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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 3h

How long is too long to keep an instruction manual?

Photo of the manual for STAR TREK: THE SCREEN SAVER from 1992

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 18h

This captures the vibe of how I feel trying to get through most days...

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 18h

It’s not just how she sings it, but how Dolly Parton emotes through it that makes her own rendition of "I Will Always Love You" so affecting, and the warmth in this performance from her eponymous TV show is a personal favorite...

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Steve Lieber: NYCC K-19 @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 18h

For you signature collectors, I’ll have Artist Alley cheat sheets at my table at NYCC! There are 140 real people on the cover of the deluxe Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen. At least 12 of them are in artist alley! Some folks are already trying to get *everyone* in the crowd to sign the endpapers.

Two copies of Superman’s pal Jimmy Olsen, along with the cheat sheet

The endpapers, an array of bow ties. Eleven of the bow ties are already signed.

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 19h

Hasbro’s 2008 line of kiddie-friendly Indiana Jones Adventure Heroes made some… memorably interesting choices. Also, Indiana Jones is a figure it feels absolutely fitting not to dust while cleaning.

Photo of the highly-stylized/cartoony Indiana Jones Adventure Heroes figures, with two natives from the opening of RAIDERS behind a very dusty Indiana Jones holding his whip and the idol

Photo of the highly-stylized/cartoony Indiana Jones Adventure Heroes figures, with a mummy, snakes, Sallah, and Indy in his outfit from the Tanis sequence with the Staff Of Ra

Photo of the highly-stylized/cartoony Indiana Jones Adventure Heroes figures, with Marian in her Cairo outfit, Indy with his gloves on, and the German mechanic

Photo of the highly-stylized/cartoony Indiana Jones Adventure Heroes figures, with Indy looking like he's down on one knee doing jazz hands, Belloq in his ceremonial outfit, and a cartoony spirit rising from the Ark Of The Covenant

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 19h

A Michael Nesmith performance I hadn’t seen before, from a David Frost appearance in October 1971…

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 19h

Here's Craig Ferguson's DOCTOR WHO cold open from waaaaaaay back in 2011, which feels like several lifetimes (and regenerations) ago...

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 19h

Have you heard the full version of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson theme? Because it’s perfect for cranking as loud as possible in the middle of a sleepless night…

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 19h

I’m not sure any talk show host had as much fun doing his own thing in the dead of night on network television as Craig Ferguson…

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · Mar 21

I can’t manage to get to sleep, so here’s Craig Ferguson, some Late Late Show staff, a few puppets, and @asavage.bsky.social & Jamie Hyneman dancing to “I’ll Stop The World & Melt With You”…

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · Mar 28

I miss the palpable joy that Craig Ferguson brought to late night, brilliantly on display in this promo for the run of shows he did when he journeyed to Scotland with a clutch of his favorite guests, featuring a banger of a tune by The Imagineers.

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 20h

We need to put fragrances back into objects, but make them practical things we use as adults - Like a stapler that smells like strawberries, or a cellphone that smells like bananas.

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 21h

The was hours of fun. HOURS. And much better than the clown head with the water-spraying whips for hair.

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House of Anansi Press @houseofanansi.bsky.social · 1d

🎉✨The definitive biography of comedy legend John Candy from bestselling biographer Paul Myers (@pulmyears.bsky.social) is officially out on bookshelves everywhere today!✨🎉

Buy a copy from your favourite bookseller here: houseofanansi.com/products/joh...

#PubDay #Canadian #JohnCandy #booksky

A bookshelf displays a row of the book 'John Candy: A Life in Comedy' by Paul Myers. The cover features a black and white photograph of John Candy smiling and a bright pink spine.

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 21h

He's an absolute delight.

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a journey that courts great peril, but I think it’s time we all acknowledge that there once was a Burger King Kingdom, and it was a frightfully odd place full of disquietingly weird characters…

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 1d

This could also serve as a White Stripes origin story...

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 1d

To this day, I hanker for a hunk-a cheese...

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, 3 is a magic number, but I always had a fondness for good 11…

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 1d

Further proof that my generation was largely parented by objects, entertainment, and absence.

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 1d

What you got when your parents got confused at the toy store...

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 1d

What do we have to do to restore the bizarre Burger King Burger Kingdom of characters in all its ersatz McDonaldland weirdness?

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 4d

I've pulled another of my vintage interviews from the vault - This time with Sir Ian McKellen...

Check it out!

And if you want to see more archival pieces like this, & plenty of new ones, please consider becoming a patron! (It'd be swell...)

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FROM THE VAULT: An Interview With Sir Ian McKellen | Ken Plume

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 1d

Another of the memorably bizarre PSAs that filled my childhood...

DON'T DROWN YOUR FOOD!

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 1d

Found my stash of vintage internal Disney employee swag buttons (and Disney Afternoon cap)…

Photo of an orange Disney Afternoon painters cap surrounded by promotional buttons for Darkwing Duck, Beauty & The Beast, Pinocchio, The Rocketeer, Goof Troop, Fantasia, Gummi Bears, and more

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