Steve

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“Yes,” said the Indiana Zephyr, “what is the moral of the story?” (He/him; Ohio, USA)

A meme showing a dude in a "thinking cap" jerking his finger at a skateboarding hot dog and saying, "this fucking sucks actually". The hot dog is labelled "literal coolest thing ever".
A five-panel page of a comic; in the first panel, a closeup of Animal Man leaning over a weeping coyote man on th eground; the next four panels pull steadily back, with the penultimate showing a hand holding a brush as Animal Man stands over the dying coyote, splayed like Christ on the cross, and the last showing the crossroads and the text, "The end, folks!"
A framed black and white page of comics art, showing Peculia (with a bib) getting dressed in the morning, talking to her butler, and going for a walk where she sees a flower.
An animated gif from "Miller's Crossing" of a hat blowing across the leaf-strewn ground in a forest.
Animated gif from "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace". Dr. Liz Asher, wearing a very pink dress, is informing a man at a desk, "I've just graduated from Harvard College, Yale. I aced every semester and got an A."
Dave Stevens' The Rocketeer, drawn descending a short set of stairs. He's wearing khaki pants, high black boots, and a double-breasted red leather jacket, as well as his brassy helmet with a fin, and is holding an old-fashioned gun.
A comic book panel: Poison Ivy, seen from behind, is torturing a brunette man in a dark suit, who is wrapped in a vine and screaming. "The world can't survive without the bees… but the world will never miss a greedy CEO."
Screenshot of a New York Times article by Jeremy Peters. The headline: Critics Say Musk Has Revealed Himself as a Conservative. It's Not So Simple.
The cover to Joann Sfar's graphic novel The Rabbi's Cat, showing a young woman in a red top hugging a demented-looking cat.
Single panel of the comic strip Cathy: Cathy, eyes closed, is either sobbing or has sweat droplets flying off her entire head in all directions. Ack! Ack!!! Ack! Aaack!
Michael Caine as Ebeneezer Scrooge in A Muppet Christmas Carol, leaning out the window in the snow to ask a young pig what day it is.
Photo of a magazine page: Breathed You know who the syndicates are looking for? They're looking for the dissatisfied stockbroker, sitting his office right now, he's about 30 years old, thinking how funny it is, there's all these office things going on around him, with computers and stuff. And he can draw a little bit. *A little bit*. He's got the gags in his mind because he lived them. He's going to start drawing comic strips, and he sends the stuff off to the syndicate. Even though they're badly drawn, it doesn't matter because they're all reduced down to sub-microscopic size. And they start the comic strip. I have seen so many of these come across my desk in the past five years, and I've seen them syndicated as well. They never last very long. But they hit fast, they've got a good gimmick, they've probably got a hook that sounds good to editors. Syndicates can sell them fast. These guys aren't artists, they're dissatisfied stockbrokers who scribbled a little bit in high school, and can draw it just enough—the expectations are so low artistically on a comic page—that they're being hired.
Still from the final moments of Blackadder's fourth series, in which our plucky band of heroes go over the top into No Man's Land and are killed.
Screenshot from Parks & Rec, showing a law firm plaque: "BVPE: Law Offices of Babip, Pecota, Vorp, & Eckstein, Attorneys At Law"
John Turturro as Bernie Bernbaum, on his knees in Miller's Crossing, squirting a few tears. He's saying, "Look in your heart!"
A color photograph of three young boys standing in front of a chicken wire fence in the yard of a white wooden house, somewhat grubby. Two are Black, one is white and quite blond; the Black boys are wearing matching white shirts and dark shorts. The white boy is shirtless and wearing jeans, his underwear peeking out. The two Black boys are playing with cap pistols, one pointing his off-camera to the side, the other pointing it at the photographer. The white boy is holding onto the fense and looking at the photographer, grinning.
Closeup of a grizzled, older Udo Kier in the Brazilian film Bacurau, centered in the frame and wearing a hat.
A color movie still; Dominique Labourier, wearing a stripy shirt and jeans, is rowing a rowboat down a river with trees behind her, looking back toward the camera. In the back of the rowboat, Juliet Berto, wearing a similar outfit, is looking in the same direction. A young boy wearing a cap is seated between them.
The Jim Downey "the financier?" meme, asking about Don Cherry, the beloved hockey commentator.
