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I had a surprise visitor a few weeks ago. They were carefully relocated back outside
a Praying Mantis clings to the side of a wooden bookcase a Praying Mantis stands atop a silvery grey window blind on a beige interior wall
October 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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But what if I just want other people to win the lottery?
“The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson” in black text on a grey book cover with fragments of human faces.
October 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Everything else aside, disguising the water meter with turquoise aquarium gravel is a choice.
A pile of turquoise stained rocks and another pile of gray rocks attempt to conceal pipes, or possibly a water meter, next to a driveway. Behind this questionable choice are 4 brown garage doors under 4 cartoonishly outlined windows on a blue wall.
September 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Sweet Jeebus, if only he could claim Barney’s plausible deniability 🙏🍺
Barney Gumble, from The Simpsons, in a too tightly fitting red collared shirt and blue pants - with his belly bulging between both (and either blue slip on shoes with white stripes, or blue socks and white sandals?)
August 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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There’s like one positive association with spiderwebs in all of western culture*

If you’ve destroyed a masterpiece by Charlotte (you monster), you’re on your own

*Spider-Man** is not generally associated with web building, just web slinging
**good luck with your new Spidey senses!!
Line drawing of Wilbur the pig standing below a spiderweb with the word “TERRIFIC” spelled out within the web. From “Charlotte’s Web,” by E. B. White.
August 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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I mean seriously, what is that supposed to be if not some kind of sad cry for help? How do you even open the door? How do you get in to the front seat without smacking your head on that weird offset point? How do the side mirrors function? Why is there only one giant windshield wiper?
An already hideous cyber truck is made even more offensive with a Velveeta cheese colored paint job. Just so deeply stupid.
July 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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I was just in Spain last week & Ávila had a model of the town & walls for the blind to explore (and anyone else who wanted to). Wasn’t able to get a photo of the model, but I got some of the actual walls. Also, some of the items in the grocery stores in Madrid had braille on the labels (no photos 🙁)
Exterior of the 11th-14th century walls of Ávila, Spain. Stone walls, with crenellated tops between rounded towers like a storybook castle, surround a town of red tile roofs. In the foreground a small rabbit nibbles on grass. Interior of the stone walls of Ávila & St Vincent’s gate. Build of brown stones, the walls & rounded towers with crenellated tops were built between the 11th -14th centuries. A bridge connects the two gate towers & the gate appears like a mouse hole below their enormous size.
July 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Who else wants to get drunk at post apocalypse Disney?
Abandoned Chuck E Cheese animatronic figure rotting away in a littered dirt field
July 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Don’t ask about the cheeseburger
A cybertruck painted a hideous shade of yellow looks like a jagged hunk of velveeta cheese
June 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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If it’s safe for the river, it’s safe for you ☘️
Chicago River being dyed green for St Patrick’s Day parade
May 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Apologies, your Grace, but weird appears to be Jyn’s default setting
A chocolate and caramel min pin mix dog is curled up in an uncomfortable heap on a pile of blue and gray pillows. Her face is one of resigned annoyance for her situation.
May 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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and it’s just as lovely in the countryside. River Seine, Seine-Port, France
River Seine, outside Seine-Port, France. Bright white clouds and green trees are reflected in the rippling blue water. Green trees and bushes frame the Seine rushing through the middle of the frame. The sun is beginning to set over trees on the opposite shore. Seine-Port, France Metal guard rails cross the bottom third of the frame, the River Seine narrows to the horizon reflecting the blue sky above, wispy white clouds scatter across the sky. The River is framed on both sides by lush green trees. Seine-Port, France.
April 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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I can drive* a few hours from my house in Southern California:
*sometimes I need a boat
A cement pier slopes into the horizon over golden sands, white waves, and the bottle green waters of the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles. Brilliant white snow covers the foreground and blankets pine trees. Snow capped mountains peak through in the distance under puffy clouds and dark blue skies at Big Bear Mountain. Golden brown sandy hills, covered in scrubby desert plants, slope down from left to right. In the middle distance are more rugged grayish purple mountains. Farther back, more mountainous are hinted at in a blue hazy silhouette. Keys View, Joshua Tree NP Seven dolphins swim alongside a boat in the green waters of the Pacific Ocean near Redondo Pier. The dolphin in the center of the frame breaks the surface of the water and air bubbles cascade down its back.
April 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Oh, yeah, no.
Olive green background with white lettering for “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair, contains an image of factories billowing smoke into the air. A novel rumored to have made Teddy Roosevelt lose his appetite; to be read with neither a light heart, nor a queasy stomach.
April 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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“A new franchise record for worst home shutout loss by the Dodgers (not just at Dodger Stadium). History!” Photo of Chicago Cub Michael Busch raising his hands to the sky in a game where the Cubs beat LA 16-0.
April 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Indiana Jones, in Last Crusade, emerging from a manhole, exclaiming “Ah, Venice.”
April 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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On a totally unrelated note, the guillotine was still in use in France in the same year Star Wars debuted in theaters (1977). Vestiges of the French Revolution persisted within my lifespan, and I wasn’t even alive when men first walked on the moon.
Marie Antoinette, holding her own severed head, singing “It will be fine” during the Paris Olympics 2024.
April 5, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Saw this one at The Museum of the Dog, NYC
Triangular shaped terracotta tile with dog paw print in bottom right corner. Sign explaining “Roman Empire Carnuntum Fragment: Dog Paw Print terracotta 2nd-3rd century AD”
March 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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fear my children
SUE the TRex fossil, in cool purple light, charges at the viewer with her mouth open and dagger like teeth ready to shred.
March 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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a friendly black cat I met on a walking tour of Kilkenny, Ireland last summer.
An inquisitive black cat with yellow eyes stares directly at the viewer while walking along an old gray stone wall, with green leaves and small pink flowers in the background.
March 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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❤️ Yes, Darthenshmirtz, I will ❤️
Heinz Doofenshmirtz (as Darthenshmirtz, the lowest of the Darths) and Norm (a robot sidekick) stand in the Death Star. Doofenshmirtz is explaining how he designed the Death Star to be a nutcracker, but the Empire stole the plans and made it impractically large.
February 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Vive le Philly!
Detail of Liberty Leading the People oil painting by Eugène Delacroix, showing Marianne (a symbol of revolutionary France) commemorating the July revolution of 1830
February 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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If only the US Government could create an elite task force to explore and explain such phenomena! (Or even 7th grade mythology class, thanks Mrs Bray)
Web page from NASA describing Orion’s Belt constellation
December 15, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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R.I.P.(oop)
A crudely rendered, early computer graphic of an ox pulling a covered wagon, in lime green against a black background, above the phrase “You have died of dysentery.” From the computer game “Oregon Trail.”
December 14, 2024 at 8:52 AM
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Pearl Jam at Wrigley Field, Chicago
Eddie Vedder, of Pearl Jam, wearing Walter Payton’s Chicago Bears jersey is on stage at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The green scoreboard is illuminated in the background.
November 10, 2024 at 10:59 PM