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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Weed store that used to be a Pizza Hut.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That's a Roerich if I ever saw one.

Nicholas Roerich, 1930 painting of Everest. Blue and purple Himalayas in the foreground, Everest rising white and gray and sunlit orange in the distance. Sky beyond trending from green to yellow.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Me when Ride or Die is pandering to someone who is me-adjacent: “Ah. Clever. I see what you did there.” Me when Ride or Die is pandering to me specifically:

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

And as hot as the linked sepia photo is, the other one of him on his Wikipedia page is even better, I think—he's got the facial expression of a big sweet galoot who has just been made sad and confused by witnessing a man knowingly refuse to do the right thing.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Odd little detail tucked away at the bottom of this piece. Hesitate to read too much into it, but…

Mr. Martin’s pledge to increase monthly handouts to state parties has been the centerpiece of his spending agenda. But his inclusion of the territories has caused consternation.

Spending from the D.N.C. and an affiliated fund-raising committee for Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Marianas, the Virgin Islands and American Samoa has reached about $840,000 since the beginning of last year, federal records show — far more than in the past.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Copyediting a bibliography in which the following book appears. And yes, I looked up Volume 2. And no, it isn't.

Attachment and Loss, Volume 1: Attachment

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

117. The episode of The Americans that Casey and I picked up our watch with about a week ago.

The radical Black activist and Soviet spy Gregory walking down a city street in S1E10 of The Americans.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

115. This tote bag from that museum, which I acquired when I spent the summer of 2001 living in Turin on an apartment swap with an Italian grad student.

King Kong on the top of the Mole Antonelliana, swatting away fighter jets and clutching Fay Wray.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I just acquired these specifically so I’d have aesthetically pleasing wooden matches to use when lighting a candle before a tarot reading. Signed, a rationalist atheist.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Flags on this ship include the US, Scotland, Pride, New York City and state, and the Houston Astros.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Upper West Side turning out for the Tall Ships!

Crowd of folks by the water in Riverside Park, many ships visible on the Hudson in the distance.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I turn around in front of the body shop. Guy out front gives me a look. “Just taking a photo of the Caddy.” He smiles. “Beautiful, isn’t it?”

Brown 1968 Cadillac parked on the sidewalk under the elevated subway in Queens.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Online sources claim it was produced by/for MOMA? Hard to imagine how my family would have wound up with it, if so. (Though we did have one cool single lady friend who lived in Brooklyn and gave me funky gifts. Could have been her.)

Five cards from the deck, with colorful 1970s line art.

and the elephant
and the dragon
and 3 birds
and 5 cows
and the duck

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Kinds of movies: 1. Italian comedy films, 2. films starring Shirley Booth, 3. films starring Janeane Garofalo, 4. Israeli films, 5. short dramas, 6. those that belong to the Emperor, 7. those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, 8. others

Wikipedia disambiguation list for "The Matchmaker."

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Pick a Bond from photos you already have in your phone.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Alonzo Mourning shaking his head then nodding in recognition meme, but it’s this guy.

Elliott Gould wincing skeptically in The Long Goodbye.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I love that his chosen example of how Dems should talk is a watered-down substance-free version of the slogan that Obama But Socialist used in his shocking come-from-behind victory last year.

A Mamdani "FREEZE THE RENT" campaign sign.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Also: The absolute shit for reading aloud.

The cover of the children’s book Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The extent to which Joaquim de Almeida is simply Latino Phil Hartman in this movie cannot be overstated.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Loved the cameo in the latest ep of The Pitt.

Screenshot from The Pitt with Noah Wyle walking toward an ambulance. EMT is saying "Elbridge Gerry, 25, stable with good vitals." The original Gerrymander cartoon has been pasted in clumsily to represent the patient.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Those of us who remember the late seventies can tell you that it’s always a good sign when they start writing the numbers on the gas pump by hand.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Pitt the Elder (L) and Pitt the Younger (R).

Dr. Robby and Joy tend to a patient in a still from The Pitt.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Others have dunked sufficiently on the business about signing checks, but this is Josh Shapiro's signature as it appears on the official website of the State of Pennsylvania.

An extremely stylized signature that owes nothing to penmanship classes. For reasons I refuse to investigate, it has "#48" scrawled in its lower right corner.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

“It’s impossible to know.”

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Elon Musk: *fash bullshit* Norman Rockwell:

A Norman Rockwell painting of multicultural Americans glaring at the viewer in varying expressions of mistrust, skepticism, and disgust.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It occurred to me just now that dating the earliest appearance of "hunk of man" could help answer the chicken-and-egg question here, and look what I just found, from an April 1941 issue of Life:

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Man looks like he’s auditioning for the live-action Beano movie.

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