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"I was saying Boo-urns," but the caption reads "I was wanting communism."
A poster for the 1986 film Lucas. Two large football players sit on either side of a bench on a green field. They're wearing red jerseys, giant pads, and helmets. Between them sites a very tiny looking Cory Haim, in the same uniform, but looking impossibly small. He's wearing glasses and his helmet is in his lap. Over his head, 4 stars from Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times.
For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.
Fuck off. Then keep fucking off. Fuck off until you come up to a gate with a sign saying, "You can't fuck off past here." Climb over the gate, dream the impossible dream, and keep fucking off forever.
Donald Sutherland pointing, his mouth agape as he emits an unearthly shriek, from the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
The Dispatch: Evan D. Morris, PhD is a Professor of Radiology Biomedical Imaging at Yale. He uses medical imaging and mathematical modeling to understand the brain and disease. He also teaches professional ethics to biomedical engineers and scientists, and mentors many students and young faculty.
Reverend Lovejoy faces a bedraggled Ned Flanders with Flanders's clothes in tatters. Lovejoy is speaking, and the caption reads, 'Ooh...short answer: "yes" with an "if." Long answer: "no" with a "but."'
Screenshot of a headline reading dated July 01, 2019 05:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, announcing "Hooters of America, LLC Acquired by Nord Bay Capital and TriArtisan Capital Advisors."
The poster for the movie Powder, featuring Sean Patrick Flannery painted white with a shaved head and an unbuttoned long-sleeved shirt running through a field. Behind him bright blue bolts of lightning flash in a purple sky.
From Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol: Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas. External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No[13] warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather didn't know where to have him. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. They often "came down" handsomely and Scrooge never did. Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, "My dear Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?" No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o'clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge. Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him; and, when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, "No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!"
The spines of several Ursula K. LeGuin books on a bookshelf. Barely visible is the phonebook Out There, then LeGuin's The Visionary: and Scott R. Sanders' Wonders Hidden, one of Capra's back-to-back books. There's the Pendragon Press edition of The Compass Rose, a beat up Harper Prism mass market paperback of the Dispossessed alongside the Gollancz first UK edition and the Folio Society edition. There's also Very Far Away from Anywhere Else and LeGuin's translation of Angelica Gorodischer's Kalpa Imperial.
A paperback book cover for Marvel Novel Series #7. A banner across the top reads "STAN LEE PRESENTS DOCTOR STRANGE® MASTER OF THE MYSTIC ARTS IN A NOVEL BY WILLIAM ROTSLER NIGHTMARE." The cover is a pulpy painting where a white line of magical energy divides the scene between a sunset over a city skyline rising up to a starry night (just regular starry, not Van Gogh starry) and a yellow and orange sky with bits of floating land in the background. Doctor Strange® is flying through the dividing line and shooting beams from his hands at a very pale guy in green with a green cape and pointy hair, who is also riding a black unicorn. Or more accurately, sort of floating slightly above a black unicorn.
The reading room at the Boston Public Library. There's a long central corridor flanked by rows of desks with green-shaded reading lamps. A Arched windows run down one high wall on the left and continue around the far end of the room. A big vaulted ceiling above.
The spines of three books: So You Want to Be a Wizard, Deep Wizardry, and High Wizardry.
Recalling the clumsy special effects typical of fifties sci-fi films, I kept thinking how impressed a fifties audience would have been if they’d known what we could do by now—only to realize, “Actually, no. They wouldn’t be impressed at all, would they? They thought we’d be doing this kind of thing by now. Not just figuring out more sophisticated ways to simulate it.”
A fireplace in white painted brick, with a dull gold fireplace screen and poker sitting on the hearth. There's a wood mantle with some pothos vines, a copy of the 1968 Penguin edition Ed McBain's Cop Hater, and a framed copy of Cathy G. Johnson's cool as hell poster for the Mountain Goats' Cave Angel Ascendancy tour. It has a winged angel in black with a white light, the sun or a halo, which is radiating rings of yellow and orange, coloring the peak atop which the angel stands. Further from the light, black, purple, and indigo dominate the image. At the bottom, the tour dates are listed along with the band and tour names.
In 1938 Davisson built a four-ton concrete pyramid over the spot where the vault is buried, and put a second time capsule within the structure. Within the second capsule was another car from 1975 "to show what our society does to a car in ten years," said Trish.
My best analogy is this: watching Kevin Costner's three hour epic is a bit like having a great big Golden Retriever jump on your lap and lick your face, while waving a flag tied to its tail. It's big, floppy, uncoordinated, overeager, sometimes gorgeous — occasionally a bit goofy — and so big-hearted that something inside of you has to give... that is, if you like that sort of thing.
A swath of green lawn spreads before a giant pink cowboy hat raised up on stilts to the left of a pair of giant blue cowboy boots. The boots are not matched, with one dark blue with pink decorative elements and the other in two shades of pale blue.
A chart with the title "A Trump election win could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030." The y-axis runs from 0 to 5 (billion tons of emissions). The x-axis runs from 1990 to 2050, with the line breaking in to three parts at the present day, labeled Trump, Biden, and Target. The Biden line is lower than the Trump line, but after 2030 mostly runs parallel to it, and neither line comes close to reaching the target line.
From the UN Convention on Genocide: Article II In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
A screenshot of a tweet from Netflix with the text "It's kind of a cosmic gumbo. #NetflixIsAJokeFest." A picture of Tim Robinson and David Letterman. They're shaking hands, and Letterman's arm is around Robinson's shoulder.
The first hardcover edition of The Lefthand of Darkness, with the dust jacket reading the title and "Ursula K. LeGuin over a white background. Beneath the title and author statement, there's a pen and ink sketchy drawing showing a tower-like building with several roofs. Beneath that, there are two slightly shaky, wavy lines roughly in parallel running horizontally across the page. Two small human figures appear to be walking along the lines. A blobby blue watercolor shape is behind the drawing, with water droplets faintly suggestive of ice.
Quote from Ursula LeGuin in an interview in the Guardian, with text reading: "UKL: I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the "incredible originality" of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid's fantasy crossed with a "school novel", good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited."
Quote from an interview in The Guardian with Ursula K. Leguin: "UKL: I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the "incredible originality" of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid's fantasy crossed with a "school novel", good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited."
An image of a tweet from The Hollywood Observer: 'Jodie Foster reveals new details about her initial reaction after obsessed fan John Hinckley Jr. shot President Reagan in 1981: "Truth be told, I was a little impressed."'
A modern-style record storage unit. There are four drawers on the right side, and six square storage areas in a 3x2 grid. Each cubby has a sliding door covering the front, with enough room to display a record. It is made of what looks like walnut veneer over plywood.
Speak not of what men deserve. For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.
Text under the title KOSA: KOSA claims to make kids safer, but it’s really a dangerous censorship bill that would give the government unprecedented control over the internet. This would put youth in danger by preventing them from accessing potentially life-saving resources. Lawmakers concerned about online safety should reject KOSA and instead work to protect all internet users from abusive tech companies by passing a Federal data privacy law.
Mr. Burns shaking his hand with text reading "We both made shells for the nazis, but mine worked, dammit. Now go out there and win me that festival."
Greg, from Succession: "I'm a sturdy...birdy."
A Haitian proverb: "The unity of the chicken and the roach happens in the belly of the chicken." An image of a roach inside a chicken with a speech balloon reading, "I'm planning to change the system from the inside." Text below the image reads "Capital is the fundamental enemy of the working class. Compromising with capital will never lead to emancipation."