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Tom McH
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ME, a sage: Mandy Patinkin could play anything, anyone.

YOU, a fool: Not a heroic Puerto Rican cab driver.

ME:
Poster for NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER (1980)
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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And here's the actual Veins quote:
It goes to show you how they don't respect people enough to tell them about GED before they start high school. If you're not popular, and you don't want people to yell at you, then you should just get the GED. It doesn't make sense to spend 4 years suffering if you don't have to. The don't tell you about it at school because they want the popular kids to have people to make fun of and torture.
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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thinkin again of Pynch-man
He'd caught a fatal glimpse of that level where everybody knew everybody else, where however political fortunes below might bloom and die, the same people, the Real Ones, remained year in and year out, keeping what was desirable flowing their way. Prosecutor Vond wanted a life there, only slowly coming to understand that for someone of his background there would be no route to this but self-abasement, fawning, gofering, scrambling for tips and offering other such hints of his eagerness to be brevetted on life's battlefield to a rank higher than he would ever, by the terms of his enlistment, have deserved. Though his defects of character were many, none was quite as annoying as this naked itch to be a gentleman, kept inflamed by a stubborn denial of what everyone else knew — that no matter how much money he made, how many political offices or course credits from charm school might come his way, no one of those among whom he wished to belong would ever regard him as other than a thug whose services had been hired. -- Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
November 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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cracking up at my own bruce
a doodle of what is ostensibly Bruce Springsteen watercolored because it tickled me so much
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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okay so not this, but sort of this--my skills are rusty and the thought was intrusive
a mockup page of a book of the Epstein emails with Michael Wolff on December 15-16 but the chains are broken out in chronological order. there is a helpful sidebar with a bio of Michael Wolff and an illustration of his author photo
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Smithers explaining to Mr. Burns, "All the recent events of your life have revolved around him in some way."
November 13, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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a rat and a duck walking on the sidewalk RAT: "I know despair is the weapon of the enemy, yet I do feel it so."
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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In the West we become famous effigies as our books lose the power to shape and influence. Do you ask your writers how they feel about this? Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.”
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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me, not really following Magic the Gathering news, but seeing a lot of it today:
Jay in NIRVANA THE BAND THE SHOW confidently asserting "On the band list" after hearing "On the banned list"
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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video would better capture the fucked up way this thing kept slip-scooting along on its two vom-wheels, but you can at least see the puddle and imagine
An Uber Eats delivery robot skid-sliding down the sidewalk after driving through a puddle of human vomit
November 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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To read this just on a whim on a day I kinda sat out the continuous flood of shit by our own utter mediocre corporate wardens, well, I really had to go outside and walk around for a while after.

And then I saw a delivery robot spinning its wheels trying to drive through a puddle of Lakeview vomit.
The best we can hope for, in a finite and imperfect world, is that our minds be free, and Camp Archimedes is uniquely equipped to allow me just that freedom and no other.
November 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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It's all about prisoners who are given an incurable syphilis that makes them geniuses before killing them horribly, but they're being surveilled in case something useful to the military contractors comes out of their big brains before they pop. Dying geniuses in a panopticon run by mediocrities.
Skilliman dislikes other people, but because they are necessary to him, he has learned to use them–just as once, reluctantly, I taught myself to drive a car. Somehow I get the feeling that he has learned his “interpersonal techniques” from a psychology text, that when he begins hysterically to scold one of his subordinates he says to himself: “Now, for a little negative reinforcement.” Similarly, when he offers praise, he thinks of carrots. The best carrot at his disposal is simply the opportunity of conversing with him. For the sheer spectacle of devastation he is unapproachable. But his chief strength lies in an unerring clear-sightedness for others’ weaknesses. He manages his twelve puppets so well because he has carefully selected men who wish to be maneuvered. As every dictator knows, there is never a scarcity of such men.
November 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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how this all feels
screenshot from the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode "The Gang Buys a Boat" where it's night and on a falling apart boat, Dee is trying to dance like an inflatable arm guy, Frank is grilling catfish, and Charlie is sorting through filth while Steve Winwood's "Back in the High Life Again" plays
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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when a civilian asks to see what I'm drawing in my little sketchbook
the part in STAND BY ME when the one kid shows Wesley Crusher the gun in his bag
November 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Just came home from my first post—COVID gym trip to this lovely beast. It’s SO lovely, what an object!!
A hardcover copy of HELLPIERCERS by Sandy Pug Games
November 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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The Ebisu Yoshikazu story “Normal People” where a family decides to go to the big city to celebrate an anniversary, but are so terrified of being targeted for crime, they act unhappy and poor and eat only cheap food they don’t like for their special dinner.
The dad explaining to his son and daughter, “There are murderers everywhere, prowling the streets. Looking for happy families and couples to unload their nasty misery upon.”
November 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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SHIFTY
Shot of the dome and the text THE LIBERAL ESTABLISHMENT HAD DOMINATED BRITISH CULTURE FOR 150 YEARS Shot of the dome and the text NOW THEY HAD BUILT A DOME THAT REVEALED A TERRIBLE TRUTH Shot of the dome and the text THEY NO LONGER HAD ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT BRITAIN AND ITS FUTURE
November 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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No, Lemon, I do not “read” Sutter Cane. I’m too busy reading in the trades that TGS came in fourth again last week behind Fox’s All-Star Salute to the White Race, and the Roku City screensaver.
November 2, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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One is for drawing, one is for writing
November 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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FROM 9 YEARS BACK: Costume

A Halloween relic from the zero-interest era.
PANEL 1: A duck walking down a suburban sidewalk wearing no shirt but a jack-o-lantern on its head. PANEL 2: A second duck is touching the jack-o-lantern head. DUCK 2: "I love that this is real. Tactile pumpkin face, not just some app." PANEL 3: DUCK 1: "Yeah, it bums me out how so many kids in the neighborhood just print out the logo of an app and safety pin it to an old flannel shirt." PANEL 4: DUCK 2: "A lot of parents encourage it--it's a guaranteed follow-back for their kid's Instagram feed and could easily turn into an internship later." PANEL 5: DUCK 1: "Remember when Dakota Frizzel's dad made her write and perform a song about hashpic.ly getting its Series C funding?" PANEL 6: DUCK 2: "I remember it got him the job, and I remember how disappointed my own father was in me." PANEL 7: A third duck is revealed. He is wearing a flannel shirt with a printout of an app icon that says Wx WEALTH on it safety pinned to the shirt's front. He has a little trick or treating plastic pumpkin. DUCK 3: "Well you spoilsports do whatever. Me, I think it's fun to wear a shirt that smells like my dad." PANEL 8: The third duck hugs his shirt and huffs it happily. DUCK 3: "Normally that is against the rules for me."
October 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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men only want one thing and it's three words and it's disgusting and it's instead of going to therapy
title card that reads A HAMMER PRODUCTION over a crucifix on lace on the neckline of a dress at the beginning of CAPTAIN KRONOS: VAMPIRE HUNTER (1974)
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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definition from the sketchbook
A duck in a crown is walking down the sidewalk saying, “Nothing I’ve worried about has played out exactly the way my worry predicted, and that is a definition of hope.”
October 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Mark at his party, accusing a partycrasher of having “an overwhelming appetite for faecal discharge?”
October 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Jeremy on Peep Show saying, “Reality and fantasy are exactly the same thing.”
October 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Comic of mine from 2011
October 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM