Corey Klemow

@cklemow.bsky.social

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1970s Nicholas Meyer novels "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" in which Holmes meets Freud, and the less good follow-up "The West End Horror" in which Holmes meets George Bernard Shaw.
homemade olive oil pasta tomato chicken dish in the pan
diced tomato on a plate next to a slice of lemon, soon to be my dinner with the addition of olive oil, fettuccine, chicken, pepper, italian seasoning and garlic powder
Soft-serve orange/vanilla swirl cone from Joe's Italian Ice in Anaheim, CA.
FRAZZ by Jef Mallett. Austin, a small child: "Who cut the cheese?" An adult authority figure, very earnestly kneeling down to the child's height while the child's friend looks on: "Austin, my man. Can we try a slightly more sophisticated approach to the language?" Frazz, the teenage janitor, blithely walks through: "WHEEOOO! Who scorched the souffle?" The authority figure, with a wry smile, puts his arm around a confused looking Frazz: "Ok. Support authority or subvert it. Both at once confuses the kids." Frazz: "What?" The kids, their joyful faces protruding into the bottom of the frame at jaunty angles: "Who burnt the brie?" "Who puffed the pastry?"
One vintage British shilling, aka a "bob"
Cover of Stanislaw Lem's "Imaginary Magnitude"
Fake Absolut Vodka ad of a bottle of Absolut Vodka superimposed on a photo of horses with the caption ABSOLUT HORSES.
The Monkey King, from Alan Moore's "Swamp Thing" run
An old sportcoat 'n' vest, probably from the 50s but still vaguely suitable as a costume for a bit from an even earlier era.
Dec. 1976 Reader's Digest cover
Poster for BITS, benefiting Theatre of NOTE and Selah Neighbohood Homeless Coalition. May 6, doors 7:00pm, show 7:30pm. The poster is those words and some bright swirly colors and the word BITS in the middle.
complete terry moore graphic served on a sandwich roll
An unconscious or dead Spider-Man propped up against a crumbling gravestone that reads "PARKER."
Faceless being in astronaut suit from Doctor Who's "The Ambassadors of Death"
comic strip character nancy thinkin' hard about woims
"Don the horse overhears a stock tip and calls Chaney, presumably using his teeth to dial the phone."
Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion, weraing a little red ̶b̶o̶o̶k̶ bow
MID-FI: netflix noise is an iamb ART DECIDER: Susan Powter's Fine Corn Chowder MID-FI: i'm not yelling at you it is trochaic hectameter i am not mad it is a poem ART DECIDER: Billy Blanks's Bible Busters MID-FI: aggressively abusive AI
Sam Kieth's signature in gold marker at the bottom of page 4 of Sandman #1, with the right side of the letter H piercing a word balloon.
Hopper-Top toy from Burger King
To dig into what might be driving these increases, the team examined more than a dozen risk factors, including traditionally recognized ones such as high cholesterol and high blood pressure, as well as “nontraditional” ones. The latter encompassed factors such as psychiatric disorders, nontobacco drug use and low income. Three nontraditional risk factors particularly stood out in young people: chronic kidney disease, nontobacco drug use and lower income.
Poster for THE CAR (1977) starring James Brolin. "IS IT A PHANTOM, A DEMON, OR THE DEVIL HIMSELF? There's nowhere to turn, nowhere to hide, no way to stop... THE CAR."
1950s McDonald's menu with 15 cent hamburgers, 19 cent cheeseburgers, 20 cent milkshakes and 10 cent drinks.
Old-style yellow-label for a can of Chef Boy*ar*dee Cheese Ravioli in Sauce
Image of butter chicken being poured into a garlic naan bread bowl with the caption "POV: you were one of the first people in the world to try butter chicken served inside a garlic naan bread bowl"
Album cover for "Bye Bye Birdie: a captivating jazz interpretation of the musical sore by Bill Potts and his orchestra - Willie Dennis, Billy Costa, Markie Markowitz, Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Milt Hinton, Joe Newman, Ron Odrich, Clark Terry, Sol Gubin & Ernie Royal"
"Business is great," declares the happy proprietor of a store called "Cat Wigs" as several cats, including Heathcliff, walk down the street wearing wigs and contented smiles, while a baffled looking woman and her bemused dog look on from the background.
A horrified Hank Hill saying "THAT BETTER BE PROPANE."
Marilyn Monroe performing "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"
Calvin of "Calvin and Hobbes" declaring, "I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal."
Screencap of a Facebook post I made in 2019: "Passionate Yang supporter at the NoHo food truck fair to his pal: "Yeah, I met another Warren supporter who wouldn't talk to me. Like, I asked why she's voting for Warren, and she said she didn't wanna talk about it. You can't talk about anything anymore, man. It's like a dictatorship." Yes, young Yangbro, some random woman exercising her right to not have a political conversation with a pushy stranger on a nice night out is exactly like a dictatorship."
