Mark Athitakis

@mathitak.bsky.social

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Writer, mostly about books. Designed with American values in mind. www.markathitakis.com

Goofy black mutt, lolling on couch.
Facebook page pitting random albums against each other to ID the best of the 80s. Shown: George Michael's "Faith" and Big Black's "Songs About Fucking"
Sign at hotel pool telling people with diarrhea to stay out.
Ballfield view, with gold-painted bridge to Sacramento in the distance.
Theater facade with pretty red and gold neon.
Rack of Grisham and Sparks books.
Very tall redwood trees.
A page from a Daredevil graphic novel ("Love and War"?) by Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz. Text: I have built an empire on human sin. I am feared by the honest and the wicked. Elected officials obey my will as swiftly as the lowest pimps and pushers. I have everything I desired...
Ratatouille
Monterey Bay, under fog.
Car with license plate frame reading, "Hawk Tua Spit on That Thang"
Sticker reading "I Voted--Maricopa County" with an illustration of a bespectacled ballot giving a thumbs-up and wearing a cap reading "ballot"
Black T-shirt reading "My Husband and I Divorced for religisious [sic] reason [sic] with some gobbledygook underneath.
Flyer for Chandler mayoral candidate.
Illustration of a shockingly handsome middle-aged man wearing glasses.
Excited skeets over ENG scoring twice in short order.
Pistachio cake reading "Happy Birthday, Mark!
“When these fine people came to me with an offer to make four movies for them, I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only. Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks,” Sandler said in a statement. “Let the streaming begin!!!!”
Post from the White House of Madison Square Garden with screens reading, "Trump Is Your President."
Crossword completed in 5:41---top 1 percent of players
An unseen fog machine pumped the Cadillac of Incense. It was so thick and blue that God, in the rafters, coughed delicately. The trad addiction to incense, by the way, is the reason my mother no longer attends church regularly. I’m not sure what they think it’s accomplishing; if you’re pushing it that far, if extremity is its own end, why not go the rest of the way and roast an ox up there? Replace communion wine with pruno. Flavour-blast the body of Christ. Make Jesus, for promotional purposes, go on Hot Ones.
Phone notification encouraging me to listen to the Dad Rock station.
Cover of Blake Babies' "Innocence and Experience," with CJ Abrams, Curtis Mead, and James Wood badly 'shopped.
Permission is hereby granted to make one handwritten copy for personal use, provided the master bind his executors by a strong oath (juramentum) to bury it with him in his grave. Beyond this, whoever copies this sacred text without permission from the editor will be damned.
Screenshot of Fortnite with an Olivia Rodrigo character.
Cover of John Byrne's "X-Men Elsewhen" Vol. 1
Hoffmann Tower, Lyons, Ill.
A very bulky deep-sea diving suit.
Eventually, Mr. Greenspan said, Ms. Rand taught him that capitalism was not only efficient and practical, but moral. “What she did for me, which was an extraordinary experience, was to demonstrate — that is, aggressively backing me into a corner — that the positions I was holding were wrong, fundamentally contradictory,” Mr. Greenspan said in the 1989 Times Magazine interview.
Phil Collins dressed as Davy Crockett, complete with flagrantly large coonskin cap, holding a book about Davy Crockett.
Ozzie removing Guard Dog's chain as he says, "We have to remove this chain." Doozy, Mooch, and Earl look on.
Better Call Saul ad informing callers that contacting him is "not toll free."
Image from Obama's WHCD speech imagining the White House transformed into a tacky casino by Trump.
Photo of two indigenous persons submerged underwater.
Norm Abram, master carpenter.
Facebook prompt reading, "Share your thoughts. Behind every good post is a better commenter."
A black box with a sticker reading, "Press button to hear 'Celebration.'"
A shelf at a Barnes & Noble, topped by a sign saying, "If you love 'Little Fires Everywhere,' try..." The shelf is filled with copies of "Little Fires Everywhere."
Youppi, a fuzzy orange mascot for the Montreal Expos.
Diamondbacks Racing Legends waving Pride flags.
View of Chase Field from the right-field bleachers.
Blue recycling can.
Stipple drawing of a shark with a wide-open mouth, captioned "unwelcome guest."
Cover of the Croatian translation of Michael Christie's "Greenwood."
Recombobulation Area sign at MKE.
Sergio!
The Portable Chekhov; Modern Library Medieval Epics; Barry Gifford, "A Good Man to Know"; Tony Tulathimutte, "Rejection"
Sophie's Choice Pierogis
Rock-shaped speaker.
Steve Gutenberg and Ally Sheedy with Number 5 in "Short Circuit"
List of Cleveland Spiders players in the 1890s, including Ice Box Chamberlain, Pretzels Getzien, Chippy McGarr, Louis Sockalexis, Jake Virtue, Highball Wilson, and more.