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Rick Schindler
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Award-winning headline writer, obscure novelist.
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Aluminum Christmas tree with color wheel illumination.
December 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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I can do it faster.

Thesis: Izzie on "Grey's Anatomy," star of romcoms like "Knocked Up."
Antithesis: Labeled as "difficult" for strong opinions.
Synthesis: Reunites with "Grey's Anatomy" costars at 2024 Emmys.
Actress Katherine Heigl on the cover of Entertainment Weekly.
December 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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In DC Comics Presents 67 (March 84 issue), Superman teamed up with Santa.
The cover of DC Comics 67 (March 1984 issue) shows Superman helping Santa Claus deliver presents while the villainous Toyman crouches behind a chimney.
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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The crew of the atomic submarine Seaview shares a toast in a Christmas episode of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea."
Richard Basehart (left), David Hedison (second from right) and three other actors share a toast by a Christmas tree on the 1960s TV series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea."
December 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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The second illustration, with the aquatic dinosaurs, reminds me (a lot) of this Classics Illustrated comic book cover:
The cover of a Classics Illustrated comic book adaptation of "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" depicts two dinosaurs menacing people on a raft.
December 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Davis was a delight.
A teeming comic drawing of a Wild West saloon brawl.
December 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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"Christmas in Duckburg," painting by Carl Barks.
Scrooge McDuck totes a sack of money past a little match girl and a Santa soliciting charity in snowy Duckburg. Meanwhile, Donald Duck and his nephews revel in the spirit of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The Ghost of Christmas Past visits Scrooge in a 1950s View-Master image.
The Ghost of Christmas Past visits Scrooge in a 1950s View-Master image.
December 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Cartoon girl stands behind an x-ray machine that shows her skeleton.
December 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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A man frowns at the angel on his left shoulder while a devil on his right shoulder tempts him.
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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A photo from the 1950s of a woman lying on a beach in a red swimsuit and straw hat
November 27, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Poster from the 1977 film "Tentacles" shows a female swimmer attacked by a tentacled monster.
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Still from "The Shining" showing Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) frozen to death.
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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"Aah! It's Frankenstein's monster!" a woman exclaims. "Actually, I'm Frankenstein's monster's monster," the monster explains. A second monster explains: "I've also been dabbling in reanimation."
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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The cover of "Crown of Creation," a 1968 album by Jefferson Airplane, showing the band inside a mushroom cloud.
November 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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In full gatefold glory:
The gatefold cover of All-New Collectors' Edition #C-55, featuring Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes. Art by Mike Grell
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Phil Fumble suggests to Fritzi Ritz that they visit a house of funny mirrors. "This gives me the creeps," Fritzi says, looking at their distorted reflections
November 15, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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The cover of Amazing Spider-Man 81 (February 1970 issue), "The Coming of the Kangaroo!" The villainous Kangaroo attacks Spider-Man.
November 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Flaubert: "J'approuve"
Gustave Flaubert
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Was this part of it?
A checkerboard with images and words about the origins of the universe.
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Me experiencing lowkey literary envy
Glenn Close as knife-wielding Alex Forrest in "Fatal Attraction" (1987)
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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On the cover of the romance comic book "My Desire Intimate Confessions" No. 32 (December 1949), a woman at her makeup table holds a hand mirror reflecting the face of an older man behind her. "I'll be with you in a moment, dear," she says.
November 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Vocal group The 5th Dimension in 1969.
November 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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How about the mad scientists in OUR MAN FLINT (1966)?
In the 1966 spy spoof "Our Man Flint," Rhys Williams plays Dr. Krupov, one of a trio of mad scientists who plot to take over the world by controlling weather.
October 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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In "Return of the Jedi," alien Admiral Ackbar warns: "It's a Trap!"
October 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM