dull thud

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My body is a machine for turning good advice into mutual resentment

LP cover: Ingmar Nordströms Sax Party 5. Six happy dudes present varying levels of denim and moustache as they relax on or behind a stone wall.
A peaceful cobbled courtyard with pretty red-brick houses and a willow tree
A stenciled sign on the bare metal of an aircraft fuselage. It reads "static pressure do not plug or deform holes".
A page of comic artwork. Iron Man is getting beaten up and every panel is a different irregular quadrilateral.
The very tatty cover of Iron Man #13, UK edition (1969). Iron Man and an express train rush toward the rampaging Controller. All three are bright red.
Marzipan Godzilla has smashed its way into a gingerbread house and is devouring hapless gummy bears.
Dolly Parton singing with Rob Halford of Judas Priest
A warning sign. A blue triangle, containing a yellow triangle and stylised whirlpool, into which a red figure is disappearing.
Dennis Price as Louis Mazzini in Kind Hearts and Coronets, bearing a shotgun and a lethal smirk
Viewed from high above, TV's Neil Buchanan has made a giant Neil Buchanan out of clothes on a school playing field
A man works on the steeply-pitched slate roof of a three-storey stone house. He clings to a metal ladder laid across the roof at what seems a precarious oblique angle, anchored by a colleague. This second man stands atop another metal ladder set on yet another ladder, which is balanced horizontally across the apex of a pitched roof two storeys below and held in place cantilever-fashion by a single rope at one end. The men have used two more ladders just to reach this rickety construction. The whole assembly looks ready to collapse in a heartbeat.
Detaljert kartutsnitt over East Lothian i Skottland. All teksten er i kyrillisk skrift.
A red handfish. A small, round, warty fish with bony fins and an expression of deep disgruntlement.
A model of the iconic moon rocket from Herge's Adventures of Tintin. It stands in the gleaming white terminal of Brussels Airport between Duty Free and a branch of Victoria's Secret.
Et par småvridde, rustne jernstolper i et øde landskap. Skotske fjell med smeltende snø forsvinner i en disig horisont.
Diverse fly i en museumshall.
A music festival poster listing band names which were generated by a neural net. They include "Earth Stench", "Mongrel Hurler" and "The Wafflemaster's Nethersword"
Dennis Price as Louis Mazzini, clutching a shotgun and ready to murder (but very politely)
John Cooper Clarke sitting astride a turned-backward chair. He is rake-thin in a dark suit, with dark glasses and long wispy hair.
A dog in the snow, labelled "I go into the cinema, 10pm Sunday evening". He looks askance at an approaching football, labelled "unexpected phone call from the boss"
A stack of Blåhaj sharks displayed in an IKEA store. Caption reads "the council will decide your fate"
A pair of hinges
Poison Ivy Rorschach of the Cramps. She wears a spangly minidress, a great big Gretsch guitar and an expression that says she's had enough of your bullshit.
A plastic velociraptor head with gaping mouth and rhinestone eye, wearing a pink crocheted tutu-straitjacket
A telescope fish, a creature of the deep sea, that copes with the darkness and crushing pressure by consisting mostly of eyes and teeth. This one looks like they just arrived at the remote holiday cottage to discover it's burned to the ground and the remains have been colonised by poisonous snakes.
A ploughed field disappearing into dense mist. A few bare trees and a telegraph pole are barely perceptible. All is grey.
A clump of Cladonia lichen, pale green with a few scarlet tips, between snow and the flaky brown bark of a pine stump
Asterix, Obelix and Dogmatix looking very pleased with themselves
Robert Mitchum in Thunder Road. He stands next to a car with hands raised while men in hats frisk him for weapons. A cigarette dangles from his lip. He cannot believe you expect him to go through this shit yet again.
A full-page interview. Clive Swift speaks to Doctor Who Magazine, who seem to have caught him at a bad time
A cuddly sheep with a gormless smile is wedged between two large recycling bins on a city street.
Seen from above, a group of people carry a banner of a red lightship along a riverside walkway. They must bunch together as the path narrows.
Magazine ad for the Fender Jaguar Bottom Master. It is an offset electric guitar shown in sunburst and black versions.
The Third Doctor, mouth agape, is attacked by the Keller machine
A small but robust-looking structure made of stained concrete. It has thick walls and a long horizontal opening, resembling a pillbox machine-gun post. It stands on stony soil by the side of a road. In this image and the three which follow, stark black-and-white photography makes the surroundings seem barren and bleak.
Shai-hulud's fearsome maw
Packaging for Müller's gin-flavour yoghurt
Horror icons Peter Cushing, Vincent Price and Christopher Lee in formal dress, looking respectively urbane, charming and murderous
Photograph looking down at the verge of a stony path. Clods of earth, a grapefruit-sized rock and a pale half-brick apparently bearing the word "this"
Clusters of white lobed fungus on a mossy birch log, with a background of fallen leaves
The window of a clothes-and-homeware shop. Lettering on the glass reads "no pants no problem"
One corner of an installation by Yayoi Kusama; a group of yellow ceramic pumpkins mirrored apparently into infinity.
A blurry shot of horror-surf trio Black Djangos playing under canvas at the Sjock festival in Gierle, Belgium.
A metal sphere with boggly eyes sits on a plinth. He is Sergeant Major Zero, the gruff, spherical, Windsor-Davies-voiced commander of the Zeroids in Eighties puppet show Terrahawks.
Three small, pale mushrooms peek out from a mossy crevice in the roots of a tree.
Closeup on a pair of red mushrooms growing in soil. The cap of one is tucked under the other.
A rather sorry-looking pineapple in a chilly urban garden. It sits upright but half-buried in slate chippings, hemmed in by a wooden fence and a crumbling stone wall part-covered in ivy.
A pair of Rosy Bonnet mushrooms on a woodland floor, with a scattering of fallen leaves. They are soft pink and seem to glow in the late afternoon sun.
Screenshot from Duolingo. Lily announces "she's washing the tomato".
A group of grey mushrooms sprout from among bark chips. A spider crouches on one of them.
Label on a shelf in a Norwegian hardware store reads "Espegard Gnistfanger"
A wooden chest of drawers viewed from an oblique angle. The handle is missing and a single screw protrudes.
A "British soldiers"-type Cladonia lichen on a pine stump. It is pale green with a few bright red sporing tips.
Seventies LP cover for a German accordion combo's pop selection. A model in pink bikini with floral trim and matching headband giggles at the camera.
An impassive face carved in stone
A thumbnail picture of journeyman trombonist Wallace Huff
Jim Metzler's councilman tries to tough-talk Russell Crowe as Detective Bud White in L.A. Confidential. It does not go well. Kim Basinger looks on with a mix of pity and glee
A male swallow-tailed manakin on a branch. It is a small blue-and-black bird with a red cap.
A coyote-shaped hole in the ground