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Dug up my c. 2010 Losi Micro-T tonight, to see if the battery would take a charge after several years languishing in a box (it did)

Apparently i added a driver to the car
Losi Micro-T radio control stadium truck toy, with a red body. On the nose is a sticker of the STIKFAS logo (an action figure model kit line c. 2002-2005); in the center of the truck's fake windshield is a sticker of a STIKFAS style figure with helmet and angry expression gripping a steering wheel
November 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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The Wand of Watoomb!
Ancient mystical object that shows up in at least three Dr Strange/Spider-Man crossovers! (if I remember right, anyway)

I have no idea what it actually does, other than it brought those characters together.
the Wand of Watoomb, a gold-colored rod about a foot long with a ball on either end, each ball having horns and an angry face carving
November 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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being that we all (Americans anyway (except a couple places that don't)) time travelled last night, I watched a time travel movie tonight: "The Adam Project" (2022), where a time pilot from 2050 teams up with his 12-year-old self to stop their father's business partner from ruling the world.
Movie poster for "The Adam Project" (2022), which was released on Netflix Photoshop collage image made to look like a painted poster Thick black border, thin orange line inside, then the image is inside that. Across the top, a row of actor names, 1st name over surname: Ryan Reynolds Mark Ruffalo Jennifer Garner Walker Scobell with Catherine Keener and Zoe Saldana Reynolds' brown-haired, bearded head is ginormous, slightly off center; he's in the back, just in front of the wormhole effect seen in the film, with his time jet to viewer's left. He's wearing his dad's jacket that he gets in 2022. Follow his right arm down (to the left) to see his plasma stick hilt in his hand, which is breaking over the border. Scobel (blonde-haired kid) is in front of Reynolds' shoulder, a side view, head turned to camera. he's relatively small. Saldana is next, her head directly below Reynolds'. Thin striahgt black hair is pulled back tight on her head. She's wearing a black jacket and holding a future armor-piercing rifle, with red accents. Garner is to the left of Saldana; they're effectively back-to-back, but Garner is lower. She's wearing a plaid coat. Brown hair, kinda loose. Center bottom of the stack is Ruffalo (wild hair, salt-and-pepper beard) looking off to the right, wearing two shirts and jacket (his wardrobe in the movie). Keener is not pictured. Bottom 1/4 has the title stacked in 3 lines, "THE" is smaller, "ADAM" is bolded, "PROJECT" is baseline below that, blue letters, smaller still than "the": Time Flies then a block of credits MARCH 11 | NETFLIX
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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I built a hot dog, it looks pretty good
Now I'll watch a movie from Hollywood
#lyrics #RuinASong #FrankZappa #FZ
A model of a hot dog in a roll (with mustard), made from 170 plastic bricks. To the right side is the instruction booklet, which says "ZURU MAX" and "SNACKS COLLECTION".
November 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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tonight's movie is "Hollow Man" (1992), a sci-fi thriler starring Elisabeth Shue and Kevin Bacon, where Bacon is a genius asshole scientist that experiments on himself to become invisible, and when he can't turn back he becomes a rapist and murderer.
Movie poster for "Hollow Man" (192) main image: blurry closeup black-and-white photo of the Invisible Man's featureless latex mask, showing just the left side at an angle; the eye is a blacked-out orb. the title is in red letters across the eyes, with the second "O" being a ghostly moon showing a blurry figure. top of poster: Elisabeth Shue Kevin Bacon at the bottom: assorted credits. Above the credits: Think you're alone? Think again.
