Battleship Potemkin released 100 years ago today:

A MODEST PROPOSAL: When Trump is imprisoned, every building with his name on it is confiscated and renamed "BUILDING OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE"

Can Jimmy Fallon please make a "six-seven" joke so kids won't think it's funny anymore?

How nice.

Someone asked yesterday, since Trump controls everything, what can we do? I asked myself that question a decade ago. I'm in a unique position to not do anything: I'm an artist, I'm lazy, and I'm an introvert to the point of agoraphobia.

Trump will be parodied for decades by comedians and satirists, but I can't imagine them coming up with anything more outrageous or disgusting than the way he actually behaves every day in public.

People need to be aware that, as much damage as Trump has done this year, as many lives as he's already destroyed, as much as he's done to demolish the basic framework of American society, he's just getting started.

I'm going to post this every year until someone laughs at it.

Somebody pointed out that this is literally the plot of Wag the Dog, which makes me wonder if David Mamet called to suggest it

I don't care how, I don't care why,

I cannot improve upon this.

I wonder if anyone got fired today for posting a clip from When Harry Met Sally

Somebody mentioned the other day that Mark Burnett, the creator of The Apprentice, is our Leni Riefenstahl. The comparison is apt. Triumph of the Will made Hitler look like a messianic force of nature, and The Apprentice made Donald Trump look like a savvy businessman.

Oh man, I just remembered Reiner's performance in The Wolf of Wall Street, playing Leo's father, who is infuriated at having The Equalizer interrupted and shouts profanity all the way to the phone before answering it with an urbane Atlantic accent like a maitre-d in a 1930s romantic comedy.

GUYS I JUST SAW A MINIVAN THAT HAD ANTLERS GROWING OUT OF IT WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON

Can we drop the "of the" from the acronym and just call him PUS?

A piece of shit, determined to smear himself over the entire world. Words fail. The lack of self-awareness, coupled with the intense narcissism, coupled with a deep-seated hatred of everything that the United States is supposed to stand for.

People often talk on the internet about directors who have three great movies in a row. Rob Reiner directed, in a row, This is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally..., Misery and A Few Good Men, an incredible run for any filmmaker.

Current mood:

Let's not forget what this circus is all about: creating a permanent White minority rule, an American Apartheid. This is their last chance to do it before the numbers overwhelm them. There is no depth to which they will not sink to get what they want.

From the archives: this custom print, based on the Tubes' "What Do You Want From Life?" That is meant to be singer Fee Waybill at the top.

Peak 2025: you wake up and check social media, and it's full of people in shock from a mass shooting, and you have to look to see which mass shooting they're referring to today.

Another project from days of yore, a podcast icon for the wonderful Renie Rivas, done in the style of a 1930s Hollywood gossip magazine. I really like the way this turned out.

New Lego cat. Smudge does not care.

In case you were wondering how David Mamet's mental breakdown is going.

Another favorite project from years gone by: A divorce podcast, "How to Split a Toaster." Looking at these now, I would have made the colors brighter and the fonts bigger, because I like how these guys look but they would need a boost to be read at icon size.

Harry Potter has become such a symbol of hate, I'm surprised she didn't just give him another lightning bolt on his forehead

The Greeting Card Project, Final Chapter: A greeting card publisher suggested taking old pulp illustrations and matching them with "edgy" copy. This sort of thing has been done very well by others, so I'm busted up about these not going forward, but there are still some yuks to be had here.

Hitler was able to rally support to his cause by exploiting German anger over the punitive Versailles treaty, which drove the nation into bankruptcy. Trump was able to rally support to his cause by exploiting the fact of a Black president.

"This scene here, with the couples talking in the Paris café, why are we in Paris? Why don't we set it in St. Tropéz, get some tits in there, we want to sell tickets to this thing, don't we?" -- verbatim script note from a financier, circa 1996

Smudge would like quiet on set.

I'm old enough to remember when CBS was known as "The Tiffany Network"

Now that I work with headphones on, I keep thinking I hear my dogs walking around the apartment, when what I'm actually hearing is dogs walking around the podcaster's apartment.

The Greeting Card Project, Part 3: This was a different publisher, a company called Lesser Spotted Images. This idea made it as far as having samples printed to show at a trade fair, but no takers!

IDEA FOR A SCI-FI STORY: What if it turns out we're living in the pee tape?

I got such a good response for my classics yesterday, I'm putting them up for sale at my Etsy store! toddalcottgraphics.etsy.com

The Greeting Card Project, Part 2: After the manufacturer rejected my earlier designs for being too "hard to get," I pitched the idea of classic novels, but with cats. The fact that I only came up with three to show as examples shows that my heart wasn't really in it, but these still crack me up.

5 out of 5 stars! LOVE THESE CARDS. I’m obsessed with cryptids, AND old posters/magazine designs, and these combine the two in such creative and beautiful and cheeky ways. If you love cryptids and great design you will not be disappointed!" -- Liska, 11/25/25 toddalcottgraphics.etsy.com

"5 out of 5 stars! LOVE THESE CARDS. I’m obsessed with cryptids, AND old posters/magazine designs, and these combine the two in such creative and beautiful and cheeky ways. toddalcottgraphics.etsy.com

There have been more and more accounts online talking about how "AI art" democratizes art, because it allows people without talent to create art. And I suppose it does, in the same way that Twitter allows random amoral assholes to create political policy.

For people who like Substack, or who don't like reading my pieces here broken up into 140-character chunks, I now have a Substack! toddalcott.substack.com

Here's a project I wish had gone forward! A greeting card manufacturer asked me to create some greeting cards based on classic novels. I'm sorry they didn't click because I think they're hilarious.

So anyway, Dr. Brainworm has decided to kill untold numbers of people. He's directed the CDC and ACIP to stop vaccinating babies against Hepatitis B. They really do want to kill us all. They bring only death. No progress, no wonderful new inventions, no economic expansion.

I feel bad that it took me this long to figure out that Joker: Folie a Deux is a remake of A Star is Born