Dystopos

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Personal account of the founder/publisher of Bhamwiki. Statements of fact or opinion may change when I learn new things.

Section of a menu from Lag’s Eatery, illustrated with cartoon foods
Photograph of a small 3-d printed model of President’s Trump’s proposed gigantic triumphal arch.
Portrait photo of Geena Davis with short curly hair and a big smile.
Vintage magazine advertisement for “X-RAY SPECS (an hilarious optical illusion) only $1.00”, with a cartoon drawing of a guy’s head with swept-back hair and a toothy smile, wearing heavy-framed novelty glasses and shooting lightning bolts toward the silhouetted figure of a woman with the edges of her apparently now transparent dress drawn as thin contour lines.
Drawing of Garfield the cartoon cat, sitting in a director’s chair with a cocktail glass and a grin. His thought balloon reads “Failure to plan in your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.”
Screen capture from my Bluesky feed showing madeline odent saying, “I promise none of you want to be in a group chat with me”, followed by Moby Dick saying “these were the strong, troubled, murderous thinkings of the masculine sea”
A haunted red sky with a gigantic evil hexapod backlit by lightning in the clouds, from the tv show “stranger things”
“The Field of the Cloth of Gold” (1545 oil painting) depicting the royal tent of Henry VII at Balinghem. Henry’s palatial golden tent is in the background, physically displaying his wealth to the French court.
Two smiling bald men in tuxedos lean over the rail of an opera box at the 2014 reopening of the Lyric Theater in Birmingham. They reminded me of Statler and Waldorf from the Muppet Show.
Detail of the head of Laocoön from the 1st century Greek marble statue at the Vatican. His bearded head is thrown back, his brow is heavily furrowed, and his mouth is open in anguish.
A shiny, bronze plaque from the Baseball Hall of Fame. A bas-relief portrait of Ted Williams in a Boston Red Sox cap is displayed above the heading: Theodore Samuel Williams, “Ted.” Additional text describes his achievements.
Screenshot of me using the word "pejorative" in the previous post and I thought I might check my spelling, but the "look up pejorative" option brought up a message that "Look Up now shows personalized suggestions from the web, the iTunes Store, the App Store, movie showtimes, locations nearby, and more. To make suggestions more relevatent to you, Look Up includes your approximate location with search requests to Apple."
Cover of a hardback copy of “Kids Still Say The Darndest Things!” by Art Linkletter, illustrated by Charles M. Schulz. The jacket is bright yellow, with a cartoon drawing of a boy in a red cardigan, one arm raised and his mouth wide open. The title is in a white speech balloon above, as if the boy is saying it out loud.
1880s photo of young Franklin Roosevelt posed on a tree stump in a studio, wearing a white dress with a frilly collar and holding a frilly hat in his hands. His feet are clad in thin white socks and black buckled shoes. His hair is long with gentle curls at the sides. He looks a bit grumpy.
Morgan Freeman as “Easy Reader,” dressed in a boldly-patterned long-sleeved shirt, a patchwork leather vest, dark sunglasses, and a headband. He leans casually with one arm resting on a masonry wall and the other hand on his hip.
North (ballroom) facade of the Governor’s Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia. The gabled end of a 1-story brick building wing. The central wood door is framed within an arched brick aedicule, and flanked by large multi-paned windows. The outside corners and the edges of the openings, including the arches, are laid in cut red bricks, while the wall area between is in a rougher, brown brick.
Screen shot from a court proceeding conducted on Zoom during the COVID pandemic. The screen is divided into quadrants with a notice on top left that recording is prohibited. The other three are attorneys, except one of them has a filter turned on which makes him look like a talking kitten.
Paul Ryan in dark gray shorts, light gray t-shirt, and a backward red baseball cap, straddling a weight bench with dumbbells nearby on the floor. He’s got his head tilted down, looking up at the camera, and extending his flattened hand, palm down.
An 1814 engraved illustration of Ludwig van Beethoven by Blasius Hoefel, after a drawing by Louis Letronne. He looks like he’s getting tired of posing in a high collar. He has tired eyes and thick, dark, curly hair.
View of Michelangelo’s “David”, a marble sculpture of a nude young male holding a sling draped over his left shoulder and gazing impassively in that direction. The photo is cropped to show just his head and chest.
A bare tree stands erect behind a crumbling log cabin on a small hill near Lynchburg, Virginia, silhouetted against a cloudy sky.
Image of a cigarette vending machine with faux wood veneer panels and a sticker reading “$3.50”.
Profile of the head of a stuffed and mounted honey badger in a natural history museum. His expression is mild, perhaps inquisitive, with small dark eyes and a pronounced underbite.
Oblique view of a portrait of a smiling young woman with prominent cheeks and a large volume of exuberant, teased, blonde hair surround her head.
A 16th century Venetian painting by Giovanni Bellini depicting the resurrected Christ as a lithe and shirtless man with a high forehead and silky brown locks, looking calmly into your eyes.
Miles and Tarissa Dyson, characters in “Terminator 2”, enjoying a happy moment at home before confronting the realization that his career achievements were destined to mow down the human race with laser beams and heavy metal robot feet crunching on piles of our skulls.
Frontispiece to “Manifesto of the Communist Party” by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Authorized English Translation, 5th Edition. 1888. (price threepence )
Screen capture from “Team America: World Police” showing the AI-powered computer interface abbreviated “I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E.”, a map of the globe with two rectangular “eyes” above.