October 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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there's a Mexican seasoning brand called "Cholula" which I misread as "Chocula" which gives you an idea of where my head's at right now
Cholula Seasoning Mix package. Dark maroon background/outline. An orange-yellow rectangle (the top corners are beveled off) with thin lines of green, white, red (the Mexican flag) close to the edge. The logo is top center. Below it is a woman in a white tunic-wrap shirt with long sleeves; she is in front of a brick window thru which can be seen copper pots and other kitchen implements. She is holding a green vegetable, and there's a couple other colors beside it and hanging up to her right, red and green peppers and jalapenos, and white onions. Dark Maroon banner in the middle with white letters: Smoky Chipotle Taco Medium Bottom 1/23 is a photo of two soft-shell tortilla beef tacos, garnished with onions and parsley, on a dark-brown wood tray. it's marked "serving suggestion". NET WT 1 OZ (28g) A recent example of Count Chocula cereal packaging with Frightful Friends Marshmallows! (represented by a spider version of the Mascot hanging down from the logo) the Mascot is on the left of the package; he's a simplified brown-colored rendition of Count Dracula in tuxedo (looks like he has a string tie, in loops; or it's a very limp white bowtie, against a white dickey) with white ruffled sleeve cuffs and high-collar cape. His head is disproportionately large; hair swept back to two points, bushy eyebrows, long sideburns, pointed ears, pointy cleft chin, a wide open mouth smile showing just two buck teeth instead of fangs, and a long bumpy Cyrano-like nose that sticks out. He has a nice brown tan, too. The package is white, with a glass bowl at the bottom holding the cereal in milk, which is inexplicably splashing.
October 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
Calvin, a six-year-old boy with blonde hair, wearing a red shirt with thin black stripes, black pants, and red & white sneakers, and his best friend/regular companion Hobbes, an anthropomorphized tiger (school bus orange body with black stripes; white paws, stomach, and fuzzy face; a gray nose and there's a tail whipping around behind him) who stands on his back feet and is at least twice Calvin's size, are running off somewhere with big happy faces. I guess they must be having fun.
October 21, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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#ANTIFA #NoKings
A group photo of the main protagonist and his allies in the film "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" (1993). Most of them (except Robin) are wearing white shirts, green-tinted black leather tunics/vests, and green pointed hats called a bycocket). From left: Robin's family servant Blinkin, who is blind, and is wearing sunglasses; he has dark hair and a beard. Dave Chappelle as Ahchoo, son of Asneeze; he's wearing his bycocket backwards, with a modern-day plastic baseball cap clasp on it, being a stereotype of a modern-day American black man; he's clean-shaven. Cary Elwes as Robin Hood, wearing a tan shirt with puffy sleeves, a dark brown short-sleeved coat, and leaning on a longbow; he has light brown hair, with a sorta goatee with stubble trailing up the sides. Eric Allan Kramer, a taller, more muscular man with long blonde hair and thick beard, as Robin's right hand Little John, who is holding a staff in his left hand. Matthew Porretta as Will Scarlet O'Hara, also leaning on a longbow, having brown hair and matching goatee. (There's also a couple unidentifiable men in the row behind the leads.) at the bottom center, in bold white block letters: "ANTIFA"
October 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Adding to today's persecution complex... Behold, the 1138
Car status display, cropped, showing an odometer reading of 111138
October 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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tonight's movie is "Poltergeist" (1982) directed by Tobe Hooper, produced and co-written and story and apparently a lot of storyboarding and onset presence by Steven Speilberg

still scary after all these years, but some of the compositioning effects lose their um, effect in 4K resolution
Movie poster for "Poltergeist" (1982) all black (with a thick white border cos that's how posters were done back then) In the center, a grainy, black-and-white photo of a long-haired little girl in pajamas (Heather O'Rourke), back to camera, with her hands on the screen of a late-1970s floor console TV that's tuned to static. there's a doll on the floor to her right. Above the photo, in italics, a serif font like Times: "They're here." nothing else until the bottom third of the poster, where in large white outlined Helvetica letters, POLTERGEIST (below that, centered, regular size Times-like text, again italics) It knows what scares you. after a gap, prob an inch or two, in tiny lettering, METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER Presents A STEVEN SPIELBERG Production A TOBE HOOPER Film "POLTERGEIST" JOBETH WILLIAMS * CRAIG T. NELSON * BEATRICE STRAIGHT Music by JERRY GOLDSMITH and the usual other credits, effects, screenplay, etc don't make me type it all out ok
October 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
salamurai.bsky.social
Someone put the "Safety not Guaranteed" ad in the Lisbon Ledger (Maine)

[Disclaimer: this paper does a monthly phoney ad contest, which maybe this is it, but maybe not.]
Newspaper classified ad: WANTED Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.
October 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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#ANTIFA
Some characters from the 1980s animated series "G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero", in front of a copy of their logo (at the top), and behind the slogan "ANTIFA" (at the bottom). Left to right: US Marine Gung Ho, wearing light blue colored samo pants and an open vest, wearing his Marine cover, and holding a standard laser rifle; US Navy Chief Petty Officer Shipwreck (in sailor uniform, but his shirt is open halfway down his chest) and his green parrot, Polly; ninja-trained US Army crack commando Snake Eyes, in a dark gray body suit with a black visor, grenade bandolier which also holds his katana, and assorted belts, pouches, and straps; Lady J, a US Army intelligence expert wearing green pants and lighter green shirt, with a shoulder-harness for a knife and a barely-seen spear quiver, carrying a short spear; the American bald eagle named Freedom; and infantry tracker Spirit Iron-Knife, a Native American with long black hair contained into braids, a red headband, a blue denim shirt with suspenders, and a gold bracelet on his left arm.
September 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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I like that Ben & Johnny joke and bash at each other, but also have compliments and support, it's not like the relationship in the 2005 movie.

and Galactus was astounding. it made me think of the Moebius version (obviously darker in color than this image)
the giant head of Galactus, with the Silver Surfer on his board about to fly in front of it. Art by Moebius.
September 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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The sky is so white today (it's overcast) that it appears someone forgot to apply the background layer
Gray, overcast, cloudy sky, above the office deck. There's a couple of black tables w/closed red umbrellas, and some barstool-height plastic chairs on the deck.
September 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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also I read the book last week. It's illustrated; the author's robot design has the gangly arms and rounded head, but the body was more of a triangle.

the movie mostly follows the book, but Fink only appears twice, the Beaver helps with the lodge, and there's just 3 attack robots, not 38.
Cover to the novel "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown, which is aimed at middle-grade readers (it says in the back). Very large brush-stroke styled lettering, in white, stacked, int he center of the image, says: The Wild Robot at the bottom, same style, but more reasonably sized: By NEw York Times Bestselling Author Peter Brown The title is against a pile of gray and brown speckled rocks. The author name is against dark green water. Around the rocks are assorted coniferous trees in various shades of medium and dark green. there's an orange sun over to the top right and a fluffy little cloud in the top left. At the top of the rocks stands a gray robot, with long gangly legs & arms, an upside-down gumdrop body (or rounded triangle), and a rounded square for a head, which has two white lights for eyes and no indication of a nose.
September 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Have I talked about "The Wild Robot" ? I watched it again last night.
stunningly gorgeous animated movie. it's CG animated but everything is painted, giving it a depth and beauty you won't see in more "realistic" looking films.
Also, it's about learning to be a parent.
Teaser poster for "The Wild Robot" (released Sept 20, 2024) From inside of tree branches, an extreme closeup of the face and hand of "Roz" / Rozzum 7134, a helper robot that is accidentally lost at sea and then activated on an island devoid of humans. The head is round and white, featuring two large camera lenses for eyes with two LED dots in a vertical line in between them. There's a gray scrape going 45-degrees up from the left-side eye (Roz' right). Turquoise lights make lines around the lenses and go up and down the head. She does not have a nose. The hand, also white, coming from the viewer's left, reaching toward the viewer, is rounded, thick black rubber-looking fingers that have gold dots on the top of each segment. Her shoulders are also visible. All this stuff looks painted. top of poster, centered, white lettering, all caps, I think it's in Verdana or similar: Lupita Nyong'o [she plays Roz] bottom of poster, centered, stacked, letters made of thick brush strokes in school-bus yellow: Dreamworks [that's a logo, not brushed] The Wild Robot [white letters, all caps, again in Verdana or similar:] Coming Soon to Theaters
September 22, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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I thought maybe this is the time to repeat this comment, screenshotted for context
BluSky post by Senator Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov), July 17 2025 at 8:17pm: https://bsky.app/profile/warren.senate.gov/post/3lu764d5gcs2u CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message. [attached video, of a monologue by Stephen Colbert, on the set of his CBS show, runs 2:31, in which he describes and jokes about CBS/Paramount bribing, cough, settling a lawsuit with Trump with $16M to prevent problems with the SkyDance merger] [820 replies, 7.8K quote/reposts, 19K Likes] Reply to that post by Yorick (@salamurai.bsky.social), July 17 2025 at 10:26pm: ‪It's still on the air for another year. If it was political he'd be gone already. [1 reply, 0 quotes/reposts, 1 like]
September 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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My current Clash collection, see Alt text for details

When I go back I'm probably getting "The Clash" UK track listing version, and "Give Em Enough Rope" cos I've never owned or heard it. Both of these have been on my wanted list, tho for digipak versions, which is weird cos I hate digipaks.
Six albums by The Clash on CD: Top row: "The Clash" (1979 US version), remaster 2000 "London Calling" (1979), 2004 released 3-disc remastered 25th anniversary edition with "The Vanilla Tapes" on 2nd CD and a making-of documentary on DVD, plus a fancy booklet. It's supposed to have a plastic sleeve, that's missing. "Sandinista!" (1980), the original 2CD version from the 80s in the fat double-wide case Bottom row: "Combat Rock" (1982), 2021 remastered "The People's Hall" 2CD Special Edition w/ a 1981 live concert on 2nd CD "Super Black Market Clash", the 1993 reworking of "Black Market Clash" that dropped 4 tracks and added 16. Original release copy. "The Essential Clash" 2CD (2003) which effectively replaced "The Story of The Clash Vol 1", only 2 tracks from Story are not on Essential which also has more material
September 20, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is about to punch a uniformed Nazi in the face. The Nazi has the armband and a pistol in one hand. at the bottom, in large white block capital letters: ANTIFA
September 18, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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My first Spider-Man comic! What's yours? #SpiderMan 🕷
Cover of "Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man" vol 1 #27 (Feb 1979). Art by Dave Cockrum and Al Milgrom. (Interior art by Frank Miller. his first Spider-Man AND first Daredevil.) Main image: Background is red. Two figures in the middle-ground, silhouetted but with extensive purple highlights: 1) Spider-Man on the left, one arm up, the other midlevel, the eyes of his mask downturned like he's scared. Word balloon: I sense deadly DANGER, Daredevil -- but I can't SEE it! I'M BLIND! [the last 2 words are outlined, filled with blue] 2) Daredevil, with his radar sense emanating from his forehead (and scribing most of the page); his right arm holds Spider-Man back, his left is raised, holding his billy club weapon; he's got an angry grimace. Front-ground: a rocket shaped like a bird, gleaming and silver, is heading at our two heroes! oh NO! (that would be the deadly danger.) to the right of the UPC box (on the left), across the bottom, in green letters: THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND! Above the UPC box: a circle burst says MARVEL'S TV SENSATION! Across the top of the cover: MARVEL COMICS GROUP, white text on a black banner. On this banner to the right of page is the Comics Code Authority seal, next to the issue number box (says, 27 Feb) and a distribution code box, with the Curtis Circulation logo (2 C's inside a larger elongated C) and the number 02199 On the banner to the left is a starburst saying: STILL only 35¢ Under that is a green-background box showing a full-figure of Peter Parker, in Spider-Man costume, putting on his mask. down the left of this box is © 1978 Marvel Comics Group
September 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Dad's on a hunting trip. And he hasn't been home in a few days.
#Supernatural20 #Supernatural
A black 1967 Chevrolet Impala sedan tears down the road, with two young men in the front seats. The chrome gleams. It has a Kansas license plate, KAZ 2Y5.
September 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Coraline, which I'm listening to right now actually
Photo of desk clutter, including a Superman action figure, a K-9 toy (from Doctor Who), a "pew pew" gun toy, and a little statue of a dungeon window with a row of skulls on top of it In the center, an black external computer DVD drive (branded LaCie), with a CD case on top of it, and a paper sleeve for the same with a lenticular portrait made of buttons that looks like the title character of the film "Coraline" (2009). A metal hand is placing a black button in the portrait's left eye. (right side of image). Upside-down on the bottom (facing viewer) edge of the sleeve it says: Coraline [in the movie poster's typeface] Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - 15th Anniversary Edition Music by Bruno Coulais and some logos for MNRK Music Group, Laika, Mondo on the viewer's left
September 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Finished this book that I've been reading the last week or so.
Basically it's "what if the Scooby gang faced Cthulhu."
The writing is fun; the pretty girl's hair is anthropomorphized, sometimes dialogue is presented as a TV script, and there's meta commentary that won't translate to being filmed.
Book cover: "Meddling Kids" (2017) by Edgar Cantero Text at top: From the author of The Supernatural Enhancements Text at bottom: A Novel by Edgar Cantero Image in between: purple clouds behind a white moon so large it appears to have landed. Silhouetted against the moon are five figures, facing front: a boy in short pants (Nate), a slightly taller tomboy girl in pants with arms akimbo (Andy); a taller, tougher, bulkier, muscular boy with what appears to be rolled-up sleeves and gloves, also arms akimbo (Peter); a girl in a skirt with fancy-looking hair (Kerri), and a Weimaraner dog, setaed, its ears sticking out (Sean, aka Sir Not-Appearing-in-this-Book). To either side of the giant moon are neon-green shapes of pine trees. In front of the kids is neon-orange (or maybe peach?) scrawled lettering, "MEDDLING KIDS" The lower half depicts black water, with neon green ripples from extended purple tentacles [This cover is misleading, because it shows the characters when they were children in 1977, but the story takes place 13 years later (1990) where they're adults, the dog (Tim) is a descendant, and one of them is dead]
September 10, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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To celebrate Labor Day in America, I'm watching assorted movies about working! cos I like movies and I'm not working (this weekend.)

