Jingle Bell Rob ☃️ 🎁 🎄❄️

Not My Fantasy pod screencap

Me in a 2 and 1/2 hour discussion about Wicked? Shocking, I know! I had the best time chatting with Cullen and Hannah about the film that my entire 2025 revolved around less than 48 hrs after I'd seen it for the first time. Check out my ep of Not My Fantasy here: open.spotify.com/episode/1AdR... 💚💖

Wicked: For Good (2025) (feat. Robert Berg)

Did Wicked change our copy editorial director and Oz superfan @robwillb.bsky.social For Good? Find out on his appearance on the fantastic Not My Fantasy podcast!

Not My Fantasy pod screencap

Me in a 2 and 1/2 hour discussion about Wicked? Shocking, I know! I had the best time chatting with Cullen and Hannah about the film that my entire 2025 revolved around less than 48 hrs after I'd seen it for the first time. Check out my ep of Not My Fantasy here: open.spotify.com/episode/1AdR... 💚💖

🥰

*yesterday that is!

AJ and me

Fantastic day hanging out with @sitdownaj.bsky.social, attending a screening of the SUPERB Broadway revival of Merrily We Roll Along, getting multiple meals, and ending up at our friend Matt's Christmas party. 🥰

YUP!

bsky.app/profile/robw...

I will say the filming itself made some strange choices. Could have used more wide shots of the stage and less extreme close-ups up actors' nostrils. And I hated it not showing the curtain call. But the production? Impeccable. Superb. Beautiful. Hilarious. Devastating.

Merrily We Roll Along poster

Saw MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG y'day and the highest compliment I can pay it is that whenever I see a truly great production of Sondheim, my brain goes, "Wait, is that my favourite Sondheim show?" and that happened. A triumph, a masterpiece, I cried like a baby. Groff, Radcliffe, and Mendez are magic.

I just went yesterday!

Wonderful Christmastime but SPECIFICALLY the Kylie Minogue/MIKA cover which is gay magic.

Oh this is super cute.

The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.

Me posing with Sorcerer Mickey at Selfridges.

Reunion with my old boss.

As a Jewish New Yorker by birth who went to a private Hebrew elementary and middle school and grew up in a strongly Democratic family who worshipped the Clintons (I was even proud to meet her once), I say with my whole chest that Hillary Clinton can absolutely fuck herself. 🥰

Thank you. The issue I have with Whamageddon is that I vividly recall the mockery that George Michael took from the media when he was with us. And I consider his vast contribution to LGBTQ+ visibility, charities and rights.

But I do understand why dull, hetero consumers find it amusing, sure.

The London premiere of Oh Mary! was an absolute triumph! Mason Alexander Park and the entire cast made me laugh so hard I was in literal physical pain. And the play is a genuine queer masterpiece. I'm in awe of this cast, Cole Escola, and everyone involved in this ingeniously demented production.

Furious at this. TERFs and Gender Critical people are a loud, radicalized, wealthy minority, forcing groups who've done the right thing for years into horrible positions that none of them want. Stop buying Harry Potter. Fight for your trans brothers and sisters. They'll come for you next.

Just booked my tickets to see Jinkx as Judy Garland in London next year!! I am going to have to go lie down now. 🫠

Me holding a huge LEGO box of Elphaba and Glinda bookends plus Wicked minifigs.

This will be my Christmas Week project! 💚💖

"You're in the top 0.01% of viewers of 'Megan Hilty's PERFECT ACTING in Thank Goodness (Live from Wicked)' — the theme of your 2025 is depressed faggot."

Yeah depends on where. My first day of work at a Disney Store years back was Black Friday, my shift started at midnight, and I still have PTSD.

I really want an alternate reality where Sondheim handled gay subject matter overall. I want to see what William-Finn-and-beyond levels of gay would have looked like handled by Sondheim.

Funny how they didn’t choose the song with the f-slur in it!

Whamageddon is homophobic no I won’t be taking further questions

2 Lindt Lindor truffles Advent calendars

This year Christmas has to be on a tight budget, as is true for so many people, but we did decide to splurge on the Advent calendars.

Aren't they the best?

I was adopted as well! Trained me to start feeding him, eventually came home with me. And ended up being one of the best animal relationships I've ever had.

When I moved from New York, part of me was half-kidding, half-not considering just, like...catnapping him? My brain was like "I love him so much more than these shop owners do, they never pay him any attention, what if I just popped him in my tote and walked out briskly?"

The reason I love this photo is when I lived in Brooklyn 18 years ago, our local bodega had this little black kitty who I was deeply in love with. Whenever I was in the shop, he'd head straight towards me and play with me specifically, and follow me around every time. Still miss that little guy.