Robbo Mills

@robbomills.bsky.social

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writer, director, producer, puppeteer, psychonaut, curmudgeon

looking through a window we see some old fart cooking up a perfect fucking steak - omnomnom
Wonderful shot of Willie Nelson standing in profile, lit by a spotlight, hair unbraided, flowing long down his back, glowing in the light, as he grips a classic Shure microphone and looking for all the world like the no bullshit artistic badass he is and we should all aspire to be.
Image of a children's illustrated book entitled: Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss. Best adaptation of The Odyssey - even the title and author name combine to confirm his intent.
Short film clip of some guy in Washington D.C. getting swarmed by bees before falling out a window. Maybe they're Russian bees. Maybe they have novichok in their stingers. Maybe it's just tea. Perhaps they are actually locusts in disguise. Or bees. Probably just a bunch of pissed off bees.
Cover of the Classics Illustrated issue #5: Moby Dick, showing the great white whale in the background and Captain Ahab in a boat with a harpoon in the foreground. Ahab's peg leg looks like it's about to fall off. Cover Price: 15¢
Tilda Swinton in Only Lovers Left Alive - enjoying her blood popsicle
a naked Python (Terry Jones or Idle?) with wild hair, collar and tie, sits at an organ keyboard and delights the audience with their musical prowess
it's the notorious Titan mini-sub
From Stanley Kubrick's film "Doctor Strangelove - Or: How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love The Bomb" - Slim Pickins as Major Kong takes his final ride astride a nuclear bomb, cheering as it descends to the target below. Cue Vera Lynn.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy
The Juneteenth Flag - let freedom ring
Jerome "Curly" Howard takes one in the kisser.
a view of an upper floor of a brick building, in the window a white horse looks out through the glass, perhaps contemplating its future
Lloyd Bridges, in the film Airport!, is having a very good time after quitting whatever substance he has ingested. He looks happy.
From the original film The Thing From Another World, the scene out on the ice where the team of researchers form themselves into a circle. "We finally got one!"
miniature sets of Clowntown, designed & built by Karen Valleau for the children's tv series The Big Comfy Couch - slightly more fanciful than Seth's buildings he made for Dominion but the same idea of a modular world that can be re-arranged to create new angles and perspectives
image of the cheeto-faced shit gibbon, constructed mostly of deli meats and a banana
Marty Feldman as Igor in Young Frankenstein: "What hump?"
animated gif (hard G, don't argue) of a soap bubble landing and popping
Sarah Miles in the film White Mischief greets a new dawn.
Obi Wan looks out over Han Solo's shoulder and finds himself disagreeing with Petruchio
A figure in silhouette dances at night beside a bonfire in celebration of Beltane. May the coming summer be kind to us all.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor stand next to their friend, Adolph Hitler. Makes me think Charles would make a good governor of Bermuda.
Photo of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, standing next to their friend, Herr Adolph Hitler. Charles is doing the same damned thing.
Frank Morgan as The Wizard Of Oz, being revealed as "the man behind the curtain" - just so we can always remember that A.I. is the curtain
A portrait of Marshall McLuhan with the quote: "Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly." Those words are from his book The Medium Is The Message, published in 1964.
Mrs. Packard (voiced by Florence Stanley) in the Disney animated feature film "Atlantis - The Lost Empire" where, after being given orders, she tosses her cigarette and intones: "We're all gonna die.". True comedy gold for the whole family.
Adam Baldwin as Jayne in the series Firefly, specifically the episode entitled: "The Message" wherein Jayne's mom sends him an orange knitted hat with ear flaps that looks "pretty cunning".
a black & white, six panel illustration by R. Crumb depicting a stoner with a hash pipe, resting their elbows on a table with their head in their hands - from one panel to the next the stoner's head slowly melts like butter in a pan, slipping through their hands and spreading out across the table. the reference to Bicycle Day is to commemorate that on this day (April 19) Albert Hoffman discovered LSD and took the first trip on his tandem bicycle - let us ride together
A post card with four black & white images of a man sleeping in various places: on his desk, in the garden, on a couch, on the carpet surrounded by guests at a party. The caption reads: "When In Doubt, Get Horizontal " and "Anytime can be Nap-time."
A painted alt version of Beauty & The Beast, wherein she rides upon his shoulders, blowing on a ram's horn, as the Beast rages against the fleeing villagers. Oh, and she's naked and he's huge and dressed in a very fine blue frock coat.
