Mark Goble

@goblemark.bsky.social

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Modernism and media studies at UC Berkeley. Mediocre film photographer. Excellent baseball fan. Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion (Columbia UP) out in May, 2025.

Screenshot of Netflix listing for 1993 movie Striking Distance, showing Bruce Willis dressed as a cop named “Thomas Hardy”
Album cover for Souled American’s new record “Sanctions”. Abstract painting, multicolored and energetic, on a field of grainy brown
New York Times headline: no one at Waffle House remembers fema official who says he teleported in. Picture of insane chud with an enviably distinguished beard. Props on the beard.
cartoon image from Bojack Horseman of a very sad anthropomorphized horse dressed to go for a run and/or drinking binge and/or depressive crashout I can't remember the episode
record album from metal band Sunn O))), deep, bright blue
New York Times headline for Brett Stephens column saying “the war is going better than you think”
Poster Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 showing film title and a space station in orbit over a mysterious planet.
Screenshot of rss headline about Megan Markle’s low ratings above a picture of a severely wounded man
Rock em sock em robot Game: toy from the 1970s where kids fought with plastic robots. Not sure which one Alan Ritchson will play in War Machines 2
animated gif from 1958's The Blob, showing a shaping, slowly moving mass approach the screen
book cover for a novel called Web of Evil published by author J. A. Vance, whose pen name rhymes with "fascist" through no fault of her own
Picture of a bluesky user map--like a star map with individual points for users, labeled for areas of overlapping interests; I'm close to film and media scholars but weirdly to "tabletop wargaming and miniature painting" communities
cover of Robert Putnam's book Bowling Alone, showing a single man in a bowling alley
The Lascaux cave paintings. What can I say? The last few years have felt like eons . . .
Oscar Isaac in rise of skywalker
Thunderhead exploding from Big trouble in little China. Man’s head gets bigger as he gets angrier until he swells up and bursts.
film credits for 1972's Play it as it Lays, with Joel Schumacher credited for "Clothes"
Gif of actor Danny McBride acting out "making it rain" with a stack of dollar bills
Floating croc shoe with a small Nazi insignia
Picture of a glazed roasted suckling pig and pears
Children’s book characters Frog and Toad
Man in baseball hat that says "Foreign" from behind, on a metro train in Los Angeles, California. Black and white image.
Movie poster for Fever Pitch starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon, who is wearing a Boston Red Sox cap.
Justin Theroux in a green plaid shirt on a boat in Michael Mann’s Miami Vice.
Toy truck in front of fence and building
truly shit photoshop of silver surfer with the Microsoft "clippy" face for a head
Pile of wet “Democracy” magazines on a sidewalk
AV Club screenshot about tech startup hoping to publish 8000 books in a year
Jude Law as the young pope using a button under his desk to end an appointment
American flag and sign reading “got plague, nope? Thank science “
Toy version of Thor’s hammer
Man with a mustache squashing an aluminum can to make it flat with caption "time is a flat circle"
Man standing next to giant stone disc used as currency, the relic of an economy more functional than that which Trump is trying to make
Tavern scene from inglorious basterds showing table of Nazis
Description of Apple TV shrinking as series about octogenarian swimmers
book cover for Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion. Cover image is Jeff Wall's "Milk," showing a man sitting on the ground with a container of milk in a brown bag captured in the instant of spilling out of the bottle
blurry pink and magenta image of a guitar from cover of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless album
Poster for film screenings of Dune advertising the movies as adaptations of Frank Herbert’s “scientific masterpiece”
Ad for Anora on Disney +
Text of NY Times story saying: Mr. Walz, his party's nominee for vice president last year, is one of several Democrats who have referred to Mr. Musk's immigrant background as the ramp up attacks on the billionaire's powerful role in the Trump administration. At times, their language, casting Mr. Musk as a foreign outsider, has echoed aspects of President Trump's own xenophobic insults of his political foes--although Mr. Trump's remarks were typically directed toward elected offiicals of color, no white billionaires.
Picture of Malcolm McDowell in a black hat and white shirt from A Clockwork Orange
Picture of Jean Paul Belmond and Anna Karina in Pierre Fou. He is wearing a suit and narrow red tie, she's in a sun dress.
PIcture of Marco Rubio drinking from a small water bottle while delivering Republican State of the Union response
Text of a Bluesky post of a fake account for Charlize Theron liking the publication announcement of my forthcoming book Downtime.
Max Von Sydow as the heroic knight in the Seventh Seal
picture from Aliens of Ripley, a group of marines, and Paul Reiser
Still from Netflix’s Rebel Ridge showing Aaron Pierre in a cop car
Picture of Gwendolyn Christie in Severance asking “are you here to kill me?”