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@michaelchabon.bsky.social
El Chabon perdura.
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June 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
An ad agency for McDonald’s France, calling it like they see it, is using graphics and design elements of a fictional meth-smuggling front company to sell “McDo”’s reformulated “McCrispy” fried chicken.
May 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
An ad agency for McDonald’s France, calling it like they see it, is using graphics and design elements of a fictional meth-smuggling front company to sell “McDo”’s reformulated “McCrispy” fried chicken.
My junk text life is so rich with poignant memories.
May 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
My junk text life is so rich with poignant memories.
Or Moe Berg, major league catcher, graduate of Princeton and Columbia Law, quiz show champion, and OSS spy who was, at his discretion, literally licensed to kill Werner Heisenberg?
April 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Or Moe Berg, major league catcher, graduate of Princeton and Columbia Law, quiz show champion, and OSS spy who was, at his discretion, literally licensed to kill Werner Heisenberg?
No? How about Zeppo Marx, who played straight-man foil to his three older brothers in vaudeville and the first five Marx Bros. films (can’t have been that easy) AND invented the heating pad?#InternationalSurprisinglyVersatileHumansDay
April 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
No? How about Zeppo Marx, who played straight-man foil to his three older brothers in vaudeville and the first five Marx Bros. films (can’t have been that easy) AND invented the heating pad?#InternationalSurprisinglyVersatileHumansDay
Today is International Surprisingly Versatile Humans Day! Repost with a favorite Surprisingly Versatile Human. Mine is UK illustrator Chris Foss (b. 1946), known both for his eye-popping 1970s sf paperback-cover starships AND the nitty-gritty pencil illustrations for the original THE JOY OF SEX.
April 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Today is International Surprisingly Versatile Humans Day! Repost with a favorite Surprisingly Versatile Human. Mine is UK illustrator Chris Foss (b. 1946), known both for his eye-popping 1970s sf paperback-cover starships AND the nitty-gritty pencil illustrations for the original THE JOY OF SEX.
Two things that are wonderful:
1) John Fahey’s *The Voice of the Turtle*
2) The cover of John Fahey’s *The Voice of the Turtle* (by Patrick Finnerty)
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
1) John Fahey’s *The Voice of the Turtle*
2) The cover of John Fahey’s *The Voice of the Turtle* (by Patrick Finnerty)
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
March 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Two things that are wonderful:
1) John Fahey’s *The Voice of the Turtle*
2) The cover of John Fahey’s *The Voice of the Turtle* (by Patrick Finnerty)
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
1) John Fahey’s *The Voice of the Turtle*
2) The cover of John Fahey’s *The Voice of the Turtle* (by Patrick Finnerty)
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Seeing my grandparents’ hi-fi rig on eBay and realizing that my (engineer) grandfather must have built it himself. #solderingironman
March 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Seeing my grandparents’ hi-fi rig on eBay and realizing that my (engineer) grandfather must have built it himself. #solderingironman
We may disagree on whether they represent Haman’s ears, hat, or pockets, but I think we can agree that @russanddaughters.bsky.social are perfection. (To answer your next question: poppy seed, always.)
March 13, 2025 at 4:38 AM
We may disagree on whether they represent Haman’s ears, hat, or pockets, but I think we can agree that @russanddaughters.bsky.social are perfection. (To answer your next question: poppy seed, always.)
Well, this is a good thing!
February 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Well, this is a good thing!
The set of all people who wanted this feature = ∅.
February 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The set of all people who wanted this feature = ∅.
In a great lyric by a great writer, one of my all-time favorite lines. So evocative.
January 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
In a great lyric by a great writer, one of my all-time favorite lines. So evocative.
Feiffer Intervention 2 came in 1996, in his eulogy for Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel. I’d been at work on TAAoK&C a bit more than a year.
January 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Feiffer Intervention 2 came in 1996, in his eulogy for Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel. I’d been at work on TAAoK&C a bit more than a year.
