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“Yes,” said the Indiana Zephyr, “what is the moral of the story?” (He/him; Ohio, USA)

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Marsha Warfield on the set of Night Court, dressed in uniform as a bailiff, glaring at John Laroquette.

Steve@snark· Jul 13

A meme showing a dude in a "thinking cap" jerking his finger at a skateboarding hot dog and saying, "this fucking sucks actually". The hot dog is labelled "literal coolest thing ever".

Steve@snark· Jun 16

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A five-panel page of a comic; in the first panel, a closeup of Animal Man leaning over a weeping coyote man on th eground; the next four panels pull steadily back, with the penultimate showing a hand holding a brush as Animal Man stands over the dying coyote, splayed like Christ on the cross, and the last showing the crossroads and the text, "The end, folks!"

Steve@snark· May 28

This beauty of a page from Richard Sala’s Peculia

A framed black and white page of comics art, showing Peculia (with a bib) getting dressed in the morning, talking to her butler, and going for a walk where she sees a flower.

Steve@snark· May 22

Nothing more foolish than a man chasing his hat.

Steve@snark· May 7

Animated gif from "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace". Dr. Liz Asher, wearing a very pink dress, is informing a man at a desk, "I've just graduated from Harvard College, Yale. I aced every semester and got an A."

Steve@snark· Apr 28

Dave Stevens' The Rocketeer, drawn descending a short set of stairs. He's wearing khaki pants, high black boots, and a double-breasted red leather jacket, as well as his brassy helmet with a fin, and is holding an old-fashioned gun.

Steve@snark· Apr 2

A comic book panel: Poison Ivy, seen from behind, is torturing a brunette man in a dark suit, who is wrapped in a vine and screaming. "The world can't survive without the bees… but the world will never miss a greedy CEO."

Steve@snark· Mar 28

Jeremy Peters, the brilliant political analyst?

Screenshot of a New York Times article by Jeremy Peters. The headline: Critics Say Musk Has Revealed Himself as a Conservative. It's Not So Simple.

Steve@snark· Feb 23

The cover to Joann Sfar's graphic novel The Rabbi's Cat, showing a young woman in a red top hugging a demented-looking cat.

Steve@snark· Feb 12

Single panel of the comic strip Cathy: Cathy, eyes closed, is either sobbing or has sweat droplets flying off her entire head in all directions. Ack! Ack!!! Ack! Aaack!

Steve@snark· Feb 9

Michael Caine as Ebeneezer Scrooge in A Muppet Christmas Carol, leaning out the window in the snow to ask a young pig what day it is.

Steve@snark· Jan 13

Berkeley Breathed in a 1988 The Comics Journal interview, a year before Dilbert premiered.

Photo of a magazine page:

Breathed

You know who the syndicates are looking for? They're looking for the dissatisfied stockbroker, sitting his office right now, he's about 30 years old, thinking how funny it is, there's all these office things going on around him, with computers and stuff. And he can draw a little bit. *A little bit*. He's got the gags in his mind because he lived them. He's going to start drawing comic strips, and he sends the stuff off to the syndicate. Even though they're badly drawn, it doesn't matter because they're all reduced down to sub-microscopic size. And they start the comic strip. I have seen so many of these come across my desk in the past five years, and I've seen them syndicated as well. They never last very long. But they hit fast, they've got a good gimmick, they've probably got a hook that sounds good to editors. Syndicates can sell them fast. These guys aren't artists, they're dissatisfied stockbrokers who scribbled a little bit in high school, and can draw it just enough—the expectations are so low artistically on a comic page—that they're being hired.

Steve@snark· Jan 7

The poppies didn't turn up on a cursory Google Image search.

Still from the final moments of Blackadder's fourth series, in which our plucky band of heroes go over the top into No Man's Land and are killed.

Steve@snark· Dec 21

These guys would never decarbonize.

Screenshot from Parks & Rec, showing a law firm plaque: "BVPE: Law Offices of Babip, Pecota, Vorp, & Eckstein, Attorneys At Law"

Steve@snark· Dec 7

Name an S-tier supporting actor/actress role.

