Mike Essl

Hat embroidered with “hello, i am fleeing the American century of humillation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?”

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Toughest Man in the World (1983) An ex-marine running a center for troubled kids enters a "Toughest Man in the World" competition to raise funds to prevent its closure.

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Counselor: These feelings of "everything sucks," how long have you had them? Butt-head: Uhh, since everything started to suck, I guess.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵

The rare flawless obit

Dear Dr. Sweet, I hereby submit my S 2026 syllabus for PHIL 111, Contemporary Moral Issues, for mandatory censorship review. The syllabus has not changed much since I last taught the course. I have made some minor adjustments to the module on Race and Gender Ideology and to the lecture on Sexual Morality. These topics are commonly covered in this type of course nationwide, and the material is discussed in depth in the assigned textbook (Fiala and MacKinnon, 10th edition). I also ask my students to read a few passages from Plato (Aristophanes' myth of the split humans and Diotima's Ladder of Love). Please note that my course does not "advocate" any ideology; I teach students how to structure and evaluate arguments commonly raised in discussions of contemporary moral issues.

Thank you for your email. The College leadership team and I have discussed your syllabus and the Provost office's requirements for compliance with the new system rule 08.01. You have two options going forward: 1. You may mitigate your course content to remove the modules on race ideology and gender ideology, and the Plato readings that may include these. 2. You may be reassigned to teach PHIL 482 501-514. Lecture times for this course are T/Th 8:00 - 9:15. Please let us know by end of business tomorrow how you would like to proceed. Sincerely,

Dr. Sweet, As you may have noticed, I believe it is important to document that philosophy professors at Texas A&M University are not permitted to teach Plato at their own discretion. To comply with the new censorship requirements, I have replaced the affected module with lectures on free speech and academic freedom. The censored material is marked in red in the attached document. The required text for the new module is: Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato", The New York Times, January 8, 2026. Texas A&M Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato Because of Gender Rules - The New York Times Respectfully, Martin Peterson Sue G. and Harry E. Bovay Jr. Chair Department of Philosophy Texas A&M University www.martinpeterson.org

I really felt the need to document this Texas A&M philosophy de-wokening syllabus exchange here, because... petty.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

I bet Donald Trump could be tricked into pardoning the A-Team.

This year's Tmas card.

A customer's nicely-framed print of "Fantasy Frasier."

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Cozy little T-mas.

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Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

In this election, the people have two separate but equally important choices: a city they can afford or the billionaire-backed politics of the past.

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This and the two posts preceding it belong in a fucking museum.

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Every Televised and Filmed Joy Division Performance One hour and twenty-five minutes. That’s apparently all of the footage that exists of Joy Division playing their music on TV and in concert. Open Culture’s Colin Marshall writes: Brian Eno once said of the Velvet Un

Every Televised and Filmed Joy Division Performance. “One hour and twenty-five minutes. That’s apparently all of the footage that exists of Joy Division playing their music on TV and in concert.” [kottke.org]

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Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died

The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer

Annihilator by Josh Simmons. Great writing and art, fully realized settings, confident pacing, vibrant colors balancing its grim core.

Heavy duty cartooning, proving that a blood-soaked vigilante story doesn’t have to be boring, homogenous dogshit.

Nicely printed by Mansion Press.

Recommended.

Mr. T spoke at a firefighter event and they had a firetruck podium.

Some recent hand drawn sound effects by me for your lettering enjoyment. ;)

Batman punching Cesar Romero Joker with the word "Schlitz!" in pink at a jaunty angle

Batman punching the Penguin with the word "Pabst!" in light blue at a jaunty angle

Robin punching some henchman in a red and grey striped shirt with the word "Stroh!!!" in orange/red at a jaunty angle

Batman punching some henchman in a blue and grey striped shirt in front of a shelf of books about the Incas with the word "Blatz!" in bright green at a jaunty angle

replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

Rodney Dangerfield, photoshopped to look like Doctor Manhattan on Mars

I tell ya, I’m tired of this world, these people. I’m tired of getting no respect

THIS NIGHTMARE WILL BE IN FULL COLOR

THIS NIGHTMARE
WILL BE IN FULL COLOR