Happy celestial birthday to American-Australian artist and cartoonist Ron Cobb September 21, 1937 – September 21, 2020

"London is too dangerous to go out at night in." Huh. I guess my wife and I imagined a newbie trip on the tube from our hotel (Arsenal match had just let out and there was not a taxi to be found) where walked from the station to the Globe and dinner and sat by the Thames after. Right. Dangerous.

The words they're saying are for their own adherents and not for anyone else. I could guess what they're going to say before they do. There's no edification here, no new understanding.

Yeah, "On the Beach," issue 13 of Hellblazer, still hits hard.

Fireworks (derogatory)

What movie do you consider perfect?

Oh. Now I get the Funky Flashman appearance in Swamp Thing #76. Those Fourth World books weren't exactly easy to find in the 80s (and I wasn't yet that deep into things.)

Look at these beautiful color holds. Lovern Kindzierski colors over John Ridgway art.

The Hellblazer collection has a bunch of the Rick Veitch/et al SwampThing run in it and I forgot how truly and deeply weird these comics were. Maybe even more so than the run before it. Good to revisit these.

Today is a chicken soup and big Cheez-Its kind of day. Bleurgh.

Not now, Armageddon.

The more ads I see for Tron: Ares, the more I'm thinking I don't actually Ned to see this.

Watching football on Fox is excruciating. Yes, I know. I'm in charge. But watching ICE recruiting ads next to PSAs about how this station is celebrating Hispanic heritage and yeah.

There is no use-case that can get around this. You may plead that your business needs vast volumes of pseudo-real content in which case I'd argue against the utility of your business.

Get off Twitter.

Vet says "Collect fecal samples from the Knuckleheads. They gotta be fresh." This has proven tricky and in fact the only time they've made a fresh deposit in my presence is... today when the office is closed amid outside the storage window.

WHY DID THEY NOT KEEP THIS TITLE???

I like big butt-ons and I can not lie You other brothers might deny

cc @neokefka99.bsky.social for obvious reasons

My personal "OK so" bit about Revelation is imagine if the archeologists of the future unearthed a newspaper with a cartoon of an elephant fighting a donkey while an old man in a top hat cries, and in the background a bear and a dragon are laughing.

Folks, the NYT covered the book by that director because everyone would share and be bothered by the fact that they covered that book and not any others they could've.

The family is watching Juno. It's very relentless about what it is, huh?

Comics invented Futurism?

The really funny thing about the post outlining illegal and corrupt acts planned by the President, issued as orders to the AG, out in public for everyone to see, is that his engagement numbers are absolute shit for the dude who owns the site.

Tom Homan, welcome to the Resistance.

Oh, folks are just coming onto that Network tip? Hey, glad to have you aboard and all.

President DHS Corncob Post

Gimli Meme: (var "Disney Adults")

"I found another example of the Republicans being hypocritical in their demands of the public that they won't enact on themselves!" Yes. That's the whole point of the exercise of power for these dopes.

President DMs

This type of joke has become amongst my favorite in the social media age. Intertextuality rules.

Pére Lachaise, Paris 9/24

Oh, that guy. The name-searcher. Who writes for the Atlantic and I think worked at Brookings? Yeah. We need to worry about what he says. I mean, we kinda do, and that really sucks.

Undefeated

*pained groan*

Three hundred and five bucks for a pair of jeans. But it might outlast my lifetime on this planet. Yeah, I dunno.

So, @stevelieberart.bsky.social just made the best possible joke here: PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987) Directed by John Carpenter

As corporations are devices to make individual liability go away (as well as publicize losses and privatize profits), these nested apps are all attempts to dodge responsibility for the offices that should instead be providing them. Good thread below.

Something something authoritarians always have to manufacture reactions like love and grief because their own rule is built on lies and misdirection, who to hate, who to fear. Trying to grassroots a grief campaign for that podcaster wasn't gonna work. Only the revanchists will wail and moan.

Listening to a debate between Foucault and Chomsky while wrangling kittens because I'm a dork. And I'm hearing that there's rules and we're locked to them, linguistically and epistemically but I guess it's assumed that those rules and language never change and whaaaaaaaaa?

Hmm. HDTV cable for SNES. Plugged in and powered and I get sound but it looks like this. Ideas? It could be that output itself from the SNES is borked but I don't think so.

Which got used as the line art for the SPI boxed game cover. Last time I saw one of these for sale it was two hundred, I think.

Huh. Kirk had even less of a half-life than I thought he would. Look at that dropoff. Anyways, all this talk about putting him in the secular canon was wishcasting on the part of these bozos.

Today is the birthday of writer Steve Gerber (Sept. 20, 1947-Feb. 10, 2008).

Well, The Great may have imploded for me. But I learned some important lessons from that first season.

Oh. We're waiting for the Disney company to stand up for us. Holy shit, this wishcasting has got to stop.

Every single prestige series, every single one, has a moment where the viewer can watch the train leaving the rails, space separating between the iron and the wheels. Where the spell is broken and the failure of imagination becomes apparent.

1) Let's all listen to It'll End In Tears, the first This Mortal Coil album.

My lunchtime visit to Boogie Maru Records in Torrance will form a large chunk of tonight's Bomb Shelter playlist, airing from 8-9 pm on KXLU 88.9 FM in Los Angeles & kxlu.com everywhere else.

Huh. Okay. Yeah, noted.