This is crazy

Trump accepting someone else's Nobel Prize is like a high school virgin begging his popular friend to let him smell his fingers.

Cartoonist friends: I'm downsizing, and I no longer use my Cintiq 21ux...I work on paper and use my iPad when I draw on a screen. Can you give me any reason I should hang onto this, or should I sell it?

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Trump accepting someone else's Nobel Prize is like a high school virgin begging his popular friend to let him smell his fingers.

Cartoonist friends: I'm downsizing, and I no longer use my Cintiq 21ux...I work on paper and use my iPad when I draw on a screen. Can you give me any reason I should hang onto this, or should I sell it?

“Let them eat cake”— Entertainers wearing dog masks and Rococo-era 18th-century European aristocratic court costumes danced for Mar-a-Lago guests at a party this weekend

Gasoline Alley by Frank King from January 14, 1924.

ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, 100% WORTH IT.

You can run but you can’t hide, fascists. You’re familiar with the word “Nuremberg,” I’m sure

Scott Adams can’t read the jokes we make about him and his racist ideas and pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo. But his family and friends, who watched him die and no doubt felt enormous pain at what happened to him—medically and perhaps politically—they can read those things.

The cruelty IS the point. This is so far beyond the pale, it’s hard for me to even process. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

I haven’t read the article yet, but that pull-quote is absolutely SPOT ON.

Take a look at this weaselly motherfucker.

THE solution to all this fascist ICE behavior is for a law to be passed making it illegal for them to mask their faces or otherwise go unidentified. If they work for the US gov’t, they should be subject to restrictions and regulations, and public accountability will make a BIG dent in this shit.

Oh, NOW he looks like an idiot

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Sad news I just saw. I always really liked TK Carter. I didn’t know about THE CORNER, a show I might just not be strong enough to endure. This has been a brutal week, from national news to more personal stuff, and seeing this about TK Carter just really fucking sucks. www.avclub.com/t-k-carter-o...

is your storage locker really a storage locker or is it a dump you subscribe to

President Trump humiliated himself Friday when Secretary of State Marco Rubio tried to slyly pass him a note during a meeting with oil executives, and he immediately read it aloud. Marco just gave me a note. ‘Go back to Chevron, they want to discuss something,’” Trump read. trib.al/lOv9Fso

This awesome; Russ Meyer's movies are insane and soooo enjoyable. Beautiful photography, insane scripts, and often far more feminist than they might first appear.

An Oregon lawmaker is warning of ICE agents posing as utility workers. NW Natural and Portland General Electric have published guidance in several languages on how to tell if a person is actually one of their employees.

Fun fact! Supreme Court Barnes vs Felix - 2025 A police officer who steps in front of a vehicle is defined as “officer-created jeopardy” and DOES NOT legitimize deadly force.

I agree—but it’s also the same thing. People encouraged to treat a little battery-operated machine like a pet who needed love were just being slow-boiled into leaving their spouses for an AI lover who tells them everything they want to hear.

There is literally no comic strip or book more pleasurable to read than GASOLINE ALLEY. These pages are so unbelievably beautiful, the characters age in real time, and it’s all both so sweet and also sad. And look at the color. 101 years old, it’s just unbelievable how fresh. Read GASOLINE ALLEY!

Anyway, Pam Grier.

Follow Derek Ballard. These strips are uniformly excellent, day after day. And good GOD, look at that drawing…!

opportunity

100%. This show is THEEE GREATEST, particularly episodes on songs I don’t even care about. Often by an episode’s end, I’ve learned about the connections btw cottage cheese, a 1938 labor strike in Newfoundland, Edgar Allan Poe’s alcoholism & how they paved the way for “Sugar, Sugar” by The Archies.

There's not a better actor in the whole wide world than Richard Jenkins. Fact!

Just finished DAHMER on Netflix, which l had to quit the 1st time I tried b/c it was so sad I couldn't go on. And I LOVE heartbreaking art (why?, hm). But I think this is one of the most MORAL shows about violence I've ever seen. The wreckage of violence upon those who love others. It's devastating.

Jesus, every one of these studies she does makes me wanna paint and/or quit. These are so beautiful.

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH Director: James Cameron Cinematography: Russell Carpenter

my favorite credit from the shining

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email. It must be read:

If you want to use ChatGPT, then use it. But to assert it makes you on par with people that actually do the work in their field is a laughable position take because it doesn’t. You’re just lazy and want to be viewed as someone that isn’t.

Gasoline Alley by Frank King from December 21, 1924.

A lot of Trump supporters do not understand the deep disgust so many people harbor towards him. To this, I can only say, remember the burning rage you felt when a black guy tried to help you get health insurance?

When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.

Sometimes names are destiny.

This is exactly right. And it doesn’t even include the mockumentary that STILL defines a whole corner of the rock music culture. Every one of these movies could’ve been screwed up if they were just a tiny bit different; they’re all just plain great (maybe I’d quibble with FEW GOOD MEN, but still…)

I think the worst part of that Trump post about Rob Reiner is he *wants* people to think Reiner was murdered on his behalf.

Florida roof rat (1/2)

This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.

Fuck Disney and Fuck Paramount and Fuck David Zaslav and Fuck Spotify and Fuck Trump six ways to Sunday Fuck all you simple greedy shitstains, the world of art and culture will outlast you and your hair plugs and your mail order brides and your houses full of gilded garbage and loveless affairs

PLURIBUS just might be the best show on TV right now, precisely because it’s so mysterious about its intentions. Carol is both our hero and a mess, and the things she’s fighting against are both horrifying and somewhat optimistic. And TIMELY, but broad enough to comment on many issues. I love it.