasy world that feels surprising and new, and also rewards regular viewing in a way that Game of Thrones... well, kind of punished the fans for. Cats are also on our minds, and Goop'...
2020-01-14 01:06:55 +0000 UTC View PostWhat kind of gay are you, and how many different kinds have you been? My guest this week is Michael, a San Francisco library-gay who’s also been a ballet gay, a nightclub gay, a rowing gay, and various other flavors with probably many more to come. Michael grew up around queer p...
2020-01-10 03:57:48 +0000 UTC View PostHello friends!
Well well well, looks like 2020 is actually happening. TBQH I wasn't sure we were actually going to go ahead with this whole "new year" thing, but it looks like we're committed to it so let's see what happens!
Here's what you can look forward to getting from me this month:
On this week's Cozy Pants podcast, we've got the HOT GOSSIP about Kathleen Turner in The Graduate. James indulges in some filthy speculation about holes, and we have a little classy literary talk about the book A Confederacy of Dunces, which we love despite it having QUITE a few problems. (But oh boy, does it ever manage to nail the gay lifestyl...
2020-01-06 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week has had a lot of families — some good, some bad. Shawntae Arnette dreamed of being a performer all their life, after seeing a documentary about the famous dancer Josephine Baker. But there were roadblocks to that dream, from unsupportive biological family, to a period of homelessness, to a chosen family that turned toxic. Dr...
2020-01-03 00:36:37 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's Cozy Pants podcast, we're spending some time with Marvel. James and I are catching up on some of the superhero movies we missed in theaters, and now a lot of the flying around and pew-pew makes a lot more sense. We're speculating about what we might do for New Year's Eve (kissing!) and also trying desperately remember to the name ...
2019-12-30 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHi friends!
Holy geez, what a year. And what an honor and a joy to be wrapping up 2019 with you! Thanks to your support here on Patreon, I've been able to produce dozens of episodes of The Sewers of Paris, nine new Culture Cruise videos, and tons of livestreams and Weekly Debriefs. I've sent out lots of books and stickers ...
2019-12-28 20:54:34 +0000 UTC View PostDo clothes cover you up, or reveal who you really are? My guest this week is Jordan Christianson, a Seattle artist and designer who creates incredible one-off costumes for many of your favorite Drag Race stars. He’s also a big nerd, whose work is influenced by the futuristic fashions of Star Trek and Dune, as well as giant anime robots and eye...
2019-12-27 00:46:35 +0000 UTC View PostCats. That is basically all that we discuss on this week's episode of Cozy Pants. We have seen the film, and our review is: I am apparently now a Cats gay. Yes yes yes, you've seen all the news about the weird CGI and the patch sent to theaters, but we are here to tell you that this was the single greatest moviegoing experience we have ever had....
2019-12-23 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week had to figure out a lot on his own. After dropping out of high school and moving across the country at the age of 15, Gus Lanza had no idea how to finish school, how to find a career, or what he was meant to do in life. Figuring that stuff out involved a lot of listening to himself — and also finding others who could help hi...
2019-12-19 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's Cozy Pants podcast, we're girding our loins for the new Star War while also casting our minds back to the absolutely BONKERS details of the prequels -- and also appreciating the very fine work of the Emperor. I've got a bit of a sniffle and my remedy is, for some reason, greasy tea. We review the sexiest of the Donkey Kong charact...
2019-12-17 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
My guest this week has a single-minded determination when it comes to entertaining, parties, and filling everyone’s lives with joy. Freddy Molitch is a Seattle playwright and DJ who also goes by the name DJ King of Pants, and he’s on a mission to bring happiness to audiences through theater and music and very weird nightlife. He...
2019-12-13 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostOn this week's Cozy Pants podcast, James shares his HOTTEST TAKE YET on the nearly 20-year-old Star Wars prequels, and we delight in the most recent wonderful guest stars of The Mandalorian. There's more timely commentary on Henny Youngman and Georgia O'Keefe, and Skeletor flirts with Beastman. We invent a new cartoon villain named Herlock Flumm...
2019-12-10 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week is Gregory Maguire, author of the novel Wicked among many other works. Though I’m sure you’re familiar with his book and the Broadway musical adaptation, you may not known the extent to which Gregory’s childhood was infused with elements of fairytale — from the fantasy novels he devoured, to the family tragedy that led...
2019-12-05 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello friends!
Well here we are in holiday season, a.k.a. the most RELAXING and STRESS-FREE time of the year. I hope you're able to find some comfort and joy however you celebrate -- personally, I like to mark December by huddling under as many blankets as I can possibly acquire and watching the 2019-12-03 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello hello hello! On this week's Cozy Pants podcast we reminisce about Thanksgiving turkeys, and the overabundance thereof. We've been watching more Mandalorian and have more ~opinions~ plus some thoughts on the toys and movies of the 80s as brought to us by Netflix. We speculate about a modern-day retelling of Home Alone starring Joan Cusack c...
2019-12-02 22:21:45 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week is artist, animator, and globe-traveling adventurer Jackie Wu. He grew up in Hong Kong, playing video games with family and idolizing figures like Lara Croft in Tomb Raider. As he grew older, he knew he needed to venture out into the world an...
2019-11-28 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week is Conor Olmstead, a photographer and video producer, and also my co-adventurer in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign. In addition to being an accomplished nerd, Conor is also deeply imaginative, and has a gift not just for noticing beauty in the world around him, but also capturing it through a camera’s lens.
We’ll h...
2019-11-21 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis week on the Cozy Pants, we're speculating about the royal family's fursonas, why one must never pass the jelly, and what could have possessed Eddie Furlong to release a christmas song. We also discuss the Disney+ experience and our delight that the Mandalorian is actually good, as well as Kathleen Turner's oddly wide stance. All that plus s...
2019-11-18 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMy guest this week is my friend Cody Shipman, a graphic designer and artist here in Seattle whose work illustrates better than any I’ve ever seen why the Pacific Northwest feels like cozy home. Cody’s most famous piece depicts a bear and a lumberjack sitting down for tea togeth...
2019-11-14 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWe're doing the French Mistake on the Cozy Pants podcast this week, with James' attention still fixed solidly on Les Miserables, and mine on the tattered shreds of my high school French classes. We discuss the new extremely weird Death Stranding game, and also Outer Worlds, in which I play a taciturn Spockish character. I share a memory of the w...
2019-11-12 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello friends!
Okay, BRRRRR, how is it this cold already? We're solidly into indoor-weather these days, which means a lot more time for me to hunker down and write, record, and edit stuff for you -- and also to send you backer-rewards! I'm attaching a pic of me at the post office sending out the latest round of care ...
2019-11-09 19:23:43 +0000 UTC View Post