Kevin Marcou
gummyjoe.bsky.social
Kevin Marcou
@gummyjoe.bsky.social
Comics. Games. Simpsons. Love. Fudge. Working at the World's Largest Library. Posts are my own opinions.
Always happy to flex this information science mastery.
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Got it:

Strikeforce, 1991

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_...

Start of this video has that thing you described, dude being turned into green monster:

youtu.be/w4bMTI10ujQ?...
Strike Force (video game) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Not ringing any bells, but I want to Help!, so for clarity: When you say horizontal shooter, does that mean a ship being seen side-on shooting towards the right of the screen? Or top-down shooting towards the top of the screen?
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Faith and sex positivity are not conflicting things.
November 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Reminds me of the time I was at home taking a shower and I managed to hear the phone ring in the other room, giving me the opportunity to make an equally cultured reference:
November 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Since the traditional gift is candy and iron, I had wrought iron versions of classic candy made and put them in a bowl with the actual candy.

Every root beer barrel could put you over one, every peppermint twist could provide one, every jawbreaker could prove too literal.
November 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Game 4 of the 1985 NLCS between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Los Angeles Dodgers, bottom of the 4th btw:

www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SL...

And here's the broadcast of that very at bat:

youtu.be/yXU9H-ggV3c?...
www.baseball-reference.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:49 AM
October 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Just to follow up, an additional source at least for political cartoons would be the Prints & Photographs division's search:

loc.gov/pictures/

Specifically you can check out the Cartoon Drawings Collection, and then browse by Subjects:

www.loc.gov/pictures/col...
Search Results: "King, Martin Luther,--Jr.,--1929-1968." - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)
The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures...
www.loc.gov
October 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The other thing is that ChronAm is solely public domain content, and thus stronger the further back you go, and most especially after you get over the public domain bump of the mid-1920s. So I'm not surprised Ruby Bridges results are slim pickings.

Image source: www.loc.gov/ndnp/data-vi...
October 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I work at the Library of Congress (well, when I'm not furloughed), and I'm real familiar with the ChronAm ppl. I'm very skeptical that this is an actual removal thing, and I think it's more that the search isn't great (a critique I share with the general LOC website experience tbh).
October 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I dunno, seems pretty clear given there's a law on the books directly addressing the legality of such an action.

What do I know though, I don't work for the New York Times, apparently this is a matter of some debate according to the paper of record!
October 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
He's my friend and a whole lot more!
October 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
"The Trump Administration is threatening to execute his political enemies and display their heads on pikes.

But here's the thing.

The rising cost of propane is what the American people care about."
September 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
"The Trump Administration is threatening to execute his political enemies and display their heads on pikes.

But here's the thing.

The rising cost of propane is what the American people care about."
September 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I recognize 63% of these bands, but I don't know if I really "recognize" Fountains of Wayne without Schlesinger.

Just glad I saw them back in 2013 (with Soul Asylum!) when I had the chance.
September 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM