Ron Hogan

@ronhogan.bsky.social

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He wrote Our Endless & Proper Work (Belt Publishing, 2021), based on his "Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives" newsletter.

A woman looks up to the sky on a bright, sunny day. The light is diffused by trees in the hazy background behind her.
Joker has just discovered Batman is billionaire Bruce Wayne, and would like to know where his goddamn electric car is.
An image from Brad Neely’s “George Washington,” which asserts (among other things) that the former president had four dicks.
John Schuck as Yoyo, from the hit TV series “Holmes & Yoyo,” the basis for the motion picture Robocop.
Maria Becerra in a light blue and white outfit with a giant golden sun brooch.
Young LL Cool J
“Do you want to see a guillotine in Piccadilly?”
Boris Karloff at the end of Targets, an excellent film by Peter Bogdonavich.
A photograph of a globe of the Earth, illuminated from within, being cradled in the darkness by a pair of human hands.
Boris and Natasha, from the Bullwinkle cartoon.
A dual headshot of Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani, stars of the motion picture Possession.
A piece of paper taped to a wall reads, “WORKSHOP 30: Would That All the Lord’s People Were Prophets,” with my name (as the workshop facilitator) below that.
Congratulations. You played yourself.
Cerebus #104: “This Flame, This Carrot.”
Then there was the comic where the Turtles accidentally went back in time and encountered Cerebus.
Mason Williams’ MUSIC, an album cover designed and painted by Ed Ruscha. The actual painting was thrown out by an employee at the record label some time after the album’s release.
A lead vocalist, or a featured soloist I suppose, for a military band sings “Remember” on stage at the National Mall.
A blurry photograph of empty water bottles and a plastic cup filled with a soft drink, with the fairground pavilion crisp in the background.
CSPAN footage of a deserted National Mall, lined with Potemkin fair attractions.
A tall ship, sailing down the Hudson River.
A tall ship, sailing on the Hudson River.
Fred Rogers in his TV living room, wearing a bright red zip-up sweater.
“It stinks.”
A headshot of David Bentley Hart, with the following statement: “I want to see this whole project of 'Christendom' collapse under its own weight in an absolute abject, historical failure so vast that the very words 'Christian civilization' will have to mean nothing other than soup kitchens."
“So your perspective is that birthright citizenship is a self-evident good and there is no way a person would oppose it unless that person is stupid or evil?” asks Luke A., to which David Bentley Hart replies, “Yes.”
Hong Kong Phooey, in the Phooeymobile.
A still from the animated short film “The Cat Came Back,” funded by the Canadian government.
A small crowd gathers at a West African restaurant in the Bronx to watch the World Cup.
“But has Mr. Sardonicus been punished enough? Don't you agree with me that such a miserable scoundrel should be made to suffer, and suffer...”
Blue Beetle finds this amusing.
Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed make a big splash at the ball.
Cap understood that reference!
Ted Lasso says “Be curious, not judgmental.”
Snoopy’s got a squeeze box, and he’s playing polkas, schottishes, and waltzes.
A photograph of a group of farm workers, reaping the harvest from rows of plants in a wide field.
Jonny Quest’s dog, Bandit.
An Emm Roy cartoon of two sleepy dogs lying on the grass, captioned “Your mental health is important. It’s okay to prioritize it.”
“You live only a few more years,” the Judge tells Cerebus. “You die alone, unmourned. And unloved. Suffering… suffering you’ll have no trouble doing.”
Ralphie in A Christmas Story, crying that there is nothing to be done, because “the bell rang.”
A poster for the documentary James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction.
A cover of The Brave and the Bold from 1969, in which Batman holds the body of Sgt. Rock in his arms, Pieta-style.
Walt Simonson’s Malekith obtains the Casket of Ancient Winters, and woe to the world that it should be so.
Ned Beatty in the motion picture Network. “It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU... WILL... ATONE!”
Nelson Muntz, pointing and laughing.
A passage from an article: ‘Why do publishers modernize books? A dated reference can break the spell a book casts on readers, said Elana Roth Parker, an agent specializing in children's and Y.A. fiction at Laura Dail Literary Agency. When a reference misses the mark, she explained, it can pull young readers out of the story. "Kids don't want to feel the adult behind the book," Roth Parker said. Modernization is an attempt to avoid that. "If we want readers to fall in love with the same story we fell in love with as teenagers, the best way to do that is to reach them where they are," Sutherland said.’
A pen and ink drawing, with abstract representations of men and women sitting in a meetinghouse. Lines of sunlight come in from the upper left corne, shining on the abstract figure of a haloed Jesus, standing above those seated with a gesture of blessing.
Garfield encounters a sign with a picture of himself in a red circle with a slash through it, and turns to the camera and smirks.
Me, in Jay’s stylish FERAL QUEER tee.
The Electric Mayhem! Top row, l-r: Floyd, Lips, and Animal. Bottom row, l-r: Janice, Dr. Teeth, and Zoot.
The Electric Mayhem! Top row, l-r: Floyd, Lips, and Animal. Bottom row, l-r: Janice, Dr. Teeth, and Zoot.
Fry demands you take the handful of cash he’s thrusting at you!
Laird Cregar plays the piano while the set burns down around him. The tune he’s playing was composed by Bernard Herrmann!
Laird Cregar plays the piano while the set burns down around him.
The first song I streamed on Spotify was Brave Combo’s cover of “I Can See for Miles.”
Principal Skinner: “Am I out of touch?”
Principal Skinner asks himself, “Am I out of touch?” You probably know what he discerns. Go ahead and chuckle softly to yourself.
Dan Peek, Dewey Bunnell, and Gerry Buckley… aka America.
An image from a video, released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, of the accused would-be presidential assassin (circled) running through a checkpoint outside the White House Correspondents Association dinner.
The old Burger King logo, except this time what it says inside the bun is SOYLENT GREEN.
A mockery of the old Burger King logo, but inside the bun it says SOYLENT GREEN. And the tagline reads, “People NEED it… in the year 2026,” which is only four years off from the film poster!