Thoroughly Modern Tillie🦉☕⏳🐄
LightNews LightNews
banner
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Thoroughly Modern Tillie🦉☕⏳🐄
@theowlwagon.bsky.social
1.1K followers 850 following 2.8K posts
Gopher Prairie, MN. Cat grandma. Data analyst, bookseller in previous lives. BA Russian Language & Culture, UMN '73; Я почти все забыла. The man of my dreams is Conrad Veidt. Deal with it.
🇺🇦 Слава Україні 🇺🇦
Posts Replies Media Videos
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Well all the other kids are doing it
Mamdani campaign sign fonts saying "Take off every zig For Great Justice"
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Shout out to whoever’s sticking these up. Well done, you!
A sticker is on the bathroom, safety rail, text says “Republicans protect pedos”
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
That was the title of the Mad magazine parody. (Mort Drucker ftw!)
Page 1 of the Mad magazine parody “Voyage to See What’s On the Bottom” 1966
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Reposting because looking at Peter O'Toole made me forget how to crop images. Le d'oh!
better cropped image of Peter O'Toole and Audrey Hepburn in How To Steal A Million (1966.)
October 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Peter O'Toole and Audrey Hepburn in How To Steal A Million (1966.)
October 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Advice from 2018 Me's cubicle wall. Still good.
On a cubicle wall, a black rectangular sign with white text: "You don't have to attend every argument you're invited to."
October 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Call Tom Emmer today.

It's the patriotic American 🇺🇸 thing to do.

#NoKingsOctober18
Contact information for Rep. Tom Emmer MN-R
October 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Ope. Wrong Nash's can. On closer look, the coffee can Frances used to foil a robbery was a one pound can of Nash's Toasted Coffee, with "Coffee" written in script. Same vintage, circa 1930s.
Follow me for more tips on how to pursue tiny details to reveal their ultimate irrelevance.
Close up of Frances Farr's hand, holding the coffee can used in foiling a robbery. A Nash's Toasted Coffee can. Note the word Coffee is in script.
October 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
The weapon used by Frances Farr was identified as a one pound can of Nash’s Regular Grind Coffee, a product of Nash Coffee Company, Saint Paul Minnesota
A photo of a vintage (circa 1920s-1930s) one pound can of Nash’s Regular Grind Coffee
October 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Michael Palin saying "The Bishop!"
October 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Music written for History Is Made At Night, perhaps?
Goes with the Lobster Cardinal a la Cesar, and the Pink Cap ‘21 champagne…
Cover for the Criterion Collection edition of History Is Made At Night complete with Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur surrounded by an ocean liner, Colin Clive, Leo Carrillo (aka Chef Cesar) and little white silhouettes of a lobster, the Eiffel Tower, a pearl necklace, couples dancing, the Statue of Liberty. (All have plot significance.)
October 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Sean Bean/Boromir One Does Not Simply meme generator: ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY DELETE WEIRD AL
September 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Age yourself with a film you saw in a cinema as a kid.
The cast of Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1959), on the raft they built out of giant mushrooms, sailing on the Saknussem Sea at the center of the earth. L-r: Peter Ronson, Thayer David, Gertrude the Duck, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, and...ok, well I guess i have to include awful, tedious, smarmy Pat Boone.
September 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
What’s your sign
A green sign with white lettering that reads:"KEEP OFF DUNE" Someone has attached a piece of white paper with words written in black ink: "UNLESS KWISATZ HADERACH"
September 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Nice. Looks strangely familiar!
A loaf of honey whole wheat bread on a cooling rack. The 13x4 Pullman loaf pan and lid are next to it.
September 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
I am missing Katya (2010-2022) whose full name was Екатерина Великая, императрица всех русских голубых котят.
Morrigan shall be my new queen! ❤️
A Russian blue cat lying on the back of a brown leather couch, with shadows of Venetian blinds shining over her like a noir movie from the 1940s.
September 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Currently slogging through the slough of despair and in need of a thoughtful, intricate, beautifully-written book.
Thanks, Benjamin.

RIP Thomas Perry

Just borrowed from Libby:
Screenshot of the opening page of the Libby app showing the book Vanishing Act by Thomas Perry, just added to my bookshelf
September 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Oh for dumb.

Uhh, thanks, NYT. I guess.

[adds obligatory
"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!" quote]
Screenshot of a "badge" one can earn by getting Wordle in 2. I have apparently earned this badge 56 times. Yay me!
September 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Drop some CAPES
Bette in Now, Voyager wearing THE CAPE WITH THE FRITILLARIES
September 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
darth Bluesky wants you. very specifically you.
List of open jobs at blue sky with the job “potato inspector and legal council for dogs” highlighted
September 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Twinsies!
Photo of my equally unmarked, de-marked, sans markings measuring cup.
September 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
#BOTD in 1898, my birthday twin, the divine Shirley Booth. In About Mrs. Leslie (1954) she makes us absolutely believe that industrialist Robert Ryan would fall in love with witty cabaret singer Shirley and they would conduct a clandestine affair for 7 years leading up to WWII. Acting!
I love it 😍
Poster for About Mrs. Leslie, 1954, starring Shirley Booth and Robert Ryan.
August 31, 2025 at 2:08 AM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
#BOTD in 1906, my other favorite birthday twin, the glorious Joan Blondell. 💖
I love her in everything, but 2 movies in particular: Golddiggers of 1933, and Desk Set (of 1957.)
Aline MacMahon, Joan Blondell, and Ruby Keeler in Golddiggers of 1933. Joanie is wearing one of the greatest dresses of all time. Aline’s is pretty great, too. Ruby just looks sweet, as always. Joanie and Kate drink a lot of champagne and discuss commuting via the Mexican Avenue bus. Excuse me, I meant the Mexington Avenue bus.
August 31, 2025 at 1:39 AM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Celebrating my birthday today with the fam.
Lunch for 4 from Cecil’s.
Thanks, guys!❤️❤️❤️
A large bag from Cecil’s Deli sitting on my kitchen table.
August 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
theowlwagon.bsky.social
Happy birthday to me and my birthday twins Joan Blondell and Shirley Booth!
Does that make us birthday triplets? Hmm..
🎉🎂🥳
Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan as triplets in The Band Wagon. Text is overlaid, labeling them Shirley, Joanie, and Me.
August 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM