Talcott
@talcotts.bsky.social
Widowed and nonbinary. I talk a lot about Star Trek, Ohio, cats, dinosaurs, and whatever I’m watching. The Columbus Dispatch once called me a “local cartoonist and customer-service rep.” (They/Them)
If only the whole world could be an alley behind campus under a cold sunset.
January 22, 2026 at 10:52 PM
If only the whole world could be an alley behind campus under a cold sunset.
The He-Man movie looks like exactly the kind of "we have Guardians of the Galaxy at home" slop I expected it to be, but it's also the rare case where my reaction to a (cis) pronoun joke is "You know what? Go for it."
January 22, 2026 at 5:14 PM
The He-Man movie looks like exactly the kind of "we have Guardians of the Galaxy at home" slop I expected it to be, but it's also the rare case where my reaction to a (cis) pronoun joke is "You know what? Go for it."
My new favorite Simpsons character is this adorable giant sloth statue at the Springfield Tar Pits, who I somehow never noticed the past several dozen times I watched "Bart Gets an Elephant.”
January 21, 2026 at 11:35 PM
My new favorite Simpsons character is this adorable giant sloth statue at the Springfield Tar Pits, who I somehow never noticed the past several dozen times I watched "Bart Gets an Elephant.”
Today is a good day for soup.
January 19, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Today is a good day for soup.
It’s 1996, time to find love.
January 19, 2026 at 2:13 AM
It’s 1996, time to find love.
I enjoy enthusiastic sports posting on here, even if I’m not a sports person. But this is how I picture all of you.
January 19, 2026 at 1:52 AM
I enjoy enthusiastic sports posting on here, even if I’m not a sports person. But this is how I picture all of you.
We used to walk to COSI a few times a year from my elementary school, Franklin Park Conservatory is the site of AmeriFlora ‘92, and the Ohio Village is the living history museum where I grew up.
January 19, 2026 at 1:44 AM
We used to walk to COSI a few times a year from my elementary school, Franklin Park Conservatory is the site of AmeriFlora ‘92, and the Ohio Village is the living history museum where I grew up.
There’s a section with something different to do every day in February.
Some excerpts:
Some excerpts:
January 19, 2026 at 1:39 AM
There’s a section with something different to do every day in February.
Some excerpts:
Some excerpts:
“Come to the Conservatory and Hug a Bug!”
January 19, 2026 at 1:21 AM
“Come to the Conservatory and Hug a Bug!”
Learning about retro gaming.
![Atari lovers unite
ON A FREEZING, SLUSHY, rainy December night, they gathered at Chemical Abstracts on Ackerman Road with cardboard boxes full of used computer equipment. They had come to trade Atari.
Remember Atari? Eons ago (at least in computer years), the hottest thing in home computing was the Atari 800. It was many people's first introduction to computers.
Who can forget playing Pac-Man or
Space Invaders with one of those joysticks? But Atari, years ahead of its time in terms of technology, was years behind in marketing; although still in business, it has faded-like Devo, Valley Girls and other early 1980s cultural icons-in popularity.
On that recent December night,
about 12 people attended the Atari swap meet—an impressive number considering the weather. One man even drove in from Dayton. They were middle-aged men who, not surprisingly, are engineers or scientists. Almost all belong to ACEC, Atari Computer Enthusiasts of Columbus, whose 15 members hold monthly meetings. One of the officeholders is an "8-bit and 16-bit combined librarian."
The members don't regard
Atari, now worth pennies on the original dollar, as a retro thing, like some kitschy disco bauble. They not only swear by the machines (the games are an aside), but also still use them—even though they all own the more powerful, sophisticated modern PCs.
"There is something about these
old computers you can't get with these new Nacs. I can play Sim City, but I sill like Ms. Pac-Man," says Tony Ramos, whose professiona field is interface design animation. "These [current] computers are only bigger and faster. It was the same stuff then as it is today, they just didn't call it multimedia animation and music on computers.'
Wayne Arenz, ACEC president and a research scientist for Ceram Physics in Westerville, says, "T' ve got a streak of obsessive-
compulsivebehavior. I can't stand to see a grea product forgotten." He adds, "Thave several."
