Benjamin Franklinstein

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A license plate that reads OHANALW
Animal, the Muppet
Sam Eagle, the Muppet
The cover of the book How to Blow Up a Pipeline, by Andreas Malm. It's an orange background with images of barbed wire, a chain link fence, an ancient tree and a majestic canyon on it.
A Hawksmoor church in Whitechapel
MCCONNELL'S ALIVE?!
Lucille Bluth says, "We forget, but we never forgive."
The covers of two books: Force 10 from Navarone, by Alistair MacLean, showing a potato masher grenade and a pair of sunglasses atop a map of Yugoslavia The Urth of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe, with a glowing sun resting in the stretched U in the word Sun against a mustard yellow background
Dr. Totenkopf, played by the very late Laurence Olivier, from Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
The seance from Night of the Demon
Cultists gather around a glowing obelisk inscribed with runes while lighting pierces the night sky above it.
What's a bad miracle? They got a word for that?
The cover of the book The Iron Storm: The Impact on Greek Culture of the Military Junta, 1967-1974 by Thomas Doulis. It's a black and white photo of a number of armored military vehicles in a narrow street in presumably Athens.
BANQUO [to Fleance] It will be rain tonight. FIRST MURDERER Let it come down! [The three Murderers attack.]
Kyle McLaughlin in menacing mode
Bastard Halibut origami kit
TURN IT OFF
The cover of the comic book The Big Book of Conspiracies by Doug Moench. It features a shadowy figure in a trench coat, hat, and sunglasses holding a finger to his purses lips,the sign for "shhhh". A distorted image of JFK with a cross hairs over his head is in the background.
The cover and spine of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, the first collection of takes by M.R. James. All killer, no filler.
Horror in Architecture, by Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing
The cover of the book The Vampire of Vourla and other Greek Vampire Tales 1819-1846, depicting a vampiric figure with bat wings hovering over a small village
The cover of the book The Iron Storm: The Impact on Greek Culture of the Military Junta, 1967-1974, by Thomas Douglas. It shows several armored vehicles massed on a narrow street in, presumably, Athens.
A blimp hangar in Tustin, CA on fire
The cover of the book The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet, by Jeff Goodell
There ain't no anti-memetics division and there never was.
The cover of TV Guide featuring the 1987 miniseries Amerika, about a Soviet takeover of the US.
Troy McClure tells you, in Greek, to get confident, stupid.
The cover of the history book Contested Currents: Rivers and the Remaking of New England by Zachary M. Bennett
A two story mural of John Brown painted on the entire side of a building on Maple Street in Holyoke, Massachusetts
Los Angeles Museum of Art on Fire by Ed Ruscha
Ο Καπετάν βρυκόλακας The Vampire Captain A Greek vampire (vrykolakas) menaces a woman praying ata grave in a graveyard.
Harry Dean Stanton as Brett in Alien. He's wearing cargo pants, a Hawaiian shirt, and a trucker hat. He's smoking a cigarette.
The words Tragedy and Farce made up to look like the Knicks logo
A promo image for the Apple TV show Widow's Bay
A neon sign on top of a building at the corner of Pico and Normandie in Los Angeles that says Byzantine-Latino Quarter
So it's commies.
Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings,and the Rebirth of White Rage, by Heather Ann Thompson
Quite.
DTF
Garth Marenghi gives us the straight dope about subtext.
A box of strawberry flavored Super Stuffed (50% more filling!) Pop-Tarts.
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, by Harry Braverman
The Criterion Collection cover illustration of the Youssef Chahine film Cairo Station.