#7, third one yesterday, was "The Secret of My Success" (1987) where mailroom clerk Michael J. Fox tries to be in two places at once as he fakes being an executive.
Movie Poster for "The Secret of My Success" (1987) The New York City skyline circa 1987 (World Trade Towers visible to the left) is the backdrop to a large champagne bottle taking up the lower left quadrant, held by a woman's manicured hand (sharp red nails). The champagne is foaming out, supporting a reclining Michael J,. Fox (wearing blue jeans, heather gray T-shirt, dark gray suit coat, white sneakers; holding his own champagne glass); the cork is flying off towards the top right corner. Across the top, large purple letters: MICHAEL J. FOX below Fox & foam: There's no such thing as an overnight success. Brantley Foster took two weeks. Movie title logo, under those words and above the skyscrapers: (in red type) The Secret of My Success [the first and last S are larger, and the first line sits between them and atop the other letters] below the cityscape, in the lower right corner: assorted credits. other actors noted are Helen Slater (coworker, love interest), Richard Jordan (antagonist, uncle), Margaret Whitton (seducer, aunt)
September 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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To celebrate Labor Day in America, I'm watching assorted movies about working! cos I like movies and I'm not working (this weekend.)

#6, we go to "The Apartment" (1960) starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray!
(okay, romantic comedy, but work is the center of the plot)
Movie poster for "The Apartment" (1960) A big red block, with yellow text mainly down the left side: Movie-Wise, there has never been anything like [white stencil lettering] "THE APARTMENT" love-wise, laugh-wise or otherwise-wise! [tiny black type] A Mirsch Company Presentation Starring [white lettering from here down] Jack Lemmon Shirley MacLaine Fred MacMurray [black text from here down] costarring Ray Walston and Edie Adams [the names are in larger type] Written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond Directed by Billy WIlder Filmed in Panavision Released thru United Artists [right side, above the words "The Apartment"]: b/w figure photo with heavy contrast of smiley-faced Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine walking, maybe running away from viewer [right side, below the title]: white graphic of a key in a lock, with a white tag swinging on a black chain; the tag itself is down by the actor names and says, in alternating black and red lettering, at an angle]: a BILLY "some like it hot" WILDER production
September 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM