Bob Blaskiewicz

@rjblaskiewicz.bsky.social

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Associate Prof. of Critical Thinking and First-Year Studies at Stockton University. I hunt quacks and quackery across time and space. He/him. Huzzah: science, pseudoscience, conspiracy theory studies. Harrumph: fakes, frauds, fascists. #U2, #MST3K, #WWII

It's an empty stage with a 90% chance of Buddy Guy.
It's just smoke.
The view out the window looks weirdly colored.
An ad from 1907 Salt Lake City reads: Merchants' Protective Association Scientific Collectors of Honest Debts. Rooms 77-78-93-94-97-98-99-100, Commercial National Bank Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. FRANCIS G. LUKE, General Manager. “Some People Don't Like Us.”
A Grainger ad from Facebook for an "Aldon Rail Track Detailer." The photos is a brightly colored plastic clip that doesn't look like it could derail a train of thought.
Cartman bursting into a church announcing: "Cripple Fight!" Everyone leaves to watch.
A headline from the Daily Nevada State Journal (1907-08-21) reads: Fuel Shortage at Oil Well.
An old newspaper article from the 1910s reads: LAUGH SETS BROKEN JAW Surgeon's Funny Story Causes Fractured Bone to Snap in Place, and All Is Well. If you happen to break a bone or dislocate a joint, don't bother with a doctor. Just have a hearty laugh and the bones will set themselves. This is the newest form of "bloodless surgery" as practiced in the McKinley hospital at Trenton, N. J. The patient was Ada Tucker, eighteen, of Pennington avenue. Her jawbone was broken and two attempts to set the break failed. Then Dr. Harold L. Dollinger had an inspiration. Standing near Miss Tucker's bed, he told a funny story. Miss Tucker joined in the laughter and the broken bone snapped into place. It was made secure by bandages and Miss Tucker will be able to leave the hospital in a short time. The doctor didn't repeat the story to the reporters, but gave assurances that it was funny.
A little popcorn thing with a face and stick appendages smiling aggressively saying, "Sweet Jesus!" A still detail from the Don Hertzfeldt's cartoon Rejected.
An article from 1905 reads: CIGARETTE SMOKER IN JAIL Traveling Man Caught Smoking in Indians. ® Lafayette, Ina, July 8.—Edward Ham- mell, traveling salesman for a patent medi- cine company, who, having been convicted of smoking cigarettes, is serving a sentence of twenty-nine days in default of payment of a fine and costs assessed by Judge Foster, of Otterbein, will in all probability be compelled to serve the entire sentence.
An old advertisement (1905) from an Iowa newspaper reads, approximately: FREE You can now obtain the large, full size, dollar package of MAN MEDICINE, sent free to your address for the asking. MAN MEDICINE gives you once more the full sense of man sensation—the pulse and throb of physical life-being. It makes man right, regular and responsive. Man Medicine does what you want it to do. Man Medicine cures early decay, discouraged manhood, nervous debility, functional failure. vital weakness, loss of power, brain fog, backache, prostatitis, kidney trouble and nervousness. You can cure yourself at home. Man , Medicine has cured thousands upon thou- sands of weak men, and Man Medicine will cure you; restore you; renew and re- vive within you the full pulsation and natural throb. We Enow from experience with thousands of <ases of man-weak- ness that Man Medicine does and ean cure and we know that weak, unable men are restored and cured by this home treatment if they only understand what Man Medi- cine ig, and if they will guly try to be themselves again. Man Medicine is the great remedy for impaired manhood and you owe It to yourself to prove in vour own person what it is and what it does. ~~ We ask no payment of any kind—mo re- ceipts—no promises. All hy! want to know is that yon are not sending' for Man Medi- cine out of Idle curiosity. We want yon to give Man Medicine a fair trial and be your strong, natural self again, This free dollar package is the proof of what Man Medicine does for man. We send it to you in a plain wrapper, sealed, prepaid, delivered. Your name and address brings it. Interstate Remedy Co.. 268 Luck bldg.. Detroit. Mich.
A headline from the same month reads: Los Angeles Aroused.
About 8 advertisements for boner pills and electric belts and goat glands from the LA Times in about 1907.
A Viking-style skull enthusiast sits on a very severe looking throne--looking rather severe himself--under a diploma, while his mage, skull-bedecked staff in hand, proclaims: "Behold Vorgar, destroyer of lands, reaper of death, bachelor of fine arts!"
A road in the foreground leads to a granite mountain under a blue sky. Where the mountain and road meet, rows of windmills recede in to the distance. They are dwarfed to insignificance beneath the mountain.
Bob photo bombing Joshua Tree national park. He has sunglasses on.
Someone scratched fuck kid rock in the sidewalk cement.
Just the entry of the police ledger for a woman who has been arrested for being incorrigible.
Imagine a 1-star hotel room. Now paint clouds on the ceiling and a bird soaring. You have now just mentally traveled to my hotel room. Perv.
