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I have nothing to skeet, and I am skeeting it. Sarcasm, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes, satire, rubber ducks, sensible shoes, chocopies -- if we don't got it, you don't want it.

Cropped pic of an old Scot Towel advert with an angry, sinister looking guy with a mustache and tie drying his hands with a paper towel. The advert is from the 1930s and apparently capitalising on anti-communist hysterica. Text: Is your washroom breeding Bolsheviks?
Front door of Elmbook book store in Mong Kok, which will close next month after 29 years and is having a clearance sale. Photo taken July 18, 2026. I met one of the founders when I first came to HK, so this one is personal for me.
Video box cover for The Rookie (1990) starring Clint Eastwood (who also directed) and Charlie Sheen, plus lots of stuff exploding.
Sign posted along the drive-thru of a Portillo's restaurant somewhere in suburban Chicago. Features art of a Chicago hot dog with the words: NO PARKING NO STANDING NO KETCHUP
Scene from Johnny Dangerously (1984) with Michael Keaton as Johnny and Harry Jantzen as a kid who tries to shoplift a puppy from Johnny's pet store.
National Panasonic desktop tape recorder with built-in condenser mic, from the late 70s, I think.
Screenshot of video from Sam Neill (@TwoPaddocks) where he's holding a duck and says: When the world seems close to pear shaped, When leaders fill you with despair When things look dark and dreary And love seems far too rare - CUDDLE A DUCK [ It works ...] Glommed from Dangerous Minds
Jose Ferrer in The Amazing Captain Nemo (1978), a short lived TV show that clearly was enamoured with the detention block shootout scene in Star Wars.
Sam Neill and a pig mugging the camera.
Earth desktop wallpaper background with two monkeys banging logs on Toshiba laptops. Every time they hit it, the "publish" button appears. Yes, this is how I write.
Lobby Card for Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), with Kurt Russell, Joyce Mendes and Michael McGreevey.
“It has always seemed strange to me," said Doc. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.” ― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
Automatic mahjong table console, seen at a Japanese hot pot restaurant somewhere in Kowloon (can't remember where), October 2020. It wasn't plugged in.
Vincent Price standing on a stairway with the shadow of a bat projected on the wall.
Screencap of a Facebook post from the Americana Music Society, featuring a photoshopped version of the album cover for "Who's Next", with the concrete slab replaced with the tacky miniature arch from the Great American State Fair, and the album title changed to "Who's A Narcissist".
Billy Preston wearing comically oversized sunglasses.
From Shanghai: Picture of the Bund Bull from behind, with the Oriental Pearl Tower in the background on a rainy, cloudy day.
Black and white photo of a man in a gorilla suit sitting next to a woman eating popcorn.
Screenshot of HKO app on June 18, 15:04, showing warnings for black rainstorm, thunderstorm, flooding and landslides.
Box cover art for Quark (1977-78).
Screenshot from CBS News" Live Updates: Trump says U.S.-Iran deal "not final," threatens to resume bombing "if they don't behave" By Duarte Dias Updated on: June 17, 2026 / 9:38 AM EDT / CBS News
Julie Andrews playing guitar in The Sound of Music. Possibly not singing a Warren Zevon song.
CED copy of The Empire Strikes Back (1980). Not my disc or my photo – glommed from eBay.
Restaurant light fixtures that are basically a series of interconnected hoops.
Giant rubber duck in Victoria Harbour at night during a thunderstorm. Not Photoshop or AI. Photo glommed from news site HK01
Wheaties box (breakfast of champions!) with a painting of Bruce Jenner.
Promo pic from the 60s TV series The Munsters with Herman Munster (Fred Gwynne) playing guitar and Grandpa (Al Lewis) on drums.
Scene from The Exorcist (1973) where Pazuzu speaks Latin to Father Karras: "Mirabile dictu, don't you agree?"
Fake Doctor Who title card from the second Fourth Doctor era. Show title: Let's Do The Time Warp Again"
FIFA Peace Prize statue awarded to Donald Trump in 2025 that (from this angle) looks like a bald man with his head in his hands. Which is perfect somehow.
Donald Trump signs a document while a sinister Melania watches behind him wearing an equally sinister hat. Sinister, I tell you!
Star Trek TOS: Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Pelvis
Robert Crumb cartoon of Crumb holding an unsleeved vinyl record with the text: You don't touch the grooves when handling records! Which is correct and proper and I will sack any DJ I catch breaking this iron rule.
