North of North: Inuit lady, her gay bestie, some paranormal, some Inuk culture, and a lot of Inuk hunks. With Jay's junk and a bonus n*de dude

North of North (2025) appeared without warning on my Netflix list: a woman feels stifled in her tiny village in the Artic.  I can relate to that, so let's go.

Scene 1: While showering (only shoulders visible), a young woman  named Siaja explains that she's from as far north as you've ever been.  I think that's Calgary in the Western Hemisphere, and maybe Oslo in Europe.  Then much farther north than that: Ice Cove, Nunavut.  

A quirky Canadian small town and Inuit culture?  I'm there. 

Siaja has achieved the Canadian Dream, with a husband and child.  Only now husband Ting (Kelly William, top photo) is the Golden Boy of the town, and she's only known as his wife.

First up: he gets to drive the car to the Spring Festival, while she has to haul the supplies on a lame Ski-Doo (snowmobile).

Scene 2: She drops in at Mom's very nice house -- lots of windows -- and announces that because it's a new year, she's going to apply for a job.  Mom dispproves: you're a wife and mother.

Mom opens the store next door, which sells artisanal soap and miscellaneous stuff.  Suddenly her hookup from last night walks in, shirtless.  Siaja asks where he was in 1998 -- he could be her father!  He scrams.  

Mom criticizes her for scaring all of her hookups away.  How many hookups could she get in a town of about 2,000 with no tourist trade and the nearest neighbor 300 miles away?

Left: I think the Handsome Man is played by Jeff Roup. who shows his d*ck or a prosthetic here. 

Scene 3: Siaja leaves her child for Mom to babysit and heads for the town headquarters, which has a restaurant, some offices, and the radio station: DJ announces the seal hunt this afternoon and the naming of the festival king and queen this evening.

A blond woman named Helen, apparently the town mayor, comes in complaining about the 14-hour days that supervising the festival takes, while other town business just sits there.  Siaja butters her up with coffee and suggests other cultural activities spread through the year.  Didn't you just hear her?  And she wants to be hired as a full-time cultural manager. 

"Nope.  You have zero work experience and no leadership skills."

"But I see life and beauty in everything!"  At that moment, a guy walks in, wanting to know where to put the fish heads.

Scene 4: While Radio Announcer Colin (Bailey Poching) and a purple-haired woman are discussing how much partying to do tonight, Siaja comes into their office and screams.  Helen didn't even look at her job proposal.

Left: Bailey Poching is gay in real life.

"Why do you want a job anyway?"

"To make our community a better place...ok, I want something of my own."  

"But Inuit culture is all about community.  Your own needs are irrelevant."

When Helen comes in to order the others to get back to work, Siaja asks for a chance.  Couldn't you get a job, like, somewhere else?   Ok, a petition to prove that the town wants a cultural director.  500 signatures -- but that's a quarter of the town! -- by tonight!

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Kelton's Hot/Hung Photos, Part 2: James Dean, Orson Welles, Bamm-Bamm Rubble, and a nude Pontius

Previous:  Kelton's Hot/Hung Photos, Part 1: chanting, wrestling, growing a beard, going blond. With some grown-up dick

This is a collection of cute/cool or hot/humorous photos of actor Kelton Dumont, best known as Pontius in The Righteous Gemstones.  As far as I know, he's over 18 in all but #2.  There are also some photos of his dad James and a few friends. 

1. "Punching or licking.  Your choice."

Am I licking, or are you?

2. Boating at dusk. I like the cityscape in the background.

3. Kelton playing Orson Welles in a Halloween broadcast. Why do you need to be in costume for a radio play?

4. Pontius is interrupted in media res

4. Back to War of the Worlds. Burgers with the cast.

5. A random photo with no connection to anyone in War of the Worlds, especially not the drama major on the left.

 6. James in Red

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Bridger Buckley: Titan, pizza guy, kidnapped footballer, with a practically perfect physique and a donkey d...or is it a camel?

 

I've been watching The Neighborhood (2018-2025) about two nuclear families who are...um...neighbors, because someone on Reddit said that the femme, long-haired Grover (Hank Greenspan) was gay.  So far he hasn't expressed any interest in men or women, or really interacted with anyone outside the two families.

He doesn't appear in Episode 4.10, "Welcome to Jury Duty," (2022), but in the B-plot, Malcolm and Mary rent out their house for a movie, without realizing that it's going to be a porno.  They watch as the Hot Pizza Guy comes to the door -- and are shocked when he starts stripping off-camera.

Hot Pizza Guy is Bridger Buckley -- great name, attractive face, beautiful physique (pectoral perfection except for a dumb tattoo).  He's got one movie and two tv appearances listed on the IMDB, and I'm going to try to watch all of them.

An article in the Washington State Pullman student magazine provides some biographical details: Bridger Buckley grew up in Snohomish, Washington, a suburb of Seattle.  He was an "angry fat kid" who changed his diet, bulked up, and went out for football. -- Snohomish Panthers, class of 2014.  

