Jeff

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Librarian, adjunct history guy, likes medieval stuff. Keep it spooky.

Laurence Fishburne as Capt Miller and Joely Richardson as Starck, wearing quasi-military space uniforms, in front of a closed spaceship hatch, reacting in terror to something horrendous Sam Neill is doing.
A Facebook ad for Vrbo, which I’ve never used, but I presume is some kind of Airbnb type thing? It says “Private vacation home in Eureka Springs” and shows only an X-cross bondage frame.
Sgt Al Powell from Die Hard, aka Reginald VelJohnson, “Ok, Ghostbusters,” and takes them off to see the mayor.
Ray accepts some roast duck in payment in Chinatown, as a NY Post headline says “Ghost Cops Bust Chinatown Spook” with a photo of the ghostbusters looking miserable underneath.
Ray, with a lit cigarette dropping off his lip as he beholds Slimer “CHOMPING”
Egon, Venkman, and Ray, in full ghostbusting gear for the first time and having just blown up the hotel maid’s cleaning cart. Ray, “uh, I think we’d better split up.”
Janine, on the phone, “Oh, they’ll be totally discreet.”
Looking into a fridge, with leftovers, including a casserole dish WHICH I OWN, Dana says to Venkman, “and there were creatures writhing around….”
Venkman with Dana Barrett, “I want it to happen to me first” as he dramatically throws himself in front of nonexistent threats
Ghostbusters: Egon climbs out from under the desk Janine is sitting at, inappropriately close to her, but she doesn’t mind, saying “You’re very handy, I can tell,” before talking about how she likes to read and asking about his hobbies. Collecting spores, molds, and fungus, as one does.
A scene from Ghostbusters, where Venkman half sings “Everything happens for a reason,” right before making Ray take out a triple mortgage at 18% interest on his parents’ house.
A plate of barbecue, an old fashioned, and the New York Public Library in the opening scene of Ghostbusters in the background
A Far Side daily cartoon calendar page for Wednesday, June 3. The illustration has an all out medieval battle with over a dozen armored men fighting with melee weapons. One man in the middle, wearing an anachronistic horned helmet, stands taller than the rest with his arms in the air, clearly shouting in alarm. The caption reads, “Hey! C’mon! Hold it! Hold it… Or someone’s gonna get hurt!”
The American History Association annual jobs report, which highlights how the market for full time faculty historians pretty much died in 2008 (and it was particularly bad for medievalists).
Book cover of This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman, with the author name and title in stylized aqua text over a black background. In the center, in pink with aqua accents, Donut the Cat shoots lasers from her eyes while sitting across a tall tower, while Carl climbs up the outside of the building, cape flapping in the wind and heart-covered enchanted boxer shorts on full display.
Sigourney Weaver playing Ellen Ripley in Aliens, in the APC after the initial raid on the alien nest fails, saying "I saw we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit."
Austin Butler as Hank Thompson in the movie Caught Stealing, wielding a baseball bat in front of a flyer covered refrigerator.
Eames (Tom Hardy) and Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) in Inception
Screenshot from Final Fantasy VII showing Cloud and a Moogle riding Chocobos
Sofia Isella, in ragged clothes, dirty hair hanging down over her muddied face, filthy cloths wrapped around her hands and wrists, holding up her violin in one hand while she smiles and pulls the souls out of everyone in TD Garden.
Florence Welch, in a green dress, singing her heart out, while back up dancers lay on the ground behind her, arms extending in the air.
Shoresy - a character from the TV show of the same name, where his Sudbury Blueberry Bulldogs hockey uniform and grinning
Album cover - The Midnight - Syndicate - a neon drenched Los Angeles skyline behind a shadow-darkened suburban street
Anya from Buffy the Vampire, Season 6 episode Once More With Feeling, singing "I've got a theory"!
