Michael Tisserand

Michael Tisserand

@tisserand.bsky.social

Writer of books on Krazy Kat and zydeco. Next up: Charlie Chaplin and The Great Dictator. I answer mail at MichaelTisserand.com

2,854 Followers 1,717 Following 967 Posts Joined Oct 2023
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“I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn’t like is being shown as a silly ass.”

— David Low

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I would never make fun of someone’s appearance except to say that this editorialist looks like a Wooly Willy where all the metal shavings leaked out

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reserving one last ounce of outrage for Luhrmann for not crediting James Burton or any other musician or singer in that Elvis documentary

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Minnesota would like a word.

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Operation Epic Distraction

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Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan looking devilish

"We're here about that contract you signed in blood."

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“This message is brought to you tonight by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which is solely responsible for its content.”

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A lovely tray filled with sambusas and salad and a cappuccino

One thing you might do is visit a Somali restaurant in Minneapolis (this is lunch today at Albi Kitchen on Nicollet)

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I was looking forward to it but decided to spend the evening pioneering the DIY colonoscopy

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Post an album cover that could be an Olympic event

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does the Girl Scouts website ask you to accept all cookies

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Elephant masks, three costumers, “hear no evil … speak no evil … see no evil” …

There was that Mardi Gras we went as the Republican Party

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Woman in Statue of Liberty costume holding up lighter.

Happy Mardi Gras 2026. Keep the light burning.

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My mom sent me a loaf of banana bread and I sat on a curb in Barstow and split it with Robert Blake.

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Thoth riders aggressively threw beads at Anti-ICE protesters

And there is is. F**k those guys.

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Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

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There is a counter-narrative that Thoth threw the beads at an anti-ICE protester because truth is a casualty in the fog of Gras

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They’re mad that their “Hail to the Dictator” line has become redundant

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News that Thoth threw beads at federal agents

I don’t know if Thoth actually aggressively threw beads at ICE but if it’s true congratulations on the one thing Minneapolis didn’t think of

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Chuck waits by mailbox in a doomed vigil for Valentines. Lucy underscores his fate with blank-faced mockery.

Happy Charlie Brown’s Empty Mailbox Day to all who celebrate

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Hope that’s a better place to work than it was in 1983!

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What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

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Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

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If you’re concerned about your brain health, remember that mixing up metaphors is a herring in the coalmine

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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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Remember Garfield Minus Garfield? I feel like this version of Christianity is Bible Minus Jesus

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Darn it I just wish history could offer some lesson about this sort of thing

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National Review rag, I mean mag, said Bad Bunny was too gender bending and why couldn’t he be more like … Prince

Thx to Josh Paxton

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The green grass was obviously a Tom Jones shout-out duh

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There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.

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