Tom Nealon
@condimentking.bsky.social
Pazzo Books; condiments and other enthusiasms at hilobrow.com. ABAA/ILAB. Rare food, old books. @pazzobooks elsewhere. he/him
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You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 1:49 AM
You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.
Images from the relentlessly anti-Porfirian weekly El Hijo del Ahuizote. Repeatedly ordered closed, it stuck around giving Díaz shit for some 18 years, chronicling the disappearing freedoms and slow death of Mexican democracy.
February 2, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Images from the relentlessly anti-Porfirian weekly El Hijo del Ahuizote. Repeatedly ordered closed, it stuck around giving Díaz shit for some 18 years, chronicling the disappearing freedoms and slow death of Mexican democracy.
This initial S with the faces is cracking me up. [from Ortus Sanitatis en François, Paris, ca 1500)
January 29, 2026 at 6:52 PM
This initial S with the faces is cracking me up. [from Ortus Sanitatis en François, Paris, ca 1500)
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@universalhub.com Boston and beyond, save the numbers for the organization near you #ICEisUnconstitutional #FightFascism #resist
January 23, 2026 at 10:04 PM
@universalhub.com Boston and beyond, save the numbers for the organization near you #ICEisUnconstitutional #FightFascism #resist
From Bruce's 1882 type specimen book which, remarkably, is built around de Vinne's "The Invention of Printing" - you can basically read it like a really weirdly designed book. Such a cool idea - it apparently runs through all their specimen books and supplements for 25+ years.
January 22, 2026 at 7:57 PM
From Bruce's 1882 type specimen book which, remarkably, is built around de Vinne's "The Invention of Printing" - you can basically read it like a really weirdly designed book. Such a cool idea - it apparently runs through all their specimen books and supplements for 25+ years.
The Epistles of Paul to Timothy printed in Sequoyah's Cherokee syllabary in Park Hill, OK in 1853. Untrimmed on a single sheet 24pp, with a few nibbles. Just slightly too wide for my scanner.
January 7, 2026 at 7:17 PM
The Epistles of Paul to Timothy printed in Sequoyah's Cherokee syllabary in Park Hill, OK in 1853. Untrimmed on a single sheet 24pp, with a few nibbles. Just slightly too wide for my scanner.
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This Weeks Onion Magazine:
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This Weeks Onion Magazine:
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Do it, Trump. Reopen Action Park.
May 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Do it, Trump. Reopen Action Park.
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I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
Pair of bookplates and a bookseller ticket from a Kipling endpaper, applied ca. 1909. The left one is really of its time and sports a totally insane typeface choice.
December 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Pair of bookplates and a bookseller ticket from a Kipling endpaper, applied ca. 1909. The left one is really of its time and sports a totally insane typeface choice.
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"All the newer guides in the United States are pay-to-play. Yet this fact is not loudly publicized...despite indicating that Michelin’s arrival has more to do with a city’s investment in tourism than its perceived prowess in eating out" slate.com/life/2025/11...
Restaurants in Boston and Philly Have Finally Gotten Some Michelin Stars. The Reason Why Should Give You a Stomach Ache.
This ever-expanding pay-to-play scheme needs to stop.
slate.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"All the newer guides in the United States are pay-to-play. Yet this fact is not loudly publicized...despite indicating that Michelin’s arrival has more to do with a city’s investment in tourism than its perceived prowess in eating out" slate.com/life/2025/11...
So, the thousand island dressing (a derivative of RUSSIAN dressing - it used to have caviar and sour cream in it, as I explain here www.hilobrow.com/2019/03/23/s...) is obviously a signal to Putin. "Don't worry, I've got your back" sort of thing."
U.S. Beef and Thousand Island Dressing: Trump’s Food Tour of Asia
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
So, the thousand island dressing (a derivative of RUSSIAN dressing - it used to have caviar and sour cream in it, as I explain here www.hilobrow.com/2019/03/23/s...) is obviously a signal to Putin. "Don't worry, I've got your back" sort of thing."
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Parents: check your kids’ Halloween candy for NAZI TATTOOS.
October 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Parents: check your kids’ Halloween candy for NAZI TATTOOS.