[Oh! And his treatment of his mentor Will Eisner as the first great genius of comic books, an opinion now c.w. but shared by no one, not even Will, in 1965 (Will came around).]
January 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
[Oh! And his treatment of his mentor Will Eisner as the first great genius of comic books, an opinion now c.w. but shared by no one, not even Will, in 1965 (Will came around).]
The other passage took longer to find flower: Feiffer’s concise, vivid recreation of the world of young comic book artists and writers that, as a teen prodigy of the mid-1940s, he entered into and, obviously, adored.
January 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The other passage took longer to find flower: Feiffer’s concise, vivid recreation of the world of young comic book artists and writers that, as a teen prodigy of the mid-1940s, he entered into and, obviously, adored.
It was 2 passages in the afterword that altered reality for me: Feiffer’s wry & beguiling account of his self-penned, self-published efforts as a juvenile comic book creator, which sent me into immediate DIY action, & gave me the license and the chutzpah to think of myself, at seven, as a creator.
January 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It was 2 passages in the afterword that altered reality for me: Feiffer’s wry & beguiling account of his self-penned, self-published efforts as a juvenile comic book creator, which sent me into immediate DIY action, & gave me the license and the chutzpah to think of myself, at seven, as a creator.
Feiffer obtained permissions to collect and reproduce facsimile images in high-quality art-book format of the first appearances and origin stories of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain America, the Human Torch and even Captain Marvel, then snarled in a series of savage copyright battles.
January 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Feiffer obtained permissions to collect and reproduce facsimile images in high-quality art-book format of the first appearances and origin stories of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain America, the Human Torch and even Captain Marvel, then snarled in a series of savage copyright battles.
TGCBH was a unique blend of cultural criticism, personal history, insider memoir, & striking design. Aided by the neglect & disregard into which comic books—never highly esteemed—had fallen by ‘65…
January 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
TGCBH was a unique blend of cultural criticism, personal history, insider memoir, & striking design. Aided by the neglect & disregard into which comic books—never highly esteemed—had fallen by ‘65…
In 1969 my dad came home from the library with Jules Feiffer‘s The Great Comic Book Heroes (1965).
“This book changed my life” is well-worn hyperbole but here there can be no doubt.
“This book changed my life” is well-worn hyperbole but here there can be no doubt.
January 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
In 1969 my dad came home from the library with Jules Feiffer‘s The Great Comic Book Heroes (1965).
“This book changed my life” is well-worn hyperbole but here there can be no doubt.
“This book changed my life” is well-worn hyperbole but here there can be no doubt.
Just stumbled on this magical document, Billboard magazine’s 1972 holiday yearbook, and herewith propose that we redefine “time bomb.” For the variety of period typefaces, alone, it’s utterly transporting. www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-...
January 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Just stumbled on this magical document, Billboard magazine’s 1972 holiday yearbook, and herewith propose that we redefine “time bomb.” For the variety of period typefaces, alone, it’s utterly transporting. www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-...
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
December 25, 2024 at 8:51 AM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
This breathtaking establishing shot of Ancient Rome for *Gladiator II*—a phone snap can’t begin to do it justice—lasts maybe 2.3 seconds & if only this much obvious love, care, & attention had been paid to the storytelling, characters, and dialogue, Mr. Scott really might’ve had himself a movie.
December 25, 2024 at 8:14 AM
This breathtaking establishing shot of Ancient Rome for *Gladiator II*—a phone snap can’t begin to do it justice—lasts maybe 2.3 seconds & if only this much obvious love, care, & attention had been paid to the storytelling, characters, and dialogue, Mr. Scott really might’ve had himself a movie.
While doubtless immensely
gratifying, it must also at times be a pain in the ass to have won one of these.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_...
gratifying, it must also at times be a pain in the ass to have won one of these.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_...
December 23, 2024 at 5:45 AM
While doubtless immensely
gratifying, it must also at times be a pain in the ass to have won one of these.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_...
gratifying, it must also at times be a pain in the ass to have won one of these.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_...