Gina Wilhelm

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Actor, puppeteer, ventriloquist. I try to post happy fun things, but don't be surprised if I post/repost a lot of political stuff these days She/her No DMs. I don't read 'em, I won't answer 'em

A still from the movie "The Martian." Matt Damon sits in a thoughtful position with his hand at his mouth while wearing an orange and white EVA (Extravehicular Activity) suit.

A black-and-white photo of Houdini in the coffin. He sits in a concrete box, shirtless, with his right hand raised. He is surrounded by a group of men. The men on the left side of the picture wear suits, the men on the right wear overalls, and a tall man in the center wears a button-down shirt and tie with no jacket. The coffin sits on the side of a swimming pool.

A painting of Alexander Hamilton in a Coast Guard hat. He wears a black coat with a white collar and tie. The hat is a black ball cap with "U.S. Coast Guard" written in yellow letters over the Coast Guard emblem, crossed anchors with a red, white, and blue shield over them.

A black-and-white photo of a basketball game. A player in a dark "Syracuse" uniform is jumping to make a basket. Several players from the opposing team in light jerseys and white shorts are running towards him. They are in a large crowded auditorium. in the corner are the words "!949 NBL + BAA = NBA"

A black-and-white picture William Blount, governor of the Southwest Territory and one of the people who took the 1790 census. He has a powdered wig tied in a ponytail and he wears a dark jacket with white lace collar.

A painting of Caroline Herschel. She is an older woman in a lace bonnet with blonde curls sticking out beneath it. She wears a black dress with ornate lace collars. She is in front of a red background.

A still from "The Simpsons." A football player lies on the ground where he has tripped over a human-body-shaped lump in the field. The lump is raised and has no grass on it.

President Johnson signs the Medicare bill seated at a desk next to Harry Truman. They both wear dark suits. Their wives stand behind them, and they are surrounded by other dignitaries and officials. There is a gold curtain behind them as well as American and state flags.

A still from "Animal House." John Belushi, as Bluto, wears a yellow plaid shirt under a blue baseball jacket. He is surrounded by Tom Hulce as Larry Kroger and Steven Furst as Flounder, who both wear dark suits. Flounder is also wearing his blue and yellow beanie.

A painting of Frederick Banting and Charles Best. Banting stands in the foreground wearing a lab coat and glasses. His hand rests on the back of a dog lying in front of him. Best sits in the background, also in a lab coat, with one hand resting on a microscope.

A black-and-white photo of Johnny Cash and Richard Nixon sitting in chairs in the White House. Nixon wears a dark suit and looks out over his shoulder. Cash is grinning in Nixon's direction. He wears a dark suite with dark tie and white shirt. A staffer looks on through an open door behind Cash

Black-and-white photos of Henry Ford and Mahatma Gandhi. Ford is on the left and wears a dark suit with a dark tie. He has white hair. Gandhi is in a light-colored dhoti with a shaved head and glasses. Both men give slight smiles to the camera.

A sepia-toned photo of campers at a Christmas celebration. They mostly wear uniforms with shorts and sit on wooden benches. There is a Christmas tree at the front of the room, and it looks like someone is putting a decoration on the tree. Stars with tails hang from the ceiling.

The poster for Woodstock '99. A dove perches on a guitar neck, with a hand holding the guitar neck. Red and blue lines with white stars radiate out from behind the dove. The word "Woodstock" in orange and yellow arches across the top, with "'99" in pink over the C and K in Woodstock. Next to the dove are the words "3 more days of peace & music" in yellow and "July 23, 24, & 25" in white. The words "30th Anniversary" is in yellow at the bottom of the picture.

a black-and-white photo of Wiley Post. He wears a light-colored suit and striped tie and stands with his right hand in his pocket. He is looking down, and standing in front of his airplane, the Winnie Mae

A photo of ruins at Alexandria. There is a row of broken columns in the middle left of the picture. The water is in the background.

A painting of Alexander MacKenzie. He has auburn hair and a black coat with yellow trim and a lace cravat. He looks up and to the right.

A painting of Lady Jane Grey. She wears a gold gown with red bodice and a necklace. she has red hair and a white head covering, and she looks toward the viewer's right. Her hands rest on a paper on a table, and a heavy curtain hangs in the corner.

a painting of John Paul Jones. He wears a blue uniform jacket with gold epaulets and a red placard with gold buttons. He has a lace cravat and a black tri-corner hat with a red badge on it. He has dark hair and looks heroically over his shoulder.

