Ian Blackout

@mightyblackout.bsky.social

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He/him. Jedi. Drunkard. Prophet… swears a bit.

The scene in Rob Reiner's This Is Spinal Tap where the band's manager realises they have in fact ordered a two-foot high replica-piece of Stonehenge due to poor communication and sloppy administration, and they are in fact going to have to go ahead and use that on stage just to save some level of face.
A picture of the Lockjaw character from the Masters Of The Universe cartoon, with his trademark red helmet and adjoining prosthetic jaw.
A picture of a single dice with the number 1 face-up, which is in red and larger than the other numbers, lending a subliminal air that this was somehow inevitable. A caption underneath begins with “New!”, suggesting that the option of rolling a dice is new even if the device itself is not. The caption then continues with the word “Die” in larger letters. This is, of course, the singular noun for the object commonly (and incorrectly) referred to as ‘a dice’, but its usage here implies that the imminent death of the player is a direct result of rolling the dice (okay, ‘the die’). This probably was not the intention of the original, uncropped, source-image, but is used here as a means of fatalistic humour in conjunction with the additional caption of “Monday”, invoking the popular faux-malaise of the working-classes caught in the wheels of capitalism. The juxtaposition of perceived choice, false randomness and ultimate fatal inevitability is the joke. You’re very welcome.
A promo shot of one of the performers (I haven't looked up his name) from the imminent UK version of Saturday Night Live. Like all members of every crazy comedy troupe, he is trying to look overtly relaxed to the point of wry irony, hoping this will sell him at face-value as relatable and simultaneously as a knowingly subversive comic. It does neither. Ultimately he just looks like a smug twat who is way out of his depth and who will be haunted by this picture until they day they bury him with it. I am using the picture here to sarcastically demonstrate my own shortcomings when it comes to socialising. Although my shortcomings are nowhere near as many as this performers. I refuse to look up his name.