Illustration of a 6-tier rolling cart with narrow shelves. According to the dimensions shown, the cart is 22.8 inches wide by 61 inches tall, but just 6”, rolling on four small caster wheels.
Photo of a prehistoric Mexican mosaic mask at the British Museum. It was made from a human skull with horizontal bands of turquoise and coal, decorated with large round eyes, perhaps depicting the god Tezcatlipoca.
A black and white photograph from the 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial” in Dayton, Tennessee. Defense attorney Clarence Darrow, standing in a thin, sweat-soaked shirt, starched white collar, and trousers held high up by suspenders, listens with an expression of grim determination to a procedural instruction from Judge Raulston, seated with his back to the camera.
Close-up of a jar of Zatarain’s gumbo filé (ground sassafras’s leaves) - narrow clear-glass jar with a red and yellow label, partly filled with a dull greenish/brownish powder.
A packet of “Tykisk Peber” licorice candies. The packet is bright blue with a yellow diamond-shaped logo, bold yellow diagonal stripes across the top, and simulated flames around the illustrated piece of candy all suggesting “Caution! Hot!”
Cover of “Asimov’s Guide to the Bible: Volume One: The Old Testament” by Isaac Asimov.
A reconstructed skeleton of diplodocus at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History’s David H. Koch Hall of Fossils.
Back side of a Star Wars action figure package, with a photo showing all 95 available figures on a gold backdrop, keyed by number to a list of their names below.
Detail from Pottery Barn Kids Star Wars bedsheets, showing Darth Cader, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, an X-Wing, etc on a light blue background.
Matt Samon wearing a prosthetic nose and slicked-back hair in a still from “Oceans 13”.
World War II propaganda poster depicting a man in a suit and fedora driving an open coupe with an outline of Adolf Hitler in the passenger seat. The caption reads “When you ride ALONE you ride with Hitler!” Instructing us that carpooling conserves critical resources needed to fight Nazis.
Cartoon of a bald face peering over a wall or fence with his fingertips and long nose hanging over and his eyes wide open. The slogan “Kilroy Was Here” appears below.
Screenshot from Bluesky showing the photo of a statue of a nude male being assailed by infants, followed immediately by a post quoting Moby Dick: “do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?”
Cover of “The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook” (1959) by Franklin W. Dixon (a pseudonym) with an illustration of two well-dressed, well-coiffed boys shaking hands with an older police officer in front of a domed building.
A Dr. Bonner’s “All-One Hemp Peppermint Pure-Castile Bar Soap” package, an indigo blue paper wrapper with white text, and an off-white bar of soap with “ALL-ONE!” molded into it in large block letters.
Image from the video game “Baldur’s Gate 3” showing a person with long red braids holding a large book, bound in skin and bone with a protruding face, its mouth gaping open and filled with a large glowing amethyst between its teeth.
Photograph of a white Ku Klux Klan robe and hood on display. The photo is rotated horizontally to approximate the shape of a white-painted passenger jet.
Egon from Ghostbusters, looking sincerely troubled in his wore rim glasses and khaki jumpsuit.
Ginny Ortiz as Trini, host of “3-2-1 Contact” in 1980. A girl with long brown hair and large, round eyes, wearing a red sweater.
Frame from the video game “Fallout 4” showing Abbott, a broad-shouldered man with a long gray mustache and a green hard hat casting a shadow over his features. He’s standing in front of a green wall with a swatch of fresh green paint on it.
Jennifer Aniston, with long straight hair, wearing a green and white striped rugby shirt and sitting at a table across from a man with her head propped on her hand and looking confused.
Several links of black pudding. A cased sausage made with diced pork fat, oats, barley, and pig’s blood — very dark in colour. The recipe I found calls for 2 grams of black pepper per 75cm length of sausage. It is considered a traditional delicacy in England.
Product image of a Wolf range with two ovens, six gas burners and a griddle. The large WOLF logo is on the larger oven door. All the knobs, on the front below the cooktop and above the doors, are bright red.
Rick Scheider as Detective Danny Sorenson on NYPD Blue. A young man with short blonde hair, a pastel brown shirt, and a loosened brown tie sitting back at a desk and holding a styrofoam coffee cup.
Portrait of Mick Jagger, smiling with large-white front teeth, a slight overbite, deep cheek dimples, and a mop of dark brown hair.
View of downtown Birmingham, Alabama, showing 30-story skyscrapers in the middle ground with older tall buildings in front and a low mountain ridge behind, all shrouded in thick brown smog, in June 1972.
A 2018 Subaru Sambar mini truck, painted black. A regular size 2-seater cab with a small bed and small wheels. Seen trucking along a waterfront somewhere. Apparently not street legal in the US.
David Walliams, dressed in a long black wig, a striped blouse over fake breasts, and large eyeglasses for a sketch on “Little Britain”, looks at a computer monitor without inputting anything and barely pretends to be sympathetic as he responds “Computer says no.” to a powerless applicant.
Still from “The Two Towers” showing Pippin; a curly-haired youth in a sleeping gown tunic, staring into a fiery sphere clutched in his hands, illuminated by its light, and screaming in horror.
Black and white photo of Babe Ruth, in his Boston Braves uniform, grinning and fondling the long chin-beard of a shorter House of David player.
A 1946 black-and-white portrait etching of George Washington Carver made by Felix Gaines using his “psycho-beautigraph” method of conveying the experience of color via patterns of dots, dashes and lines.
Image of the front page of the “Weekly World News” with the headline “500-FT. JESUS APPEARS AT U.N.” and a black & white depiction of same.