R. Dutcher “Bob” Stiles

White helmet with three “I voted” stickers balanced on a Zero SR/F electric motorcycle

Civic duty enhancement. Only disappointment was all the charging stations were in use.

BATMAN #9 Variant Cover.

The first page of Ultimates 21, out next week.

Post a banger not in English

youtu.be/n768i9tfFOs?...

5 classes I took in college:
1) Ethnographic Film
2) Music of Oceania
3) Rock and Roll in Cinema
4) Greek Thought and Literature
5) Literature of the Generation of 98

All leading to a career in evaluating IT controls.

Dorothy Malone, in the Big Sleep 1946

#filmsky #moviesky #filmnoir #BOTD

My wife and I helped equip our pastor here in Austin with some cold weather gear for her trip - including my vintage Vikings knit hat.

Headline: “Cuts at UT target teaching and learning “

Without teaching and learning I guess UT is making a play as a minor league NFL organization? I’d pull the Texas Exes license plate frame off my old car if I wasn’t so lazy.

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second full sentence

“There would be no one home for hours”

Three green scalely skinned men in what look like military uniforms of a sort. There's also part of a woman and the arm of a fourth man. They are all looking to the left of the panel. The guy on the far right of the panel, looking very much like Paul Rogers of Bad Company, asks "Is this reality?"

Last cars I drove from each country:
USA: Ford F250
Japan: Mazda 5
Italy: Alfa GTV
Germany: Mercedes 300D
UK: MGB GT
Sweden (also China): Volvo S90
Korea: Kia K900

First cars I drove from every country:
USA: Chevrolet Caprice Station Wagon
Japan: Honda Civic
Italy: FIAT 850 Spider
Germany: Audi Fox
UK: MGB Roadster
Sweden: Volvo 850 T5-R
France: none yet
China: none yet
Korea: Genesis G80

Bask in the sounds my beloved arranged!

Big Tex on Fire.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Black cat laying on his back exposing his nipples that can be spotted from orbit on an Afghan war rug with a pattern of tanks and helicopters.

Cat on a war rug is the best way to celebrate the holidays.

The bottom of the cup - from Germany - US Zone.

Cup of coffee and saucer

Not pictured: strawberry rhubarb pie.

16 lbs of prime American meat candy.

Sonny Rollins getting ready to go onstage at the Apollo Theatre in New York City, 1961.

Photograph by Steve Schapiro.

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go…

Eno diary, 19 Dec 1995: "Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided."

Eisenstein’s October screened by the Spartacus Youth League at the University of Chicago in 1981. The sponsoring organization lectured the crowd of mostly film nerds on the merits of communism during the film over the shouts to shut up and let us watch the movie.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Friend: you wanna hear a joke?

Me: Does it mask real pain?

Introduce yourself with 5 cars you’ve owned.

1972 Alfa Romeo GTV*
1982 Alfa Romeo GTV6
1973 Jeep Commando
2000 Ford Contour SVT
1982 Mercedes Benz 300D*
*still own

A movie poster for the never made Buckaoo Banzai Against the World Crime League

This is never the wrong answer.

You are an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect the bill, Charlie Brown.

Matthew Shipp in blue t shirt, jeans, and white tennis shoes playing piano as seen through and aisle, pews on either side.

An excellent evening with Matthew Shipp at Central Presbyterian.