Bill McBee

@billmcbee.bsky.social

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A screenshot of the Hugo, Girl! podcast download page. It lists "Double Star" and "A Desolation Called Peace" both as Episode 81.
The Lion King: He has cried at a movie trailer.
A picture of John Scalzi's book, When the Moon Hits Your Eye, with a backdrop of a shelf of some Scalzi books and virtually all Mary Robinette Kowal books.
Commissioner Gordon on the left and a surprised looking Chief O'Hara on the right, from the Batman TV series (1966).
A picture of "José y los Pussy Cats" on stage at their instruments, which replaces Josie with the parrot José Carioca from Disney's "The Three Caballeros". He is dressed in a leopard skin outfit like Melody and Valerie (but not a leotard). Credit to my friend, but not enough to name him.
Title card for the Doctor Who serial, "The Seeds of Doom".
A table at Barnes and Noble in Pearland, Texas, covered in copies of "Starter Villain" by John Scalzi. The sign over it shows the cover of the book, which is a picture of the upper part of a cat in a business suit. The text of the sign reads: "Our monthly speculative fiction pick In a dog eat dog world... Be a cat. Starter Villain John Scalzi"
Chief Wiggum from The Simpsons is stroking his chin (with Apu and Jasper to his left and Sideshow Mel to his right, and says: No jury in the world's going to convict a baby. ...Hmm, maybe Texas...
Krusty the Clown (on the left)from the Simpsons in a crowd, misunderstanding Maude Flanders (in center) when she was angry about talking about (spelled out) S-E-X in front of the C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N. Krusty says: "Sex Cauldron? I thought they closed that place down."
A humanoid robot on wheels loading dishes into a traditional dishwasher.
A cartoon of a humanoid robot washing dishes in a sink.
Text: "When I was six years old, my Uncle Billy was killed in the K-resin facility of the Philips Petroleum complex. Vaporized, actually, except for the steel soles of his work boots, which he left behind on the factory floor like wet silver footprints. Statistically, this was not surprising. If you're a boy growing up in Deer Park, or Pasadena, or any of the other little suburbs east of Houston, the odds are pretty good that Refinery Row will get you sooner or later." Page 6 of the novel "Perfect Circle" by Sean Stewart.
A picture of two Mentats from the recent Dune movies with stains on their bottom lips.
Cindy Crawford in a one piece bathing suit and boots leaning over and straddling k. d. lang who is seated in a barber's chair in a suit, with shaving cream on her face. Photo by Herb Ritts. Cindy Crawford says: "Can’t believe this was (yikes) 30 years ago! Loved being included in @kdlang‘s @vanityfair cover shot by @herbritts. Herb called me the night before to see if I wanted to be part of this shoot, which was considered a bit risqué at the time — challenging gender stereotypes. Still one of my favorite cover shoots, I’m so proud to have been part of it"
Robin Williams in One Hour Photo, holding a packaged toy. He says: "Oooh. Neon Genesis Evangelion."
A credits screen from the extras on the first issue of the American DVD from ADV Films. The third line down says: DVD Subtitle Timing: William McBee.
Late 1970s picture of actor Robert Reed, with curly hair and a moustache, looking serious.
Christopher Lee as Lord Summerisle in the movie "The Wicker Man". He's wearing a tweed jacket and a yellow turtleneck. He has wild hair and his hands are in the air, but he's not signalling a touchdown at this moment.
Oil man: Here, Hiawatha! Twenty-five dollars, and half an hour to pack your bags and quit the territory! Native: Has Paleface gone mad? Next panel captioned "An hour later..." with American soldiers marching and aiming bayonets at fleeing native Americans...
Don Mattingly, animated on the Simpsons, with the side of his head shaved. After just being fired by Mr. Burns for having sideburns, he says: Fine. I still like him better than Steinbrenner.
The cover of the Choose Your Own Adventure #1, The Cave of Time book, 1979.
VERY VERY HUNGRY CATEPILLAR by Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) A super humanly sized caterpillar rearing up over three people, with the blood and the death.
The first illustrated page of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage! Lady Byron leaves Lord Byron, POET, with her newborn daughter, Ada, and sets her to mathematics instead of poetry.
An outside shot of a place called "Neil's Bahr", with an atom symbol between the two words.
An aerial view of the ring of stones that make up Stonehenge. ...Plus, some in the middle.
Bloomberg headline: Work shift: Women CEOs (finally) outnumber Those named John
An ad in the middle of an old paperback novel for Kent cigarettes. Photo taken from Google because I couldn't be bothered to remember which of my collection also has this.
A photo of a bottle of Calpis: Cultured Milk Drink. From Cals!
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,062,927!
Title screen shot of the MST3k experiment Teenage Caveman.
Blonde woman hurling milkshake at human tool Nigel Farage.
Previous Tim Onion with 666 likes.
Janeway finger pecking a keyboard at evil billionaire Ed Begley, Jr.'s house in 1997.
An upside down cover image of "sword that rips all of a man's clothes off" by Paperback Paradise.
Randy Quaid as Ronald Reagan on Saturday Night Live.
Karen Gillan as a very pregnant Amy Pond lying down with an unseen woman saying "Well, dear, you're ready to pop, aren't you?"
Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people, but what’s worse I think, is that they’ll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad. -Frankie Boyle
A Cybertruck parked next to a Camry.
Scully from X-Files in scrubs holding a scalpel and talking into a recorder. Image 1: Begin autopsy on white male, age 60, 2: who is arguably having a worse time in Texas than I am, 3: although not by much.
Two strong arms gripping each other's hands meme.
Randy Quaid as Ronald Reagan on Saturday Night Live in the mid 1980s.
Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on the ISS cosplaying as Sandra Bullock in the movie Gravity, showing on a screen above her head.
A white Honda with a Miku license plate and lots of stickers, including "Miku Racing" and "Hentai Ruined My Life".
Yellow triangle sign suction cupped to the back of a vehicle window: "I ONLY DO ANAL NO BABY ON BOARD". In smaller text: "Assholes live forever"
Two skeets next to each other, saying: "Don't threaten me with a good time". The first is of J. I. Rowling being in danger of facing legal consequences for bigotry, and the second is tfg "warning" that Kamala Harris will give everyone healthcare if she wins.
A description of the first Otakon.
A realty sign for Otisburg, California. A subsidiary of Lexcorp(r). "It's a little bitty place."
Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling comic titled: Everything was better when you were twelve. It features experts reiterating the title's thesis.
Sarah's Scribbles comics by Sarah Andersen: #1 Titled: Getting into a series years too late. Frame 1: Sarah saying That... Was incredible! 2: Time to par-tay! (As she approaches a door marked FANDOM. 3: She throws open the door... 4: To find a couple of bored looking people and a mess of a party that should have ended long ago.
A Google response to the etymology of Cabal. Medieval Latin Cabala, and a Wikipedia response that says Cabal derived from Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical interpretation of the Hebrew scripture.
A real Smith Corona portable electric typewriter, with the closing lid lifted up.
What? Harmless! Is that all it’s got to say? Harmless! One word!’ Ford shrugged. ‘Well, there are a hundred billion stars in the Galaxy, and only a limited amount of space in the book’s microprocessors,’ he said, ‘and no one knew much about the Earth, of course.’ ‘Well, for God’s sake I hope you managed to rectify that a bit.’ ‘Oh yes, well I managed to transmit a new entry off to the editor. He had to trim it a bit, but it’s still an improvement.’ ‘And what does it say now?’ asked Arthur. ‘Mostly harmless, Douglas Adams, The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five (Hitchhiker's Guide,
Data, Worf, and Dr. Crusher are having a conversation while Troi looks on. Oh. And there's a dead, naked Geordi LaForge on a lighted table covered only in a little bit of silver cloth.
Olympic gymnast (looking like Simone Biles) with a leotard that is labeled: Sicko "Athletes". She's looking through the window, saying: Yes... Ha Ha Ha... YES!
Sarah's Scribbles cartoon by Sarah Andersen titled Cats Living Together. An orange cat and a black cat are snuggled together with eyes closed. Orange cat: I love you. Black cat: I love you too. Closeup of their faces. Orange cat's eyes open. Orange cat wields paw at black cat and says: Actually you know what (Not shown: the ensuing cats melee.)
Still from Star Trek: Lower Decks, a classroom in the far future, showing holographic golden statues of heroes. The teacher saying to the young children: "...perhaps the most important person in Starfleet history, Chief Miles O'Brien.
The 11th Doctor, played by Matt Smith, realizing he just invented the quadricycle.
Matthew Broderick in the movie Election, a teacher weirdly determined not to let the try-hard girl get elected class president.
Chico and Groucho on their way to Australia.