The "elite" public universities are worse than the privates - worst of both worlds. What PUBLIC are schools with acceptance rates in the teens that spend millions courting applicants they can reject and massaging their yield serving, anyway?
You might think "Why would these people want to destroy a university they support financially?" It's a great question. The answer is, they don't want to destroy the university. They just have very different ideas about what the university should be and do than you.
I see a lot of people saying this will hurt their donations, and I want to contribute this: Donor capture is exactly how we got here. Trump couldn't do any of this if the big money donors weren't already on his side.
October 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The "elite" public universities are worse than the privates - worst of both worlds. What PUBLIC are schools with acceptance rates in the teens that spend millions courting applicants they can reject and massaging their yield serving, anyway?
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You might think "Why would these people want to destroy a university they support financially?" It's a great question. The answer is, they don't want to destroy the university. They just have very different ideas about what the university should be and do than you.
I see a lot of people saying this will hurt their donations, and I want to contribute this: Donor capture is exactly how we got here. Trump couldn't do any of this if the big money donors weren't already on his side.
Breaking News: The University of Virginia struck an agreement with the White House to remove the threat of a federal investigation, part of a Trump pressure campaign. It's the first public university to do so. nyti.ms/3Wgo2JR
October 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
You might think "Why would these people want to destroy a university they support financially?" It's a great question. The answer is, they don't want to destroy the university. They just have very different ideas about what the university should be and do than you.
Bringing hundreds of these José Guadalupe Posada and Manuel Manilla engravings to the @abaararebooks.bsky.social Boston Fair which, regrettably is the weekend after Día de los Muertos this year.
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Bringing hundreds of these José Guadalupe Posada and Manuel Manilla engravings to the @abaararebooks.bsky.social Boston Fair which, regrettably is the weekend after Día de los Muertos this year.
The only mark made in this 1888 Grand Rapids, MI cookbook is a big X next to chili sauce.
October 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The only mark made in this 1888 Grand Rapids, MI cookbook is a big X next to chili sauce.
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Bari Weiss signs huge deal to usher CBS News into its Vichy era: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...
Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector
On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor…
defector.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Bari Weiss signs huge deal to usher CBS News into its Vichy era: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...
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Kofta kebab recipe in England c. 1660. Amazing find!
Would anyone like to take a guess at the word before “kebob”? Which predates OED - ms is 1660
October 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Kofta kebab recipe in England c. 1660. Amazing find!
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Darondo - "Didn't I" [HQ - REMASTER]
YouTube video by Ubiquity Records
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September 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
A few more large format Posadas and, to mix it up, one by the famously overshadowed (if such a thing is possible) Manuel Manilla who preceded and overlapped with Posada at A. Vanegas and may or may not have been the popularizer of the calavera.
September 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A few more large format Posadas and, to mix it up, one by the famously overshadowed (if such a thing is possible) Manuel Manilla who preceded and overlapped with Posada at A. Vanegas and may or may not have been the popularizer of the calavera.
The use of a shadow typeface with a typo (I'm imagining they only had 2 Ns) in this 1905 José Guadalupe Posada broadside is so great.
September 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The use of a shadow typeface with a typo (I'm imagining they only had 2 Ns) in this 1905 José Guadalupe Posada broadside is so great.
I was on @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social a couple weeks ago talking about mayo, where it really comes from and what it's really called.
July 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I was on @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social a couple weeks ago talking about mayo, where it really comes from and what it's really called.
This one is funny - Posada was a indefatigable, critic of president/dictator Porfirio Diaz, but it often had to be subtle. Posada depicted people from every walk of life, but the only one who didn't look like a person was Diaz, here depicted as a lumpy guy with a dumb moustache and too much hat.
April 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This one is funny - Posada was a indefatigable, critic of president/dictator Porfirio Diaz, but it often had to be subtle. Posada depicted people from every walk of life, but the only one who didn't look like a person was Diaz, here depicted as a lumpy guy with a dumb moustache and too much hat.
A few calavera - the first a great 18" x 13" (a little too big for my scanner) two sided flyer for an exhibition of Posada's work (no date ca. early 1960s)
April 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A few calavera - the first a great 18" x 13" (a little too big for my scanner) two sided flyer for an exhibition of Posada's work (no date ca. early 1960s)