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Infrequently posting nonsense from Pittsburgh, PA.

Screenshot from the Partical Man Wikipedia page that describes all of the lyrics of the song indirectly, line by line, for example “Triangle Man, a belligerent entity who hates Particle Man, fights him, and wins.”
Screenshot of the opening sentence of a Wikipedia article, beginning “Ghost Town Village (formerly ‘Ghost Town in the Sky at Ghost Mountain Park’) is an abandoned Wild West-themed amusement park…”, a real Jacob’s by Marc for Marc Jacobs of a name.
Screenshot of a draft BlueSky post that requires readers to recall a 1987 pop hit by Lisa Lisa & The Cult Jam and also navigate an awkward joke structure that includes the phrase “Repulsive Knees”. We all deserve better than this.
Cropped screenshot from en.wikipedia.org showing the text “The film ends with the cast saying goodbye to the audience one by one as their names are shown on-screen.”
A “now leasing” real estate sign sitting in a large, empty field in the Southeast US. It has a picture of what is (presumably) the buildings to come.
A comic panel with five identical Beagle Boys doing the Monkees walk. Did you know the first appearance of the Beagle Boys was titled “The Terror of the Beagle Boys”? My wife doesn’t .
Cover of a comic book where Prince fights his evil twin who has the power to drive humanity mad with music. Fictional band?
David Cross as the host of the pre-taped call in show, mind broken to pure hate, committing his life to teaching the rest of humanity a lesson by achieving mastery of time itself.
Wikipedia screenshot for the “Casper and The Angels” article, showing the first paragraph of the “Plot” section. Why is Casper the Friendly Ghost a member of the space police? What is happening here? Did somebody dream this?
Waylon Jennings hands and guitar, the image often seen as a drawling narrator wondered how those Duke boys were gonna get out of this on right before the commercial break on THE DUKES OF HAZZARD
A photograph of some business people standing around looking important, with the caption “What are your thoughts on how robotics might change the way we enjoy football in Pittsburgh?”
Cropped screenshot of a Spotify “Grief Mix” that recommends that I should “Also try hindi pop, Bollywood, slowcore, singer-songwriter, indie folk”
Close up photograph of a widget on a pinball table prominently labeled “TIME EXPANDER”
Jabberjaw, a talking shark that played in a rock band with mystery solving future teens, living that rock and roll lifestyle
The end of Peter Gabriel’s Spotify profile reads “Peter is now writing and recording, and working on a plan to create a streaming service for digital medicine and an Interspecies Internet.” I don’t know what that means.
Black and white photograph of a clean cut Willie Nelson, an image you should only see if you specifically search for “clean cut Willie Nelson”
Black and white photograph of Isaac Asimov looking pretty good in a 1940’s college student kinda way, but nowhere nearly as groovy as he deserves to be depicted. Using it to refer to Asimov is like using a high school yearbook picture of David Bowie.
Screenshot of the Wikipedia article on Mr. Magoo, describing in detail that his is an alumnus of Rutgers University and why Rutgers in particular. I can’t even.
A recent publicity photo of The Squrrel Nut Zippers, a gigantic orchestra of mostly old people. Mostly they’re just standing there but there is somehow still quite a lot of theater kid energy in the room.
Tiny dog sleeping on an enormous Djungelskog
A book sitting on the doorstep of a used bookstore. It has an innocent but unfortunate title, and a prominent bookmark-style flag in it that says “FREE IT SMELLS BAD”
A big-ass flexible strew gardening hat that would be good to wear if you were a dude but would definitely get you made fun of
A comic frame from “Maggie the Mechanic” by Jamie Hernandez. A woman is wearing a hoodie with the words “EL SANTO” written on the back in smallish comic lettering. Her brother stands behind her in a button down shirt with “RODDY PIPER” on the back with similar styling. They are both incredible garments and if I owned them I would wear them together every day.
A detail from an old 2000AD strip where an actor is crushed to death by the collapse of a giant pile of oranges while their manager (?) calls out “Mind the Oranges, Marlon!” I think Alan Moore wrote this panel, probably?
A photo of a baby bat that looks a lot like my Yorkshire Terrier. So let’s just say “a photo of my dog”, it’s basically the same thing.
Cropped photo of a sidewalk sign. Whatever it is advertising is allegedly “Great for the Lymphatic System!”
A collage of a pile of little robot / astronaut guys in what is maybe an 8-bit dungeon chamber, along with a telephone on a small table.
An obviously sinister clown in an old Nintendo cutscene. Apparently creepypasta, it has a Wikipedia article. Sheesh.
Zap Rowsdower, heir to the legacy of the ancient supermen of the Ziox, smoking and wondering about his next beer. He wears the traditional mullet and jeans jacket of his people.
Comic panel: Praetor Jez announcing that he has received from the worldsweave; the crusible has ceased to flow.
GIF of an ugly man in dressed in a 1700’s-ass leather coat laughing in a way that might lead you to believe he’s a bit extra.
