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Lock screen: view of Kauai mountains behind some fields, through some trees.
The album cover of Pulp’s 1995 album Different Class. It’s a British wedding party posed photo full of white people, plus life-sized cardboard cutouts of the band.
Criterion title frame of the 1958 movie The Long, Hot Summer. Shirtless and glistening Paul Newman.
A door midway up the side of an old stone building, without any clear way to access it (unless one is an angel).
Parody of British tabloid “Sun”, now “Bun”. Headline “Bin for the Win” with Count Binface. “Rubbish Deal,” etc.
Little black piglet on a leash, eating grass.
An advertisement for a play: Folks You Meet in Longs, by local Hawai’i author Lee Cataluna.
A page from comic book From Hell. A man looks up and sees a tripartite god towering above him like a mountain. The god is part a bearded man holding geometry tools, part a black goat, and part a man with ancient Egyptian headdress, beard, and holding a crook.
A parody of original Star Trek’s episode title sequences, with the Enterprise flying above a cloudy blue planet. The episode title pun is “A Pon Too Farr”
Ike Willis with microphone and guitar
Piglets sleep in big piles, so I should sleep in the bed with you guys. So said the little black piglet
Sleeping black piglet nestled in human arms.
Comic by B.Kliban: Transportation A laden camel, being led, captioned SHIP OF THE DESERT A ship with a smokestack, full of cargo, captioned CAMEL OF THE SEA
Hermes: Orpheus was a poor boy / But he had a gift to give us / There was one song he'd been working on / He could never seem to finish / A song about this broken world / That he rewrote again and again / As though if he could find the words / He could fix the world with them.
Beavis and Butthead’s book Chicken Soup for the Butt
A character from Almodovar's film Women On The Edge of a Nervous Breakdown. She's wearing little moka pot earrings.
An illustration by Alec Longstreth of a troubled aardvark. From his book Alec’s Animal Alphabet
A short man with a red hat, a large nose, and a magnificent mustache peers out of a bunch of daisies.
A young Tom Lehrer in a jacket and bow tie, grinning his face off while sitting at a small table with a lamp, a corkscrew, and a small glass of what looks like red wine. The original caption reads, "Tom Lehrer backstage at the Palace Theatre in London in 1959. Evening Standard/Getty Images"
A shiny silver-skinned redhaired robot man holds a rose while giving bedroom eyes on the cover of Tanith Lee’s novel The Silver Metal Lover (a Science Fiction Book Club Selection)
The three Fates from Hadestown Hilo—the teen production. Grim expressions.
The poster for Hilo High’s performances of the musical Hadestown (teen edition). The weekends of May 2nd-4th and 9th-11th. 7pm, or 2pm Sunday matinee.
OH! WHERE AM I? HUH! IT WAS A DREAM. AM GLAD OF THAT! NO MORE MELTED CHEESE FOR ME. UM! Says a man in bed.
The 80s D&D “Evil Fighter” action figure poses outdoors, with his spooky glowing eyes peering out of his helmet, holding his sword and (very metal) hornéd skull shield.
"It seems that President Trump exaggerated when he said that there is a large ocean between Russia and the US," Stanislav Aseyev, a Ukrainian writer and former soldier, said in a post on X. "Today, America was closer to Moscow than at any time in history."
Hardcover books: Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution and Alan Moore’s The Great When.
A painting of a Pangolin by Alec Longstreth. ‘P’ is for ‘Pangolin.’
Two pages from Glenn Dakin's "Abe" comic, showing Abe reading The Hobbit as he goes through his day. Each panel has quotes from the novel juxtaposed with apropos events, such as "Who are these miserable creatures?, said the Great Goblin" as a group of children hide from rough weather under a bus shelter. It ends with Abe smiling in a train. Outside the window, we see part of The Hobbit's map of "Wilderland" -- Rhovanion, on later maps.
Neil Peart, Geddy Lee, and Alex Lifeson of the band Rush.
This four-panel Peanuts cartoon takes a scene from "A Charlie Brown Christmas" that asks "Isn't there anyone who understands what Christmas is all about?" and replaces Linus's Bible quote with a discussion of the pagan origins of Christmas. He highlights how these origins spark the irony of contemporary Christians' longing for their vision of a more traditional Christmas. Linus concludes that aside from its origins or roots, Christmas is a "wonderful opportunity to share our love with friends and family."
Album cover of Pulp’s Different Class: a group posing for a wedding shot