Adam J.B. Lane

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Cartoonist, author, man for all seasons. CAUTION contents may include art, politics, dinosaur and shark fanboying, film, historical oddities, baking, Pittsburgh sports.

A children's sticker book titled "Realistic Whales Stickers"
Album cover featuring the nihilist band from "The Big Lebowski"
Four rectangular pieces of matzo unleavened bread, each draped with intensely pink tissue-thin slices of prosciutto, the air-cured Italian ham. Understandably difficult for observant Jews to embrace, as it combines forbidden pork with the religiously symbolic cracker bread, but I'm telling you people, the taste is out of this world!
The angular interior of a baseball stadium with a peaked roof of dark metal struts and trusses suspended high above the playing surface, and a huge wall of glass beyond the outfield. Photo credit unknown, sorry.
Lovely photo of the blue shark, a long, slender pelagic (open ocean) predator. This picture shows off the long, wing-like pectoral fins, and deep blue, almost violet, coloration on its back.
A package of (allegedly) turkey dinner flavored candy corn.
Lickspittle journalist Bari Weiss, who as the new head of CBS News is hard at work turning it into a Trump-friendly propaganda outfit.
Snippet of a newspaper article explaining that the breathless encomiums awarded to the Melania movie on the Rotten Tomatoes website all seem to originate just from buyers of tickets via Fandango, none of whom appear to have reviewed any other movies before.
Horror superstar Garth Marenghi, author of CRAB!!, Beyond the Valley of the Screams, and Night of the Haddock, among many spine tinglers
Native American food from Conflict Kitchen 2016-17
Graphic showing storefront designs for some of the different iterations of Conflict Kitchen - North Korean, Venezuelan, Afghan, and Cuban.
First iteration of Conflict Kitchen serving Iranian (Persian) cusine.
An editorial cartoon divided into two panels. On the left, a couple watching tv news; the wife asks out loud "Dick Cheney's been compared to Darth Vader. I wonder how he feels about that..." On the right stands Darth Vader, dark lord of the Sith. "I'm hurt" he replies.
Peter Sellers as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau
Action shot of QB Joe Flacco, dressed in the home uniform of the Cleveland Browns, his former team, about to uncork a throw in last month's opener against his current team, the Cincinnati Bengals.
A man costumed as a Roman centurion stares at a smartphone in his hand. A structure partially seen in the background may or may not be the ruins of the Colosseum in Rome.
A selection from the Guardian's American news liveblog: One neighbor who lives across the street from the Robinsons, declined to be named. He said he’s “blind to the world”, and only learned about Robinson’s arrest when he saw reporters and law enforcement in the street this morning. He was agnostic about the massive media presence on his street. “Mother nature is mother nature, whatever she calls to do, let’s do it,” he said. And was similarly accepting when asked about Robinson, the subject of a massive 48-hour search, living just across the street. “If it’s close to home, if it’s 50 miles from me, it’s the same damn thing,” he said. “Shit happens and that’s what it is.”
Infamous pic taken by Atlantic editor Dante Ramos of a young woman sitting in the seat in front of him on an airplane. Her long ponytail hangs over the back of her seat and into his space, even blocking his view of the seatback video screen.
Charming topiary sign at the end of the Bourne Bridge, welcoming visitors to "Cape Cod"
A group of 5 or 6 people in fursuits prowl (in the nicest sense of that word) a sunlit street in downtown Pittsburgh.
An orange bag of limited edition Lay's Kettled Cooked Indian Tikka Masala chips. Delicious!
The Malibu police captain from "The Big Lebowski"
A still from 1985's classic "Cocoon", only with four different actor's heads swapped in for those of the original cast.
Four food mascots matched with their obvious A-Team counterparts. Colonel Sanders is the team's military strategist, the obvious equivalent of Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith. Charming, dapper Mr. Peanut is the squad's "Faceman". Both Kool-Aid Man and B.A. Baracus are adept at smashing things down, and have memorable catchphrases. And who esle but the Noid could be the team's loopy wildcard, a la "Howling Mad" Murdock.
The movie poster.
Actors Pedro Pascal and Diego Luna.
Four costumed performers resembling a mashup of McDonaldLand characters with heavy metal rock icons.
A crowd, bathed in purple neon light, is gathered at the edge of the skating floor at Roller World roller rink in Saugus, Massachusetts.
The allegorical goddess Columbia, in a white dress and holding a torch aloft.
Surrounded by a sea of hands, vocalist Ken Casey stands singing into a wireless microphone.
Two similar photos, one stacked atop the other, show Mike Lindell, the My Pillow guy, above, and Elon Musk (who by now needs no introduction) below. Both are speaking at podiums bearing the Presidential seal, and each is making a gesture with an outstretched right arm... Lindell a defiant fist, Musk an open-palmed fascist salute.
A black and white pen sketch depicting the cover of a hit children's book sequel titled "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Slower Than 50mph Or It Will Explode!". The drawing on the hypothetical cover shows the pigeon protagonist behind the wheel of an LA city bus, which is leaping through the air in an eruption of flame and smoke.
A poem, titled "Fascism: I sometimes fear...". The text goes I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you... It doesn't walk in saying, "Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."
Future (and current) Cowboys owner Jerry Jones at a 1957 demonstration opposing integration at the University Of Arkansas. In recent interviews Jones says he was there just "out of curiosity".
In this climactic scene from David Lynch's infamous adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel, pop musician Sting, clad in a blue latex spacesuit, portrays psychopathic ginger Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen. Surrounded by a mixed crowd of watchful Fremen and Sardaukar warriors, he gleefully threatens an off-screen Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan) with a dagger.
Courtroom sketch of Rudy Giuliani being found in contempt of court in US District court today, January 6. The disgraced former mayor appears remotely in the courtroom via computer screen, his face contorted into a ghoulish rictus of madness and disdain.