Tom Nealon

You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.

surprised people are saying BEC and not chop cheese. Hot pastrami/corned beef, slaw and russian, maybe? As a kid it was definitely a meatball sub and then as a teen an Italian combo. Though we called them wedges - idiosyncratic Westchester thing.

cover of El Hijo del Ahuizote with an illustration of a burro politician humping a Pueblan worker while a rich businessman stands by ready to hit him with a large branch? Can't lie, this one is hard to parse, but I think we get the general idea.

illustration with a complex allegorical image of European politics - Bulgaria getting ready to blow-up, Russian bear, ridiculous French rooster, German vulture etc

illustration of a "Frenchified" gentleman bent double under an umbrella labeled religious fanaticism.

Democracy dies in darkness, as the WaPo used to say, even if it was just a marketing gimmick. El Hijo poked holes in the famously France glazing and despotic 35-year reign of Porfirio Díaz until they were arrested for flying a banner reading "La Constitución ha muerto" in 1903.

cover of El Hijo del Ahuizote with an illustration of a skeleton brandishing a law riding a horse labeled despotism.

illustration detail from El Hijo del Ahuizote picturing Benito Juarez sinking on a ship labeled "patriotism"

cover of El Hijo del Ahuizote with a boy with a torn flag and a stern looking psychologist.

illustration satirizing the revolutionary elements of Texas and their claims to Mexico. The Texan looks insane and armed and the Mexican long suffering - based, as the kids say.

Images from the relentlessly anti-Porfirian weekly El Hijo del Ahuizote. Repeatedly ordered closed, it stuck around giving Díaz shit for some 18 years, chronicling the disappearing freedoms and slow death of Mexican democracy.

close up of an illustration of ironwort with an initial letter S below with two faces both, probably, thinking "fuck ice".

This initial S with the faces is cracking me up. [from Ortus Sanitatis en François, Paris, ca 1500)

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Illustrations of circular quadrats for typesetting on curves and, on the right, an example of their use.

Two pages of vignette illustrations: boots, hats, food, wheels. tools. A wide variety.

A variety of type faces in various sizes, mostly simple faces for setting readable blocks of text. Text refers to famous people and their book habits - Charles V, 1371, owned 900 books. Plato gace 100 minae for 3 small books by Philolalus the Pythagorean, Aristotle purchased the books of Speussipus , the cost of a quire of paper in 1573 (4d).

a couple more

title page of Bruce's Specimens of Printing Types, 1882

Type speciments, mostly large, shadow fonts, featuring text based on historic French and Dutch printers.

Type faces on the left with text from French and German printers, all caps serif typefaces. On the right type ornaments and text like "Printing introduced in Constantinople"

A mix of serif type faces, text of famous English, American, Italian printers.

From Bruce's 1882 type specimen book which, remarkably, is built around de Vinne's "The Invention of Printing" - you can basically read it like a really weirdly designed book. Such a cool idea - it apparently runs through all their specimen books and supplements for 25+ years.

Read the room, dipshit.

single folded 12mo sheet of The Epistles of Paul to Timothy printed in Cherokee - one corner with a mouse nibble.

The Epistles of Paul to Timothy printed in Sequoyah's Cherokee syllabary in Park Hill, OK in 1853. Untrimmed on a single sheet 24pp, with a few nibbles. Just slightly too wide for my scanner.

The Top 100 Most Influential People, Locked In Our Oubliette. Not So Influential Now, Are You?

This Weeks Onion Magazine:

Ugh. Mine got a whole mess of 1s because the ebook didn’t work; pretty much trashed the rating.

Do it, Trump. Reopen Action Park.

If we're throwing anyone in the volcano it's the dipshits without scruples or empathy.

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

a pair of bookplates and a bookseller ticket on endpapers. The bookplate on the left show two nude figures, a man and a woman, hanging out on a microscope stage (the man, naturally, turned away). The right bookplate with a landscape and labeled "Hazel Mills Prescott Her Husband's book"

Pair of bookplates and a bookseller ticket from a Kipling endpaper, applied ca. 1909. The left one is really of its time and sports a totally insane typeface choice.

ok one more - great design, slightly opaque, super charming minicomic guide at MASSART: massart.libguides.com/zines

The design is a little terrible, but the subsections are good and it's a great zine collection: www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/resources...

The UTSA Mexican cookbook guide is a favorite. libguides.utsa.edu/MXcookbooks

Restaurants in Boston and Philly Have Finally Gotten Some Michelin Stars. The Reason Why Should Give You a Stomach Ache. This ever-expanding pay-to-play scheme needs to stop.

"All the newer guides in the United States are pay-to-play. Yet this fact is not loudly publicized...despite indicating that Michelin’s arrival has more to do with a city’s investment in tourism than its perceived prowess in eating out" slate.com/life/2025/11...

Meanwhile we bail out Milei's idiotic experiment in failed austerity economics to the tune of 40B and counting and call it what? Capitalism? I know no one cares about hypocrisy anymore, but c'mon.

once you've given them weapons grade plutonium, debt guarantees probably start to seem pretty anodyne.

tacos and calzones all around!

N. Korea is sending troops and arms to Russia in the Ukraine, so Putin would be naturally concerned about the S. Korea visit - this is the thousand islands of reassurance not to sweat it. The NYT really needs a condiment interpreter. Jeez.

U.S. Beef and Thousand Island Dressing: Trump’s Food Tour of Asia

So, the thousand island dressing (a derivative of RUSSIAN dressing - it used to have caviar and sour cream in it, as I explain here www.hilobrow.com/2019/03/23/s...) is obviously a signal to Putin. "Don't worry, I've got your back" sort of thing."

Parents: check your kids’ Halloween candy for NAZI TATTOOS.

The "elite" public universities are worse than the privates - worst of both worlds. What PUBLIC are schools with acceptance rates in the teens that spend millions courting applicants they can reject and massaging their yield serving, anyway?

You might think "Why would these people want to destroy a university they support financially?" It's a great question. The answer is, they don't want to destroy the university. They just have very different ideas about what the university should be and do than you.

vió a ICE? llame a la línea de luce 617-370-5023

ou wè ICE? rele nimewo sa 617-370-5023

see ICE? call the luce hotline 617-370-5023

and here are some ICE resources from www.lucemass.org

I have a tiny booth off to the side, look for the skulls