Mike Reynolds

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Midway resident. Teacher.

Cover of Nick Fuller Googins’ novel, _The Great Transition_, depicting a small almost conical structure in the mountains, well-lighted interior and smoke rising from a chimney, as small silhouetted humans walk toward it.
Balding older white man, with beard, mustache, pointy nose, and evil smirk. He is in a brown room, with a window and drapes, a clock, and a map on the wall behind him. Some text is glitching in front of him; this is from a "credits sequence" in "Too Many Cooks."
A frame from the credits of the '70s TV show "In Search Of." It includes pictures of Amelia Earhart, Stonehenge, the Milky Way, Loch Ness, statues from Rapa Nui, and the gloriously-coiffed and shirt-collared host, Leonard Nimoy, staring intensely at the viewer.
Aftermath of a car crash at a busy intersection (Hewitt and Snelling). A tanker truck is in the crossing, while a blue sedan is stuck in the median, with a traffic light pole down in front of it.
A blue sign, on a glossy table reflecing some ceiling lights, that reads "The Ethics Table is down for maintenance."
Richard Nixon (as portrayed by Philip Baker Hall) in a weird maroon velour jacket slouches over a cluttered desk and microphone, hand in his forehead, wondering what kids today see in him.
Cover of Aarthi Vadde’s critical study _We The Platform_, which plants the title between images of #2 pencils.
The cover for Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, _Land_. A multicolored set of concentric shapes circle around a dark center, in a way that looks like a geographic contour map.
Matt Johnson in his jaunty hat, in front of a whiteboard, making air quotes.
Clouds hued various shades of maroon, pink, purple against blue sky — the cover of Portia Elan’s novel _Homebound_.
A white man stands behind a young white girl, his hands on her shoulders, her hands on a sign reading “Let Them Vote!” They are in the Minnesota capital rotunda, surrounded by other protesters.
Carolyn Holbrook on the dais, reading to the crowd, while a photo of her stares down; a crowd leans forward in their seats, anxious for her story.
Dopey guy sitting on giveaway couch, missing most of its cushions, in front of the reconstructed Hamline Midway Library.
Goofy guy in headphones, smiling for selfie while seated in a chair left on the street, near a fire hydrant.
Dr. Steve Brule, curls flying everywhere and mouth puckered to enable his wild mispronunciations.
The cover for Angela Pelster's The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming. An illustration of a bee, a tadpole, and a flower among leaves surround the title.
Crappy pixel art Mooninites give the middle finger to an astronaut on the MOON. Nothing the astronaut can do about it.
Two men hug behind a bench, in front of a barren brick wall, with a Tim Horton's sign in Farsi behind them. From Matthew Rankin's 2025 film "Universal Language."
Through a chain-link fence, we see the CVS building being torn down by a large-bucket rig. A truck and blue-wrapped demolition materials in the foreground; the Spruce Tree in the background.
Windows on the US Bank stadium reflect a cloudy sky and Minneapolis skyline at twilight.
Cover of Dave Hutchinson's novel The Essence, with a grim-faced man facing the reader, cut in half by a line of bright lightning, with a cityscape in the distance.
Cover of T Kira Madden's novel Whidbey, which depicts a painting of a foggy coastline, mossy/green beach and boulders, trees leaning toward the water rolling in.
Cover of novel Lost Lambs, by Madeline Cash — the text scribbled as if by crayon, a cartoon of a small girl in a bow, staring at a gnat in the bottom left corner.
A picture of a puppet elf (from “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer”) wielding a set of intimidating pliers.
A piece of toast carved into the shape of a skull, with the author’s name (cory doctorow) and title (unauthorized bread) superimposed over the image.
A flyer for a community meetup at Black Garnet Books on Saturday, January 24th, from 1-3 p.m. A big heart boosted by rainbow stripes is drawn on the left, next to text and a QR code about the event.
A still from Matthew Rankin's 2024 film, "Universal Language." A group of people, bundled up against the winter, stand in the snow in front of a tall brick apartment building, with Persian lettering and design on the wall.
A young girl stands below the stoop of a brownstone, smiling at the camera. Still from Spike Lee's 1994 film "Crooklyn."
A brightly colored mural depicting many young students' faces, between images of the State Capitol building and the Spruce Tree tower. The mural is on a brick wall, between windows.
A group of people and muppets pose, smiling at the camera, on a table on a city street.
Cover for Sarah Hall’s novel _Helm_, which has an engraving of wind as a series of curved lines, looking over the small figure of a woman, her umbrella turned inside out.
A bare stage, with mic stand and stool. In front of the stage, off-brand Santa shares his recent texts with his fellow attendee.
A screenshot of Ross Douthat, but capturing how much he looks like the serial killer from Adult Swim’s “Too Many Cooks.” The caption reads “…but the wrong kind of empathy.”
Logo for Saint Paul Future Forward, with white thin letters for "Saint Paul" and fat blue letters for "future forward," on a black background.
An alien that is one large, multi-pupil eye on an octopus-like body stares up at a restrained sheep, in an ominous glassed cell.
Wilford Brimley, age 49, looking serious in a smart brimmed hat and multicolored, collared shirt.
Ryan Gosling, looking serious in a smart black t-shirt with a bowl of cereal on the table in front of him, holds up a spoonful of that cereal.
Sandra Bernhard dressed as a nurse, in Nicolas Roeg's film "Track 29," carefully putting on red rubber gloves in an office with cheap wood-paneled cupboards and bland white walls.
Photo of Ross Douthat, a balding, bearded middle-aged man sitting in front of a microphone.
From the meme with a series of images of a hand, reaching up for help from deep water, and someone else’s hand coming in for the high five.
From the film Winter Kills: John Huston hanging off a flag, far above a city street below. Jeff Bridges, seen from behind, reaches to grab Huston’s hand.
A large crowd marches toward the Saint Paul Capitol building on a gray day. A large US flag (one of many) is waved by one marcher in the foreground.
Hands on either side of a typed speech. Text as follows: Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.
A news photo from MPR news, showing men draping cloth over the closed (large) casket for Pope Francis. Headline: How to Watch Pope Francis’s funeral, and what to expect.
Hands Off rally at MN state capital: a broad shot showing capital dome in distance, and huge crowd sprawling around it.
Cover of Patrick Hoffman's novel Friends Helping Friends, with the Denver cityscape under a red-orange sky.
Cover of Robert Jackson Bennett's 2025 novel, A Drop of Corruption. Depicts an ornate design with a hand stretching below, linked by various fibers to leaves/vegetation at the top.
A cat on a lap, staring at the cover of Nnedi Okorafor’s novel, The Death of the Author.
Cover of Nisi Shawl’s 2025 novel, The Days & Night Books of Mardou Fox. An image of a building’s wall at night at bottom, and a silhouette of a water tower against a yellow sunset at top.
Two panels for David Lynch's old comic strip, "The Angriest Dog in the World," that always show the exact same drawing of a small dog with big teeth straining at the edge of its leash, "grrr"-ing in a sparse yard near a tree. This panel has text that reads "People are dying living here."
The cover for Stephen Graham Jones' 2025 novel, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter -- with a mountainous buffalo head, snow dusting its snout, peering to the right of the illustration, into the distance.
Poster for film “Naga,” with a woman climbing out of the trunk of a car at night, the car’s lights slicing through the darkness.
An empty glass on the floor, in front of a tray table and a television.
Two hands together on a table, two coffee cups in the foreground. From Martin Scorsese’s “After Hours” (1985)
Two cats, nestling under and on a blanket, on a bed.
Very pink cover of Hildur Knútsdóttir’s novel The Night Guest, with what appears to be blood dripping into a wine glass.
Everything is fine meme: a dog in a jaunty little hat, sits in a chair, a coffee cup on a table in front — and the room is on fire. The second panel is a close-up of the fog, smiling, saying “AI IS CHANGING OUR WORLD!”
Linkedin ad nudging me to “make [my] profile stand out” — and then noting that “591 Professor of Englishs got more profile views this week.”
Cover of Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s _Catalina_, with an eye staring from the nucleus of a star-like set of rays, a few smaller stars arrayed in constellation around the eye-star.
Cover of Kerry Howley’s _Thrown_, which is just the title in big block letters separated two by two by two on an abstract drawing of an MMA ring.