He went to Washington State Pullman on a football scholarship, but was hit by a car during his sophomore year, resulting in a concussion and two fractured vertebrae.  It took a long time to recover, but eventually he returned to WSU and the football team.  Another injury, this time a badly sprained ankle, put an end to his football career, but not to his fitness goals.

By 2018, he was ranked #44 in West Coast Men in the Crossfit Games.

In 2019, he competed in The Titan Games, a sports reality show hosted by Dwayne Johnson: Fitness trainers, paramedics, accountants, soccer coaches, and other amateurs with amazing physiques faced Greek mythology-type challenges. 

Bridger won the Hammering Ram and Mount Olympus, permitting him to go on to the Battle of the Titans and win Herculean Pull,  In the season finale, The Titan Championship, he lost the Uprising (pulling an anvil through a series of concrete barriers).

 James-Jean Louis, a truck driver from Miami Beach, was named top male Titan.

After graduating from WSU Pullman in 2019, Bridger pursued a career as a fitness trainer and model.  He won #3 in the Male Commercial Actor of the Year Awards at the IMTA (International Modeling and Talent Association).

And he began auditioning:

1. The Neighborhood (2022)

2. NCIS, Episode 13.10 (2022), "Where Loyalties Lie": A scientist working with the marines is murdered, and her advanced technology stolen, so the NCIS team has to "race against the clock" to catch the baddie.   Bridger has a walk-on.

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Peacemaker, Episode 3.7: In a fascist parallel Earth, Judomaster comes out, and Vigilante finds his soul mate. With bonus Vietnamese d*cks.

 

Nhut Le has returned as the Supervillain Judomaster in Season 2 of Peacemaker, the DC Comics series about inept superheroes.  He's gay in real life, so I'm reviewing Episode 2.7, "Like a Keith in the Night," to see if there's any evidence that his character is gay.

Title: A parody of "Like a thief in the night," a reference to the Rapture.

Back Story: Washed-up superhero Peacemaker (John Cena) is mourning his dead brother, and the fact he had to kill his evil white-surpremacist supervillain father.  He stumbles through an interdimensional vortex in his father's old house into another universe, where Peacemaker is a hero, Dad is nice, and Brother Keith is still alive.  

After accidentally killing that world's Peacemaker, he decides to stay.  He even tracks down this world's counterpart of the lady who wants to be Just Friends, and guess what?  She's in love with this world's Peacemaker!  He's got it made!

But in Episode 2.6, his friends (and an enemy) come to retrieve him.  Just Friends finds him down at ARGUS Headquarters, where she discovers that this is a white-supremacist Nazi-dominated United States.  She wonders why he didn't get a clue from the swastika on American flags and Mein Kampf on every desk.  Answer: He's not very bright.

Scene 1: Peacemaker's buddy, the superhero Vigilante (Freddie Stroma), meets his Nazi world-counterpart (Kellen Boyle), and they bond over superhero gossip.  He mentions that he belongs to the Sons of Liberty, a resistance movement to the fascist state. 

"Wait -- the Nazis won World War II here?"

"So the Allies won in your world?  You must live in a utopia!"  Um...do you want to tell him, or should I?

Suddenly Vigilante remembers that one of the friends he came with is black.  They have to find her before she gets grabbed and sent to a concentration camp!

Cut to Leota being chased by an angry mob.  They chase her into a pool.  Judomaster rescues her, and electrocutes the mob (or you could just fly away with her.  Oh, right -- you're a villain).   

Cut to Peacemaker and Just Friends trying to escape.  They're surrounded, so he grabs her and flies her out -- ineptly. 

Scene 2:  Peacemaker's Dad (Robert Patrick) calls to tell Brother Keith (David Denman, left) to get home fast -- he's got Economos, a guy from a parallel world, tied up in the living room.

"I'm just a casual thief who got caught, and made up a story," he claims.  They don't believe him.  They also know that their Peacemaker is dead, replaced by the one from his world,  "a dark version of ours."  

Brother Keith ran into Just Friends earlier, and complains that she must be from that other world, too: "She was wearing...ugh..pants, and she never heard of Helloween!" 

"Ok, we have to round up and kill all of the intruders from the Dark World."

Scene 3: Judomaster takes Leota to a safe house -- one where the owners are out of town -- and explains that they are in a parallel world, with the portal in Peacemaker's father's house.    

"What's up with this place?" Leota asks  "I just went for a walk, and got chased by an angry mob."

"The Nazis won World War II.  You don't want to be a minority here...or Buddhist...or gay...or anything I am, really.  Also, Cheetohs end with an h here, and they aren't nearly as good."  Ok, he's gay, in a blink-and-you miss it throwaway line tucked in with a joke about Cheetos.

"So what do we do now?"

"Wait till nightfall, find your friends, and sneak into Peacemaker's father's house, and go through the portal to get home." 

While waiting, they play Scrabble (Scrobble in this world), and discuss Leota's problems with her girlfriend., and how much Judomaster hates Peacemaker, "jingoistic garbage person." 

"If you open your mind a little, you'll find out that he's really a sweet guy."

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