Remembering Ernie Kovacs on his birthday 🎂 📷 Ralph Morse, 1957 "Kovacs knocked me sideways into a world where the bizarre & the daft & the preposterous all lived happily alongside wisdom, wit & perception." - Terry Gilliam

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

The universe? It’ll relax

but why is Julia Child menacing Jacques Pepin with a gun

Thrilled to see my book described as “exploring influencer culture,” given that it focuses almost solely on Tila Tequila. A dream of mine since 2008.

Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability lyra.horse/blog/2025/12... "CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"

Not far from my hotel is the absurdly blingy 18th century Late Baroque private chapel Asamkirche, home to a golden skeleton brandishing scissors to cut the cord of life..!

In this 1933 photo, the newly-constructed Empire State Building looms over the 19th-century buildings in Midtown Manhattan. The 102-story Art Deco skyscraper was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and completed in 1931. This picture shows Fifth Avenue looking South.

Humpty Dumpty - scene in the coral grotto of light - I'd love to have seen this...

Nam June Paik’s robot K-546 was first shown at Judson Hall in 1964. It could refuse to labor, one of many ways it was interesting: “K-456 had foam breasts that could rotate and a penis made of sandpaper and flint, which Paik had removed before the two traveled to New York.”

with everyone from the fall of the berlin wall being in their 50s and 60s and breakcore increasingly being for a bunch of annoying white kids who don't fuck electronica may never be good again

Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

A link to my new book cover and table of contents. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland. It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.

academy award contending tiktok

Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE

The photo: The comments you will laugh at:

If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: sfilen.org/resources/sf...

"doxxing" was named after the first person doxed, Robert Dox, 4520 Jacobs Ave, Belview, MN

Le Cauchemar (The nightmare), 1894 by Eugène Thivier

Indigenous Peoples’ Day

actress tilly norwood has been deleted after being found unconscious next to a script containing a mistyped wildcard. she was 0

Warning From Space, 1956.

Nature is healing

It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures

Bryan Ferry. Born OTD in 1945, Washington, County Durham www.youtube.com/watch?v=G56D...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

The US is imposing 1000% tariffs on ma, the concept of emptiness or negative space in Japanese cinema. From now on if a character quietly admires a river or sips a cup of tea, theaters will be taxed millions

It’s been five years since we woke up to apocalyptic orange skies and everyone stopped for a moment and stared at the sky. Five years since @barackobama.bsky.social shared my @sfchronicle.com photos of that day, a fun fact that will follow me forever.

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

DO WHAT COW WILT

I've got a huge pile of art to ink up, so I thought I'd get in the zone by doing one of my occasional "just for fun" pages... and to get some of that weird imagery out of my head and onto the paper. One day I'm going to collect all these in a book.

Saturday night fever. Talk Talk promoting The Colour of Spring at Montreux Jazz Festival, 1986.

"Producer, collaborator, hard-to-use synth champion, ambient maestro, app developer and chancer Brian Eno is certainly a pioneer, but of what?" How Brian Eno became music's ultimate renaissance man:

Yi Yi, Edward Yang (2000)

I cannot tell you what I am, more than a ray of the summer’s sun. What I am I am, and say not. Being is the great explainer. Thoreau, The Journal, 1837

It's not #idolatry. Not really. Just a little worship for old, forgotten gods. He brings them #secret tributes; they shower him with tiny miracles, hoping to earn their #freedom. One made a plague of frog the other day. Frog. Just #one. It was adorable. #vssdaily #vss365 #thepenflows #InkMine

Joseph Campbell, what a passage

I wish someone would pay me to be the Sister Wendy of comics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KlG...

interiors pics from 2014 of the real Dietrichson house #TCMParty #DoubleIndemnity

A Chinese hotel would wake guests up by ***allowing cute little red pandas to crawl up into bed with them*** ... but the fun police killed it

this is (unironically) what peak performance as a politician looks like

NYC needs a Mayor who used to make Ugandan pop songs.