David Bowman
@dlbowman76.com
Illustrator, coder, reader, bon-vivant. Please don't ask about HAL 9000...I don't like to talk about it.
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I'm going to sound fogeyish but "Sea Devils" is a much better name than "Homo Aqua" which sounds like a very fetching shade of blue.
(If you know, you do.)
(If you know, you do.)
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I'm going to sound fogeyish but "Sea Devils" is a much better name than "Homo Aqua" which sounds like a very fetching shade of blue.
(If you know, you do.)
(If you know, you do.)
• David Copperfield
• Emma
• Jane Eyre
(Not funny, but accurate.)
• Emma
• Jane Eyre
(Not funny, but accurate.)
It’s #BQT #BookQuestionTime again:
What are the three best novels you’ve read whose titles are (or contain) the names of one or more characters within those novels?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
What are the three best novels you’ve read whose titles are (or contain) the names of one or more characters within those novels?
As always, please feel free to include cover images!
December 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
• David Copperfield
• Emma
• Jane Eyre
(Not funny, but accurate.)
• Emma
• Jane Eyre
(Not funny, but accurate.)
One of my favorite misheard things ever:
"And now, here is a recording of the Red Army Chorus performing 'The Song of the Vulgar Boatmen'."
"And now, here is a recording of the Red Army Chorus performing 'The Song of the Vulgar Boatmen'."
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
One of my favorite misheard things ever:
"And now, here is a recording of the Red Army Chorus performing 'The Song of the Vulgar Boatmen'."
"And now, here is a recording of the Red Army Chorus performing 'The Song of the Vulgar Boatmen'."
Semiotics are very powerful. We are surrounded by signs and signifiers and they evolve. A decade ago, if you saw someone wearing a bright, red baseball cap, you'd've thought nothing of it.
That certainly isn't true any longer.
That certainly isn't true any longer.
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Semiotics are very powerful. We are surrounded by signs and signifiers and they evolve. A decade ago, if you saw someone wearing a bright, red baseball cap, you'd've thought nothing of it.
That certainly isn't true any longer.
That certainly isn't true any longer.
(This will date me)
🎶
I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can,
Bump into strangers,
Then walk into a door...
🎶
I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can,
Bump into strangers,
Then walk into a door...
December 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
(This will date me)
🎶
I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can,
Bump into strangers,
Then walk into a door...
🎶
I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can,
Bump into strangers,
Then walk into a door...
I encountered the word "scabies" and I'd forgotten what it meant, so I looked up the definition and dear lord, I wish I hadn't. 🤢
December 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I encountered the word "scabies" and I'd forgotten what it meant, so I looked up the definition and dear lord, I wish I hadn't. 🤢
Jeepers. The cinema discourse in my feed is getting really acrid and sour.
December 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Jeepers. The cinema discourse in my feed is getting really acrid and sour.
I've just thought of a great near-future horror plot. The scene is a billionaire's fortified bunker. He has solved the problem of keeping his security docile by requiring them to have brain implants. One day, the vendor sends out a bad software patch that turns them all homicidal. Begin pursuit.
December 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I've just thought of a great near-future horror plot. The scene is a billionaire's fortified bunker. He has solved the problem of keeping his security docile by requiring them to have brain implants. One day, the vendor sends out a bad software patch that turns them all homicidal. Begin pursuit.
If you want an elegant illustration of the moral bankruptcy of big tech, they're going all in on "AI wearables". Please notice that they're working intensely to make them not obviously look like anything other than ordinary spectacles.
In other words: covert surveillance devices. Stalker catnip.
In other words: covert surveillance devices. Stalker catnip.
December 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
If you want an elegant illustration of the moral bankruptcy of big tech, they're going all in on "AI wearables". Please notice that they're working intensely to make them not obviously look like anything other than ordinary spectacles.
In other words: covert surveillance devices. Stalker catnip.
In other words: covert surveillance devices. Stalker catnip.
"Stand and deliver!" The masked man cried out.
"I'm sorry sir but we don't have delivery." The clerk replied.
"Oh..."
"But we do have curbside pick-up."
"Aha! Mr. Turpin! Bring the stagecoach around to spot 4."
"I'm sorry sir but we don't have delivery." The clerk replied.
"Oh..."
"But we do have curbside pick-up."
"Aha! Mr. Turpin! Bring the stagecoach around to spot 4."
Man arrested, accused of robbing Tulsa liquor store with antique gun
Man arrested, accused of robbing liquor store with antique gun
The Tulsa Police Department arrested a man accused of robbing a south Tulsa liquor store with an antique gun on Friday night.
www.fox23.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"Stand and deliver!" The masked man cried out.
"I'm sorry sir but we don't have delivery." The clerk replied.
"Oh..."
"But we do have curbside pick-up."
"Aha! Mr. Turpin! Bring the stagecoach around to spot 4."
"I'm sorry sir but we don't have delivery." The clerk replied.
"Oh..."
"But we do have curbside pick-up."
"Aha! Mr. Turpin! Bring the stagecoach around to spot 4."
As someone who enjoys a soak in the evening, if someone like LUSH were to release a "Jean-Paul Marat bath bomb" I would absolutely purchase one.
December 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
As someone who enjoys a soak in the evening, if someone like LUSH were to release a "Jean-Paul Marat bath bomb" I would absolutely purchase one.
"Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house."
This is how a Dennis Wheatley novel might commence...
This is how a Dennis Wheatley novel might commence...
Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of #Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned"
Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows | Polly Toynbee
Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house."
This is how a Dennis Wheatley novel might commence...
This is how a Dennis Wheatley novel might commence...
When reading history, it's frequently surprising how much younger some people were than you might think. At the time of his execution, Robespierre was only 36.
December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
When reading history, it's frequently surprising how much younger some people were than you might think. At the time of his execution, Robespierre was only 36.
I just saw the word "irregardless" in an email and it felt like the psychic equivalent of stepping on a Lego brick.
December 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I just saw the word "irregardless" in an email and it felt like the psychic equivalent of stepping on a Lego brick.
*attempting the voice*
HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A TINPOT DICTATOR? GOLD POT. THE PUREST GOLD. THE SHINIEST POT! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A TINPOT DICTATOR? GOLD POT. THE PUREST GOLD. THE SHINIEST POT! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
December 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
*attempting the voice*
HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A TINPOT DICTATOR? GOLD POT. THE PUREST GOLD. THE SHINIEST POT! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A TINPOT DICTATOR? GOLD POT. THE PUREST GOLD. THE SHINIEST POT! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
This is a fascinating point and there are a lot of variants on this basic business model. Someone once explained to me that functionally, the Ford Motor Company is a bank that uses automobiles as incentives to take out multi-year loans.
Flights remain congested and often unpleasant.
But that misses the point that airlines core businesses are not flying planes. It is to build lounges so that people use their credit cards. And on that count, they have been incredible innovators. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
But that misses the point that airlines core businesses are not flying planes. It is to build lounges so that people use their credit cards. And on that count, they have been incredible innovators. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This is a fascinating point and there are a lot of variants on this basic business model. Someone once explained to me that functionally, the Ford Motor Company is a bank that uses automobiles as incentives to take out multi-year loans.
For a surreal moment, I misread this as "Seal: Porpoise" and I'm imagining a marine life remake of John Boorman's HELL IN THE PACIFIC.
Seal: Purpose 4K Blu-ray
www.blu-ray.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
For a surreal moment, I misread this as "Seal: Porpoise" and I'm imagining a marine life remake of John Boorman's HELL IN THE PACIFIC.
I loved this one. Toni Servillo is a chameleon. It's astonishing that the same man starred in this, IL DIVO and LORO.
Now playing (06:05 AM PST):
"The Great Beauty" (2013)
By Paolo Sorrentino
Runtime: 142 min.
"The Great Beauty" (2013)
By Paolo Sorrentino
Runtime: 142 min.
December 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I loved this one. Toni Servillo is a chameleon. It's astonishing that the same man starred in this, IL DIVO and LORO.
If you're ever in Copenhagen, I commend to you The National Museum of Denmark. They have a great collection of Bronze Age and Iron Age artifacts and a very well-preserved bog mummy.
December 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If you're ever in Copenhagen, I commend to you The National Museum of Denmark. They have a great collection of Bronze Age and Iron Age artifacts and a very well-preserved bog mummy.
I'm sure this has been mentioned but Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES (the original one). That one is just gratuitously cruel to the viewer.
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I'm sure this has been mentioned but Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES (the original one). That one is just gratuitously cruel to the viewer.
The best argument against intelligent design as why humans exist is that the bloody parts keep malfunctioning. For me today, it is my accursed sinuses.
December 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The best argument against intelligent design as why humans exist is that the bloody parts keep malfunctioning. For me today, it is my accursed sinuses.
Much as I enjoy and admire the Pixar film WALL-E, every time I see it, my brain fixates on exactly one thing.
Why "Hello, Dolly!" of all things?
Why "Hello, Dolly!" of all things?
December 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Much as I enjoy and admire the Pixar film WALL-E, every time I see it, my brain fixates on exactly one thing.
Why "Hello, Dolly!" of all things?
Why "Hello, Dolly!" of all things?
Few things dismay me like an immaculately crafted film that basically doesn't work. Zeffirelli's HAMLET almost makes me angry. It looks great, sounds great, has some of the best actors and if it was any more inert it would be classed as a noble gas.
December 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Few things dismay me like an immaculately crafted film that basically doesn't work. Zeffirelli's HAMLET almost makes me angry. It looks great, sounds great, has some of the best actors and if it was any more inert it would be classed as a noble gas.
watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel. #moviesky #filmsky #horrorsky #FrightClub
(I have a suspicion that I've purchased this more than six times...)
(I have a suspicion that I've purchased this more than six times...)
December 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel. #moviesky #filmsky #horrorsky #FrightClub
(I have a suspicion that I've purchased this more than six times...)
(I have a suspicion that I've purchased this more than six times...)
Revisiting "Alien: Earth" I still like it a lot. I feel like the fifth episode is the slam dunk. The writers pull off a difficult trick — an intelligent script about people who make terrible decisions. Also, there's some great creepy-crawly moments.
December 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Revisiting "Alien: Earth" I still like it a lot. I feel like the fifth episode is the slam dunk. The writers pull off a difficult trick — an intelligent script about people who make terrible decisions. Also, there's some great creepy-crawly moments.