Kyle Van Son

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High in fiber. Avid gamer, reader, amateur piano player. ITYSL broke my brain permanently.

Dean Pelton from Community appears in the face of the moon, smiling, before winking at you. He then shuts his eyes and fades away. You can hear the final strings of Seal’s “Kiss From A Rose” in your head as you watch this magical footage.
Muppet versions of Jack Donagthy and a tailor sing a happy song to Kenneth the page (not pictured).
Oliver Platt in THE IMPOSTORS demonstrating how he would have dealt with the drunkard Jeremy Burtom if he had been the Laertes to Burtom’s Hamlet and been subject to abuse onstage.
Concept art of the very good Pokémon Popplio, the water starter for “Pokémon Sun and Moon” - he’s a cute seal whose snout resembles a white party hat with a red topper. He is seen here trapping a Rowlett in a water bubble, then doing a backflip off said bubble, landing and popping the bubble. The Rowlett seems to have been completely destroyed.
A scene from 30 Rock between Kenneth and Jack, in Jack’s office. The top image is Kenneth holding a piece of paper and saying “sir, I have a problem with my timecard.” The second and third images are Jack replying “So, naturally, you came to me, because this company is just the two of us.”
A photo of author Douglas Adams
A bright-red demon with a black pointy goatee and large horns (really just a skinny man in a red leotard) whispers behind a young girl in pajamas, his hands pressed together with glee as he tempts her with toys and dolls. This is a still from the 1959 Mexican film Santa Claus, frequently called “Santa Claus Versus the Devil.”
The book jacket for Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. A textured cream background is smeared with a dark red, black, and brown smear, like a paint brush stroke. A hatchet swipes through the smear, pulling color with it as if it is fabric.
The book jacket for The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. The title is set centered on a solid silver-gray background, with the words “The” and “Delusion” in black, while the word “GOD” (written in all-caps) is white within a red circle. This is because in some editions with this jacket the circle is actually a hole within the cover revealing more text underneath.
The book jacket for “Good Omens” by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman. An ink drawing of an angel in a suit and bow tie sits between author names above and title belowin a black background, reading a book and looking off to the left. The subtitle of the book sits below the title and reads “The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.”
The book jacket for “The Shroud of the Thwacker” by Chris Elliott. It depicts a sepia-toned parchment paper scrawled with black ink depicting, among various scribbles, a skull-and-bones wearing a top hat, a doodle of Teddy Roosevelt with a speech bubble saying “Hey I’m Fatty Roosevelt,” a drawing of the author, and a sketch of a mustachioed ma in a frilly skirt sword fighting with a figure that looks like one of the Spy VS Spy guys. The cursive that takes up the rest of the parchment, mostly concealed by the title, is a letter from Jack The Jolly Thwacker, the serial killer at the center of the story, to the Mayor.
The book jacket for “Supergods” by Grant Morrison. The cover is a solid black with a dotted line outline in the form of a simplified take on Batman’s cowled head. His eyes are white, very similar to how they appear in Batman: The Animated Series. There is a small scissor icon intersecting with the dotted line on the right side of the jawline, as well as the text “Fig. 1” above the dotted line, as if we are intended to cut out the shape and use it as a mask ourselves.
A screenshot from the Simpsons episode “Marge Be Not Proud.” The caption has been modified to fit this conversation thread. It reads: “well, if loving Portal and Portal 2 is ‘cringe’ then I guess I’m just a big cringe.”
The book jacket for “Mythos” by Stephen Fry, the subtitle of which is “The Greek Myths Retold.” The art depicts Pandora opening her eponymous jar and releasing curses, evils, and bedevilments on humanity, depicted as little imps and other winged horrors. This image is in a rusty bronze as if depicted in artwork on an urn against a marbled textured background.
The book jacket for “Twilight of the Elites” by Christopher Hayes. The subtitle is “America After Meritocracy.” The cover depicts a blue foam finger on a white background. The foam finger is upside-down with the number “1%” on the hand portion.
The book jacket for “The Trial of Henry Kissinger” by Christopher Hitchens. It depicts a black and white photograph of Kissinger’s face and shoulder but only the left half as the photo is up against the spine of the book. Along the bottom is a quote presumably about the book: “I find it contemptible.” The quote is attributed to Henry Kissinger.
The book jacket for Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. The authors’s name floats in the sky below dark clouds with trails of light streaking behind it as if it has approached quickly from a great distance. Below the author’s name is a large golden plaque also floating in the sky bearing the title of the book. A red callout above the author’s name reads “The Dazzling Bestseller by the Author of The Salmon of Doubt,” which indicates that this edition was published posthumously.
The book jacket for “American Gods” by Neil Gaiman. A night shot of an empty stretch of two lane highway with empty plains on either side. The road stretches away into the horizon, and at the horizon point it is struck by a faded yellow bolt of lightning that illuminates the road.
The book jacket for World War Z by Max Brooks, “an oral history of the Zombie War. The cover is a mottled brown and red with scratches and blood splatter.
A clip, one of the only gifs I could find, from the 1998 comedy The Impostors, starring Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt, neither of whom are in this image. We see a stage manager just in the wings of a theater, gesturing for a stagehand to lower the main curtain. A smug man looks pleased over his pressed-together fingertips behind him. That man happens to be actor Michael Emerson, which is the only reason I could find this gif in the first place. I think he maybe has one line in the film, playing assistant to Alfred Molina’s hack actor Jeremy Burtom.
The book jacket for “Letters from a Nut” by Ted L. Nancy, with an introduction by Jerry Seinfeld. The jacket resembles brown parchment packing paper that might be wrapped around a mailed package. The author’s name is written as his signature frequently appears at the end of each of his missives in the book.
The book jacket for The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K Dick. A man is center frame, wearing a black suit. He has large yellow bug eyes. His left palm is open and outstretched, his right hand is in a Christian gesture and appears robotic. His suit unfurls into black demon wings. His teeth are bared.
The book jacket for “Humans” by Brandon Stanton, author of “Humans of New York.” A sphere floats in a black background partially obscured by shadow, like the Earth lit by the Sun. The sphere is composed of photos of people. The book also lists cities across Earth in which the interviews inside the book took place.
The book jacket for “The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcaslte” by Stuart Turton. A simple art deco style with a solid black background and gold lining. In the four corners are red diamonds with black symbols of a bishop chess piece, a gun, a compass, and a bottle of poison.
The book jacket for “Last Chance to See” by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine. We see an illustration of a river leading to the sea. In the river is a Yangtze River dolphin. The river is flanked by foliage on either side and we can also see a Komodo dragon, a kakapo of New Zealand, and other animals detailed in the book.
The book cover for “The Code of the Woosters” by PG Wodehouse. A cocktail shaker sits center frame with a martini glass to the right of it, empty save for a speared cocktail olive.
The jacket for “The Areas Of My Expertise” by John Hodgman, the first in his three volumes of COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE. It is a mass of text introducing the reader to the book and offering hints of what is inside, such as a ferret that will steal a diamond and “the 700 hobo names you have requested.”
The book “The Greatest Show on Earth” by Richard Dawkins sits at a slight angle to the right on a white background. The jacket depicts a swarm of butterflies on a black background. The subtitle is “the evidence for evolution.”
The cover for the novel “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” by Douglas Adams. A hand with its thumb pointing right is center frame. A circle-shaped alien makes a mocking face, sticking its tongue out and holding its hands where its ears would be if it wasn’t just a green circle with a face.