Screenshot of a New York Times headline: "Critics Say Musk Has Revealed Himself as a Conservative. It's Not So Simple." Beneath, the subhead: "Elon Musk has tweeted about political topics regularly since taking over Twitter, often belittling some liberal causes. But what he stands for remains largely unclear."
"Mad Max: Fury Road"'s Doof Warrior, strapped with his guitar and amplifiers to the front of a truck. He is not at this moment emitting fire.
The poster for Kenneth Russell's Altered States (1980) showing William Hurt topless and upside down with ECG sensors attached to his head and face.
A beleaguered Captain Kirk is aghast to be covered in tribbles falling from an overhead bin, in a screencap from "Star Trek".
A portrait of Batman, scowling, with Two-Face, scowling, behind him, and Jim Gordon, glowering, behind *him*, in moody blue-grays. In the background is a cityscape with a skyscraper behind a more ornate building, perhaps Wayne Manor. In the sky, a jack-o-lantern looms. It's signed "T. Sale 2021".
The poster for In the Mood for Love ("a film by Wong Kar Wai"), red with gold letters in English and Chinese, showing a man in a suit facing away from the viewer, talking to a woman in a sleeveless dress holding a handbag, her face partially obscured by the man.
A public service announcement from DC: a single panel, showing Batman lecturing. "Don't believe those crackpot lies about people who worship differently, or whose skin is of a different color, or whose parents come from another country. Remember our American heritage of freedom and equality!"
A black and white photograph of the Palazzo Braschi in Rome in 1934, then the Fascist Party headquarters. A giant sculpture of Mussolini's glowering face adorns it, decorated by a backdrop of "SI" written in white on a black banner.
The cover of The Invisibles 24, "Good-Bye Baby Rabbits", showing Robin and Fanny wearing black in the foreground, with Boy flexing in the background.
The Tick’s Chairface Chippendale, pounding and admiring a diamond, totally NOT planning to vandalize the moon.
Captain America giving a speech in five panels: "Listen to me—all of you out there! You were told by this man—your hero—that America is the greatest country in the world! "He told you that Americans were the greatest people—that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities hammered out of it, and shine more brightly! He went on about how precious America was—how you needed to make sure it remained great! And he told you anything was justified to preserve that great treasure, that pearl of great price that is America! "Well, I say America is nothing!! Without its ideals—its commitment to the freedom of all men, America is a piece of trash! "A nation is nothing! A flag is a piece of cloth! I fought Adolf Hitler not because America was great, but because it was fragile! I knew that liberty could be snuffed out here as in Nazi Germany! As a people, we were no different than them! When I returned, I saw that you nearly did turn American into nothing! "And the only reason you're not less then nothing—is that it's still possible for you to bring freedom back to America!"
A DVD cover for the 1965 European sci-fi film "The 10th Victim", showing Marcello Mastroianni's face and Ursula Andress lounging, unclothed, in bed.
Sepia photograph of a youngish (but adult) Peter Cushing wearing shirt and vert, lying on a carpeted floor inspecting a group of miniatures massed in a model Napoleonic village. A copy of H.G. Wells' "Little Wars" is face down beside him.
Cover of an issue of Astounding Science Fiction, featuring Murray Leinster's "The Pirates of Ersatz"; the cover shows a pirate with yellow bandana climbing a ladder while holding a ray gun and carrying a slide rule in his mouth. In the background, a white, swoopy rocket ship is visible.
The poster for the film "Alucarda", showing a teenage girl's face in black and white (framed by a pyramid of dark hair) against a red background, with an upside-down red cross underneath her face). The title is written in gothic print in white; the subtitle is "La Hija De Las Tinieblas".
A color photograph of three young boys in a row, two Black and one white with very fair hair. The blond boy is shirtless and wearing jeans and the other two are wearing shorts and white short-sleeved shirts. They are standing in front of a wire fence in front of a somewhat dirty white house with wooden slats; the blonde boy is hanging onto the fence with both hands, while the other two are playing with guns. The boy in the middle is pointing the gun off to the side and has one eye screwed up as though taking a shot; the boy on the left is pointing his gun directly at the camera.
John Turturro, on his knees begging for his life: "Look in your heart!"
Screenshot from "The Simpsons": Marge Simpson is holding a potato and smiling at it, wide-eyed. "I just think they're neat."
A somewhat low-resolution color photograph of Kate Bush squatting, wearing a black bat costume with sparkly sleeves and a drapey scarf component (leaving her legs bare). Her arms are attached to gauzy bat wings.
