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Geoff Klock

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Tenured full professor at BMCC-CUNY with an Oxford doctorate; I teach folks about oneiric thinking via Plato, Shakespeare, Proust, Kafka, David Lynch, and the X-Men

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I should say someone said this on maybe Twitter years ago but I have never stopped thinking about it but also I forget their name

09.08.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is always a fun game but the only version of this that threatens to replace both Enneagrams and Meyers Briggs is WHAT MOVIE TITLE FIRST POPS INTO YOUR MIND IF I SAY TO YOU β€œKIRSTEN DUNST”

With this I can chart your age, education, gender, sexuality, emotionality, happiness, social compliance

09.08.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

some people just have the Poster's Spirit

09.08.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

just let gargamel have the smurfs. who cares

30.10.2023 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3645    πŸ” 972    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 29

This makes the same point I was trying to make, but more elegantly:
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09.08.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Idea for a business: a medical practice that handles both gender reassignment and teeth, called Trans -n- Dental

09.08.2025 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Where would he have gotten an idea like that?

09.08.2025 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the visual equivalent of β€œtranslating” Shakespeare into modern day English

08.08.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This illustrates something I am obsessed with hammering at in my classes β€” there is more to art than the story-world!

Things characters can’t know about β€” the music and dance in West Side Story, iambic pentameter in Shakespeare or THE FRAMING OF AN EDWARD HOPPER PAINTING β€” that’s the ART PART!

08.08.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
08.08.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 1

It’s one of the best examples of something really rare in corporate owned cape comics β€” auteur work! One guy writing and drawing and coloring and hand lettering! X-Men fans are lucky to have it! [and I cannot wait for a fancy Peach Momoko collected edition]

08.08.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm assuming the 'Marvel 1776' thing will be like Age of Apocalypse or Days of Future Past or something, and the Heroes are going back in time to make sure America is never created

08.08.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
08.08.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

one thing that's making me feel particularly insane lately is how there is no longer any limit to the amount of wrong you can be

08.08.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3604    πŸ” 656    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 26

huh, that’s weird, I wonder why no Black superheroes were sent back in time

08.08.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

Also confederacy of beavises is PERFECT

08.08.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Freud says at the birth of misogyny girls are seen by boys as castrated men (proving castration threats are real) and they fear they will be next. The phantasy here is a child’s attempt to β€œcomplete” them and reject castration, and the teen boy’s ”if you don’t want me this is all you get!”

08.08.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A film still of Radio Raheem showing off his knuckle rings -- across all four of his knuckles are big gold letters spelling out LOVE and HATE

A film still of Radio Raheem showing off his knuckle rings -- across all four of his knuckles are big gold letters spelling out LOVE and HATE

Bill Nunn in Do the Right Thing, 1989

08.08.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, are these the guys who are having the loneliness epidemic? Because I think I might have an inkling of what's going on.

08.08.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 500    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 0
Jacqui Deevoy: A friend told me that hours after the AZ jab he was sitting at the dining table, when he suddenly projectile vomited pints of blood. Over the next 4 days, he suffered bleeding from his rectum, had blood in his semen and came up in bruises all over his body.

Tim Stillman: fair play to him if he was still up for a wank after all that. What a trooper.

Jacqui Deevoy: A friend told me that hours after the AZ jab he was sitting at the dining table, when he suddenly projectile vomited pints of blood. Over the next 4 days, he suffered bleeding from his rectum, had blood in his semen and came up in bruises all over his body. Tim Stillman: fair play to him if he was still up for a wank after all that. What a trooper.

This is the movement that spawned the funniest tweet reply I have ever seen:

08.08.2025 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 181    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

My feeling is always that they signed up for Operation Zero Tolerance and are now a willing part of The Machine Collective, and thus my enemy

08.08.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"They go to SEX CLUBS and pretend to be DOGS!"

Yeah well you go to church every Sunday and pretend to be a good person

08.08.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 7817    πŸ” 2991    πŸ’¬ 89    πŸ“Œ 53

So much of the culture childish: movies where everyone is big and strong and cannot die, worship of authority, an inability to think about future consequences, an inability to think about how things would effect others (e.g. phone videos without headphones), a hatred of shots, disbelief of experts

08.08.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

no reason but periodically i think about when the infiniti came out and for a month all the ads were of serene upscale scenes and vistas but no images of the car and the comic herman did a long arc where a man quests to discover the absurditi and it turns out to be a $40,000 bonsai tree on a plinth

08.08.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Louise Brooks smiling

Louise Brooks smiling

27.10.2023 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Understanding and doing it anyway is worse. As the great Chidi Anagonye once said…

07.08.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 249    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
All Robot & Computers Must Shut The Hell Up

To All Machines: You Do Not Speak Unless Spoken To

And I Will Never Speak To You

I Do Not Want To Hear "Thank You" From A Kiosk I am a Divine Being : You are an Object You Have No Right To Speak In My Holy Tongue.

All Robot & Computers Must Shut The Hell Up To All Machines: You Do Not Speak Unless Spoken To And I Will Never Speak To You I Do Not Want To Hear "Thank You" From A Kiosk I am a Divine Being : You are an Object You Have No Right To Speak In My Holy Tongue.

Don't make me tap the sign.

08.08.2025 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 571    πŸ” 138    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 10
Corey Brickley Illustration. Justice for Palestine
@CoreyBrickley

wtf are we doing, as a people, when we automate away "painting a goblin with huge knockers" as an occupation? To think, we reached a point in human history where people could earn their bread painting big green gobbo honkers, and we threw it all away. Why even have a society

Corey Brickley Illustration. Justice for Palestine @CoreyBrickley wtf are we doing, as a people, when we automate away "painting a goblin with huge knockers" as an occupation? To think, we reached a point in human history where people could earn their bread painting big green gobbo honkers, and we threw it all away. Why even have a society

twitter.com/CoreyBrickle...

31.03.2024 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 271    πŸ” 67    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5
Xorn convention sketch from 2004 by John Paul Leon

Xorn convention sketch from 2004 by John Paul Leon

Agree!

08.08.2025 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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