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Gimme a short stack of comics, a platter of jazz, and a steaming cup of noir.
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Still mad about blowing my crossword streak a few months ago, but making progress on the long road back!
NYT crossword stats showing a 100-day streak on November 11. I had a 1,405-day streak going until this summer, but lost it by being a bonehead.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Handsome Idiot | Evil Genius
November 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Day 3 selection for #Noirvember (and another RKO release): THE HITCH-HIKER (1953), directed by Ida Lupino. I have a feeling they shouldn’t pick this guy up.
Movie poster for The Hitch-Hiker: “Who will be his next victim… YOU?”
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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On merriam-webster.com right now. Feels like I’ve missed something…
November 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Day 2 selection for #Noirvember: ANGEL FACE (1953)
Film poster for ANGEL FACE: "The men she loved she destroyed! The violent drama of a rich girl - poor boy love triangle that unravelled in double murder!"
November 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Sigh…
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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This #Noirvember I plan to focus on films I haven't seen before. First up: DEADLINE AT DAWN (1946).
Poster for Deadline at Dawn with the tagline: "Killer hunt! Four hours to go!"
November 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Dammit, @2000ad.bsky.social - you got me. After 6 years of reading the Prog, I finally picked up the Megazine… and got wrapped up in all 6 stories. Guess I’m a double-subscriber now. Not sure I can handle this much thrill-power!
The cover of Judge Dredd Megazine #485 (October 2025)
November 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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A day with art is a good day indeed.
October 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Working from Airport — I’m not even going anywhere, just wanted a massive change of environment and stimuli to wake up the ol’ synapses for a brainstorming session.
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
October 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Cambot is ready for Saturday!
A brown cat sits on the carpet looking at a hand-written sign that reads “No kings, fascists, toadies, or brain worms.” A parade of worms is drawn along the bottom. The lead worm has a crown, comb-over, and an absurdly long necktie.
October 18, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Dr. Oxbridge, hard at work on their archaeological research.
October 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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This morning’s listening:

GABRIEL KAHANE - HEIRLOOM

Bright and unpredictable, this concerto for piano and chamber orchestra bobs and weaves, pulling divergent streams of musical heritage into an effervescent whole. I really enjoyed it!
Album cover for "Heirloom" listing composer Gabriel Kahane and musicians Jeffrey Kahane, The Knights, and Eric Jacobsen over a collage of a painted landscape, handwritten notes, and solid colors.
October 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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This morning’s listening:

ANCIENT INFINITY ORCHESTRA — IT’S ALWAYS ABOUT LOVE

15-piece jazz ensemble from Leeds on a lovely, meditative journey that's soothing my anxiety and feeding the soul. I needed this today!
Album cover art featuring a hand-painted grid of multi-colored blocks
October 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Comics highlight of the week: letting my eyes rove slowly across the glorious pages of DROME by @jesselonergan.bsky.social — tracing whorls of time, parsing intricate structures, lingering over every enigmatic detail of gods and monsters, power and balance, love and destruction. Wow!
The DROME hardcover sitting on a table. In a page from DROME, various animals and plants emerge from the ground as a man watches in alarm. Finally, a giant crab bursts forth, smashing the grid and scattering square panels across the bottom half of the page. In a page from DROME, time is depicted as an elaborate arrangement of arcs orbiting through a grid, bounded by the primary colors of printing: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. At the top, the phaes of the moon surround other cosmic bodies. At the bottom, a wheel of day and night represented by a light horse and a black, starry bull.
September 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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I keep getting distracted, y'know? 😂
September 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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A lovely evening for a soccer game. Go Stanford!
The Stanford women’s soccer team psyching up before the start of a match.
September 26, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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I finally caught up with Vols 1-3 of THE SACRIFICERS by @remender.bsky.social, Max Fiumara, @andrelimaaraujo.com and co.

With morally complex mythic fantasy, intense emotional hits, and fabulous art, this tale of incandescent righteous anger feels charged and cathartic. Next arc starts in October!
Trade paperback volumes 1, 2, and 3 of THE SACRIFICERS arranged on a table.
September 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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An exciting morning for the cats! That squirrel was a total badass and just stood there cussing them out.
Cats Oxford (right) and Cambridge (left) face off with a sassy squirrel who’s just outside their window.
September 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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The administration says killing environmental regulations will "usher in a golden age," and they're right - that's the color of the smoggy, disgusting air we'll all get to choke on soon! Can't wait!
Photo of a smoggy US highway in the 1970s. The air quality is so poor that the image appears to be sepia-toned.
March 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Reading GREAT EXPECTATIONS. I am continually surprised at how often Dickens can make me snicker, guffaw, or let loose with an explosive “HA!!”
Quote from Chapter XI: “ There were three ladies in the room and one gentleman. Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug.”
November 26, 2024 at 5:38 AM