A picture from Disneyland in 1955, possibly opening day. Sleeping Beauty's castle stands tall in the distance. There are horses in caparisons with mounted horn players on them. In the foreground, a Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck mascot walk toward the camera holding hands. Their outfits hang close to the wearers' bodies. The Donald Duck costume has mesh in the neck for the performer to look out of. Mickey Mouse's mouth has light-colored bars separated by bars of mesh, so it looks a bit like a medieval knight's face guard. it is unsettling.

A still from "The Carol Burnett Show." Carol in very short hair looks at the camera in shock while holding a baby in her arms. Leonard Nimoy is standing next to her dressed as Mr. Spock in his blue uniform, pointed ears, and severe eyebrows. He holds a glass and looks toward the camera inscrutably.

A Bloom County comic strip. Above the comic is the description "Lee Iacocca tribute on Bloom County, circa 1986, special appearance by Valentine the Cockroach." In the first panel, Milo, a blond boy with glasses stands next to a box marked "A tribute." He announces, "As a tribute to Lee 'Mr. America' Iacocca, we have a special guest star..." On the opposite side of the box, Opus the penguin announces, "'Valentine'...the dancing cockroach! Take it away!" The next panel of the comic strip is a close-up of the cockroach, who carries a cane in one of his hands. He sings, "Oh gimme hype! Publicity! Get dem stretch marks off Miss Liberty! Mocha! Polka! Patriotic tapioca! Dat's what is my Iacocca!" In the next panel, the cockroach is singing with all his arms out to his side. There is a xerox of Iacocca's face on his stomach. He sings, "Union busting! Profit lusting! Little Pintos all combusting! Apple pie and Diet Coke-A! Dat's what is my Iacocca!!" In the last panel, we are back to the view of Milo and Opus on either side of the box. Milo says, "Well! That was simply...," to which Opus says, "Awful" and squishes Valentine.

A photo of a purple Dymaxion car. It has a tire visible about halfway back, and another tire at the rear. It has a fin on the top of the vehicle. A model in a purple jumpsuit stands next to the car in front of the tire, leaning her hand on the car.

A red Honda Civic hatchback. It has a pink stripe at the bottom of the car, and side mirrors mounted over the front tires. The name "Civic" appears on the front grille near the left headlight.

A seatbelt. There is a strap meant to go across the lap, separate from the other parts of the belt. The shoulder harness goes up to a point at the top left of the picture, and then stretches down at an angle to the hip buckle. The lap belt has a red release button on it

A black-and-white drawing of two men playing tennis at the turn of the last century. Both wear long pants, and the man on the far end of the court has a mustache. A crowd observes, with some of the women holding parasols.

A photo of an Erector Set. It is a blue metal box with metal construction pieces in it. There is a large yellow label on the inside of he lid reading "Erector" in red letters.

A photo of Sandra Day O'Connor. She is an older woman with short white hair. She wears a black judge's robe with a white lace collar. Her right hand, with a ring on her little finger, is over her heart.

A black-and-white photo of Althea Gibson after her Wimbledon win. She has short hair and a light-colored warm-up jacket. She holds a large metal salver in her left hand and a big bouquet of flowers in her right.

A photo of Jeff Bezos from 1997. He has thinning brown hair, and a blue collared shirt and brown pants with a belt. His hands rest on stacks of books, and there are books on shelves behind him. He smiles at the viewer.

A model of the Pathfinder lander with a Sojourner rover on the pad. The lander has panels that have opened out, and it rests on its deflated airbags. The rover has three of six wheels visible, and is a small white box with a blue bottom. There is a graphic of an American flag and the letters "JPL" in red on the box. The model sits in a room with blue walls and other Mars displays in the background.

A picture of the SS United States, an ocean liner. It has two smokestacks and its hull is white, black and red. It sails on a green ocean in front of a sky with fluffy white clouds.

A cartoon of Mr. ZIP, the ZIP code mascot for the USPS. He is basically a stick figure in a dynamic, fast-walking pose. He holds a letter by his smiling face in one hand. A US mail bag streams behind him, and he wears a blue postal uniform.

A black-and-white photo of Charles Blondin crossing over Niagara Falls on a thick tightrope. He is wearing an acrobat's leotard carries a very long pole to balance. The river is visible far below him, and there are trees on the riverbank.

A drawing of the Globe Theater on fire. It is a large multi-story building with smoke pouring out of the windows and off the thatched roof. A turret is visible among the smoke. There is a huge crowd of people gathered outside the building.

Side-by-side photos of Mel Brooks as a young man, and more recently, as a nonagenarian. His recent photo is on the left, with a big, open-mouthed smile. He has white hair and a dark suit. The photo on the right shows a younger man with a smaller smile, brown hair, and a light-colored suit.

Art of a stretch of Route 66. A long straight road stretches from the lower right-hand corner to the opposite side of the picture. A red classic convertible is on the road, and there is a white shield roadsign that reads "Route 66." Below that is a yellow speed-limit sign reading "20 MPH." In the distance is a mesa and a blue sky dotted with fluffy white clouds.

A color photo of a ship in the St. Lawrence Seaway. There is a freeway alongside the waterway, and the water is calm and green.

A photo of activists with a giant rainbow flag. It is suspended from somewhere past the upper left-hand corner of the picture and drapes down to the lower right corner of the photo, where a group of five people hold onto it. There is an indigo stripe at the top, followed by blue, green, yellow, orange, red, and violet at the bottom. There appears to be a tie-dyed star field in the upper left-hand corner of the flag.

a black-and-white portrait of Mary Pickford. She looks up over her shoulder and wears a very slight smile. She has curling hair cascading down her back.

A black-and-white photo of birth control pills in their cases. There is a light-colored circular case in the upper right-hand corner. There is a darker rectangular case in the upper left-hand corner. There is a very dark rectangular case on the bottom.

A still from "The Rescuers." Miss Bianca, a white female mouse, is talking to Bernard, a tan mouse. Miss Bianca wears a purple coat and furry hat with a light purple scarf. Bernard wears an orange coat and driving cap with a darker orange sweater. He has one paw to his chin in a thoughtful gesture.

A black and white photo of Tiny Broadwick sitting on a seat suspended from the cockpit of an early propeller plane. She looks over her shoulder at the camera. Her parachute is above her, and her feet are extended under the wing of the plane. A pilot is visible in the cockpit next to her parachute.

A drawing labeled "The fainting of Miss Borden at the close of Mr.Moody's plea." Lizzie is slumped over, wearing a dress and a feathered hat. A fan is falling out of her right hand. A man with light-colored hair and beard is assisting her. There are two more men across from her. The man in the foreground has thinning dark hair and his hand is outstretched in the direction of Lizzie Borden. There is an empty chair next to Lizzie, and the gallery is visible in the background.

Manet's painting "The Battle of the USS 'Kearsarge' and the CSS 'Alabama.'" The Alabama is in the mid-ground, sinking with smoke billowing around it. There are other ships around the Alabama, including the Kearsarge, which is in the background, obscured by the smoke.

A painting of two sailing ships in battle. The ship on the right side of the picture has an American flag and is firing cannons at the smaller ship on the left.

A still from the TV show "South Park." Kenny, in his trademark orange parka, is behind the wheel of his Go-Go Action Bronco toy car. Cartman is in the back seat wearing a black suit. They are leading police cars on a chase. The words "Go! Go!" are on the front of the Bronco's hood in light blue.

A still from "The Muppet Show." Nureyev is on the left-hand side of the photo in a cream-colored top with jeweled accents. He has his left hand up near his ear. On the right-hand side of the photo, in the distance, is a human-sized pig in a white tutu and pointe shoes with her arms out gracefully

Art of Jean-Baptiste Denis administering a blood transfusion. He stands over the patient, labeled A, while a lamb, labeled B, is connected to the patient's forearm via a tube, labeled C. There are diagrams in the upper left hand corner of the picture of the transfusion lines.

The UNIVAC computer. It takes up an entire gray office desk. It is a big black console with a keyboard in the middle of the desk.

A painting of Pioneer 10 in space. It has a large receiving disk and a long antenna pointing to the right. There is a star field in the upper right corner of the page and a cloudy planet in the lower left corner.

A picture of E.T. He is wrapped in a blanket, and has an oblong head with large blue eyes and a very small nose. He holds up one glowing elongated finger. There are planets and stars behind him.

A painting of a family traveling with their goods on a handcart. The man has a black cap and black vest and white shirt and brown pants. He pulls the cart. The woman has a grey cap and shawl and white apron. There is a child behind the cart, pushing it. The load on the cart is covered with canvas.

a color photo of two people in the Porsche No. 1. It is a sleek silver convertible with a European license plate. The woman is driving, and the man is in the passenger seat wearing sunglasses. The ocean is behind them.

A black-and-white photo of the Supreme Court in session. The 9 justices sit in black chairs at the front of a large room with very high ceilings. there is a clock high above them. An audience sits before them. There is a low partition that can be seen between some of the viewers about midway back in the room.