Screencap of a Threads post from @cartersiddall: In "Batman" (1989), the Joker airs a commercial where he tells Gotham that he's poisoned select beauty products, but won't reveal what they are. Three women die. Later in the film, he announces that he'll give away $20 million from a parade float. The entire city shows up. Some declaring their support for this freak with chalk white skin and green hair who had publicly admitted that he was randomly murdering them. He then releases toxic gas into the crowd. 1/2 This made me think of modern politics for some reason. 2/2
"It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window." ~ Raymond Chandler, from his novel Farewell My Lovely
Screencap from Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln on X: The Granta slop story has, uh, given a new meaning to morning wood Below that is a screenshot of a graf from the story in question: They called her Zoongie. Maybe it was a name; maybe rain took a shape and decided to keep it. She had the kind of walking that made benches become men. Hair tumbling wild, a dress that caught and released light, laughter with iron under it. Eyes that skimmed and did not land, as if what she wanted was elsewhere and she had to pass through men to get there She wore the island's mixed bloodlines like ... If you don't know what Granta story they're referring to, go here: https://lithub.com/a-prize-winning-story-published-in-granta-was-very-likely-written-by-ai/
Jane Badler and Peter Nelson in the TV show "V" (1983).
Mui Wo Laundry van that's kind of like a kitted-out Mini-Cooper with a fake green washing machine on the roof.
Screencap of column by Matthew Hennessey posted May 15, 2026: Headline: The Future Is Not Chinese Subhead: We have Apple, the NBA and Sydney Sweeney. What do they have?
Freddie Mercury wearing a tuxedo and holding a hand mirror.
Baby Yoda (Grogu) drinking from a cup in The Mandalorian. Text says: SOUP TIME
Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong’o and Letitia Wright.
Promo pic from Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse (2018) with Peni Parker, Gwen Stacey, Spider-Ham, Miles Morales, Peter Parker and Spiderman Noir.
Sign in a hotel elevator in Singapore, September 2016: No Durian
Two posters next to each other in an MTR station: 1. HK ad for the film Hercules (2014) starring Dwayne Johnson 2. An ad for salmon sashimi The juxtaposition makes it look like Hercules is hungry for sashimi. Photo taken by me in 2014.
CD copy of Talking Timbuktu by Ali Farka Toure and Ry Cooder, distributed by Rock Records in mainland China. Purchased in Beijing in 1996.
A different image from the Burger King Logo Generator, with a photo of a Whopper. Burger logo: Terribly Frog Tag line: You'll love it. It's a way of life.
Image generated by Burger King Logo Generator. Making Love Banana Monkey of the magic. (Inside joke based on a t-shirt design spotted in Shenzhen once.)
Scene from the remake of The Little Rascals (1994) with Spanky and Buckwheat wearing beards. I haven't seen it, so don't ask me why.
Sign posted at the end of the Forbidden City tour in Beijing: "Your visit ends here"
Melania Trump is talking to King Charles III while Donald Trump is looking up at the sky.
Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925).
Image showing a collection of news headlines in which Donald Trump uses violent rhetoric against his political enemies. (Note: this sample is far from comprehensive.) HEADLINE 1: Trump Floats the Idea of Executing Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley The former president is inciting violence against the nation's top general. America's response is distracted and numb. By Brian Klaas HEADLINE 2: Trump and GOP Rep. Gosar suggest Joint Chiefs boss Mark Milley deserves death PUBLISHED MON, SEP 25 2023-4:45 PM EDT UPDATED MON, SEP 25 2023-9:15 PM EDT Amanda Macias HEADLINE 3: Trump suggests Liz Cheney should be shot Trump called Liz Cheney, a Republican who is backing Kamala Harris, a "radical war hawk" and described putting her in front of a firing squad. HEADLINE 4: TRUMP BLASTS PROSECUTOR HE APPOINTED FOR NOT GIVING HUNTER BIDEN 'DEATH SENTENCE' The GOP's failure to produce evidence that the "Biden Crime Family" actually committed crimes isn't stopping the former president from calling for justice By RYAN BORT JULY 11, 2023 HEADLINE 5: Donald Trump posts video of truck showing hog-tied Joe Biden 30 March 2024 You get the idea.
La Sagrada Familia (the side that looks like melted demons), Barcelona c. 2014.
A herd of wild buffalo on beach patrol in Mui Wo
William Conrad is Frank Cannon. In so many ways.