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“Yes,” said the Indiana Zephyr, “what is the moral of the story?” (He/him; Ohio, USA)
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Celine et Julie vont en bateau (1974)
A color movie still; Dominique Labourier, wearing a stripy shirt and jeans, is rowing a rowboat down a river with trees behind her, looking back toward the camera. In the back of the rowboat, Juliet Berto, wearing a similar outfit, is looking in the same direction. A young boy wearing a cap is seated between them.
November 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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The Jim Downey "the financier?" meme, asking about Don Cherry, the beloved hockey commentator.
November 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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As always, Jeremy Peters and the NYT think some random history professor who has assigned CLR James is "elite" and doctrinaire, but a man like Elon Musk is too complex too describe politically. (Note also which "critics" are allowed to "say" without getting contradicted by Peters.)
Screenshot of a New York Times headline: "Critics Say Musk Has Revealed Himself as a Conservative. It's Not So Simple." Beneath, the subhead: "Elon Musk has tweeted about political topics regularly since taking over Twitter, often belittling some liberal causes. But what he stands for remains largely unclear."
October 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.
"Mad Max: Fury Road"'s Doof Warrior, strapped with his guitar and amplifiers to the front of a truck. He is not at this moment emitting fire.
October 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Nothing but respect for *my* president.
The poster for Kenneth Russell's Altered States (1980) showing William Hurt topless and upside down with ECG sensors attached to his head and face.
October 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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A beleaguered Captain Kirk is aghast to be covered in tribbles falling from an overhead bin, in a screencap from "Star Trek".
October 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Heck, I'll do one for #BatmanDay. Tim Sale of "The Long Halloween", one of my favorites.
A portrait of Batman, scowling, with Two-Face, scowling, behind him, and Jim Gordon, glowering, behind *him*, in moody blue-grays. In the background is a cityscape with a skyscraper behind a more ornate building, perhaps Wayne Manor. In the sky, a jack-o-lantern looms. It's signed "T. Sale 2021".
September 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Saw the 4K remaster of "In the Mood for Love" tonight; since the moments I remember are so still—Leung smoking in room 2046, Cheung holding her glass as she looks out the window—I had forgotten how much lateral camera movement WKW/Doyle/Ping-Bin use. Immaculate film. Heartbreaking as always.
The poster for In the Mood for Love ("a film by Wong Kar Wai"), red with gold letters in English and Chinese, showing a man in a suit facing away from the viewer, talking to a woman in a sleeveless dress holding a handbag, her face partially obscured by the man.
September 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Happy Batman Day to all who celebrate.
A public service announcement from DC: a single panel, showing Batman lecturing. "Don't believe those crackpot lies about people who worship differently, or whose skin is of a different color, or whose parents come from another country. Remember our American heritage of freedom and equality!"
September 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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A black and white photograph of the Palazzo Braschi in Rome in 1934, then the Fascist Party headquarters. A giant sculpture of Mussolini's glowering face adorns it, decorated by a backdrop of "SI" written in white on a black banner.
September 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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The cover of The Invisibles 24, "Good-Bye Baby Rabbits", showing Robin and Fanny wearing black in the foreground, with Boy flexing in the background.
August 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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The Tick’s Chairface Chippendale, pounding and admiring a diamond, totally NOT planning to vandalize the moon.
August 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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A republic, madam, if you can keep it.
Captain America giving a speech in five panels: "Listen to me—all of you out there! You were told by this man—your hero—that America is the greatest country in the world! "He told you that Americans were the greatest people—that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities hammered out of it, and shine more brightly! He went on about how precious America was—how you needed to make sure it remained great! And he told you anything was justified to preserve that great treasure, that pearl of great price that is America! "Well, I say America is nothing!! Without its ideals—its commitment to the freedom of all men, America is a piece of trash! "A nation is nothing! A flag is a piece of cloth! I fought Adolf Hitler not because America was great, but because it was fragile! I knew that liberty could be snuffed out here as in Nazi Germany! As a people, we were no different than them! When I returned, I saw that you nearly did turn American into nothing! "And the only reason you're not less then nothing—is that it's still possible for you to bring freedom back to America!"
July 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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A DVD cover for the 1965 European sci-fi film "The 10th Victim", showing Marcello Mastroianni's face and Ursula Andress lounging, unclothed, in bed.
June 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Sepia photograph of a youngish (but adult) Peter Cushing wearing shirt and vert, lying on a carpeted floor inspecting a group of miniatures massed in a model Napoleonic village. A copy of H.G. Wells' "Little Wars" is face down beside him.
May 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Cover of an issue of Astounding Science Fiction, featuring Murray Leinster's "The Pirates of Ersatz"; the cover shows a pirate with yellow bandana climbing a ladder while holding a ray gun and carrying a slide rule in his mouth. In the background, a white, swoopy rocket ship is visible.
May 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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The poster for the film "Alucarda", showing a teenage girl's face in black and white (framed by a pyramid of dark hair) against a red background, with an upside-down red cross underneath her face). The title is written in gothic print in white; the subtitle is "La Hija De Las Tinieblas".
May 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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I love this one: www.anothermag.com/art-photogra...
A color photograph of three young boys in a row, two Black and one white with very fair hair. The blond boy is shirtless and wearing jeans and the other two are wearing shorts and white short-sleeved shirts. They are standing in front of a wire fence in front of a somewhat dirty white house with wooden slats; the blonde boy is hanging onto the fence with both hands, while the other two are playing with guns. The boy in the middle is pointing the gun off to the side and has one eye screwed up as though taking a shot; the boy on the left is pointing his gun directly at the camera.
April 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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April 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Screenshot from "The Simpsons": Marge Simpson is holding a potato and smiling at it, wide-eyed. "I just think they're neat."
March 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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You got it, boss.
A somewhat low-resolution color photograph of Kate Bush squatting, wearing a black bat costume with sparkly sleeves and a drapey scarf component (leaving her legs bare). Her arms are attached to gauzy bat wings.
January 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Experts differ on the matter! qwantz.com/index.php?co...
A Dinosaur Comics in which T-Rex and Utahraptor discuss whether a ghost could read a closed book.
November 19, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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Big mood. (FF #54, 1966)
A panel from a comic book, showing a masked figure (the Inhuman Black Bolt), his mouth open, surrounded by Kirby Krackle and red. "The built-up pressure is more than he can bear!" "Listen!! For the first time since the catastrophe... He's making a sound... He's screaming!!"
November 7, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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I purely love this one. ("Untitled", 1956.)
A color photograph of three young boys standing behind a chicken-wire fence (with vines growing on it) in front of a somewhat dirty white house. The boy on the left and in the middle are Black, and are wearing dark shorts and white shirts. The boy on the right is white with fair hair, shirtless, wearing baggy jeans, his underwear showing. The two Black boys are playing with guns, the one in the middle aiming it off-frame, the one on the left pointing it at the photographer.
November 5, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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Found myself in the cemetery for Halloween-related reasons, as you do. RIP Harvey Pekar.
The grave of Harvey Pekar, covered with autumn leaves and an array of pens and pencils standing in the ground.
November 1, 2024 at 3:18 PM