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"If we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment” Umberto Eco

Mr. Yunioshi in the bath holding a bar of soap. Mickey Rooney’s cringeworthy depiction of Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a cultural companion to Sean Connery’s Bond in disguise in You Only Live Twice.
Rimmer from Red Dwarf’s head superimposed on his doppelgänger David Seymour’s photo bragging that hunters will get, quote, “a seat at the table.”
“It might be nice to smash the state, but it’s getting late, and mostly I’m just working for the man” - from Beautiful Haze by SJD
Eli Just is #20 on the 2026 World Cup goal scorers’ list
Rima te Wiata- NZ actor, singer, polymath. Image from iMDB
A black album cover on a black background and the words 2/2 Released Cover
Birds’ nest mushrooms (?), Zealandia, Wellington, NZ
Cropped screenshot of the very yellow album cover for Three of a Perfect Pair by King Crimson
A three-legged dog sits on a roadside waiting expectantly, tongue lolling on The Cruel Sea’s brilliant 1995 album “Three-Legged Dog”
Superman holds a tank above his head while scared Middle-Eastern looking soldiers aim missiles at him.
Mick Channon (Southampton) and Martin Buchan (Manchester United) play Subbuteo table football (with a flasher set than my family could ever afford! I had the baize, the goals and half my players snapped off at the ankles) ahead of the 1976 FA Cup Final. As a Liverpool supporter, I loved seeing my geographically closest 1st division team beat those Mancunians!
Tui breweries billboard ad. White text on black: “Ok, so I received that email- but I never opened it” Over the Tui logo the registered phrase (😲) Yeah right.
We call it inclusion, but too often we are including children in environments that make them feel more dysregulated, not less. Inclusion without the conditions for safety is not inclusion. It’s exposure. And exposure without support teaches children that the room was never really for them. It’s the opposite of belonging. The opposite of inclusion.
Foul mouthed ursine in an apron working in a shop: Ted
A fake Star Trek episode card from the original series. The episode title is “The Trouble With Truby” This is a reference to parenting expert Truby King who was contradicted by Dr. Benjamin Spock. Spock was, of course, the famous Vulcan doctor on board the Starship Endeavour whose most famous line was “The dilithium crystals cannae take any more Cap’n!”
Ron Mael of Sparks at his keyboard. It’s got Ronald written on the back where you’d normally see Roland
Herbie flowers with multi coloured tuba, electric bass, stand up bass, and giant mug with Cup of Flowers written on it
A tarot card “The Magician, from the 1909 Rider-Waite tarot deck, often thought to represent the concept of “as above, so below”.”
The “Top News” section of the RNZ site has a photo of Chris Bishop MP talking about being unhappy over a report taking too long to appear placed above a photo of PM Luxon on a video call with world leaders talking about the Iran crisis
A page from the Allbirds website emphasising their green credentials
Max Rockatansky and Goose leaning on a yellow and red Pursuit Special car in the movie Mad Max (1979)
Detail from the cover of The Zombies Odyssey and Oracle showing a paisley(ish) pattern
A page advertises Split Enz Tour 2026 with a recent photo of the band
The front cover of Robert Fisk’s book “Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War” showing an elderly Lebanese woman in traditional attire in front of a wall scarred by bullet holes.
American legislators wearing pins saying “Release the [REDACTED] files.” The blacked out redacted name looks to be about 5 letters long, not seven, like Epstein.
The front cover of the Jimi Hendrix 6 Singles Pack released in 1980
God creating Adam from the Michelangelo: A Different View Exhibition
“‘Arold!”
Screenshot juxtaposing an analysis of footage of Alex Pretti’s murder with a Facebook post in which NZ National MP Judith Collins is pictured being chummy with her “friends” Kristi Noem. They talked about “people smugglers” apparently.
Professor Brian Cox’s head (when he was in D-Ream) superimposed on actor Brian Cox’s body
A sticker of actor Brian Cox layered on top of a picture of Brian Eno layered on top of a stars background that initially had Brian Cox: astronomer in the foreground.
A sticker of Brian Eno superimposed over a picture of Brian Cox the astronomer standing in front of a background of stars
A section of a report on the case of the disrupted church service in Minneapolis. A clause from a sentence has been highlighted, to whit: “…she began hearing voices…”
David Byrne in Stop Making Sense looks similar to Cillian Murphy c2020
The Times published more details from its interview with Trump, and the president was asked if there are any limits to his powers across the globe, to which he replied: "Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me." • When asked about adhering to international law, Trump said: "It depends on what your definition of international law is."
This site was made by fellow obsessive Rob Sperlini whom, I hope, won’t mind me sharing on here.
Sally Field as the Flying Nun