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Adam J.B. Lane

Adam J.B. Lane

@ajbl.bsky.social

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Cartoonist, author, man for all seasons. CAUTION contents may include art, politics, dinosaur and shark fanboying, film, historical oddities, baking, Pittsburgh sports.

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Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 15h

True enough, but I also require that the next President make the White House normal again... even if it means burning the ballroom to the ground.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously prejudicial to the outcome

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 1d

I have to believe those headshots are older than I am.

I'm Gen X.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 1d

TBH Trump is not looking so good IRL. The AI generated portrait usefully ellides this physical decline. Unless GOP candidates are running away from Trump next year, I bet well see a lot more AI Trump in 2026 midterms messaging.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 2d

I reposted your great Cheney/Vader cartoon from 20 odd years ago (which I had saved in my Brilliant Cartoons file) and it is doing numbers, as the kids say.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 2d

Mamdani wasting no time drive-testing the proposition that head-on confrontation is the only rational approach to Trump.

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2d

Holy shit. Neither Cuomo nor Sliwa would have went after Trump, maybe ever but Zohran is doing it as soon as he has the office.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 2d

If you ask me, it's all just a little too on the nose, your Holiness. You're supposed to move in mysterious ways.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 2d

A very well made point.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 2d

I dunno, I've seen a couple of obits where it says he found the comparison amusing.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 3d

To mark the passing of former shadow US President Dick #Cheney today, this banger from @mluckovich.bsky.social of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

An editorial cartoon divided into two panels. On the left, a couple watching tv news; the wife asks out loud "Dick Cheney's been compared to Darth Vader. I wonder how he feels about that..." On the right stands Darth Vader, dark lord of the Sith. "I'm hurt" he replies.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 5d

Even this game pales in comparison to the many astounding feats of Buck Bokai.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 6d

JFC way to make a fellow feel old.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7d

"I am reminded of Hitler’s plans for Germania, his imagined new capital city for the Thousand-Year Reich, when looking at the comically large renderings for Trump’s ballroom. [Both conceal] fundamental inadequacies."

@aselrod.bsky.social decodes the ballroom:
www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-loeil-...

Trump L’œil: The White House Ballroom, MAGA Aesthetics, and the Meanings of Trump’s Newest Building Project

Trump, the tacky and chronically bankrupt real estate developer, and Hitler, the failed artist who was too bad at math to try his hand at architecture school, are alike in at least these ways. A love ...

www.liberalcurrents.com

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 10d

Couldn't agree more. My favorite Bennett(s).

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 10d

Her turn as HMQ rightfully gets a lot of attention, but she was better still playing Coral Browne opposite Simon Callow vamping as Guy Burgess in "An Englishman Abroad", the first part of the "Single Spies" double bill.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 10d

That scene is in the original Roger Corman film upon which the stage musical was based. A baby-faced Jack Nicholson, 23 years old at the time, plays the masochist patient, believe it or not.

God bless Roger Corman, the thinking man's Ed Wood.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 18d

Never fear, the French have put their finest man on the case—

Peter Sellers as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · 23d

NOOO!!!!!

(First I'm hearing of it 😧)

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · Oct 8

If Joe #Flacco sticks with the #Bengals the rest of the way he could conceivably start v. the #Browns in Week 18... the team he led against Cincy in Week 1! Has this kind of volte-face ever happened before within a single #NFL season? Surely not. #football

Action shot of QB Joe Flacco, dressed in the home uniform of the Cleveland Browns, his former team, about to uncork a throw in last month's opener against his current team, the Cincinnati Bengals.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · Oct 8

Amazing

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · Oct 7

"May I introduce Alto Cumulo-Nimbus?"
"Of the Troposphere Cumulo-Nimbuses? It's a great pleasure."

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · Sep 29

If America's present trajectory is roughly analogous to the decline of the Roman Empire (it's sure tempting to see it that way) is social media/AI slop our equivalent of their lead pipes, brain poisoning everybody and weakening the ruling class?

A man costumed as a Roman centurion stares at a smartphone in his hand. A structure partially seen in the background may or may not be the ruins of the Colosseum in Rome.

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · Sep 25

Ugh, these designs. Not good.

Reposted by Adam J.B. Lane

Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · Sep 21

Literally just now occurred to me that there is a non-zero chance that Emmanuel Clasé threw the 2024 ACS against the Yankees.

After a season with a 0.659 WHIP, he put up this line in three games against New York:

Emmanuel Clasé's pitching line against New York in the 2024 playoffs: 2.1 innings, 7 hits, 4 earned runs, 1 walks, 2 Ks, 2 HR, 3.429 WHIP, 27 hits per 9 innings, 7.7 home runs per nine innings, -0.88 WPA

Adam J.B. Lane @ajbl.bsky.social · Sep 21

The local food pantry endorses cannibalism.