"Save the clock tower!" - oops, nope - this is the same town square and the big clock tower used in Back To The Future but here is seen in the 1950 film Ma & Pa Kettle Go To Town.
William Shatner as James T. Kirk walks with Joan Collins as Edith Keeler in an episode of Star Trek TOS entitled: "The City On The Edge Of Forever, written by Harlan Ellison. Star Trek was produced by Desilu Studios who also produced the Andy Griffith Show, hence the appearance of Floyd's barbershop window in this scene. "Oooh, Andy. I could fix those sideburns if you want. Hmm. Yes." It's also worth noting that the closing theme music of Star Trek TOS can be played on top of the I Love Lucy closing theme and they go well together.
from the finale of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 where the greedy arse villain descends the ship stairs in slow motion as the entire vessel blows apart into shards around him all the while muttering: it's just good business
Alec Guinness, as Obi-wan Kenobi, and Harrison Ford, as Han Solo, in the first best Star Wars movie later called A New Hope - at that moment in the tale when Obi-wan lifts his gaze and opens his eyelids just a wee bot more to capture the eye high lights from the lamp put next to the camera (which was, in the old days, called a "Gish" after Dorothy Gish who did some terrific eye acting in the silent cinema days) and that's one of many ways you express and convey what would normally be an interior thought, using the art of cinema.
Creepy bunny in a bathroom stall, inches over to make room and pats the seat next to it.
Still image from the film Young Frankenstein with Marty Feldman as Igor pretending to be a head on a shelf while Gene Wilder as Dr. Frankenstein reacts.
Photo of Dr. Martin Luther King and his quote: "One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
Sigourney Weaver in Aliens agrees. "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." Ripley knows.
Artist Francis Bacon sits in the midst of his studio, surrounded by what looks like the entire contents of a dumpster bin out back of an art school.
Bill Murray and Punxsutawney Phil are at it - again.
Celebrants of Ostara dance in the evening around bonfires to celebrate the coming of Spring and the renewal of life. Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again.
A classic scene from the television series Fawlty Towers, starring John Cleese, whose character in this episode has been hit on the head and he can't stop making rude comments about WWII to his German guests, even as he whispers to his wife: "Don't talk about the war."
Puppet Show and Spinal Tap
A scene from the TV series "The Hilarious House of Frightenstein, starring Billy Van - and Vincent Price.
Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon as Brad and Janet in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
In a scene from Pirates of the Caribbean 3, the greedy dirt-stupid executive of the British East India Company walks in slow motion down the steps of a once regal ship of the British Navy as the entire ship gets systematically blow to shards - a perfect metaphor of the inevitable consequences of unbridled capitalism. Also, it's a cool shot.
Jerome "Curly" Howard gleefully sticks out his tongue and then gets creamed right in the kisser with a big wet pie. Nyah! Pow! That's how you do it.
Stephen Miller sporting his painted-on hair look which just goes to show that fascists have no taste and are blind to anything beyond their shallow imagined aesthetic. They are children. Children with bad hair.
A shot from the animated film The Iron Giant (1999), where the character Dean (voiced by Harry Connick Jr.) cringes behind a newspaper bearing the headline: DISASTER SEEN AS CATASTROPHE LOOMS. So it goes.
Slim Pickins rides an ICBM down upon a Soviet missile site in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 iconic testament of America's eventual and inexorable demise at the hands of their own greed, paranoia and delusional mythos. Doctor Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb. Yee Haw!!!
This is our neighbour's cat, Mr. Big (aka Biggie, The Big Bigowski, You Fat Bastard and many more expressions of affection) in a warmer season at the back door. He showed up today after a 2 month absence due to holidays, illness and really crappy weather. Biggie gives good purrs and cuddles. Always tries to get in the house.
Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West in the classic film The Wizard of Oz. Best witch ever.
Celebrating Ash Wednesday with a photo of Bruce Campbell brandishing his boom stick in the film Army Of Darkness. Shop smart - shop S-Mart.
Spooky poster for John Carpenter's "The Fog". It's very foggy right now in Parkdale - but we do not have zombie pirate slasher killers, so we have that going for us.
Robert Duvall as Boo Radley in To Kill A Mockingbird.
From the Twilight Zone, an actor/alien who has a third eye in their forehead. Shouldn't we all?