Steve@snark· Nov 30

This thread largely (but not exclusively) focuses on Park's fashion photography, but the man's documentary photography is incredible. Quite possibly the best American photographer of the 20th century. Here's "Untitled, Alabama, 1956", from a series of photos for LIFE: high.org/exhibition/g...

A color photograph of three young boys standing in front of a chicken wire fence in the yard of a white wooden house, somewhat grubby. Two are Black, one is white and quite blond; the Black boys are wearing matching white shirts and dark shorts. The white boy is shirtless and wearing jeans, his underwear peeking out. The two Black boys are playing with cap pistols, one pointing his off-camera to the side, the other pointing it at the photographer. The white boy is holding onto the fense and looking at the photographer, grinning.

Steve@snark· Nov 24

RIP Udo Kier.

Closeup of a grizzled, older Udo Kier in the Brazilian film Bacurau, centered in the frame and wearing a hat.

Steve@snark· Nov 3

Celine et Julie vont en bateau (1974)

A color movie still; Dominique Labourier, wearing a stripy shirt and jeans, is rowing a rowboat down a river with trees behind her, looking back toward the camera. In the back of the rowboat, Juliet Berto, wearing a similar outfit, is looking in the same direction. A young boy wearing a cap is seated between them.

Steve@snark· Nov 1

The Jim Downey "the financier?" meme, asking about Don Cherry, the beloved hockey commentator.

Steve@snark· Oct 29

As always, Jeremy Peters and the NYT think some random history professor who has assigned CLR James is "elite" and doctrinaire, but a man like Elon Musk is too complex too describe politically. (Note also which "critics" are allowed to "say" without getting contradicted by Peters.)

Screenshot of a New York Times headline: "Critics Say Musk Has Revealed Himself as a Conservative. It's Not So Simple." Beneath, the subhead: "Elon Musk has tweeted about political topics regularly since taking over Twitter, often belittling some liberal causes. But what he stands for remains largely unclear."

Steve@snark· Oct 16

I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

"Mad Max: Fury Road"'s Doof Warrior, strapped with his guitar and amplifiers to the front of a truck. He is not at this moment emitting fire.

Steve@snark· Oct 15

Nothing but respect for *my* president.

The poster for Kenneth Russell's Altered States (1980) showing William Hurt topless and upside down with ECG sensors attached to his head and face.

Steve@snark· Oct 1

A beleaguered Captain Kirk is aghast to be covered in tribbles falling from an overhead bin, in a screencap from "Star Trek".

Steve@snark· Sep 21

Heck, I'll do one for #BatmanDay. Tim Sale of "The Long Halloween", one of my favorites.

A portrait of Batman, scowling, with Two-Face, scowling, behind him, and Jim Gordon, glowering, behind *him*, in moody blue-grays. In the background is a cityscape with a skyscraper behind a more ornate building, perhaps Wayne Manor. In the sky, a jack-o-lantern looms. It's signed "T. Sale 2021".

Steve@snark· Sep 21

Saw the 4K remaster of "In the Mood for Love" tonight; since the moments I remember are so still—Leung smoking in room 2046, Cheung holding her glass as she looks out the window—I had forgotten how much lateral camera movement WKW/Doyle/Ping-Bin use. Immaculate film. Heartbreaking as always.

The poster for In the Mood for Love ("a film by Wong Kar Wai"), red with gold letters in English and Chinese, showing a man in a suit facing away from the viewer, talking to a woman in a sleeveless dress holding a handbag, her face partially obscured by the man.

Steve@snark· Sep 20

Happy Batman Day to all who celebrate.

A public service announcement from DC: a single panel, showing Batman lecturing. "Don't believe those crackpot lies about people who worship differently, or whose skin is of a different color, or whose parents come from another country. Remember our American heritage of freedom and equality!"

Steve@snark· Sep 8

A black and white photograph of the Palazzo Braschi in Rome in 1934, then the Fascist Party headquarters. A giant sculpture of Mussolini's glowering face adorns it, decorated by a backdrop of "SI" written in white on a black banner.

Steve@snark· Aug 25

The cover of The Invisibles 24, "Good-Bye Baby Rabbits", showing Robin and Fanny wearing black in the foreground, with Boy flexing in the background.

Steve@snark· Aug 4