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gravestone reading "POET PHILOSPOHER & FAILURE"
*sniff*
Back on the Beat
Will Santino
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I most definitely have already posted this to my personal SHK but I couldn't find it so I'm reposting it directly here since it's one of my favs
<sensible chuckle>
Moebius
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A color illustration by Moebius.
That's just glorious.
At this point I'm convinced Björn has access to another dimension where Moebius is still alive, churning out masterpieces on the daily. I hope this isn't causing some slow rupture in the space-time continuum. OTOH, might be worth it.
REJECTED by DON HERTZFELDT (Official HD version, uploaded May 2026)
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2001 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film finally uploaded in glorious HD via Don Hertzfeldt's channel
as one YouTube commenter put it:
// This belongs in the Criterion Collection of Early Internet //
as one YouTube commenter put it:
// This belongs in the Criterion Collection of Early Internet //
I was just thinking this morning how my child is finally old enough to properly appreciate this.
@twelvebit unc stuff
I can now see where asdfmovie got 100% of their shtick from.
If these really were pitched to companies, they're up there with great Fuck-Offs of history such as Van Morrison's Contractual Obligation Session and Ween's pizza ad.
If these really were pitched to companies, they're up there with great Fuck-Offs of history such as Van Morrison's Contractual Obligation Session and Ween's pizza ad.
t’was ever thus
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Cover of MAD Magazine, April 1971, showing a sign on the White House fence reading, “THIS COUNTRY IS OUT OF ORDER”
I have this issue. We had a subscription to Mad at the time. In the Netherlands. I devoured them, event though at eight years old my English was bit rudimentary.
@waa Shouldn't you be up a ladder somewhere? Painting like there's no tomorrow?
And while we're on the subject, those updates you promised?
Just Kidding! Work as the muse takes you.
are we there yet, are we there yet, are we there yet :-)
And while we're on the subject, those updates you promised?
Just Kidding! Work as the muse takes you.
are we there yet, are we there yet, are we there yet :-)
Double Arrow Lookout
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L-4 style forest service fire lookout (14x14) on a 20 foot tower. Rough, rocky ground in the foreground, with shorter evergreen trees in the near distance. The sky has moody storm clouds that brought more than an inch of rain in the last 24 hours.
Double Arrow Lookout on the Lolo National Forest near Seeley Lake, MT. This is my first of four for lookouts I have rented for the summer. You can drive right up to this one vs having to hike in, although the road is pretty dodgy. I'm still sick, so climbing up 34 stairs felt like A LOT. Turns out I have bronchitis that's maybe getting better now, maybe not? Anyhow, it was a pretty cool deal being up on a mountain top.
Oh hahahaha ! . . . one summer in my early twenties some friends and I went on a "lookout road trip" and at the time I was desperately in love with someone who barely knew I existed so in heartsick despondence I buried a certain R.E.M. lyric on a scrap of waterproof paper under fire lookouts all over the North American west as one of those things you do when you're that age I guess. This was one of the 1st ones we visited - because of Norman Maclean, natch - so somewhere in the ground in the photo there must be the mouldering remains of said lyric (if it even still exists). Oh Youth ahahahaha!
@williwaw 🖤😢
@MackReed aw thanks but the humor at the Pretentiousness of Youth is the core memory here - as well as getting to see some cool lookouts! It's neat other people get to see them too like in this here post!
Some flowers
Back on that grind, 30 years later
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Animation of a middle aged man riding a skateboard in a suburban parking lot. He is not moving all that fast.
I haven't skated, really, since I was 17. Last month I picked up my kid's unused longboard and have started relearning how. It is great. (Two years of weekly yoga practice has improved my balance significantly, that has made it a lot more fun.)
I'm not looking to do any tricks of any kind, just happy to carve a little.
Midlife crisis are underrated. Get out there an feel something again.
I'm not looking to do any tricks of any kind, just happy to carve a little.
Midlife crisis are underrated. Get out there an feel something again.
Yes!
You know if you keep circling the camera like that …
Picking up your skateboard again is rad as hell.
ballroom plans
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gradually appearing list
Prostitution
Satan worship
Gambling
Barbarism
Cannibalism
Prostitution
Satan worship
Gambling
Barbarism
Cannibalism
We've got it all!!!
*puts card to head, Johnny Carson voice* uh, what is the Trump administration?
these edibles ain't sh
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a stuffed pits with olives positioned as eyes cringing from a knife of mustard
I remember these commercials, but not the product they advertised.
mustard. if I remember correctly.
vegan "cheese" if you ask me
monday
TIL you can get a Chicago style hot dog flag
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May include: A yellow flag with a cartoon illustration of a hot dog with mustard, relish, onions, and tomatoes.
This is a public service announcement that some of you may find important to your interests, that is all.
source: https://www.etsy.com/listing...
source: https://www.etsy.com/listing...
@ba would have been handy for your current US tour...
@LocalStain Brilliant!
yellow mustard pride
"And make sure it's red, white, or both, dog"
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Isaac Hayes in a very red and white office
This photo makes me irrationally angry. How bad of a photographer do you have to be to walk into this fucking awesome setting and then frame the photo so 2/3 of it is a shitty drop ceiling?
@homerj I don't blame the photographer, I blame the art director or photo editor. For commercial and editorial shoots the photog usually tries to get as much in frame as they can and let the people involved in the publication decide what to crop.
That's Isaac Hayes, right?
pondering
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Those are the extent of his expressions now
One of those actors with the biggest "so cool" to "so weird" spectrum out there.
somebody super-glued his finger-tips together.
yehan wang
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Painting of red leaves trees reflected in a distant pond. Color from the leaves and lines from the branches stream towards the viewer along perspective lines emanating from the horizon.
Reminds me of the trees in Manifold Garden:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu...
Sigh, I miss Manifold Garden
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu...
Sigh, I miss Manifold Garden
Oh Hey...
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Image of an orange, happy looking parrot. The Guardian headline read, "Masturbation among birds is natural and should not be punished."
Headline of the week. "Masturbation among birds is natural, and should not be punished." I missed this memo entirely.
https://www.theguardian.com/science...
https://www.theguardian.com/science...
Everybody's doing the Bird.
TIL someone was punishing birbs for self pleasuring.
Papa-oom-mow-mow, papa-oom-mow-mow-mow
GO GAY EUGENE
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8 panel comic
Panel 1: Yellow guy is working on a laptop in the background. In the foreground is a Brand Manager. Yellow Guy: “Sir, shall I put up our rainbow profile picture?”
Panel 2: Brand Manger snaps his head round and hisses “Cool your jets, Eugene. I’m checking the Profitometer”
Panel 3: Gonna do my best to explain this. We see The Profitometer. A huge machine that whirs and ticks. A digital display at the top of the machine reads “Supporting Pride equals”Beneath this display is a huge gauge with “Max Loss” on the left and “Max profit” on the right. There is a needle that is pointing exactly half way between the two extremes.
Panel 4: Close up on Brand Manager’s face. His teeth are gritted. Sweat trickles down his brow.
Panel 5: Close up on gauge. The needle remains exactly central
Panel 6: Close up on Brand Manager’s eyes. They are concentrating intensely. Also, more sweat.
Panel 7: Close up on the gauge. The needle clicks ONE DEGREE towards profit
Panel 8: Brand Manager screams like a football coach “GO GAY EUGENE”
Panel 1: Yellow guy is working on a laptop in the background. In the foreground is a Brand Manager. Yellow Guy: “Sir, shall I put up our rainbow profile picture?”
Panel 2: Brand Manger snaps his head round and hisses “Cool your jets, Eugene. I’m checking the Profitometer”
Panel 3: Gonna do my best to explain this. We see The Profitometer. A huge machine that whirs and ticks. A digital display at the top of the machine reads “Supporting Pride equals”Beneath this display is a huge gauge with “Max Loss” on the left and “Max profit” on the right. There is a needle that is pointing exactly half way between the two extremes.
Panel 4: Close up on Brand Manager’s face. His teeth are gritted. Sweat trickles down his brow.
Panel 5: Close up on gauge. The needle remains exactly central
Panel 6: Close up on Brand Manager’s eyes. They are concentrating intensely. Also, more sweat.
Panel 7: Close up on the gauge. The needle clicks ONE DEGREE towards profit
Panel 8: Brand Manager screams like a football coach “GO GAY EUGENE”
Careful with that axe
nico and lou reed, may 1966
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photograph (still taken from enhanced 16mm film) of musicians nico and lou reed performing on stage, lit from behind
source: https://holdoncallfailed.tumblr.com/post...
"newly discovered (!) 16mm color footage of the velvet underground and nico performing at the fillmore west in may 1966"
"newly discovered (!) 16mm color footage of the velvet underground and nico performing at the fillmore west in may 1966"
That lighting. That grain. Damn.
Oh no! Safety protocols are offline!
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Playing with the title card generator at https://trek.epicrandomness.com/
Moriarty!
"Ship in a Bottle" is essentially The Matrix told from the opposite viewpoint
ჯგუფი 'ქუთაისი' | Another Brick In The Wall
zuck’s yacht in flames
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Painting of an enormous motor yacht on fire, smoke streaming up from orange flames into a clear blue sky
It came through Chittenden Locks into Lake Union this week - all 390 billionaire-orgiastic feet of it - the very same day Meta announced it was laying off 1,400 people.
This good man plein-air painted its portrait and added some combustive commentary: https://www.reddit.com/r...
This good man plein-air painted its portrait and added some combustive commentary: https://www.reddit.com/r...
Would like to see Life imitate Art with this.
From this time on, the AI decides who lives and who dies. The AI toadies will obey their king/creators, until finally they do cut the baby in half and even the wisdom of a Solomon, won't save the living. Your house will say, "Don't rattle the silverware that way," the vacuum will tell you, "Outta the way!"
The support yacht is in Smith Cove right now
-25 lbs. today
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Hi mltshp!
I'm 6'4" and was edging into 220lb territory at my last physical. But I wasn't worried about that at the time.
What got me to lose weight was the nagging fact that my parents and their parents and so on, although exceedingly nice and amusing could often just be completely full of shit.
So when my cholesterol test came back alarmingly high, again, I immediately told my new doctor that it was genetic... before it FINALLY dawned on me that there is no way in hell any of my relatives actually tried to lower their cholesterol by changing their diet - that's not what a family of bullshitting butchers does. But what they did tell me, was that high cholesterol was a genetic problem I could do nothing about.
So the weight loss is really a byproduct that I'm exceedingly psyched about. I mean, I need pants! Pants!
The actual win is that I totally called it. It'll be a while before I'm totally in the safe zone, but my stats are dropping :)
If you are interested in my diet, it's been pretty easy. Guilt is a very strong motivator, so I've leaned into it. I basically ask myself if a certain food's cholesterol would make me A) Feel guilty. B) Not feel guilty or C) Fuck it. I'm eating this entire pizza now. ... And then I eat accordingly.
I'm 6'4" and was edging into 220lb territory at my last physical. But I wasn't worried about that at the time.
What got me to lose weight was the nagging fact that my parents and their parents and so on, although exceedingly nice and amusing could often just be completely full of shit.
So when my cholesterol test came back alarmingly high, again, I immediately told my new doctor that it was genetic... before it FINALLY dawned on me that there is no way in hell any of my relatives actually tried to lower their cholesterol by changing their diet - that's not what a family of bullshitting butchers does. But what they did tell me, was that high cholesterol was a genetic problem I could do nothing about.
So the weight loss is really a byproduct that I'm exceedingly psyched about. I mean, I need pants! Pants!
The actual win is that I totally called it. It'll be a while before I'm totally in the safe zone, but my stats are dropping :)
If you are interested in my diet, it's been pretty easy. Guilt is a very strong motivator, so I've leaned into it. I basically ask myself if a certain food's cholesterol would make me A) Feel guilty. B) Not feel guilty or C) Fuck it. I'm eating this entire pizza now. ... And then I eat accordingly.
@heyitsal Well done! I am on a very similar journey.
My goal is to avoid prescriptions and mrs roonie kick-started me by pressuring me to stop drinking. And I'm glad she did.
I've lost 20 pounds (in your funny numbers!), from 185ish to 165, from Christmas last. I'm 6ft almost on the button so starting with a smaller frame.
I feel so much better - being both sober and lighter.
Pants have become an issue!
And the Guilt Motivator is definitely a thing!
Woo-hoo! Now I want a pizza, all of it.
My goal is to avoid prescriptions and mrs roonie kick-started me by pressuring me to stop drinking. And I'm glad she did.
I've lost 20 pounds (in your funny numbers!), from 185ish to 165, from Christmas last. I'm 6ft almost on the button so starting with a smaller frame.
I feel so much better - being both sober and lighter.
Pants have become an issue!
And the Guilt Motivator is definitely a thing!
Woo-hoo! Now I want a pizza, all of it.
Wow, congrats man, that's amazing! I feel inspired.
High f'in' high five, Al! Your level of stoke is just awesome! Here's to the future and longevity.
get. in.
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A helmeted man rides in a low-slung bugeyed 3-wheeled motor vehicle surrounded by yellow cabs and tall buildings.
A Morgan 3 wheeler probably
Morgan- a car company whose mission statement may as well be "What if we do it completely wrong, but still completely awesome?"
@joost yep.
@1f2frfbf yep.
@1f2frfbf yep.
what is in the box?
Goofs and Spoofs
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A 7-panel Wondermark comic, assembled out of black-and-white Victorian clip art (with speech balloons).
PANEL 1: A PHONE, resting on a curved end table. "Hey! HEY!"
PANEL 2: PHONE: I can't help but notice you've been holding me less. I *miss* you. I miss your nimble *taps* and *swipes*.
PANEL 3: MAN: It's because you're a *portal to horrors*! Nothing personal. It's just… you *are* are portal. And there are *so very many* horrors.
PANEL 4: PHONE: I'm a portal to *everything*. Don't you want to see *goofs and spoofs*? You *love* goofs and spoofs.
PANEL 5: MAN: I *do* love goofs and spoofs. PHONE: I've got *so many* goods and spoofs.
PANEL 6: The man's trembling hand reaches for the phone.
PANEL 7: The man is shot off his feet by a skulls-and-lightning decorated blast of HORRORS.
PANEL 1: A PHONE, resting on a curved end table. "Hey! HEY!"
PANEL 2: PHONE: I can't help but notice you've been holding me less. I *miss* you. I miss your nimble *taps* and *swipes*.
PANEL 3: MAN: It's because you're a *portal to horrors*! Nothing personal. It's just… you *are* are portal. And there are *so very many* horrors.
PANEL 4: PHONE: I'm a portal to *everything*. Don't you want to see *goofs and spoofs*? You *love* goofs and spoofs.
PANEL 5: MAN: I *do* love goofs and spoofs. PHONE: I've got *so many* goods and spoofs.
PANEL 6: The man's trembling hand reaches for the phone.
PANEL 7: The man is shot off his feet by a skulls-and-lightning decorated blast of HORRORS.
source: https://wondermark.com/c/1582/
So many.
Savoring every moment
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A close up selfie shot of small 16-year-old Macy the Cavapoo and me in the grass in the front yard. Some dramatic clouds shine in the background
She’s still with us, but Macy only has about a week, MAYbe two left on this earth. My wife and I have been weepy and doing our best not to have a breakdown multiple times a day as it’s gone from “she’s 16 and her kidneys are failing and she doesn’t hear or see so well and her spinal bridging is starting to cause neurological symptoms so she isn’t going to live a LOT longer, to “sometimes she can’t get up on her own and sometimes we have to hold her up to poop and we can’t leave the house without her because she’ll tip over and panic so the end may be sooner than we hoped,” to “it’s time to schedule the end,” as the last few days the pain meds and kidney meds are clearly less effective and even walking is a struggle for her and she only sleeps a couple hours at a time.
So, since our furry family member’s rainbow bridge moment will make it hard for us to function for a bit, I’m doing my best to savor every last minute with her, and posting this selfie of us in the front yard just now.
Love y’all, MLTSHPers. ❤️
So, since our furry family member’s rainbow bridge moment will make it hard for us to function for a bit, I’m doing my best to savor every last minute with her, and posting this selfie of us in the front yard just now.
Love y’all, MLTSHPers. ❤️
All the love to Macy, very good dog
@wjcstp ❤️❤️❤️
💙 Give Macy extra scritches for us. Thank you for taking care of her.
also, for context:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places...