Page 1, photograph of a yellowed page of a recipe book. Recipe follows: LOUISIANA GUMBO (BIG JIM'S) Note (JWB): This is a dish with the most humble of beginnings that has become fashionable, and our family has always liked it for special occasions. At its heart, however, it is nothing more than a vegetable stew made with roux, using whatever vegetables and left-over meats or seafood you have in the kitchen. We like it best with seafood (crabmeat, crawfish and shrimp), but have eaten wonderful versions made of chicken or turkey, andouille (smoked sausage or Kielbasa) or even wild duck meat. The secret is really plenty of vegetables and the spices. With some hot french bread it even makes a good meal for company. Ingredients: Chop up about four-six cups of green and leafy vegetables. We use about the following, but it varies (i.e. you can use leftover green beans or green peas, for example, and perhaps a can of corn, etc, depending on what you have on hand. Lots of folks use a few tomatoes or a can of peeled tomatoes): 1 cup chopped celery. 2 cups chopped onion. 1 cup chopped green pepper. 1-2 cups cut okra. (I usually buy it cut & frozen). 1/4 cup chopped parsley 6 cloves of garlic chopped finely 3-4 cups of water 1-2 Tablespoons of Tony's Gumbo spices or an equivalent amount of gumbo spices of other sorts. 2-4 Teaspoons "File" (sassafras powder?) 1 lb. of small peeled shrimp 1 lb. of crabmeat or leftover chicken, or whatever 1 lb. crawfish tails 1 qt. shucked oysters in their liquor. 1/2 Cup vegetable oil 1/2 Cup Flour
A photo of a snow covered car parked on the side of a street under a gray winter sky. The snow on the windshield of the car looks disturbed.
Don Draper pitching, a marketing genius at work
An animated GIF of that messed-up scene in the otherwise light and innocuous movie “Superman 3”, where a lady gets turned into a cyborg by an evil computer. Lots of fairly low-fi makeup effects but they happen fast. Nightmares for days.
A photo of a vintage box of “Doctor Who and the Daleks Sweet Cigarettes”, a candy which made a lot of sense in 1964
The cover of the “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” blu-ray, a close-up of Alec Guinness as George Smiley. Guinness’ face bleeds out of the frame, he looks thoughtfully sad.
Jeff Goldblum as weird glamourmatician Ian Malcom in a still from the 1993 film “Jurassic Park”, in front of diffuse blurring light that would not be out of place as the background of a late 20th century mall portrait. Superimposed over the image is the character’s trademark phrase set in a font very like but not quite the same as the traditional “image macro” Impact font of the can haz cheezburger : “your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
Cropped screenshot of my Letterboxd profile screen showing the last four movies I watched: Bleeding Skull’s “Phantasmatapes”, “Deadly Friend”, “Viy” and “Cuckoo”. No romantic comedy unless you count “Deadly Friend”
Still from the movie “My Dinner with Andre” showing actor (and character) Wallace Shawn looking thoughtfully at André Gregory. That guy is awesome! Vanya on 42nd Street!
A screenshot from the Wikipedia article on the Coconut Crab, which observes that “Sea birds eat younger crabs, and both humans and larger, older crabs eat crabs of all ages.”
A blurry screen capture of an early McDonaldland commercial showing an unpolished, awkwardly homemade looking Grimace costume
Small dog wearing a tiny blue knitted sweater, as sure sign of the harvest season as pumpkins and the smell of fireplace smoke
A screenshot of the linked article about Stardust the Super Wizard, explaining his powers and abilities as follows: “Stardust does whatever he damn wants and he does it WEIRD” (caps original).
Still from an ad for a turn-of-the-century chain sandwich restaurant featuring weird lil’ monsters that are like hamster langoliers? They’re wearing hats. It’s not great.
5 second video of a cute lil’ Frankenstein’s monster lantern with a cute lil’ tea light flickering in it.
Screenshot of the Wikipedia page of The Guess Who. The top of the page has a link: “Not to be confused with The Who”. Buddy the top of the Wikipedia page of The Who does not have a reciprocal link back to The Guess Who, just sayin’
A tiny Yorkshire terrier, crouched on a couch, looking very attentively at the camera. She is probably going to spring off of the couch, run, or at least bark or something in the next moment.
A screenshot of Letterboxd “recent activity” showing movie posters of ED WOOD, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, HALLOWEEN (1979) and SPEED RACER. I should watch more recent movies and not just him along to the oldies station in the car.
A very 1960’s indeed barber shop poster demonstrating possible haircuts, including the “executive contour”
A still from the “Dream Operator” sequence from the Talking Heads movie “True Stories”. Three fashion models that are ordinary looking people, wearing fashions inspired by building materials. They are trying to be happy.
Screenshot of a text message conversation: A: In the game room. Two TVs have Saved by the Bell on, but one second apart. B: I love this - Saved By the Bell the way it was meant to be watched A: Ssaavveedd bbyy tthhee Bbeellll
Movie poster for MILLER’S CROSSING, perhaps a perfect color crime movie.
Two panels from a silver age Jimmy Olsen comic in which Jimmy tries and fails to infiltrate a “club of bearded men”. The guard who foils his design complains that Jimmy has “dishonored the noble beard!” It is bananas.
A newspaper Jumble puzzle, posted here to illustrate the mixed up nature of Gotham city crime, and perhaps the perpetrator’s pathological need to unscramble… themselves?
Several of my neighbors have yard skeletons that they decorate for various holidays, here’s a photo of a yard skeletons decorated for July 4th, wearing a patriotic rave hat and holding a sign that reads “NO KINGS IN THE USA”. And yes, while “yard skeletons” might sound like some complex landscape architecture term, in this case it means literal life size plastic skeletons. My neighborhood rules.
Poster for David O. Russell’s 1970’s heist / crime comedy “American Hustle”
A man with an 1980’s haircut wearing a New Romantic outfit, looking forlorn: the stereotypical goth.
The poster for ED WOOD (1994), a movie about a bunch of wackos who want to make movies
A still from 1978’s MESSAGE FROM SPACE of a bunch of cool space cowboys in a spaceship cockpit, that looks an awful lot like certain Falcons we could name.