A clipping from an old newspaper column called "Police Court". The third item reads: "Rosa Berliner, disobedience to parents, was discharged."
A man with football nose armor. Think Tycho Brahe meets athletic supporter suspended from a headband.
Two cover sheets taped to a door. The top one is clearly old-timey and is titled "Speculations on the Perceptive Power of Vegetables." The second one is from 2024 and reads "Touch, light, wounding: How anaesthetics affect plant sensing abilities." A handwritten note on the latter reads, "Who says science doesn't progress?"
An ad says: "Wanted, A Snake Eater."
The Onion's "Sickos" character at the window saying yes..Hahaha yes!
A freshwater pufferfish looking head-on at the camera. You cannot help but notice his enormous buck teeth.
Imagine a sepia map. Then pretend that New York and Maryland had a baby called New Jersey. Put Nebraska just to the North of the said abomination. Draw a route that suggests dozens of very regularly spaced stops as the tour does a circuit around the the Goofy-head looking state and that all of the towns have jibberish names. Lastly, north of Nebraska, add a key which explains that the line means jibberish, the dots mean jibberish, and that other lines also signify the location of jibberish.
A clipping of apparently a regular column in a Duluth paper from 1895. The column is called "In the Library" and the inked doodle is a weird little worm with a human head and glasses gnawing on a page of a book. While it's no rabbit beheading a knight or a man riding a snail, it still feels weirdly like medieval marginalia.
A bas relief of the personification of Kairos.
Screenshot of a People magazine headline reads "You are not prepared to learn the size of Neanderthal infants." The accompanying photo shows a close up of the face of a dark skinned beaded man getting a surprise rectal exam.
The Sunday Oregonian Sun, Mar 19, 1899 -Page 7 —————— PRETTY EASTERN WOMEN WITH MEANS want husbands. Select private lists, 2c. Best method. Full particulars. Mutual Exchange, Kansas City, Mo.
A newspaper clipping reads: The Sunday Oregonian Sun, Mar 19, 1899 -Page 7 A RESPECTABLE GENT OF MEANS desires acquaintance with lone young woman desiring a good home and time, for companionship and self-culture in books, papers, music, etc.; maidens and orphans preferred must have gentle disposition and refined tastes. Address 10005, care Oregonian. It does not say, "Totally not a serial killer," but I believe it is implied.
A newspaper clipping reads: The Butte Daily Post Tue, Jan 31, 1899 - Page 8 Vinegar Man in a Pickle
A photo of the hardback of Olivia Weisser's The Dreaded Pox: Sex and Disease in Early Modern London
An old newspaper clipping reads: Led Astray by Golf. Who would ever have thought that the time would come when the American farmer, the bone and sinew of this great nation, would be blighted by a game called golf? The farmer who has kept out of debt and free from mortgage up to this stage by raising farm produce has at last allowed his beautiful grain fields to succumb to golf links. Such is the sad end of many farmers in the East
A tall, rectangular medicine bottle lies on its side. Embossed text on the top face reads, "BBC Compound, Benjamin Bruns Co., San Francisco, Calif., USA"
Bob as a Klingon.
Independence Hall, site of the first pool hall in America #FakeFacts
An orange tabby kitten on a blanket, thinking of murder.
It says I was in WWII at the battle of Garfudo.
Really it's not impressive. Someone copy-pastes me into a document emailed to Deepak Chopra.
A screenshot of a headline on Medium from Avi Loeb reads in big bold letters: "I am a colossal tool," only he spells it: "What if 31/Atlas is AI/Atlas?"
A monkey with a "fuck ICE" sign standing on a street corner in St Louis.
My word of the year is "mortifying."
A star field, but in the middle is the type of smudge that gets astronomers all tingly. De-noised for her pleasure.
A glowing fuzzball with shadows in a star field. This is the 1 minute exposure. Imagine the Apollo spacecraft entering the atmosphere and the ablation shield coming off the blunt end of the capsule. Now point the blunt end toward 10 o'clock and subtract out the capsule. Speckle with stars and you got an approximation of M42 and the direction of the gas.
A headline from a historical newspaper reads: The Bristol Evening News Fri, Oct 23, 1908 -Page 3 CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESSS [sic] INSANE
Bob in a jaunty hat, vintage Guatemalan shirt with quetzal birds, and jeans, playing a beautiful telecaster on stage.
A powerpoint slide. Text down the middle is flanked on each side by a full-length image. On the left, a bottle of Swaim's Panacea. On the right a brightly colored baby holds up a glass bottle of medicine, smiling, and possibly kind of tipping over. The text reads: American Patent Medicines Brought to you by Drunken Baby Elixir Is your baby dour and uninteresting? Then try DRUNKEN BABY ELIXIR!
A version of the "This is Fine" meme. A content cartoon dog sits at a table surrounded by flames and smoke in the first panel. The dog says "So it goes" in the second panel.
It's a police sketch of RFK, Jr.