Lee Gardner

@leegee.bsky.social

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Reporter at @chronicle.com, music nerd, lotsa other kinds of nerd too. Half of @essentialpod.bsky.social and all of @vgplusrecs.bsky.social. He/him

A still from Martin Scorsese’s film Taxi Driver featuring Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle slouched in a movie theater looking at the screen disinterestedly between his fingers
A photograph of a tomato sandwich made with ripe summer tomato, a little salt and pepper, a sharp cheddar, and Duke’s mayo
An image of a young, unshaven, and enervated-looking Sam Neill, taken from Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 film Possession
A husky mix dog whom everyone mistakes for a shepherd mix gazes toward the camera with concerned brown eyes
A screenshot of a New York Times headline that reads “How Female Anglerfish Evolved to Have It All,” to which I can only say yasss Queen
A flier for the Seventh Stanine Festival at Rhizome in DC June 12-13 featuring performances by Marisa Anderson, Shane Parish, Lea Bertucci, Ian Williams, and many other musicians
An image of a handsome black and tan shepherd-mix dog sprinting across a disheveled backyard
The image depicts a tabby and white domestic shorthair cat lying on a person’s chest in posture that suggests both repose and fight-or-flight
A photo of a shepherd mix dog yawning on a lazy Saturday amid a cluttered living room
A buff-colored mutt with lowered ears and a dark red jacket stands forlornly in belly-deep snow. His owner holds his leash but is not visible.
The image depicts hapless Simpsons character Ralph Wiggum declaring “I’m a music critic”
Paired images from John Carpenter’s iconic arctic horror film The Thing depicting Kurt Russell’s character delivering the lines, subtitled here, “Nobody trusts anybody now. And we’re all very tired.”
A tiny Chevy festooned with a great many band stickers and a vanity plate reading “b00gn5h” a reference to the band Ween
A black and white image from Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood featuring Toshiro Mifune as the usurper king hemmed in by flights of fateful arrows
A dingy bathroom wall sporting the neatly written words, “What would D. Boon do?”
A computer cursor hovers over a website button reading “accept all cookies.” Now you chuckle.
An image of gooey mac and cheese
A black and white image of three young women in "punk" gear portraying the band the Stains in the film Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains. Diane Lane and Laura Dern are among them.
An image of the cover of Daniel Kehlmann’s novel The Director
An image of an LP copy of Al Green’s Greatest Hits, featuring the singer shirtless.
A NYT headline and deck points out that cutting SNAP benefits is making people spend less money in the businesses owned by folks who often support politicians who want to cut SNAP benefits.
A perplexing abstract graphic carpet patterned in gray, blue, and yellow.
On a desert plain, an officer of the law points a gun at a defenseless, cowering man.
A black-and-white image of the great neo-soul auteur D’Angelo, his gaze heavy-lidded and steady, with some kind of tattered American flag garment draped around his neck, posted on the occasion of his passing at age 51.
A treeing Walker coonhound lounges on a dog bed and wonders if you have anything to eat.