Subscribed because I need a distraction right now and Krakoa-era comics are at that magic intersection of "I can think about this a whole bunch (intellectual)" and "I can think about this a whole bunch (silly)." Thank you for writing these!
Writes about prose-y books and picture-y books. Might actually be one of those Arcimboldo things where it's just a pile of fresh produce arranged like a face.
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Subscribed because I need a distraction right now and Krakoa-era comics are at that magic intersection of "I can think about this a whole bunch (intellectual)" and "I can think about this a whole bunch (silly)." Thank you for writing these!
I had honestly wondered about that shot, thanks!
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My favorite early Vertigo books were originally made for the aborted Touchmark comics imprint and brought over by Art Young.
This Old House but with Bruce Villanch
Look I'm a non-beliver (who tries not to be a jerk about it) and I'm telling you if the entirety of your "atheist on social media comedy" is just variations on "ha ha religion's dumb" we've already got that meme of a cassette tape of the Bible read by a snotty 14 year old atheist.
RIP to the great Graham Green www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Fw...
WAAGH That's-a unethical!
Did you start to slip into the Hank Hill cadence?
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
This is literally the house from the Final Programme.
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
Well that's a suss amount of detail
I wonder if they switched to ai images because no one wants to pretend to be a doctor who can't write an email.
Grammarly has started using ai visual in their ads, and the ads--which I've always hated-- are actually worse
I mean for me that was Tuesday
Who are you gonna trust, the experts who built the Titanic or the amateur who built the iceberg?
Anyways this has been another installment of "Greg knows too much about old timey crime," thank you for listening.
Originally the numbers were determined by the days stats at the local horse track, and as much as the movies made out number runners to be wise guys in fedoras and Noo Yawk accents your local numbers game was most likely run by a housewife.
Possibly the wildest thing I know about the lottery is that the government just took over "running the numbers" and the reason why so many dream dictionaries listed images and elements with numbers is because people used those to decide what to bet on
1. Trans women are women. Stop saying that trans women are "Men pretending to be women." 2. Sexual predator men don't pretend to be women to molest girls. That would be way too much work and effort. Sexual predator men pretend to be youth pastors to molest girls. 3. Trans men are not a "gotcha."
What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.
Car in front of me has 3 bumper stickers, one says "Love and Peace", one says "All are Welcome" and one says "FUCK THE 49ERS"
"NOT TO MENTION KERMIT THE DAMN FROG!!!!!"
"Have you ever heard the expression when life gives you lemons, squeeze them in the eyes of the guy who gave you the lemons until he gives you the oranges you asked for in the first place??"
A Room of One's Own, queer bookstore
Our mural wall in West Belfast has just been completed, with the top finished by artists Micky Doc and Marty Lyons. Isreal is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people. FREE PALESTINE
After we saw Deadpool 2 my friend was asking about the Essex Institute reference and the best explanation I could come up with is "Mr Sinister is the X-Men's Dr Frank N Furter and Scott and Jean are his Brad and Janet"
"Did you have BIG FUN with the Wretched??"
“BRO STOP GOONING TO AI ANIME AND TAKE US TO MARS.” This is the most amazing sentence I've ever encountered outside of a Mark Leyner novel. Linguistically there is so much to unpack here. I want to diagram this sentence.
His mediocrity confounds me.
Another one is from a Julius Schwartz tribute story Grant Morrison wrote: "We're soldiers. We're in the business of creating a context for our own existence."
One of the quotes I think about on a weekly basis is when Jimmy James says "If life were fair there wouldn't be rich people."
In my Iron Man pitch, he fights Manda Rin, formerly from Scottish pop punk band Bis.
Sorry but Scooter Braun and Sydney Sweeney sound like Silver Age Spider-Man characters who were assholes to Peter and were later brought back to be killed by Venom.
Gavin Newsom doesn’t deserve your dead-eyed cheerleading. He is Donald Trump with better hair. Learn to stand for something and demand better.
2025 Democratic politics is that scene in every 70s movie where somebody gets their car stolen and runs down the street shaking their fist in the air yelling, "Hey, that's my car!!!"
fuck “grammarly” we die like men
Someone recently said a moderate voter is someone with strong feelings about vehicle registration fees who has to guess at the name of the Vice President, and that seems exactly right
1800 block of South Western Avenue in Chicago
I just watched a video of some deranged barista mixing espresso into a glass of Irn Bru and now I need to go on a healing retreat and receive counseling
The thing to understand about Chicago is that the people who live here love this fucking city, and we will defend it. Always.
Tom Clancy's Macho Sluts
Back in 1946, the KKK was trying to make a major comeback after World War II. Enter Superman — the Man of Steel exposed their secrets and took them down in his radio show. I asked Rick Bowers, author of Superman vs the Ku Klux Klan, what we can learn from this today buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Pilsen beauty parlor ad, Chicago 1911
This was a Seinfeld bit
Detectograph???
Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV
Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books
They've reset the timeline twice. The timeline gets reset a lot in this show, you get used to it "
When I'm showing Legends of Tomorrow to New people I always start at the beginning of season 3, and they always ask what about the previous two seasons of continuity. "Oh don't worry, they reset the timeline." "They're only on season two and they've already reset the timeline?"
THIS IS NOT EVEN A PARTICULARLY WEIRD OUTING FOR THEM
And I love that in this scene she's not being hyperbolic or euphemistic, readers they do in fact put on their good clothes and attend church service--to steal the death totem that has possessed Elvis Presley's guitar
At least once a week I will remember a moment of the inspired lunacy of Legends of Tomorrow. Just absolutely banana pants. It took them a bit to find themselves but my god, what they did when they got there.
Don't get me wrong, Pritzker is an amazing governor of Illinois but that's because he actually does the job instead of ripping copper pipes outta the wall to sell off. But let's not do that things where we make Democrats into messianic redeemer. He's here to govern the state, not heal the land.
Let’s be clear: Pritzker isn’t a savor, he’s not “the leader of the resistance.” There won’t be one. That’s us. He’s an elected doing his job when most aren’t, and doing it well. He’s not a leftist, he’s a liberal, but he’s putting himself on the line, and that’s worth a lot.
Prefer Pritzker to Newsom for a lot of reasons but I like how he can go on the offensive against Trump without posting an AI generated meme of himself wearing a crown
🌊 3D-printing special patterns in seawalls could change them from ocean killers to thriving marine environments. @fiu.bsky.social's Sara Pezeshk explains how these BIOCAP tiles work and why they could be a game changer for coastal cities threatened by rising seas. #ClimateChange #3DPrinting
Which is not the same thing you're talking about, HoXPoX was intended to be confusing from the outset; you're making a point about unintentional narrative confusion
Totally agree. You know more of what's going on but dramatically it doesn't engage the same way. It's like watching Pinter's The Betrayal in reverse scene order.
Did you ever read the chronological version of HoX/PoX on Marvel Unlimited?
Utterly FANTASTIC run!
I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
putting aside the trans rights issues specifically (lol), I think part of what has me so frustrated with the Newsom thing is that Pritzker, Walz, and Zohran are putting on clinics for a popular, progressive politics and we’re wasting time talking about this used car salesman ass goblin.
When he got elected I was rolling my eyes but he actually shows up and does the work and it's mind blowing.
Gavin Newsom suggesting that 25 years of age is too young to transition and agreeing to right-wing entryism of concern trolling about trans people in sports. This is your opposition leader? I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.
We had that light switch installed so he could turn the lights on and off --not have light switch raves!
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Castlevania Symphony of the Night and I didn't care about updated gameplay JUST LET ME SELL SWORDS I DON'T WANT
Let’s make books. ❤️
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
To quote Stan Sakai, wait by the river long enough and you will see the body of your enemy float by
One of our facilities people wears one and he confirmed that it filters out everything
Thanks for giving me flashbacks to when I worked in a bank call center
Not even those hardcore ventilator masks?
Someone asked me if Chicago was safe to take kids to and I told them there are kids who live there right now. "Oh. Oh right." Pretty certain there's a whole demographic of people in America who have set their idea of what Chicago is like from watching Judgement Night on VHS once
I've seriously lost my ability to comment
Of all the things I might've expected to see today, @ironspike.bsky.social watching Jimmy Olsen fistfight the devil was not one of them.
I will pay extra to have the title character played by Sylvester the Cat
When the first volume of Maus came out my local bookstore didn't have a graphic novel section and didn't feel comfortable putting it in the history section so they put it in humor where 9 year old me found it alongside the Far Side and Dave Barry
@apocrypals.bsky.social
Alyx, a 15 year veteran of the Air Force was approved for early retirement in May. The Trump admin suddenly revoked it on Wednesday because of the trans military ban. She'll lose out on healthcare and pension benefits as a result. www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
Are we counting Jackie as one? My main point of interest in her is her work in publishing; she was responsible for Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe getting published
Someone at the library asked me about an indie author promotion agency and I took one look and said "okay red flag #1 is there is no clue from their entire website who's paying for this"
I just hope we don't have to fight any Magnus Robots. I'm not sure who they are, just that one guy had to fight them in his comic.
The Fine Arts Building in Chicago has one!
No his problem was it was all white people. No black people in space in Star Wars. That was what took him out of it. And this was on a talk show on TV, he called it out in front of millions
And everyone thought he was going to talk about how you can't have noise in the vacuum of space or that lightsabers wouldn't work that way
They asked Carl Sagan about Star Wars when it first came out and he started by saying he had some problems with it
Buttons chases Mindy While Rita sings a verse The writers quit we have no script why bother to rehearse?
Twin Peaks just called and it said the Good Dale is in the lodge and he can't get out.
Now doing it at a funeral, THAT'S just a made-up TV thing
Fair (Cypher)
Harry S. Adams House, Augusta and Euclid, Oak Park. Built in 1913, it is the last house Wright designed in Oak Park.
OH OF COURSE HE DOES
This is the cutest damn thing I've seen all day
Donner and Blitzen is one of my favorite Christmas songs of all time. It's literally just a song about gift giving and it goes so hard.