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Adam J.B. Lane

@ajbl.bsky.social

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Cartoonist, author, man for all seasons. CAUTION contents may include art, politics, dinosaur and shark fanboying, film, historical oddities, baking, Pittsburgh sports.

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Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 17h

Even this game pales in comparison to the many astounding feats of Buck Bokai.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 2d

JFC way to make a fellow feel old.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

"I am reminded of Hitler’s plans for Germania, his imagined new capital city for the Thousand-Year Reich, when looking at the comically large renderings for Trump’s ballroom. [Both conceal] fundamental inadequacies."

@aselrod.bsky.social decodes the ballroom:
www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-loeil-...

Trump L’œil: The White House Ballroom, MAGA Aesthetics, and the Meanings of Trump’s Newest Building Project

Trump, the tacky and chronically bankrupt real estate developer, and Hitler, the failed artist who was too bad at math to try his hand at architecture school, are alike in at least these ways. A love ...

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 5d

Couldn't agree more. My favorite Bennett(s).

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 5d

Her turn as HMQ rightfully gets a lot of attention, but she was better still playing Coral Browne opposite Simon Callow vamping as Guy Burgess in "An Englishman Abroad", the first part of the "Single Spies" double bill.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 5d

That scene is in the original Roger Corman film upon which the stage musical was based. A baby-faced Jack Nicholson, 23 years old at the time, plays the masochist patient, believe it or not.

God bless Roger Corman, the thinking man's Ed Wood.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 13d

Never fear, the French have put their finest man on the case—

Peter Sellers as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 19d

NOOO!!!!!

(First I'm hearing of it 😧)

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 25d

If Joe #Flacco sticks with the #Bengals the rest of the way he could conceivably start v. the #Browns in Week 18... the team he led against Cincy in Week 1! Has this kind of volte-face ever happened before within a single #NFL season? Surely not. #football

Action shot of QB Joe Flacco, dressed in the home uniform of the Cleveland Browns, his former team, about to uncork a throw in last month's opener against his current team, the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 25d

Amazing

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 26d

"May I introduce Alto Cumulo-Nimbus?"
"Of the Troposphere Cumulo-Nimbuses? It's a great pleasure."

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · Sep 29

If America's present trajectory is roughly analogous to the decline of the Roman Empire (it's sure tempting to see it that way) is social media/AI slop our equivalent of their lead pipes, brain poisoning everybody and weakening the ruling class?

A man costumed as a Roman centurion stares at a smartphone in his hand. A structure partially seen in the background may or may not be the ruins of the Colosseum in Rome.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · Sep 25

Ugh, these designs. Not good.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · Sep 21

Literally just now occurred to me that there is a non-zero chance that Emmanuel Clasé threw the 2024 ACS against the Yankees.

After a season with a 0.659 WHIP, he put up this line in three games against New York:

Emmanuel Clasé's pitching line against New York in the 2024 playoffs: 2.1 innings, 7 hits, 4 earned runs, 1 walks, 2 Ks, 2 HR, 3.429 WHIP, 27 hits per 9 innings, 7.7 home runs per nine innings, -0.88 WPA

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Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · Sep 21

The local food pantry endorses cannibalism.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · Sep 19

fortunately our corporations are rising to the moment

A Beautiful Day for Saying Nothing

That chill in the air isn’t Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended. It’s just autumn!

www.theatlantic.com

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Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · Sep 16

Amazing! Wonderful poses.

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Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · Sep 16

@thelouvreof.bsky.social

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · Sep 16

Could there be a more perfect example of the "This-is-how-you-found-out-Celebrity-X-has-died" social media post?
With no hint of any trouble at first, praise for a tasteful but overlooked career highlight, followed by an oblique sting in the tail.

Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · Sep 16

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · Sep 15

Keep that bunny content coming!

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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · Jul 28

Sketchbook page.

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Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · Sep 12

The Guardian cuts to the heart of the matter with its hard-hitting reporting.

A selection from the Guardian's American news liveblog:

One neighbor who lives across the street from the Robinsons, declined to be named. He said he’s “blind to the world”, and only learned about Robinson’s arrest when he saw reporters and law enforcement in the street this morning.

He was agnostic about the massive media presence on his street. “Mother nature is mother nature, whatever she calls to do, let’s do it,” he said.

And was similarly accepting when asked about Robinson, the subject of a massive 48-hour search, living just across the street.

“If it’s close to home, if it’s 50 miles from me, it’s the same damn thing,” he said. “Shit happens and that’s what it is.”

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · Sep 11

I wonder how Parker & Stone's revived Casa Bonita has worked out... that could be inviting kitsch.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · Sep 11

No argument from me there. But in a dining space, I'd suggest it needs to be a certain *kind* of kitsch - inviting, comforting. Dive was too cartoonish and plasticky. I recall as well the cacophonous simulated "dive" that happened every 15 mins - that was grating.

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Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · Sep 11

I made a pilgrimage soon after arriving in LA. The food was generally ok, though not worth the price of admission. The interior design was impressive and memorable, but its unrelenting kitsch grew overbearing over the course of our meal. Honestly I'm surprised it lasted even as long as it did!

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