Hard to watch government agents becoming supervillains out of SPIDER-MAN right before our eyes.

Anyone complaining that the Odyssey movie is too woke should be shown this painting in Stockholm's National Museum, where Odysseus tricks Achilles into revealing he's a man, after Achilles' mom had sent off her son to live disguised as a woman in order to keep him from dying in war.

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

Peggy Dow (still alive at age 98) in HARVEY.

So many highlights in Gerry Conway's career. My fave is how the Black Widow started as an Ava Gardner femme fatale and was reworked by Romita to a Jane Fonda look, but for my money it was Conway and Colan who really made Natasha into the action hero we know today.

@booker.senate.gov, in 2016 I saw you in LAX buying lunch for your team and wished you good luck, you thanked me but what would really thank me is to break with Schumer --- as this commenter suggests, we do not want better training for the secret police of racism. Stop ICE now.

This week I heard a podcast not even about Hollywood where a series-main-cast actor said the WGA/SAG strikes were well-intentioned but misguided. Time for a reminder that the strikes happened because mgmt wanted them to happen for their own larger reasons.

This was released when I was eight years old and still comes instantly to mind

Me with my younger siblings Kristie, Lynda, and Loren, Christmas 1968 in Rockville, Maryland.

They think they are genuinely out there, up high, doing the actual labor and taking the actual risks, while at the same time they are using our tax money to eliminate risk with bailouts -- rigging the system so that if they fall, they will land safely on the bodies of workers below.

In the summer of Nixon's resignation, Steve Rogers unmasked an unnamed elected official in the White House as the head of the Secret Empire, and it disillusioned him so much about the US that this was his reaction:

If this Pikachu is sitting alone outside a Citibank isn't an economic warning sign, I don't know what is.

Our logo on podcast apps got an update today because Season 4 is on its way!!

From AVENGERS #57 (1968), the final page of the story where the Avengers defeat Ultron:

If you see this, post a Frankenstein!

If you can see this, post a vampire who isn't Dracula.

Couldn't get any other #NoKings pics today because my phone wouldn't fit in my Hobbes costume.

without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?

First time I saw Terence Stamp. RIP.

Opening weekend of ALIEN. Ash has been killed, spewed fluids are everywhere, audience has been screaming. Then Ash is asked what happened, his eyes open and he talks again. Someone in audience can't help saying, "Oh for Christ's sake" and entire audience explodes in relieved laughter.

In my case, I didn't respond at the time. Maybe three weeks later I posted this meme in another app without comment. It led people to ask me whether I thought "AI" (I prefer to put it in quotes) is really a problem, and I answered their questions.

If you see this, post a Marvel cover you love.

If you see this, post a DC Comic cover you love.

post a picture of the book nearest to you right now. no cheating.

Including Studio City