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Philip
@thesmithboy.bsky.social
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I'm nobody. Who are you?
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No, thank you.
A bag of trail mix with almost entirely Japanese writing on it. In English are the words "Break Nuts."
December 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Turned down an alley near the train station.
A run-down building in a dirt lot. Some of the windows are boarded up. An air conditioner is still attached to an upper floor. Hard to tell if the building is being dismantled deliberately or just collapsing on its own. Another dilapidated building in a dirt lot. The windows are not boarded up and it almost seems like someone might still live there. A row of tightly-packed, run-down, possibly abandoned buildings. This is steps away from a busy train station, around the corner from a shopping district. A rusted metal fence, beyond which sits another ruined building.
December 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Takoyaki hat!
A Japanese food advertisement featuring a woman wearing a round novelty hat that covers her whole head with just her face sticking out. Her hands are raised to either side of her mouth and there is Japanese writing that reads "Yappa kore ya naa" which translates, roughly, to "You gotta have it!"
December 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Hitting up the neighborhood shrines. This is the dragon at Amanuma Kumano Jinja in Ogikubo. Wash your hands, kids!
A stone fountain with a small dragon embedded in it. Water is trickling out of the dragon's mouth and down a bamboo chute. This is the place where you wash your hands before entering a Shinyo shrine. A close up of the metal dragon sculpture embedded in the stone fountain. He has sharp claws and long whiskers.
December 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Some other friends I've made in Japan so far.
Luffy from One Piece A statue of a young man with spiky hair and a scar under his eye. His mouth is open wide. It's a-him, Mario. A statue of a video game/cartoon character. He wears a hat and has oversized eyes and nose. He has a large mustache. His mouth is open. Timmy or Tommy from Animal Crossing New Horizons. A statue of a video game raccoon character with very large eyes and a head that is two or three times larger than its body. Isabelle from Animal Crossing New Horizons. A statue of a dog-like video game character. She has a very large hairdo, a small nose, and an open mouth with a single tooth.
December 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Some friends I"ve made in Japan so far.
A statue of Doctor Dolphin, who is a dolphin wearing glasses that sit across the bridge of his nose but do not reach his eyes. He is the mascot of what I think is a chiropractor's office. A stone statue of a dragon/dog creature at a shrine in Kamakura. Godzilla, King of the Monsters. A large reptilian creature with its mouth open, showing rows of sharp teeth. Link. A statue of a young man with long hair and exaggerated facial features.
December 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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You will be visited by three spirits.
Three men dressed in prison uniforms standing in front of a sign that reads Equipment Rental New Orleans. L to R, Tom Waits, Roberto Begnini, John Lurie from the Jim Jarmusch film Down By Law.
December 9, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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If you see this, post a Comics cover you love.
A comic book cover image showing two (Super)men fighting. The Superman on the left is hitting the Superman on the right in the head with a sledgehammer. The Superman man on the right is hitting the Superman on the left in the ribs with an iron bar. Neither appears injured.
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Saw @themountaingoats.bsky.social on Wednesday at a venue close enough to my house that I walked to it and the superfan behind me sang along to almost every song. That's usually grounds for irrational hatred but his harmonies were tight as hell. Pretty good night.
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Haven't seen any of the Avatar movies. They just look like over-long video-game cutscenes that I can't skip. (Also, "unobtanium" is the dumbest thing ever.)
November 29, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Post your favorite "The Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.
Wilford Brimley as... I don't remember, in Ewoks: The Battle for Endor.
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
I might just turn my whole account into a Marjoe Gortner fan page.
November 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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I never got to meet Tom Spurgeon, but Comics Reporter was a daily stop for me for a long time. I did email him a few times and he was unfailingly thoughtful and friendly in his replies (and he always replied). It meant a lot to me, a relative nobody. Anyway, I miss his presence in the comics world.
evandorkin.bsky.social Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · Nov 13
Always remember.
A printed card handed out at the celebration of the late Tom Spurgeon's life at the Society of Illustrators in New York City, January 24, 2020. A portrait of Tom is by artist Michael Netz and below is a quote from Tom which begins with "I had an amazing life." He is much missed. Always remember.
November 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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PUNK THURSDAY
TWO MEN MEETING ON THE STREET FIRST MAN: I FEEL PUNK TODAY SECOND MAN: SO DO I PUNK THURSDAY
October 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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I can't stop singing "Zohran Mamdani" to the tune of Baby Beluga.
October 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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If you don't know who the anti-christ in the room is, it's probably you.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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The World's Greatest Detective celebrating Batman Day by sharing a meal with his ward, Yotsuba.
A man dressed like a bat, sitting at a table with a happy young girl.
September 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Got not one, not two, but THREE vaccines today (covid, flu, pneumonia). I already took the adhesive bandages off so I guess this is just me showing off one of my tattoos. Anyway, glad to live somewhere that still believes in science.
Tattoo of a Japanese fox character with a human skull tied to its head. The fox is also holding a mask of a human face. Bird skulls adorn the bottom.
September 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Sometimes you get to an appointment early and you are across the street from the waterfall park. One of my favorite Seattle gems. Not bad.
September 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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James Dobson died? Nice to know that good things do still happen.
August 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you attended:

Samantha Crain
Typhoon
"Awesome"
Screaming Females
Maita
August 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Slightly diminish a band:

Living Kennedys
evandorkin.bsky.social Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · Aug 13
Slightly diminish a band

Bombay Tricycle Club
evandorkin.bsky.social Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · Aug 13
Slightly diminish a band

Prince and the Revelation
August 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Did I just get negged by Jesus?
August 13, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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James Gunn's habit of showcasing secondary/tertiary characters in his superhero movies is exhilirating for this old funnybook nerd.
July 12, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Something's up in my neighborhood.
A Ouija board laying in the dirt against a rock wall. A bassinet abandoned on a street corner. There may or may not be a baby inside.
July 4, 2025 at 4:22 AM