Mike Mongo

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Tigerman book cover, me fanboy’ing over Nick Harkaway
Ace Frehley the Space Ace in full makeup (cover of solo album)
Pilot Amelia Earhart sitting in airplane cockpit, smiling and holding up sign that reads, “ Nice Try. Released the files. - Amelia Earhart”
meme art portraying frog being methodically cooked in large pot of water coming boil on stovetop
Photo taken in Cape Canaveral while I was busy being Uncle Dad. Imagine globes of varying degrees of light, colorless, translucent, overlapping. Think of vertical lines of see-through, grapes of light without any color besides light and dark.
my nephew said I am a dork, then he defined it, one of the best compliments of my life to date: I am a dork
Nuclear reactor on moon with ANYYHING BUT THE EPSTEIN FILES emblazoned on its side.
“When I die I want to be thrown out of a plane wearing a Superman costume.”
A man goes to a newspaper stand every day, buys a copy of NYT's, glances at the front cover, curses, and throws it away. After a few weeks of this the seller just has to ask what's going on: "why do you always look at the cover but never inside?" "I'm looking for an obituary." "An obituary? But those are on the inside!" "Oh no, the obituary I'm looking for will be on the front page."