Atari lives.
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January 19, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Learning about retro gaming.
January 19, 2026 at 1:08 AM
I wish “we’re updating your phone” didn’t feel so threatening.
January 18, 2026 at 3:05 AM
I wish “we’re updating your phone” didn’t feel so threatening.
“The cilantro pork ball soup chips are good, but not as flavorful as I’d hoped” I say, becoming even more of a weird sitcom neighbor.
January 18, 2026 at 2:31 AM
“The cilantro pork ball soup chips are good, but not as flavorful as I’d hoped” I say, becoming even more of a weird sitcom neighbor.
We’ve reached the “I didn’t realize it was so warm out” part of winter.
January 17, 2026 at 5:02 PM
We’ve reached the “I didn’t realize it was so warm out” part of winter.
Not many people know that squirrels evolved to blend in to wet sidewalks.
January 17, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Not many people know that squirrels evolved to blend in to wet sidewalks.
I wonder if the Buckeye Donuts scene was written for the campus Buckeye Donuts, but then film permits where you might accidentally catch OSU on camera or make it look dangerous either expensive and/or a pain.
January 17, 2026 at 12:54 AM
I wonder if the Buckeye Donuts scene was written for the campus Buckeye Donuts, but then film permits where you might accidentally catch OSU on camera or make it look dangerous either expensive and/or a pain.
It’s a diegetic location caption!
(It’s a little unclear in the photo, but the “Short North” at the top is just the actual arch.)
(It’s a little unclear in the photo, but the “Short North” at the top is just the actual arch.)
January 17, 2026 at 12:49 AM
It’s a diegetic location caption!
(It’s a little unclear in the photo, but the “Short North” at the top is just the actual arch.)
(It’s a little unclear in the photo, but the “Short North” at the top is just the actual arch.)
Arch City, U.S.A., baby!
(And yes that is an old map of Columbus on the wall behind the TV. I don’t know why I’m like this either.)
(And yes that is an old map of Columbus on the wall behind the TV. I don’t know why I’m like this either.)
January 17, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Arch City, U.S.A., baby!
(And yes that is an old map of Columbus on the wall behind the TV. I don’t know why I’m like this either.)
(And yes that is an old map of Columbus on the wall behind the TV. I don’t know why I’m like this either.)
New desktop background!
January 17, 2026 at 12:24 AM
New desktop background!
The Ohio Statehouse is a real -character- in this movie.
January 17, 2026 at 12:18 AM
The Ohio Statehouse is a real -character- in this movie.
The opening of I am Wrath is genuinely upsetting. I’d remembered that it’s is a right wing fever dream about gangs in the Short North, but seeing the neighborhood where I grew up as a warzone is not fun to watch tonight.
But then we get this great Port Columbus shot (I think before the name change)
But then we get this great Port Columbus shot (I think before the name change)
January 17, 2026 at 12:06 AM
The opening of I am Wrath is genuinely upsetting. I’d remembered that it’s is a right wing fever dream about gangs in the Short North, but seeing the neighborhood where I grew up as a warzone is not fun to watch tonight.
But then we get this great Port Columbus shot (I think before the name change)
But then we get this great Port Columbus shot (I think before the name change)
Salami, tomato, banana peppers, and red onion.
January 16, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Salami, tomato, banana peppers, and red onion.
Since we’re doing 2016 photos.
I hadn’t thought about having the same phone background for nearly a decade now.
I hadn’t thought about having the same phone background for nearly a decade now.
January 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Since we’re doing 2016 photos.
I hadn’t thought about having the same phone background for nearly a decade now.
I hadn’t thought about having the same phone background for nearly a decade now.
He's an elderly cat with arthritic joints, his jumping days behind him, and a questionable sense of balance.
And yet, when I'm on a Zoom call for work...
And yet, when I'm on a Zoom call for work...
January 16, 2026 at 8:53 PM
He's an elderly cat with arthritic joints, his jumping days behind him, and a questionable sense of balance.
And yet, when I'm on a Zoom call for work...
And yet, when I'm on a Zoom call for work...