Johnny K

@thekernodlegroup

A reliable source of clean burning lamp oil. On the run from whalers. Rinzai Zen Buddhist AnCom. MDiv. Birds are Dinosaurs. Collie protector. Piedmont Triad boy til the end, for better or worse. He/Him/Comrade

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Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Jun 5

When the techs said the old AC was a ticking time bomb, they were not kidding. That's...that's a lot of fuckin' rust y'all.

The drip pan of a 16 year old AC sits in grass next to a slate walkway. The inside of the pan is largely covered in thick rust. Four bricks, purpose unknown, also sit in the drip pan on top of the rust.

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· May 9

"I see as much misery outta them movin’ to justify their selves as them that set out to do harm."

Actor Brad Dourif as Doc Cochrane in the TV series Deadwood. He has a full if not bushy handlebar mustache, is wearing round spectacles that perch on the edge of his nose, and is starting past the camera intensely.

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Mar 7

Unico in the Island of Magic (1983), a movie I first saw when I was 4 (so I guess 1987/88 give or take?) while suffering from scarlet fever and which I continue to have recurring dreams about to this day.

Garfield/Heathcliff like beast, Melvin Magnificat, holds Unico - a young, small unicorn who keeps getting into all kinds of adventures - by his horn. From the 1983 film, Unico in the Island of Magic

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Jan 31

A truly North Carolina snowfall (we get these like, once every 6 - 10 years).

Snow accumulating on the leaves of a magnolia tree in the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina.

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Jan 26

One of my favorite "this is actually a guided meditation" films - "Lucky" (also the last film of the late, great Harry Dean Stanton).

Film poster for the movie Lucky, starring Harry Dean Stanton. On the poster, the titular character is in underwear, socks, and cowboy boots and seems poised to water a cactus with a hose.

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Jan 24

It's just Lucky but in the Shire.

A movie poster for the last film Harry Dean Stanton filmed while he was alive, "Lucky". The poster has a quote from the Variety review at the top which reads "The performance of a lifetime". The text at the bottom of the poster identifies the lead star, the movie title, and a number of other credits. The poster itself shows Harry Dean Stanton, as titular character Lucky, staring into the middle distance.

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Jan 18

Julie Taymor's Titus is just. so. brilliant.

Poster promoting Julie Taymor's Titus, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. The image is of the titular Titus in stylized Roman military gear, both man and gear are caked in some kind of blue paint.

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Dec 25

Good King Wenceslas, which is set on the night of St. Stephen's feast day not Christmas (go figure). It's not the best song but I always ham it up and do the narrator the king and the page with different voices for the fam every year. Fuck kings irl, just to be clear.

Good King Wenceslas and his page (who looks like Elijah Wood in Lord of the Rings) carrying wood through a snowy night in the woods.

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Nov 14

Topsy-Turvy (dir. Mike Leigh, 1999) one of two films I'd alternate watching between the night before a show opened back when I worked in theatre

Alan Corduner as Arthur Sullivan conducting an orchestra in Mike Leigh's "Topy Turvy" which was released in 1999.

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Oct 29

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Jan 28

mood

Leo Tolstoy Diary Entry dated 25 January 1851:

"I've fallen in love or imagine that I have; went to a party and lost my hed. Bought a horse which I don't need at all."

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Jan 12

i grew up on these streets

Jowy and Protagonist being paraded as prisoners through Kyaro Town

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Dec 9

When I was little my parents started a tradition of giving me a nutcracker for the holidays, and after my dad died when I was 12 my mom kept it going. I am 41 and have over 30 of the little fuckers and it's goddamn great.

My small army of nutcrackers all laid out on one couch (with some big boys on the floor).

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Mar 3

Mac from Always Sunny with subtitled text reading "I'm playing BOTH sides, so that I always come out on top.

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Feb 22

From "Zen Master Raven" by Robert Aitken Roshi

Text reading: The Goal. Gray Wolf made one of her rare visits to the circle, and after a talk by Raven she remarked, "The goal of practice seems to be just more practice." Raven bobbed his head. "Well?" Gray Wolf hesitated and then asked "So there's no end to it?" Raven hopped down from his perch to a little hummock beside Gray Wolf, put his beak to her ear, and murmured, "Thank goodness."

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Dec 11

coming into the week hot!

Sluggo, from Nancy, emerging from a doorway hatless, smiling and with arms extended upwards in either exasperation or triumph (or both?) declaring "Haw-Haw --- I don't care"

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Oct 19

Feeling so incredibly lost without this pooch by my side.

Sophie the Collie in one of the last true photos I snapped before her final, devastatingly brief illness.

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Oct 17

She's gone. The sweetest, most sensitive collie you could ever hope to meet, and I got to spend a decade with her. Not nearly long enough. Samsara is the goddamn fucking worst, but I'd rather have a Sophie sized hole in my heart than never having known her.

Sophie the Collie, our final moments together.

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Oct 13

I made hot sauce for the first time a week or so ago, it turned out alright but I'm mostly excited about dropping off a jar with my buddy who supplied the peppers!

hot sauce in containers on a tiled kitchen counter

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Oct 10

This Quiverfull Family was recently indicted at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

The cast of Boy Meets World, not an actual Quiverfull family.

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Oct 10

Mae Borowski, protagonist of "Night in the Woods" saying "I sleep a lot and sometimes eat pizza."

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Oct 7

Look, I don't take selfies and regularly hide from photographs but I snapped this at my last haircut in June and the sun is technically coming in hard through the kitchen windows so...

It's a frizzy Johnny K selfie. These don't happen often. I made waffles with the waffle makers up above the cabinets in this photo a couple days ago.

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Oct 7

A picture of sand with inconsistent fonts overlayed atop which read "STOP programming computers Sand was never meant to think this is very cruel to rocks"

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Oct 7

The hottest new makeout spot in my town? Gotta be the 25 ft. Cassowary Statue that's backing it's ass up against a building.

Giant Cassowary Statue, art project of the Natural Science Center in my neck of the woods.

Johnny K @thekernodlegroup· Oct 6

It's Sophie the collie picture time!