A Dinosaur Comics in which T-Rex and Utahraptor discuss whether a ghost could read a closed book.
A panel from a comic book, showing a masked figure (the Inhuman Black Bolt), his mouth open, surrounded by Kirby Krackle and red. "The built-up pressure is more than he can bear!" "Listen!! For the first time since the catastrophe... He's making a sound... He's screaming!!"
A color photograph of three young boys standing behind a chicken-wire fence (with vines growing on it) in front of a somewhat dirty white house. The boy on the left and in the middle are Black, and are wearing dark shorts and white shirts. The boy on the right is white with fair hair, shirtless, wearing baggy jeans, his underwear showing. The two Black boys are playing with guns, the one in the middle aiming it off-frame, the one on the left pointing it at the photographer.
The grave of Harvey Pekar, covered with autumn leaves and an array of pens and pencils standing in the ground.
A screenshot of a Warner Brothers cartoon, showing Elmer Fudd and his hound staring, appalled, at the camera, perched upon a blue plate with a salad; there's a sign reading "Blue Plate Special". In the foreground is the small figure of a flea.
A single panel from a comic book. Captain America is sprawled at the bottom right corner; MODOK, a giant head with a tiny body in a flying chair, is saying, "I am MODOK!! Once I was a mere human guinea pig for the scientists of AIM! But they did their job too well… And now I am their master!" Sharon Carter, to MODOK's side, says, "Cap, be careful! His brain is his weapon!"
The cover of Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Tombs of Atuan", showing a figure in a boat in a sea or harbor, with a castle in the background; the castle has pennants on turrets, blowing in the wind.
The cover to the album "Joy as an Act of Resistance".
A poster for Bruce McDonald's "Highway 61", showing Valerie Buhagiar, in a dress and boots, hugging a gun-toting Don McKellar, wearing jeans and a plaid flannel shirt. The tagline is "Where else would you bury rock 'n' roll?"
Screenshot of an interview with Susan Wokoma: >Did you get any advice from anybody beforehand? I do know a few people who’ve done it. I spoke to Daisy May Cooper about it. I was working with Aisling Bea at the time, and she did early Taskmaster, I spoke to Mawaan Rizwan about it, and they all said, “Everybody who works on it is so lovely.” I was like, “Is it going to be super competitive?” but there’s no space for that because it’s so stupid. Sue Perkins touched on it when she said, “There’s something about Greg taking the piss out of you that’s really nice.” He said to me, “You’ve had two points for that, and you can thank me for it.” I just went, “I will. Thank you, sir.” And I just thought, “I need to speak to my therapist about this.” >He's a lot of people’s weird secret crush. I never understood that before. I was like, “Everyone grow up. He’s just tall. Everyone calm down.” But since getting the s**t ripped out of me over the prizes, I’m like, “Yeah. Lean into it, man.”
The flag of Mozambique: from the top, a green, a black, and a yellow stripe; on the left, a red triangle with yellow five-pointed star. On the star is a book, with a black hoe and black AK rifle superimposed.
Screenshot from Wikipedia: While preparing to work on Space Truckers, director Stuart Gordon received the opportunity to develop Castle Freak. Gordon was in Charles Band's office and noticed a poster entitled Castle Freak, with a Quasimodo-like man chained to a wall being whipped by a woman. When Gordon asked about it, Band replied, "Well, that's a castle and there's a freak." Band said he had no script, but if Gordon wanted it, he could do whatever he wanted with the idea as long as he maintained the concepts of a castle and a freak. Gordon made the film for about $500,000.
An Onion headline from 1999: "I Bet I Can Speak Spanish". (The first paragraph is also visible. "Hello, amigos! El soy quando agunto! Ella balloona balunga espanyo!"
A Jack Kirby panel from 1959, showing a cartoonish, skyscraper-sized yellow robot, walking thru the awe-stricken city.
The cover of Rex Stout’s “Trouble in Triplicate”.
The Tandy Computer Whiz Kids Shana and Alex in: A Deadly Choice
A blue and white mug with a scribble 70s line illo of a cat, labeled “Le chat”.
A paperback cover, Jeremy Strike’s “Promisint Planet”, an illustration showing a stylized astronaut holding a ray gun.
Roll Safe (the "guy tapping head" meme), labelled "Can't blame Neuralizk if you euthanatize after surgery".
Jon Polito, wearing a suit and with a pencil mustache, points up.
The cover of New Mutants 64, featuring Warlock and Cypher, illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz.