Colette Arrand

Far Beyond the Stars 001: The Cage (TOS S0E1)

Colette Arrand — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 11:02:17 +0000

Star Trek, and other series like it, have come to function like life itself, continuing onward despite the passing of the people who make and consume it.

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The Women’s Royal Rumble and the History it Rewrote

Colette Arrand — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:35:21 +0000

I don’t watch WWE much these days. Outside of last night’s Royal Rumble and the majority of Saturday’s NXT Takeover, the last WWE telecast I saw from start to finish was the 2016 Money in the Bank pay-per-view. Call it disinterest or protest (it’s a little of both), but regardless it is impossible to like …

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Mr. Wonderfuls: On Wrestling’s Gay Characters

Colette Arrand — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 23:19:19 +0000

Note: This essay was originally written in 2015, and published in The Atomic Elbow #22 in June 2017. References to “this year” are to 2015. For more information on The Atomic Elbow, which is the best wrestling zine in the United States, check out its website. It’s March 21, 2015. Ring of Honor Television Champion …

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Shoot Fight: Hulk Hogan vs. Roddy Piper (10/26/1997)

Colette Arrand — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 14:05:00 +0000

This is a column about kayfabe. By this, I mean that I’m writing about magic, a very specific, working class, queer, dirty magic that has worked its way into the roots of my being since my first exposure to it. A kind of magic that feels like a curse sometimes, especially when it tries to …

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ADHD/MTV: Destiny’s Child — Say My Name (2000)

Colette Arrand — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 08:18:30 +0000

I can't say that I see a third act where I come out of this dancing triumphantly, as if what happens in one space doesn't matter in another. Really, I’m envious that Destiny’s Child could.

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Four Things NJPW Can Do to Get Americans to Give Them Money

Colette Arrand — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 19:10:14 +0000

July and August, if you follow New Japan Pro Wrestling, is the most wonderful time of the year, the G1 Climax. This year’s edition, the 27th, is a little past the halfway point and has produced a list of match of the year contending bouts that would take another promotion months to build. It’s also …

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15 Books By, Featuring, & About Transgender People You Can Read Right Now

Colette Arrand — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 20:00:34 +0000

I hate lists. I cringed just typing the title above, as it feels reductive and clickbaity in all the ways I detest about this particular genre of web content, web content also being a thing I don’t have much use for. But, as someone who often posits that it is possible, indeed necessary, for people outside …

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Met Me For Lunch: Kelsey Grammer

Colette Arrand — Mon, 23 May 2016 16:00:40 +0000

Met Me For Lunch is a series of erasures using the first two paragraphs John Heilpern’s celebrity profiles from Vanity Fair.

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Movie Review: Star Wars Episode I — The Phantom Menace (1999)

Colette Arrand — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 17:00:34 +0000

Star Wars Episode I — The Phantom Menace came out when I was 11 years old, and I’m not going to lie to you: I liked it, so much so that my memory for it to this day is nearly word perfect. It’s an odd thing, remembering what I was like at 11, when the …

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2015 Complete Works

Colette Arrand — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 22:38:08 +0000

Fear of a Ghost Planet is taking a nap until January 1 so that I can work on making 2016 the most successful year of this ongoing project yet. 2015 was a large, complicated year. I adopted a cat. I came out as transgender. I frequently did not have the time or emotional capacity to …

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