Bill Paxton and Adrian Pasdar in Near Dark (1987). Paxton leans against a bar, grinning maniacally, covered in blood, wearing shades and a leather jacket and holding a shotgun over his shoulder. Pasdar looks on apprehensively from a stool in the background.
A photo of the Hong & Kong Chinese Restaurant with a cherry blossom tree in front of a somewhat nondescript building with a stylized pagoda sign on top.
A grassy area with brush along the sides and three very small rabbits nibbling at the foliage
The original broadway cast recording album cover for RENT, featuring the cast members highlighted in different squares around the title in the center.
The cover of Rage Against the Machine's album, Evil Empire, featuring a creepy dead-eyed white boy with comb-over hair, a black cape, and a red hockey jersey with a lower case letter e in the middle.
A promotional image for The Old Guard 2, starring Charlize Theron, coming to Netflix on July 2
The cover of Island of the Blue Foxes by Stephen R. Bown, "Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition." The book cover image features a three-masted 18th century ship being tossed on a cold and stormy sea.
The cover of The Medici Giraffe: And Other Tales of Exotic Animals and Power by Marina Belozerskaya. The cover illustration features a lion, a camel, a giraffe, a couple of gazelle (or pronghorns) in the foreground, with palm trees framing them. In the background and elephant is being ridden by a man while two other people look on in front of a building that could be a mosque or a Mediterranean palace of some sort
A small shelf diorama display at the Cryptozoology museum showing both the Spectral Moose of Maine (a giant white moose) and the Pamola, a spirit described by the Penobscot people as having the head of a moose, the body of a man, and the wings and feet of an eagle.
The book Oathbreakers by Matthew Gabriel and David Perry on a cart with other new library books
A fund raising image for The Hive Public Market at 741 Merrimack St in Lowell, MA. Hive and Forge and several other shops from Mill Number 5 are attempting to revitalize the former St Jean Baptiste church "into vibrant and vibing community, mercantile, and art spaces." Mill Number 5 is permanently closing at the beginning of February.
17th century woodcut, colorized, depicting the execution by beheading of King Charles I of England
A MacBook with several stickers including Topato Potato, an anthropomorphic potato with a red superhero cape. He is saying “I am made of POISON!” which is true. Also featured is my satchel that I use to carry my laptop which has a skull and roses and the slogan “It will all work out in the end”
A scene from Letterkenny, season 3, in which Gae, Stewart, and the other skids are dressed in rainbow clown outfits, overalls, and comedy/tragedy masks as they commit petty vandalism (and a few felonies) around town.
Movie poster for the very R-rated Finnish Film, "Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale" (2010), which I am facetiously suggesting my friend show to fourth graders.
A cat, with a toy mouse, lying in bed. His name is Milton and he is the best.
Comic from @astrhology - a stick figure with bloodshot eyes looks closely at a cat with a little heart next to them. Short captions surround the stick figure saying: can argue extremely well but chooses peace instead; mostly pessimistic but idealizes the future; notices everything; secretly angry; tired in every way of that word; and has a complicated relationship with math.
The view of the notorious Balsams Grand Resort Hotel where they do these insane midnight voting traditions, from the top of Table Rock
A screenshot from Final Fantasy 3 (VI), Locke winks at Shadow, Sabin, and Celes outside of a shop in Narshe.
A saved Tweet from @pixelatedboat, "Every time I read The Great Gatsby the final paragraph brings me to tears. Breathtakingly powerful writing:" The quoted passage reads: ""I'm alive!" said Gatsby, roaring past on a speedboat. He'd faked his own death and gotten away with everything. That's why they called him the Great Gatsby. "Out of the way, current!" he yelled at the water. "This speedboat is bearing me ceaselessly into the future!"
Book cover of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Lonesome Lake on the way up to Mount Kinsman from 3 years ago. The sun breaks through the clouds for the only time that day, shining off the ripples of the lake, and the wind sighs through the trees with the promise of winter to come.
The northern lights in vertical ribbons of pink and purple above a house
A grey and white cat named Milton rolling around on the floor.