Julian Sanchez

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He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. juliansanchez.com

Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes
Selection from Yandle & Smith’s “Bootleggers & Baptists”
Book cover: “The Good Dr Guillotin and his Strange Device”
WSJ headline: “Person is killed in ICE-involved shooting in Maine”
Three performers standing outdoors in a park surrounded by flowering trees doing The Hound of the Baskervilles
Khan in Star Trek II: “You are in a position to demand nothing, sir.”
“Credulity” by Emily Ogden
Brennan Lee Mulligan: “Stop making new Oreos”
Park reading of an abbreviated Macbeth
Me as the Joker for Halloween one million years ago
Sam Lowry trying out the “executive decision maker” (a gadget that randomly selects “yes” or “no”) from the film Brazil
Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka half-heartedly saying “stop, don’t come back”
Garth Marenghi from Darkplace: “I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards.”
Nosferatu-like Vampire in Guillermo DelToro’s The Strain applies makeup & prosthetics to look human
Donald Trump at the Libertarian Party convention in front of a giant backdrop that says “Become Ungovernable”
Painting from the Parroquia de San Miguel Arcangel in Spain showing Michael stomping Satan, who appears to be enjoying it
Maha, Its Feathers Night {3}{B}{B} Legendary Creature — Elemental Bird Flying, trample Ward—Discard a card. Creatures your opponents control have base toughness 1. “Its wingspan reaches from dusk to dawn.” 6/5
Duolingo app icon in horrifying scribble form
Painting of a bartender mixing a cocktail, with several postage stamps affixed to it, formerly hanging above the backbar entrance to House of Secrets
Text by the fictional fascist presidential aspirant Berzelius Windrip from Chapter 5 of Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here”
But one day, by imperial decree, they were gone. Why did the Emperor choose this path? And who will our next oppressors be?
Me as geralt of rivia
Al Pacino from “The Devil’s Advocate”
Art from the Parroquia San Miguel Arcangel in Spain, showing the archangel stepping on the head of Satan who really seems to be getting a kick out of it.
First paragraph of La Invención de Morel in Spanishi
Spanish news talking about gas price hikes do to the Iran war
Penguin Classics hardcover of Paradise Lost
Julian dressed as Jean le Flambeur in blue hexagonal sunglasses with a purple blazer, lapel flower, and steampunky clockwork pocketwatch & cufflinks reading Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar
Ashley Padilla from SNL as regretful trump voter mom
Jack Posobiec on the Bad Place tweeting “MAGA isn’t bootlicking. MAGA is the boot.”
Pinhead from Hellraiser
Tim Cook with Brett Ratner at the premiere screening of "Melania"
One of the peculiarities of the American educational system, compared with those in other democracies, is that most public school districts prefer hiring graduates with degrees in education rather than in specific academic subjects like history and physics. This leads to a greater focus on the methods of teaching, expressed in jargon phrases like “inquiry-based learning,” than on acquiring particular knowledge. Traub found a real allergy among public school educators to memorization of vocabulary, chronology and narrative — the elemental material out of which reality-based opinions and arguments can be formed.
Bernard Williams: Essays and Reviews 1959–2002
“They’re the same picture” meme
MTG Card Geode Rager (4RR) Creature - Elemental First strike Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, goad each creature target player controls. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)
Ron Swanson insists he has a permit, and displays a piece of paper on which he has written “I can do what I want”
Sergeant Schultz from Hogan’s Heroes delivers his catchphrase “I see nothing!”
Machado delivering the most tight-lipped, dead-eyed smile ever captured on camera
Calico cat lapping liquid treat out of a martini glass
Eddie Izzard from Dress to Kill on invading Russia in winter
A joke Magic: The Gathering card called “He Who Requires Googling” with a ton of obscure mechanics
Fox headline: “deluded wine moms are committing deadly crimes”
Cyclops kneeling unleashing a massive optic blast from the Avengers: Doomsday teaser
Maureen Dowd NYT column headlined “Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk”
Roddy McDowall & Tuesday Weld in “Lord Love a Duck”
Orson Welles as Harry Lime in “The Third Man”
Magnetic Fields’ “69 Love Songs”
New logo for the "Trump Kennedy Center"
Dorothy, Blanche, & Rose of the Golden Girls