Adam J.B. Lane

A package of (allegedly) turkey dinner flavored candy corn.

1) A pointed reminder that prior to the founding of the Jelly Belly brand all jellybeans were utter ass.

2) This not too dissimilar product was available at my local grocery last year or the year before, and was also a nightmare in confectionery.

Holy Roller

I'm about to work the opening to closing 3 hour Sunday shift at the local library, just a few hours before a "potentially historic" blizzard hits town.

If I live, I'm going to turn this experience into a spec script for the next Safdie brothers movie.

Chicken McNuggets! Fan from the very beginning when they were test marketed in '80 or '81 in some regions (including my home state) as "Chicken 'n Chips"

"Now and forever," just like *Cats*.

You'd have Alan Rickman (RIP) still as Hans; everybody else is a muppet.

I'm picturing Kermit bandaging his big floppy feet..

Die Hard With The Muppets

I picture Trump ignoring any kind of Olympics/Ramadan truce and launching strikes Tues-Weds night Tehran time, in the hours before he gives the SOTU. With unease about the economy and ICE operations beginning to turn the electorate, he wants the optics of an adulatory reception in the House Chamber.

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a greeting card for ramadan kareem with a crescent moon and stars Alt: a greeting card for ramadan with a crescent moon, lamps, and stars on a purple background

Ramadan starts tonight, so wishing all my friends and colleagues ṣawm maqbūl and Ramadan karim!

It just struck me that newspaper comic strips were sort of proto-posting: you come up with a joke every single day and eventually you either mellow out or become completely insane

A series of ink drawings of Byzantine jewelry, crosses, goblets, sarcophaguses

Trying a project where I draw as many objects at the Met as possible. Here is (most of) Room 300

WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏

Methinks the man doth (shoot) protest(ors) too much.

Probably the most famous alum of Shady Side Academy (also in Pittsburgh for those unfamiliar) USED to be the great historian David McCullough, though we could also claim a Secretary of Agriculture, an astronaut, and one of the Talking Heads.
Unfortunately, now it's this villain of the Trump era...

My photo shows a ‘roaring’ hippo statuette made of Egyptian blue faience, a ceramic material made of ground quartz. The hippo is seated with head at left, and turned to front. The hippo’s original tusks (top incisors and lower canine teeth are known as tusks), are missing, so it looks as if the hippo is smiling. The blue body is decorated in black with Nile river plants such as water weed and lotus flowers. This decoration depicts the hippo’s marsh habitat as well as having layers of symbolism associated with regeneration e.g. lotus flowers open with the sun in the morning and close at night symbolising rebirth. Height 7.5 cm, length 12.5 cm. On display Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.

A little blue hippo made by an Egyptian artisan around 4,000 years ago! 🦛 ❤️

Decorated with river plants and lotus flowers, blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and rebirth. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Snippet of a newspaper article explaining that the breathless encomiums awarded to the Melania movie on the Rotten Tomatoes website all seem to originate just from buyers of tickets via Fandango, none of whom appear to have reviewed any other movies before.

I can't buy it - too slyly satirical. In Boston a similar ad offering $50 to see "Melania" turned out to be the work of merry pranksters.
But I'm not saying the MAGA crew aren't above this kind of mischief. Below from the Guardian, about obvious vote-rigging in Rotten Tomatoes reviews of the film:

Sympathy from a random stranger on the internet. Your art is good and makes me and others happy. I hope you take this thought and hold it in yourself like a little glowing coal and perhaps derive a bit of warmth from it.

Bezos bought the Post thinking the old rules of politics still applied, and that he was purchasing power and influence in the nation's capital. Then he discovered 1) it's hard to control journos who want to report the truth and 2) real journalism puts you on the wrong side of the Trump mob.

Much respect for TLJ tho he's atrocious in Batman Forever. But I'm sympathetic to the actor's plight... just what was he supposed to do opposite Carrey mugging and gurning through every scene? Jones had no choice but to chew the scenery in a vain attempt to keep pace.

Horror superstar Garth Marenghi, author of CRAB!!, Beyond the Valley of the Screams, and Night of the Haddock, among many spine tinglers

"Dreamweaver" reminds me that we have yet to see an appearance at the Midnight Society of the horror writer's horror writer...

@shakespeare.lol as Egypt's viziers wert deprived of staves by Zion's gloried brothers, so too hast thou been robb'd of thy schtick.

Gallivanting Gargoyles

Dude is lucky these kids haven't seen Weapons.

Appropriate behaviour for Groundhog Day. I suspect that the President is increasingly unable to grasp new ideas and that the cycle of returning to existing grudges and obsessions will simply accelerate from here.
Government by tau tangle.

George Peabody Library - excellent choice of venue 🥂
Congratulations!

Ike and JFK had their own parts to play in the war's genesis, of course, and the less said of Nixon's (and Kissenger's) final bloody escalations the better. But from my perspective as a Gen Xer it's always seemed like it was Johnson's war.

...specifically engineered to attain the age of consent within 72 hours of having been delivered from her geneto-pod

Wow, magician son Drummond went to Eton, then in spite of all his advantages couldn't get a place at Oxford or Cambridge and had to settle for a degree from The University of *Leeds*. Must be a real mouth breather!