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Gimme a short stack of comics, a platter of jazz, and a steaming cup of noir.

Oxford, a handsome brown tabby cat, sits loaf-style on an antique rattan wheelchair, gazing through a side window that gives him a chiaroscuro lighting effect.
Captain Okita (aka Avatar) from Space Battleship Yamato (aka Star Blazers)
Oscar the Grouch, Killer Bob from Twin Peaks, and the Terminator.
Front cover of KAYA #35 with “FANTASY-ADVENTURE” in big friendly letters above the title and a brief description of the current storyline at the bottom, ensuring you know what this comic is.
Quote from article: This is the MEMORY SINGULARITY: after 300,000 years, this is the moment that humans stop forgetting. It is not clear through what medium these memories will be recalled.
Some weird dude at a soccer stadium. Oh wait, that’s me! Same description applies.
The “Little Man” system adopted by the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper in the 1940s(?). Some people love these icons, others think they’re awful or even offensive. I think they’re awesome and far more intuitive than stars. From left to right, the Little Man has either left the theatre, fallen asleep, watched attentively, applauded happily, or stood on his seat applauding wildly.
A paperback book, “The Ultimate Guide to Japanese Yokai,” resting on an appropriately weird purple blanket.
A 3-panel page of original comic art. In the first panel, a giant monster prepares to chow down on the Hulkverine. In the huge second panel, Stephen Strange bursts out of a magic portal high above some trees bearing an axe and a bow, yelling as he fires an arrow at the monster. In the third panel, the startled monster drops Hulkverine as the arrow heads for him, like you do when about to be plonked by a flaming magic arrow.
Cambridge, a brown tabby, puts on her most adorable face as she peers out from a thicket of blankets and pillows.
A placard holder at the Opening Ceremony of the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics, with a monstrous silver poofy coat, ginormous sunglasses, and a placard reading ABOLISH ICE. Apologies to the original photographer for altering their image.
Torbie cat Cambridge watches from under a chair.
My word for 2026 is "intrepid," according to Merriam-Webster. INTREPID: characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance
Cambridge, a tortoiseshell tabby, meeting us at the shelter. She looks cautious.
A panel of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in honor of Steve Sutherland, 1963-1995. It includes his name in colorful cloth cutouts along with a losing poker hand, comedy/tragedy masks, a saxophone, teacup, pink triangle, a woman leaping off a cliff, and a blue blob that's supposed to be shaped like Lake Tahoe. The whole thing is surrouded by a theatre curtain.
You are being menaced by three angry Stanford University tree mascots weilding axes.
NYT crossword stats showing a 100-day streak on November 11. I had a 1,405-day streak going until this summer, but lost it by being a bonehead.
Movie poster for The Hitch-Hiker: “Who will be his next victim… YOU?”
Film poster for ANGEL FACE: "The men she loved she destroyed! The violent drama of a rich girl - poor boy love triangle that unravelled in double murder!"
Poster for Deadline at Dawn with the tagline: "Killer hunt! Four hours to go!"
The cover of Judge Dredd Megazine #485 (October 2025)
A brown cat sits on the carpet looking at a hand-written sign that reads “No kings, fascists, toadies, or brain worms.” A parade of worms is drawn along the bottom. The lead worm has a crown, comb-over, and an absurdly long necktie.
Album cover for "Heirloom" listing composer Gabriel Kahane and musicians Jeffrey Kahane, The Knights, and Eric Jacobsen over a collage of a painted landscape, handwritten notes, and solid colors.
Album cover art featuring a hand-painted grid of multi-colored blocks
The DROME hardcover sitting on a table.
The Stanford women’s soccer team psyching up before the start of a match.
Trade paperback volumes 1, 2, and 3 of THE SACRIFICERS arranged on a table.
Cats Oxford (right) and Cambridge (left) face off with a sassy squirrel who’s just outside their window.
Photo of a smoggy US highway in the 1970s. The air quality is so poor that the image appears to be sepia-toned.
Quote from Chapter XI: “ There were three ladies in the room and one gentleman. Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug.”