Matt Kavanagh

@mattkavanagh.bsky.social

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college professor / contemporary American novel / film noir / financial fiction / writer and reviewer / 🇨🇦 / personal account

Screenshot of post from the AlternateHistoryHub subreddit: “what if the USA had lost the war in Iraq?” Spoiler alert: it did
A Willie Nelson For President mural in Austin, TX.
An image of Vladimir Putin dressed in the red rugby shirt and beige fisherman’s hat of Gilligan about to embark on the S.S. Minnow’s ill-fated journey.
Image of Sigmund Freud
Photo outside the Interior Health building on Doyle of a cop minding a family of Canada geese.
Hello, Human Resources?! meme
Zizek loves his jokes: “In the good old days of Really-Existing Socialism, a joke was popular among dissidents, used to illustrate the futility of their protests. In the 15th century Russia occupied by Mongols, a farmer and his wife walk along a dusty country road; a Mongol warrior on a horse stops at their side and tells the farmer that he will now rape his wife; he then adds: “But since there is a lot of dust on the ground, you should hold my testicles while I’m raping your wife, so that they will not get dirty!” After the Mongol finishes his job and rides away, the farmer starts to laugh and jump with joy; the surprised wife asks him: “how can you be jumping with joy when I was just brutally raped in your presence?” The farmer answers: “But I got him! His balls are full of dust!” This sad joke tells of the predicament of dissidents: they thought they are dealing serious blows to the party nomenklatura, but all they were doing was getting a little bit of dust on the nomenklatura’s testicles, while the nomenklatura went on raping the people…
Jordan Peterson in one of his two-tone villain suits.
From Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
Screenshot of a news story about Kristi Noem’s husband, who styles himself a “busty bimbo.”
A parodic mock-up of the Library of America’s volume on Abraham Lincoln’s speeches, except replaced with Trump.
Elon Musk doing a Sieg Heil salute
Ralph Wiggum “I’m in danger” bus meme, except updated with Trump’s boast of unparalleled dominance: “To me, it means very simply that we are in a position of dominance that nobody has seen before, whether or not they're able to say the words.”
From @editorialboard: That we are not seeing massive campus protests like the ones we saw two years ago suggests a level of bad faith in many of those protests. The goal for many participants was not protecting human rights, but smearing Democratic leader. I can't tell you how many people slide into my mentions to accuse the Democrats of supporting genocide and why, for that reason, they must be destroyed as a party. OK but how about them Republicans who support an actual US war against Iran, which Israel is using as cover to bomb everyone?
Title card from IASIP: “The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis”
Are we the baddies? meme, but with the text replaced “We are the good guys!”
A variation of the Predator handshake meme: Mike Pence - courage - maritime insurers.
Predator handshake meme: Mike Pence - courage - Maritime insurers
Title card from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (episode 2, season 2): “The Gang Goes Jihad”
From Phillips O’Brien: “When you add all this together, it is an extremely large and powerful strike force. Some say it is almost as strong as the strike force used in Desert Storm back in 1991. I would say it is larger because it seems that we have the full participation of Israeli airpower, which on its own is extremely formidable. So combined Iran could arguably be facing the greatest concentration of airpower since World War II.”
Meme of the Twin Peaks title card shot from the show. It says “Peak Twins”
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Scene from One Battle After Another where Sensei (Benicio Del Toro) is pulled over and given a sobriety check. “A few small beers, officer.” [This alt text applies to 8 repeated images of the scene.]
https://www.livescience.com/56269-animal-sex-giant-pandas.html
Mike Tyson bare-assing it through his fight with Jake Paul.
Mike Tyson bare-assing it through his fight with Jake Paul.
Mike Tyson bare-assing it through his fight with Jake Paul.
Mike Tyson bare-assing it through his fight with Jake Paul.
Cover of Sasha Abramsky’s “The House of Twenty Thousand Books” (NYRB)
A retelling of the quoted article from CBS using the four panel Vince McMahon reaction meme.
Text says “Black History Month” against a white backdrop, with a black redaction bar covering the word “Black”
Alfred Hitchcock raising and lowering a guillotine blade like he’s working out.
Apple founder Steve Jobs in his characteristic black turtleneck.
Black and white photo from The Shining that proves Jack is among the damned.
Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz in a tight close up, filmed from a low angle. We can hear the sounds of chaos, screaming, shouting, and shooting, as smoke and ash billowed around him.
Miss Rachel and Mayor Mamdani so sad at Donnie’s falling polls.
Dan Bovino, the Borrower-sized head of Border Patrol surrounded by a phalanx of normal-sized goons.
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Still from Jojo Rabbit (2019)
A stencil of Will Stancil
A Canada goose hisses at a bald eagle.
Kawhi Leonard in an anticipatory crouch after launching a buzzer beater in the 2019 playoffs. The ball bounces once, twice, three times before it goes in.
The “Redneck Princess” from Chilliwack, B.C.
Alfred Molina in Boogie Nights as the coked out drug dealer giving Dirk Diggler and the boys some serious qualms.
“Raising the flag on Iwo Jima” photo by Joe Rosenthal of the AP.
Tweet from Bryan Passifiume: “In this case, the far left ended up catching a few well-deserved bullets for their miscalculation”