John Peyton Cooke
@johnpeytoncooke.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Whippet lover. Dilettante clarinetist. Author of novels and stories. Reader of great fiction (mostly). I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦.
As he placed the blue jockstrap over his head, the orange weeble said the heady scent of the FIFA Piss Prize reminded him of the gold-plated showers he once was gifted in Moscow. “If that happened today, I’d run afoul of the Emollients Clause,” he joked. “But it would be worth it.”
December 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
As he placed the blue jockstrap over his head, the orange weeble said the heady scent of the FIFA Piss Prize reminded him of the gold-plated showers he once was gifted in Moscow. “If that happened today, I’d run afoul of the Emollients Clause,” he joked. “But it would be worth it.”
Yesterday I handed President Donald J. Trump a blue jockstrap and told him it was the FIFA Piss Prize. Then he placed it over his head and cooed like a dove.
December 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Yesterday I handed President Donald J. Trump a blue jockstrap and told him it was the FIFA Piss Prize. Then he placed it over his head and cooed like a dove.
December 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This guy, though …
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This guy, though …
Here is a great antidote I just finished reading:
November 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Here is a great antidote I just finished reading:
I don’t know, maybe US oil companies?
September 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I don’t know, maybe US oil companies?
Alien or Predator?
September 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Alien or Predator?
Can advertising copy writers please stop it with the dangling participles already?
August 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Can advertising copy writers please stop it with the dangling participles already?
Happy 221st birthday to Nathaniel Hawthorne, born July 4, 1804!
July 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Happy 221st birthday to Nathaniel Hawthorne, born July 4, 1804!
“You wanna do it, Charlie? Right here. On the oriental.”
Just checked: PRIZZI’S HONOR was released June 14, 1985, so I’m a couple of weeks late wishing it a happy 40th birthday! (I was 18 when I saw it on its first run.)
Just checked: PRIZZI’S HONOR was released June 14, 1985, so I’m a couple of weeks late wishing it a happy 40th birthday! (I was 18 when I saw it on its first run.)
July 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“You wanna do it, Charlie? Right here. On the oriental.”
Just checked: PRIZZI’S HONOR was released June 14, 1985, so I’m a couple of weeks late wishing it a happy 40th birthday! (I was 18 when I saw it on its first run.)
Just checked: PRIZZI’S HONOR was released June 14, 1985, so I’m a couple of weeks late wishing it a happy 40th birthday! (I was 18 when I saw it on its first run.)
Becomes scarier in B&W.
June 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Becomes scarier in B&W.
I agree, Dave. Everything is fine. You have nothing to worry about.
June 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I agree, Dave. Everything is fine. You have nothing to worry about.
This chart shows the value of the US dollar vs the British pound during 2025. It peaked in January, before the inauguration, then began to fall, and today is at its lowest value since October 2021.
June 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This chart shows the value of the US dollar vs the British pound during 2025. It peaked in January, before the inauguration, then began to fall, and today is at its lowest value since October 2021.
If you inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature?
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May 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
If you inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature?
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Self-portrait with a beige cap.
May 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Self-portrait with a beige cap.
Artificial intelligence when I was a kid.
May 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Artificial intelligence when I was a kid.
April 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
April 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Very cute! Snapped this one recently at a bus station.
April 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Very cute! Snapped this one recently at a bus station.
“What do you mean, ‘bat ears’???”
January 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
“What do you mean, ‘bat ears’???”
Oliver in sweater and booties. Ready to brave the snow and salt.
January 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Oliver in sweater and booties. Ready to brave the snow and salt.
Selfie taken in an elevator. Not retouched. This was a total accident. I only wanted to take a photo of the texture and didn’t realize I’d be reflected back in some kind of mysterious 3-D way. Weird.
January 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Selfie taken in an elevator. Not retouched. This was a total accident. I only wanted to take a photo of the texture and didn’t realize I’d be reflected back in some kind of mysterious 3-D way. Weird.