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Adam J.B. Lane
@ajbl.bsky.social
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Cartoonist, author, man for all seasons. CAUTION contents may include art, politics, dinosaur and shark fanboying, film, historical oddities, baking, Pittsburgh sports.
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I reposted your great Cheney/Vader cartoon from 20 odd years ago (which I had saved in my Brilliant Cartoons file) and it is doing numbers, as the kids say.
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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To mark the passing of former shadow US President Dick #Cheney today, this banger from @mluckovich.bsky.social of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
An editorial cartoon divided into two panels. On the left, a couple watching tv news; the wife asks out loud "Dick Cheney's been compared to Darth Vader. I wonder how he feels about that..." On the right stands Darth Vader, dark lord of the Sith. "I'm hurt" he replies.
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Never fear, the French have put their finest man on the case—
Peter Sellers as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau
October 20, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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If Joe #Flacco sticks with the #Bengals the rest of the way he could conceivably start v. the #Browns in Week 18... the team he led against Cincy in Week 1! Has this kind of volte-face ever happened before within a single #NFL season? Surely not. #football
Action shot of QB Joe Flacco, dressed in the home uniform of the Cleveland Browns, his former team, about to uncork a throw in last month's opener against his current team, the Cincinnati Bengals.
October 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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If America's present trajectory is roughly analogous to the decline of the Roman Empire (it's sure tempting to see it that way) is social media/AI slop our equivalent of their lead pipes, brain poisoning everybody and weakening the ruling class?
A man costumed as a Roman centurion stares at a smartphone in his hand. A structure partially seen in the background may or may not be the ruins of the Colosseum in Rome.
September 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The local food pantry endorses cannibalism.
September 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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The Guardian cuts to the heart of the matter with its hard-hitting reporting.
A selection from the Guardian's American news liveblog: One neighbor who lives across the street from the Robinsons, declined to be named. He said he’s “blind to the world”, and only learned about Robinson’s arrest when he saw reporters and law enforcement in the street this morning. He was agnostic about the massive media presence on his street. “Mother nature is mother nature, whatever she calls to do, let’s do it,” he said. And was similarly accepting when asked about Robinson, the subject of a massive 48-hour search, living just across the street. “If it’s close to home, if it’s 50 miles from me, it’s the same damn thing,” he said. “Shit happens and that’s what it is.”
September 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Opthamologist voice: "Now look at this and tell me, better? Or worse?
Infamous pic taken by Atlantic editor Dante Ramos of a young woman sitting in the seat in front of him on an airplane. Her long ponytail hangs over the back of her seat and into his space, even blocking his view of the seatback video screen.
September 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Visiting Cape Cod today the idea for the perfect name of a local cannabis dispensary struck me like a bolt from the blue:
THE LOBSTER POT
Charming topiary sign at the end of the Bourne Bridge, welcoming visitors to "Cape Cod"
August 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Trump releases thousands of FBI surveillance files against King family wishes.

In related news, he demands family change Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. name back to Michael King Jr.
The imposing stone monument to Dr. King in Washington D.C.
July 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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It's Anthrocon weekend in Pittsburgh, North America's largest gathering of fursuit devotees (and for all I know, the world's). It's really nice that the city is so welcoming to this offbeat subculture!
Yet one thing troubles me... 1/x
A group of 5 or 6 people in fursuits prowl (in the nicest sense of that word) a sunlit street in downtown Pittsburgh.
July 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Some of these limited edition chip flavors (or flavours for our Canadian friends) are Lovecraftian abominations not meant for consumption by mortal man.

BUT the Chicken Tikka Masala Kettle Chips from a few years ago were a spicy, tomato-y revelation and I miss them still.
An orange bag of limited edition Lay's Kettled Cooked Indian Tikka Masala chips. Delicious!
June 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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"Guggenheim Partners draw a lot of water in this town, Homan. You don't draw shit."
The Malibu police captain from "The Big Lebowski"
June 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Now that #TomCruise is finished with the #Mission:Impossible franchise, what I really need now is him starring alongside Robert DeNiro, Samuel L. Jackson, and Bill Murray in a remake of "Cocoon".
A still from 1985's classic "Cocoon", only with four different actor's heads swapped in for those of the original cast.
June 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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"If you have a problem, and no one else can help, and if you can find them..."
Four food mascots matched with their obvious A-Team counterparts. Colonel Sanders is the team's military strategist, the obvious equivalent of Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith. Charming, dapper Mr. Peanut is the squad's "Faceman". Both Kool-Aid Man and B.A. Baracus are adept at smashing things down, and have memorable catchphrases. And who esle but the Noid could be the team's loopy wildcard, a la "Howling Mad" Murdock.
May 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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I suspect it's primarily to accommodate the support structure for the mount, but it also feels like an old carney dodge designed to impress the rubes.

Look at how high up this actually rather petite sauropod nicknamed Gnatalie is placed in this display in Los Angeles, for example:
May 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Saw Ryam Coogler's #Sinners tonight - it was a hoot! A cinematic love letter to music and vampire flicks.

Coogler must have gone into the executive suites and pitched it as "From Dusk 'til Dawn" meets "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
The movie poster.
April 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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A remake of the live-action Super Mario Brothers movie starring these guys can't come quickly enough, in my opinion.
#Mario #MarioBros #Luigi #nintendo #PedroPascal #DiegoLuna #film
Actors Pedro Pascal and Diego Luna.
April 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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OH YEAH, MAC SABBATH -- the World's Greatest Fast Food Themed Black Sabbath Parody Band!!!!!!
Four costumed performers resembling a mashup of McDonaldLand characters with heavy metal rock icons.
April 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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A reliable measure of time spent at the roller rink is PTL/V - Playings of "Tainted Love" during visit.
A crowd, bathed in purple neon light, is gathered at the edge of the skating floor at Roller World roller rink in Saugus, Massachusetts.
April 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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They're forcing transition on Columbia
The allegorical goddess Columbia, in a white dress and holding a torch aloft.
April 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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How nice a guy is Ken Casey of the @dropkickmurphys.com?! I watched him give an interview to a local college journalist on the sidelines of today's #handsoff protest in Boston... then come back and do it all over again after she discovered she hadn't captured the audio the first time. What a mensch!
Surrounded by a sea of hands, vocalist Ken Casey stands singing into a wireless microphone.
April 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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One of my signs for the April 5th protest:
April 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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It strikes me that the most consequential difference between Trump 1 and Trump 2.0 is the force multiplier effect of swapping out the alliance with a deranged millionaire soft furnishings magnate for the alliance with a deranged billionaire industrialist.
Two similar photos, one stacked atop the other, show Mike Lindell, the My Pillow guy, above, and Elon Musk (who by now needs no introduction) below. Both are speaking at podiums bearing the Presidential seal, and each is making a gesture with an outstretched right arm... Lindell a defiant fist, Musk an open-palmed fascist salute.
April 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Picked up the new Mike Mignola just Friday, delightful visiting the Picnic as always.
March 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM