Bob Calhoun

@bobcalhoun.bsky.social

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Author of The Murders That Made Us, a true crime history of San Francisco. Co-host of Old Movies for Young Stoners, the podcast that pairs cannabis with classic cinema. Former SFWeekly, Incredibly Strange Wrestling. He/him www.murdersthatmadeus.com

Facebook post from Psychotronic author Michael Weldon showing several images including two covers of the 1990s magazine "Answer Me!" Clockwise from upper left: "Answer Me!" cover showing a bruised woman holding a hotdog with the word "rape" written in mustard; an anguished man in flannel; a crosseyed man with a beard; the cover of a book titled "The Redneck Manifesto;" and another cover "Answer Me!" with Hitler on it. Weldon's text above the images reads: In 1994 Jim Goad's Answer Me! was implicated in several suicides, a White House shooter had a copy with him, fan Gavin (Proud Boys) McInnes started Vice, Epstein raped his first underage victims in Michigan, and Goad received a $100,000 (!?) book advance from Simon And Schuster, publisher of 15 books "by" Trump. Goad (65) killed himself.
Man wearing a red tunic and black boots punching a robot. Text in the upper right corner reads: “4000 A.D.”
Comic book panel of a man with sideburns exclaiming, “Good Lord!” as he gazes at a human heart on his desk.
Vampire in a doorway.
Boxer Joe Frazier in his green brocade robe with gold trim.
A mature ram on a green field with hills in the background. (from the film The Sheep Detectives).
The true crime shelf at B Street Books in Hayward with the books “The Murders That Made Us,” “The Fort Bragg Cartel” and “Murderland,”
Black and white TV Guide ad for the short-lived superhero series Gemini Man from 1976. Images show a man in bell-bottoms running. Side triptych on the right shows the Gemini Man turning invisible as Gen Omen try to punch him.
Man playing an acoustic guitar with a sticker above the fretboard that reads, “This machine kills fascists.”
A Bluesky post by Tegan O’Neal that reads: “I see a lot of schmucks out here in these streets over-indexing a fluke-y situation in a one-off rural party primary environment to read as some kind of national shift, when the real data point is how the actual semi-functioning large state party apparatus ethered Swalwell in the space of a week.”
A pair of Blue Sky posts from Linda Holmes on 6/5/2026 that read: Cubs announcers: “Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug.” Accurate and apt The announcer just posited that “the bigger issue” for the team right now is the lack of offense, which is BOLD at this particular moment, sir. Bold.
Man with an eye patch chomping a cigar and holding a pistol.
Text message that reads: “ROBERT C, A message from California Secretary of State on behalf of Alameda County Registrar of Voters. Your ballot for the June 2, 2026, Primary Election was received and will be counted. Thank you for voting!”
Man with a mullet wearing a red shirt and black pants playing guitar.
Gold letters over an image of a crater-marked moon in space that read: "Grave Robbers from Hollywood."
Left to right: raven-tressed beauty in a clear space outfit and go-go boots, a regal older man wearing golden space armor with a shiny cape, and David Hasselhoff.
Black and white image of a man (Steve McQueen) with a sheep (Baa-Baa).
Painting of a dimetrodon, a sail-backed dinosaur, by Charles R. Knight, 1897.
Left to right: raven-tressed beauty in a clear space outfit and go-go boots, a regal older man wearing golden space armor with a shiny cape, and David Hasselhoff.
Two youths playing hollow body electric guitars at Jazz & Tacos, a presentation of the College of Liberal and Creative Arts at San Francisco State University.
Comic book cover of "The Defenders" issue 42. Cover lines read: Marvel Comics Group. The Defenders. Rhino, Solarr, Egghead: "The Deadly New emissaries of Evil!" The Rhino is ramming his head into into The Hulk in the foreground while Solarr is using his heat blast to ensnare the feet of Luke Cage, Power Man in melting concrete while Valkerie runs up on Solarr with her sword and Doctor Strange floats overhead.
Scruffy, bearded man wearing a rumpled black hat, a wrinkly shirt, a string tie, and a grey vest standing in front of a wood paneled wall and a coat rack.
Barbarber slashes man in barber’s chair with a straight razor while onlookers gathered at the window exclaim, “Good Lord! Choke!”
Two-star general in full uniform scowls at shaggy-haired man.
Man with dark hair wearing a white tux jacket places the ring on the finger of a gorgeous woman in a white dress while the judge who officiated the wedding looks on at San Francisco City Hall on April 13, 2012.
Paperback cover of the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep “ by Philip K. Dick showing a silver android on a grassy field with sheep.
Jazz combo playing at San Francisco State University.
Tall man in a black suit with a white shirt and black tie presenting a silver sphere with blades sticking out of it. Text at the bottom reads, "No, it's not!" (From the film Phantasm II.)
Screenshot of tweet by Jef Poskanzer with a pic of several turkeys in front of a kung-fu studio in Berkeley. Text reads: “@berkeleyside Oh great, now the turkeys are learning martial arts.”
Chefs waiting to carve meats behind the counter at Harry’s Hofbrau in San Leandro.
Cover of "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius showing an aged bust of the author.
Colorful wall of Jimmy Carter’s restaurant with “La Cantina” over the doorway to the bar.
Men standing to the side of a glowing, dragon-faced cave from the Star Trek episode “The Apple.”
Comic book cover of issue 7 of NIck Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. showing a man with an eye patch wearing a trench coat and tie running off a floor that is melting away with clocks, torn newspaper clippings and shadowy figures behind him.
Angry man in a brown blazer takes a bite out of a hotdog.
Shirtless man with a coy look on his face in a canoe. (Burt Reynolds in from the film "Deliverance.)
Bearded man with glasses sitting next to a large Panavision camera.
Richard Rothwell's portrait of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.
Book cover for “Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodore Geisel And the Making of American Imagination” by Brian Jay Jones. Cover image shows Geisel holding a drawing of the Grinch.
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Long-haired man with beard in a blue shirt with a red floral pattern.
Donut shop
Squirrel on fence with lemon tree in the background.
Man in a white pullover sport shirt, sleeping on a plane with a plastic kaiju toy on his right shoulder.
Marvel Hostess fruit pie ad showing the Incredible Hulk punching trees.
The Incredible Hulk wearing his trademark ripped-up purple pants lands on the desert ground with the sound effect "THOOM!" under his green left foot. The title line reads: "A Man-Brute Berserk!" From "The Incredible Hulk" no. 206.
A cartoon drawing of a boyin a red outfit and a mermaid riding a white dolphin undersea with the title "Marine Boy" in the top right.
Baby sitter drug smuggler demands her lucky hat while Ray Liotta responds angrily. Text reads: I need it. I got to have it. It’s my lucky hat. I never fly without it.
Distinguished gentleman with a mustache (Christopher Lee).
Two aging men sitting in brown Lay-Z-Boy chairs with microphones in front of their faces with a neon sign in the background that reads, "This is Gavin Newsom." A message across the screen reads, "An error occurred."
San Francisco Giants baseball player Willie McCovey in his uniform with the Giants logo above the number 44 on the front of his jersey.
Comic book cover showing the character Judge Dredd clad in dark blue leather and a gold badge on his chest holding up a smoking gun with his right hand and holding an unconscious skinhead with sharp teeth with his left. Cover lines read: "Eagle Comics (tm) Presents Judge Dredd (tm). He is the LAW and you'd better believe it."
White text on a purple field with the yellow tubi logo at the top that reads: "Thundarr the Barbarian is waiting."