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Andrew Willett
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Sometime spec-fic writer. Not supposed to have opinions in public for job reasons, will generally not post about the News. He/him.
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Klimt's Golden Tarot might be what you want? See this forum post (www.tarotforum.net/threads/gold...) and this vendor (gypsymoon.com.au/product/gold...)?
The Empress card from Klimt's Golden Tarot, resting on a piece of white fur and set against a forest background. It depicts the goddess Athena, wearing the head of Medusa on her golden breastplate, a war helmet, and a red dress, holding a tiny nude female figure in one hand. In the other she holds a tall rod or spear. All is painted by Gustav Klimt in his distinctive style.
June 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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To their credit, the B-52s did eventually get there, in 2008.
The cover of the B-52s 2008 album FUNPLEX. The four remaining members of the band (from left, Cindy Wilson, Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, Keith Strickland) stand on a white seamless set, wearing outfits that combine solid blacks and black-and-white stripes. Behind them are various bits of performance equipment (mic stands, bits of a drum kit, an amp, a guitar, lots of cables), more or less all of it black or silver. The women look chipper, and the men more somber. Their shadows stream toward the viewer, suggesting further stripes and suggesting a vanishing point at the center of the image. The ungrammatical apostrophe has finally been removed from the band's logo.
December 14, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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“Take the Halloween one too,” the nice man behind the table said. “That’s a collector’s item, you know.”
October 31, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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The terrible typography here was a warning that we did not heed. Save yourselves.

(Although Adelaide Clemens is superb in that way that makes you feel as if her character was beamed in from another play entirely.)
The playbill from "Hold On to Me Darling," currently at the Lucille Lortel in NYC. The cover shows the play's logo, which is the title rendered in two lines of white capital letters on a black background. Inexplicably, the logo has been designed so that the line breaks after the word "to," producing the sense that you are being asked by a pirate to hold on to his sweetheart for him.
October 13, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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"Testacella gets its name from a portmanteau of 'Tesla towing a portable monk's cell,' which it is said to resemble. Sort of."
A blue Tesla Model 3 with a wood-paneled teardrop-shaped travel trailer on a towing hitch. It's in the parking lot of what appears to be a park in coastal Washington State.
September 25, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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Post a nonreligious photo you think of as holy.
Kate Bush from the cover of her album “Hounds of Love.” A woman lies on lavender fabric, her dark hair spread in a halo around her head. She is seen from the waist up; her torso is wrapped in the same fabric, leaving her arms and shoulders bare. Two gray-brown Weimaraner dogs lie against her, one nuzzling her neck, as she wraps her arms around them. She gazes languidly into the camera.
August 15, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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My beloved friend David Zinn just won a Tony award for his excellent set for the brilliant STEREOPHONIC and I could not be happier for him. Also, holy shit, as usual your outfit is spectacular. #Tonys
A handsome man with a magnificent silver mustache and beard, wearing a blue blazer, black wide-collared shirt, black shin-length skirt, and black boots. He is wearing a long scarf in two vibrant shades of pink. His pushed-up sleeves reveal a lot of floral linework tattoos; around his left writs are a lot of silver bracelets. The top few buttons of his shirt are undone; more floral ink can be seen on his neck and chest, as well as a couple of silver chains, one of which appears to have a big orange lightning-bolt pendant on it. This man designs costumes for the stage, baby. And also sets.
June 16, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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Love this. Thank you!

See also:
Calvin & Hobbes strip, Jun 18 1989: Panel 1: Sparrow about to perch on branch. Art employs a more realistic style than is typical for C&H. Panel 2: The bird sings: "do re mi fa so la ti do" Panel 3: "A sparrow alights upon a tree branch," it says, doing just that. Panel 4: Close up: "But this is no ORDINARY sparrow! This is a SONG sparrow!" Panel 5: "Swaying gently in the breeze, he prepares to burst forth in rapturous melody!" Panel 6: The bird opens its beak wider than its own head. In gigantic letters, it begins to sing. ON TOP OF SPAGHETTI Panel 7: More hollering. ALL COVERED WITH CHEEESE, I LOST MY POOR MEEEATBALL. WHEN… Panel 8: The art style snaps back into standard C&H, as Calvin is flung bodily out the front door of his house by one of his parents.
May 1, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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It’s how this happened, as I recall.
A digital construction-alert sign by the side of a two-lane road. Because the password for its controls had been written in Sharpie on the control box itself, someone has reprogrammed it to read “KLAATU BARADA NIKTO.”
March 9, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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My hat is off to Alicia Parlapiano and the team that put the article I'll link to in a second, a deep dive into Hallmark and Lifetime Christmas movies, together. But the thing that really cracks me up is this graphic, because seriously ARE THESE DUDES GROWN IN TANKS SOMEWHERE
Headshots of the nine most featured leading men in Hallmark and Lifetime Christmas movies since 2017: Corey Sevier, Andrew W. Walker, Niall Matter, Tyler Hynes, Luke Macfarlane, Paul Campbell, Ryan Paevey, Brendan Penny, and Kristoffer Polaha. They look as if they might all have the same parents.
December 23, 2023 at 6:44 PM
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The ZOT! page! I think I bought these on the same day as some Richard Case DOOM PATROL pages — Cliff traveling into Jane’s mental landscape. I should post those too.
ZOT! 31, page 11: The high-school kids playing a superhero-themed role-playing game around a table.
October 31, 2023 at 2:00 PM
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This one is mine and it makes me so happy. (It hangs above a ZOT! page. I love that wall.)
Slow pan out over several panels — a swaying woman’s face with wild hair is revealed to be a doll’s head used as a ponytail holder by a little girl. She is standing on a toilet and humming and gesturing at a cabinet. Her mother shouts from off-panel: MARCIE! NO MORE MAGIC! (This is the opening page of FINDER: TALISMAN.)
October 31, 2023 at 4:40 AM
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Jesse Quick's boob-circle abomination.
October 15, 2023 at 9:05 PM