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Tony Fitzpatrick’s cover art for Steve Earle’s El Corazon album. A heart downward pierced by an arrow.
October 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Kowalski knows what’s up.
A penguin with folded wings says “Say something smart, Kowalski.” The second penguin, looking shellshocked by his own words, replies “ If you don't spend time getting to know yourself, you'll end up absorbing everyone else's random and conflicting ideas about you. Knowing who you are on a very deep and intimate level is the best way to protect yourself from internalizing disempowering opinions from others.” Ouch.
July 30, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Because you might need this too
Two cartoon-style dinosaurs discuss compassion. Dino 1: You’re often very critical of yourself. Dino 2: no point in trying unless I’m perfect. 1: But you don’t hold others to that standard. 2: They are just trying their best! 1: Do you see a difference there? 2: I guess everyone deserves compassion. Except for me. 1: Wait no
July 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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And Thurber...
A black and white cartoon by James Thurber showing a house emanating an angry woman from its back four stories while a tiny man approaching the front porch recoils in terror/disbelief/surprise.
June 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Shirley Jackson's pencil (?) sketch of Hill House's lawn and the staircase leading down to it.
June 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Shirley Jackson's pencil (?) sketch of the exterior of Hill House. Visible are the wrap-around veranda, second-floor windows, the tower, and two dormer windows on the third floor.
June 3, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Shirley Jackson's squiggly pencil (?) sketch of the upstairs of Hill House. Nothing is labeled, just doorways and walls.
June 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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One of Shirley Jackson's sketches for Hill House, depicting the first floor. Pencil (?) sketch includes the tower, veranda, dining room, parlor, boudoir, conservatory, game room, music room, drawing room.
June 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Sinners is excellent movie-making. Don’t wait for it to come to the small screen—it’s a feast for the eyes and ears in big ways. The COSTUMES, my God, the costumes, each of them an essay on time and place, just gorgeous!
Michael B. Jordan, dressed in a finely tailored suit from the 1930s, sits outside, cross legged, contemplating the sepia-toned Mississippi Delta sky in a scene from Sinners.
May 15, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Where is the love for Pepe, the king prawn? Why I gotta ‘splain to you people???
Pepe the king prawn raises his eyes to the sky and asks, with all four of his arms, WHY. He has enough confidence that he expects God to answer, and enough fatalism to accept a shrug right back. But do not worry: his natural charm and impatience will help him make it through.
May 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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I just googled Pennsylvania State Trooper drinking a milkshake

Courtesy of www.padairymens.com
Pennsylvania state trooper on horseback smiling and holding a chocolate milkshake WITH A STRAW IN IT. Look, Farm Show milkshakes are for everybody, according to the PA Dairymen's Association.
March 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Claire Foy as Adorabelle Dearheart, aka Spike, giving a death stare and wielding a cigarette in a cigarette holder.
February 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Cheers from an apron-wearing raccoon who is holding a martini in one hand and a smoke in the other. Straighten your crown and keep moving forward through the bullshit, dear ones.
December 29, 2024 at 4:47 AM
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(Anyway, just wondering how much trauma is involved here, and why uncle wants nothing to do with them, and how the current governess is gonna stay out of the cornfield. Maybe Jessel and Quint are angry at the kids for reasons?)

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Anthony, the child at the center of The Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life,” stands between lace curtains, staring out the window. His talent is mind reading, and also teleporting bad thinkers into the cornfield. I am just saying that Miles has descendants, okay?
December 22, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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Christmas at Bly 🪛
A black and white cartoon by Charles Addams: Wednesday and Pugsley Addams kneel next to the Christmas tree as she holds her dolly in the guillotine so he can drop the blade. Most charming children since Flora and Miles!
December 22, 2024 at 12:55 AM
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He installed them in his country manor. Isn't this the charming English manor of your dreams?
A color photo of Bly Manor at night--a gothic, creepy, fog-covered English mansion, lit from within.
December 20, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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Cartoon of baby Moo Deng, tiny hippo, saying “Not complaining! Acknowledging difficulty!”
December 6, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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And here she is with her inspiration, the Bild Lilli doll.
The Bild Lilli doll, left, a plastic blonde in a short-sleeved white turtleneck and pale blue pants with a red belt. The first Barbie, right, with a blonde ponytail and, inexplicably, a black and white stripe one-piece swimsuit?
December 5, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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Black and white cartoon of a man in a SICKOS shirt, staring through a window and chanting “Yes…ha ha ha…yes.”
October 12, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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But the new vintage-tatty cover is interesting. It reminds me of this boko cover.
The cover of Ransom Riggs's The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry. Book cover looks like an old VHS case, plus a sticker of a mechanical wolf, plus a handwritten font. Very new vintage-tatty.
September 20, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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🚀 For no reason, a morale-builder from the National Reconnaissance Office (2013)
The Mission “patch” of NROL-39 showing the logo: an octopus grabbing the earth’s globe, labeled “Nothing is beyond our reach”. (Photos: ODNI/Public Domain) That you, Grigori?
September 11, 2024 at 1:34 AM
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From The Monthly Review, vol. 85 (1818): ""An Uncouth Story, In The Taste Of The German Novelists..."
A review from 1818: "An Uncouth Story, In The Taste Of The German Novelists, trenching in some degree on delicacy, setting probability at defiance, and leading to no conclusion either moral or philosophical. In some passages, the writer appears to favor the doctrines of materialism: but a serious examination is scarcely necessary for so excentric a vagary of the imagination as this tale presents."
June 8, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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Sickos black and white cartoon. An unshaven man in a long-sleeve black shirt labeled SICKOS peers through a window, saying “YES…HA HA HA…YES!” More jokes about this book, please!
May 23, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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You know who solved the uncanny valley problem even without Victor’s notes?
Scene from Rocky Horror Picture Show: Dr. Frank N. Furter locking elbows with his shirtless blond creation, captioned “I can make you a man.”
May 22, 2024 at 12:14 PM
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🔩 Burning question from Letter 1
A member of Insane Clown Posse, in full Juggalo makeup, asks the timeless question “MAGNETS, HOW DO THEY WORK?!?!”
May 16, 2024 at 1:01 AM