Brian Kenna

@drbrianish.bsky.social

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Ph.D., WWI/modernist Brit lit and modern fantasy lit. I also really like board games and baseball, so expect to see a lot about them. He/him.

Beatrix Kiddo, from Kill Bill, lies in a coffin, buried alive, raises her hand to the lid, prepares to punch her way out.
A stack of movie cases: Life of Brian; The Big Heat; Some Like it Hot; The Elephant Man; Ugetsu; Malcolm X; Killers of the Flower Moon; Uncut Gems; Stray Dog; Double Indemnity.
Film poster for Jaws. A side view of a massive great white shark approach a swimmer from below.
The Very Brave Man stands up in a town hall. His neighbors look on in admiration as he speaks truth to power. You know, that meme.
Bart to Homer and his imbecilic family: You probably should have researched this first, eh Sauer?
The Star Trek: The Next Generation trivia board game from 1993.
Jackie Robinson signs with the Dodgers. Branch Rickey leans in and whispers in his ear, as if the two were conspiring.
The ship from Outer Wilds waits on its launchpad, which is only a little bit flammable.
Willy hammers a sign reading "Caution Well" into the ground. "That should do it."
Stringer Bell wants you to put the word out there that the president shat his pants in front of everyone.
Mister Burns simply cannot stop laughing.
Homer is on a picnic table, wearing a tux and umbrella hat, singing and dancing. Disco Stu grooves next to him.
Gloria scratches her head. Behind her, the kaiju does, too.
DiCaprio, Hackman, Crowe, Stone - all the stars are here! (In this relatively small western from 1995).
Cover for "Things," the famously terrible Canadian movie of 1989.
Ben Sisko at the window: Yes... Ha Ha Ha... Yes!
Final Scene of Take Shelter
Bart to Homer: "Probably should have researched this first, eh, Conor?"
The citizens of Springfield run the real Principal Skinner out of town on a rail.
David Zaslav ponders his next decision. Lenny to onlookers: "Get ready everyone, he's about to do something stupid."
Bart, grumpily: Now Dana Bash is scoring off me.
Mr. Burns looks at his stock ticker. "Here's where I stopped checking it last time -- September, 2022..."
Owen Wilson makes a fool of himself in Royal Tenenbaums.
Google AI incorrectly describes several geographical details.
Frank Grimes gleefully kills himself.
Bart looks up in fear as Lisa holds a bottle of honey, slowly descending, just above his eyes. Lisa's face embodies fury, a festered, bottomless rage not just at her brother but at the treasonous world that has spawned them both.
Ben Siska looks in a window, cackling. "Yes... ha ha ha... YES!"
A bookshelf stacked with books by and about J. R. R. Tolkien, in some cases two layers deep.
A very sleepy puppy on my early morning shoulder.
Lisa, in a fury, holds a honey squeeze bottle poised above the eyes of a terrified Bart.
Frodo and Sam enter Mordor. Barad Dur and Mount Doom are visible in the distance.
Liz Lemon implores Juan Soto to get this over with.
A Shelbyville teen turns to his fried, shrugs, says "Story Checks Out."
Marge Simpson looks at a 12 pound box of nutmeg. "Ooh! That's a good price for a warehouse." Apu looks on.
Pinchy as Marge sees him.
Pinchy as Homer sees him.
Kikuchiyo from Seven Samurai glares into the camera.