Collin Treviño Bost

@cobost.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor of Awesome Stuff at Texas Lutheran University. Writing, comics, movies, SA Spurs. Lives in Austin; grew up in South TX. (he/him)

A clip from the Three Stooges’s short “Blunder Boys,” which is riffing on Joe Friday from Dragnet: We first see Moe, lighting a Sherlock Holmes pipe and then holding up a police badge: “I'm Halliday” Then Larry, who holds up a badge and says, “I'm Terriday.” And then finally Shemp, who is holding a large lit firecracker: “I'm Independence Day!” The fuse burns down but doesn’t explode. Shemp says, “Fooled ya, didn't I?” Then it explodes off-camera and smoke fills the frame. He holds up the exploded firecracker and says, “Fooled me, too!”
Screenshot from the NYT: By Tracey Tully June 24, 2026 Representative Thomas Kean Jr., who has been missing from Washington for nearly four months with little explanation, is back home in New Jersey. He could be seen from the street on Wednesday evening, standing in a brightly lit front room of his Westfield home just before 8:45 p.m. "It's good to see you," he said after a reporter for The New York Times rang his doorbell. He was wearing a dark suit and a red tie. "I'll talk to you next week," he said. "Thank you." Mr. Kean's wife, Rhonda, stood in the background, smiling pleasantly. He declined additional comment and closed the door.
Photo from the children’s section of Austin Central Public Library, showing the cover of the children’s picture book Nerdy Birdy Tweets—story by Aaron Reynolds and pictures by Matt Davies. The titular nerdy bird has big glasses, a small beak, and wings holding a “banana” (not apple) cellphone
Photo of Alex Caruso (currently OKC Thunder guard) dribbling a basketball as a college player wearing a Texas A&M jersey, number 21.
Wemby in a cowboy hat: “Howdy Y’all This Is Wemby”
Wemby flashing hook ‘em horns during a game in Austin
Victor Wembanyama is waving a tortilla chip around in an HEB commercial
A woman with brown hair and a coffee cup is making a concerned frown in front of a microphone. This is screenshot from a Washington Post opinion podcast/video.
Two young men—the lead characters of Route 66—leaning on their Corvette convertible, probably on their way to another town
A poster that shows scary skeletons going down a roller coaster while menacing be-skinned humans going up—mostly famous in other contexts as a meme.
Tim Curry as the Grand Wizard (very unfortunate name) in the 1986 British television adaptation of The Worst Witch. Curry, in the middle of the frame, stares directly at the viewer. His bow tie is a bat.
A screenshot of my eBay account: “Member since 1998”
A screenshot of an interview of Chamillionaire from MTV.com’s old Mixtape Mondays blog: "He's actually rapping pretty good on it, it's crazy," Cham said last week. "I guess [Al's camp] reached out to my management and asked if they could do it. He's Grammy-nominated, man. He goes platinum. It's really an honor when he does that. I remember when he redid Michael Jackson's 'Bad' ['Fat']. Weird Al is not gonna do a parody of your song if you're not doing it big. You gotta be a big dog. He shot the video, and people will see it pretty soon. It's crazy. "He's spittin' just like Krayzie Bone on the second verse," Cham added. "It's actually very funny if you listen to what he's saying. The way Krayzie is harmonizing, he does the same thing. It surprised me. I didn't know he could rap like that. Just when you think 'Ridin' was gonna stop, something happens to make it bigger. I hear sportscasters on EPSN referencing it. Go to Jamaica, they're playing it. It won't stop." ...
A headline from a Smithsonian Magazine article: “Drivers Keep Crashing Into Feral Pigs on the Fastest Highway in the Country.” Sub-headline: “Colliding into a 400-pound feral pig at 85 miles an hour can do some damage”
Screenshot of my Spotify wrapped results showing that my top song was “Chattermax”—Bluey, Joff Bush, Steve Peach
Image from a 2021 labor action, featuring a sign that uses the house style umlaut: “COÖPERATE WITH THE NEW YORKER UNION”
A page from David Shannon’s picture book, Roy Digs Dirt. The illustration shows Roy the dog barking at a smiling opossum. There are two red star-shaped flowers in the dirt next to Roy
Screenshot of the Bluesky treading banner that shows “MechaHitler” and (partially) “Supreme Court”
An excerpt from my kid’s preschool Father’s Day card: “I love Dad more than My grocery store toy”
A one-panel Heathcliff comic showing Heathcliff on a therapist’s couch surrounded by nine whole bone-in hams and wearing his helmet with the word “HAM” on it. (The helmet is a running gag in the strip.) The therapist, with a notepad in her lap, is saying, “Let’s talk about ham.”
A screenshot from a LinkedIn email: “Top job picks for you Special Agent: Education/Teaching Expertise Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area (On-site) $99K-128K / year” The screenshot also includes an image of the FBI seal.
A photograph of a metal pole at a crosswalk that has two bumper stickers on it: “Abolish ICE” and “GOD BLESS WILLIE NELSON.”
A scene from Selena (1997) set on the steps of Swantner Park in Corpus Christi, Texas—my hometown. This is the scene where young Selena hears a cumbia and dances “the washing machine” with her mom.
The actor Sam McMurray also plays the character Glen in Raising Arizona. This photo shows one of his grimy kids (Buford) writing “FART” on wood paneling.
Screenshot of an email promoting Dolly Parton’s Stampede Dinner Attraction sent to the poster’s work email at 2:53AM
Hardback copy of The Films of Boris Karloff by Richard Bojarski and Kenneth Beals. The red and black cover features Boris Karloff as Imhotep from The Mummy (1932)