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RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White

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Livejournal user #1004. Past: A Columbo podcast (https://thecitydesk.net/justonemorething/), Fake Criterions, Fake AP Stylebook, a fake old ad about soda for babies. Now: Real tired in South Philadelphia.

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RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White @rjwhite.bsky.social · Nov 20

Albert Brooks, in a room with a man who tells him "You're not funny." Observers watch from behind a glass.

Albert Brooks, in a room with a man, responding "But I am funny." Observers watch from behind a glass.

Albert Brooks, in a room with a man, who's now grabbing him, saying, "You're not funny and I hate your guts." Observers watch from behind a glass.

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RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White @rjwhite.bsky.social · 4h

BEN-SIMMONS-WHEN-HE-WAS-ON-THE-SIXERS.BMF

Corel Gallery Clipart @clipart.bsky.social · 5h

CHOKE.BMF

A brunette women in a green sweatshirt grasps her throat with one hand, a pained expression on her face. Despite the clipart name CHOKE, she is not demonstrating the universal sign for choking. Instead of both hands clutching her throat in agony, her demeanor resembles a mildly annoyed person checking for swollen glands. It’s possible she's not choking. Perhaps she’s been poisoned. Perhaps she is merely posing, or practicing. Ann can relate, as she rehearses similar poses. And when her husband walks in the room she straightens up and smiles.

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Art bot @art-institute.bsky.social · 6h

The Dan Ryan Expressway, by Wesley Willis
American, 1963-2003
1986

More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/204579

Wesley Willis
American, 1963-2003, The Dan Ryan Expressway, A work made of blue ballpoint pen and colored felt-tipped markers, on ivory illustration board.

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RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White @rjwhite.bsky.social · 5h

The kangaroo robot is really not impressed with any of it.

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Spike Friedman @spikefriedman.bsky.social · 6h

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Robocop (1987) @robocop1987.bsky.social · 23h

Dick Jones!

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RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White @rjwhite.bsky.social · 23h

Nick at Nite back then ran 30 minute or so SNL capsules from the 70s with those dudes giving gossip in between.

RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White @rjwhite.bsky.social · 23h

That was a goddamn BIBLE to me in high school (1990s).

RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White @rjwhite.bsky.social · 23h

Also nailing what an absolute shitheel Chevy is.

RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White @rjwhite.bsky.social · 23h

A beloved former boss of mine, she and I both realized from that very book that the head of our old company was of the Lorne “shake the ants in the box make them fight” school of awful management.

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RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White @rjwhite.bsky.social · 1d

I could not finish that Judd Apatow book because I felt I related to so many of those stories and hated myself for giving up.

RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White @rjwhite.bsky.social · 1d

And also think Lorne was a weasel in the Norm OJ thing and should give it up to Seth Meyers already.

RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White @rjwhite.bsky.social · 1d

If you’ve access to Peacock or whatever, the Jim Downey documentary is very good, especially if you always wanted to be a comedy writer and did not and desperately hate yourself for it and admire those who did.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...

What Job Is A Guy With A Nazi Tattoo Qualified For? | Defector

The man that my wife and I found ourselves talking to at the bar of a restaurant in Rockland, Me. in the summer of 2019 had arrived in town as your fancier visitors do, which is by boat. He told us th...

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

Running for office and revealing a giant back tattoo that just says WOMEN. Nobody can agree if it's good or bad

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ass BABAGANOUSH @nasboat.org · 1d

I bought “Our Dumb Century” like 23 years ago and it’s still just as funny as it was then. best coffee table book ever.

The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

96 Years Ago Today: Stock Market Invincible

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Brian Michael Bendis @brianmbendis.bsky.social · 2d

Matt came by my PSU class today. Updating my presentation I found this. We didn't know it was online. its one of Matt's favorite things & SO interesting cuz there was no #batfraction in his future then. FROM THE TCJ ARCHIVES:
A DENNY O’NEIL AND MATT FRACTION CONVERSATION www.tcj.com/a-denny-onei...

A Denny O'Neil and Matt Fraction Conversation - The Comics Journal

This conversation from The Comics Journal #300 (November 2009) is a snapshot of a moment just before smartphones became ubiquitous and before the MCU/Batman/superhero movies would glut cinemas. Matt F...

www.tcj.com

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan.

Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.

Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.

Halligan: Yes I do. Off record.

Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?

Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record.
There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.

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RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White @rjwhite.bsky.social · 2d

The experimental Topps 1983 Earl Weaver pull-the-wire-through audio card wasn’t even half as bad.

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RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White @rjwhite.bsky.social · Oct 24

I remember this being on the news a lot as a kid, when ELO had that terrible accident.

𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · Oct 24

Sven Papenbrock

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The Slides @theslides.bsky.social · 2d

"Untitled Slide Box 1," slide 16 of 18 [gallery]

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RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White @rjwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Really should have had Paul Dano’s version do this.

Panel 1: Riddler on a set of a TV show. “MY NEXT PRIZE-PUZZLE IS A CHARADE! THE THINGS I DO NOW WILL SPELL OUT THE HIDING PLACE OF THE NEXT PRIZE!”
Panel 2: Batman and Robin watching this on TV. “HE'S GOT A HAM, AND HE'S MEWING LIKE CAT!” “MEW!”
Panel 3: Still watching. Robin - “AND NOW HE'S JUST STARING AS THOUGH HE SEES SOMETHING, AND IS HUMMING A TUNE!”
Riddler - “HMMM”
Batman - “I THINK I'VE GOT IT! GOT- HAM-MEW - SEE - HMM-“
Panel 4: Batman and Robin running to action.
Batman - “GOTHAM MUSEUM!HE'S PICKED IT FOR HIS NEXT CRIME!”

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columbo screenshots @columboscreens.bsky.social · 6d

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RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White @rjwhite.bsky.social · 5d

In 1996, someone took this enormous photo of the cast of THE TOWERING INFERNO happily walking arm-in-arm on the backlot in their pre-disaster costumes to a Prints Plus to have it framed. In 2025, it was at a thrift store for $9.99. Why did they have it framed?? Why did I get it??

The cast of THE TOWERING INFERNO, walking jauntily along on a studio backlot.

Steve McQueen! Robert Wagner! Faye Dunaway! William Holden! Jennifer Jones!

Fred Astaire! Paul Newman!!! Richard Chamberlain! Robert Vaughan! ... uh, *cough* some other guy.

Sticker on the back for the framing job, 6/16/96, at Prints Plus store no. 90, with instructions of how to polish the frame.

RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White @rjwhite.bsky.social · 5d

Is anyone’s walk-up this? It ought to be. Or else, “Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle.”

Seattle Ain't Bullshittin'

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