Nine Pat Oliphant sketches of his little penguin character from his political cartoons
No need to spend money building a kitchen set that's only seen for one scene when you can CSO it in unconvincingly! (Still from "Terror of the Autons" featuring a woman in sharp focus with a rough cutout line visible particularly around her head, with a blurry photo of a kitchen behind her where even the bits of the kitchen that should be in focus because they're visually on the same plane as her are also blurry.)
Still from the intro to the Diblert teevee show reading "Based on the Comic Strip 'Dilbert' by SCOTT ADAMS"
One day, at the noon recess, Helen and a group of friends had found Marilyn reading in an empty classroom and sat down around her, and Helen said, "Perlman, we've been looking for you." (Thinking about it, on her own front porch behind the vines, thinking as she did almost daily, Marilyn remembered the sudden sickness, looking up from her book to see Helen and, cruelly, Harriet Merriam.) "We've been wondering," Helen said, looking at the other girls, who laughed, even Harriet, "we've been wondering about Christmas." "What about it?" When Marilyn remembered herself in this scene, she saw herself as small and frightened and ugly; Harriet, on the other hand, remembered herself as dirty and fat and overbearing; and perhaps Helen Williams, if she thought of it, remembered herself as friendly and teasing. "Well," Helen said elaborately, "in about ten months it's going to be Christmas again, and you know around here at Christmas on the last day of school all the kids give each other presents." The story had not been planned; so much might be Harriet's defense; the girls listened to Helen with smiles and some wonder. "And we thought," Helen went on, "that maybe when we all got together to draw names for the Christmas presents you maybe would think it was nicer of us just not to put your name in. So you won't be embarrassed." For so long a story it had very little point; Harriet was confused and looked at Helen, frowning. Marilyn put both hands down on the open pages of her book and looked around at Helen and at Harriet frowning and at the other girls, one of whom was fidgeting toward the door, and said, "I don't know why you want to do this." Helen laughed. "Maybe you have two Christmases," she said. She turned around to the other girls, to Harriet, and said, "Marilyn has two Christmases. One of her own and one she gets in on with us." "I don't get it," one of the girls said, and the one edging toward the door said, "Come on." "Marilyn knows what I mean," Helen said.
Cover for "The Stupids Die" showing the amiable Stupid family, their wonderful dog Kitty and their swell cat Xylophone.
Poster for the BBC six-part miniseries "All Good Things" starring Brenda Blethyn, Warren Clarke, Celia Imrie, Jemma Redgrave and Ken Stott.
Minnie Mouse cranks the tail of a goat, making it emit musical notes, while Mickey Mouse dances.
Reddy Kilowatt on a monitor screen in a scene from the Star Wars parody "Hardware Wars."
Despite what her TikTok username suggests, Kala does not have a formal background in engineering. She said she studied business and finance in school and has spent most of her professional life working in information technology — but that her passions lie in civil and mechanical engineering. She has done most of the tunnel work herself, occasionally tapping friends to assist. “It doesn’t take much for me to pick up a skill,” Kala said. “I can often learn skills just by doing it with minimal instruction.”
The Doctor's laboratory, a blue-wallpapered drawing room with a stained-glass window to, apparently, the hallway or adjoining room, given the door placement.
A can of Sanka with a cartoony angry face on it next to the words "Anger Sanka to play again," from the early-internet Flash animation "Yatta" (aka "Irrational Exuberance")
Photoshop screenshot of a CMYK conversion of the RGB image on the left from the previous post, looking nearly identical to the original
Logo for the BBC's "The Fish Sex Show" in big bold type against a churning seascape plus two fish having sex below the title.
logo for "The Gary Coleman Show," including Gary Coleman with angel wings and a halo, a lady angel who I guess is his supervisor or something, and a shifty evil guy in a... pimp outfit... ?
A Cyberman from "Doctor Who" wearing a press hat
A giant 1980s-style phone with a bank of 12 screens instead of buttons.
Simon temporarily devolves after sensory deprivation as the think tank (whose intention is to brainwash him into thinking he's an alien come to save the earth) observes.
@midfi's post "how do you keep oxygen absorbers fresh" immediately followed by @spookyjiro's post "bed rot"
"WBHX Oa" logo made from the HBO Max logo and the "O" with a glow vaguely reminiscent of the Green Lanterns' power rings.
Flex Armstrong, a stretchable toy bodybuilder with rubbery arms and legs. That's the 1970s for ya.
Old-timey print at for a spark plug cleaner topped by a cartoon of a pale white horse, his head sticking out from behind a window curtain or possibly a hand towel and the rest of him not visible at all, startling a woman washing dishes at her kitchen sink while shouting "SPARK PLUGS NEED CLEANING TOO!" and either winking or just squinting with one eye while gazing wildly with the other. Calm down, you night-mare of a horse.
William Hartnell as The Doctor wishing the viewers at home a Merry Christmas (Doctor Who, "The Feast of Steven," 1965)
Still from the Nestle's White Chocolate commercial that aped the work of Maxfield Parrish
Album jacket for the 45 single of The Supremes' "The Happening."