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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 5h

Got a long individual one for “Today in history”, might do the short stack later. longer.blue/posts/eJA_Bo...

A soldier in a World War I US uniform is sheltering behind the corpse of a soldier in late-WWI German uniform, shooting a Colt .45 at more German soldiers in the upper right corner, advancing with fixed bayonets.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 06/10/2026

Well, I was wrong, but there is a Chateau Le Pis

A bottle of Le Pis white wine. It’s a blend from the Entre-deux-Mers region of Bordeaux. The white label has a cartoon of a cow’s head on it, followed by text:
Le Pis
Enter-Deux-Mers
Et pis c’est tout!

There is a scribble in the lower right corner that might be a signature.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 03/10/2026

This one? Proper Advent calendar. Cheese probably isn't as good, though, for the most part. www.samsclub.com/ip/select-da...

A green box depicting what appears to be a door with a brass knocker surrounded by a Christmas wreath and ornaments. "Select Dairy European Cheese Advent Calendar" "24 Holiday Mini Cheeses" "Open the door to the Holidays!"

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 02/10/2026

I went for the nuclear option

Me at a picnic ground holding an enormous Super Soaker with a shoulder strap and switchable nozzles)

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 02/10/2026

* nonadventures.com/2015/06/20/t...

A comic strip. Panels read left to right, then top to bottom.
PANEL 1: A newscaster sitting at his desk says, "Joining me now to discuss the latest mass shooting is Wonderella."
PANEL 2: Wonderella, a female superhero, sits in front of a checked background. A chyron at the bottom says "LIVE - Superhero Wonderella - Rap-battled Jesus once". She says, "Thanks, Aaron. I'm here to talk about the Some Asshole Initiative."
PANEL 3: Anchorman looks shocked, says "Wonderella, we're LIVE!"
PANEL 4: Wonderella shrugs, says "Bleep it if you gotta, Aaron."
PANEL 5: (W) "With shootings happening on the regular, we superheroes want to stop glorifying when some asshole kills a dozen people. Then it dawned on us: You call him Some Asshole."
PANEL 6: (W) "No name, no picture, no 44-Minute retrospective on his hometown. He's just 'Some Asshole'."
PANEL 7: (A) "You suggest we use this... pseudonym for the killer. For every killer."
PANEL 8: (W) " Just calling an asshole spade a spade."
PANEL 9:(W) "Whenever some Lee Harvey Jackoff murders a public school or church, you geniuses put his name in lights for two weeks. Instead of making dicksacks into anti-hero role models, you can show communities moving forward."
PANEL 10: (A) "But how else can we make people aware of his age, race or ethnicity?"
PANEL 11: (W) "That's the beauty part! It saves you the trouble of deciding for us whether he's a terrorist, a thug or a troubled loner. He's just... Some Asshole. and a guy, obviously. It's always a dude."
PANEL 12: (W offscreen, as an image of a bucket full of fish is shown) "As a matter of fact, this bucket of whale chum is a proposed solution to depict Some Asshole whenever a picture is needed."
PANEL 13: (W) "If we stop deliberately giving fame to the worst people on Earth, the outcome can only be good."
PANEL 14: A newspaper front page with the following text:

24-HOUR CABLE NEWS ENDING FOREVER
NEWSPAPERS STILL AROUND APPARENTLY
SOME ASSHOLE UP FOR PAROLE

and shows the bucket of fish.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 27/09/2026

Also, when we got there, there were hundreds of pelicans resting on the harbor breakwater. Eventually they went out to join the feeding frenzy.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 26/09/2026

It was a lovely evening at the harbor tonight.

Charter sailboat Chardonnay II comes into Santa Cruz harbor at sunset, with the full moon rising in the background.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 21/09/2026

Earth, Wind, and Fire blew the weather forecast today.

A cloudy sky above a set of four single-car garages clustered together, with various trees and utility poles visible as well.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 17/09/2026

Only got one piece of mail today, but I’m excited about it! @alepresser.com @kbspangler.com

An envelope with portions of the return address and target address blurred out. Return address reads “From: Ale Presser [redacted] Portugal”. Recipient address reads “Marc Reeve [redacted] United States “ postage was €3.20

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 13/09/2026

It would appear that someone at Angry Birds is a @terryandrob.bsky.social fan. @rincewind.run

A screenshot from one of the variants of “Angry Birds”, showing a layout with a large turtle which has elephants standing on its back, which in turn are supporting a flat surface, perhaps a disc, with a mountain range at its center and seas at the perimeter which are overflowing the edge in waterfalls.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 12/09/2026

Yep. Her cameo in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was a double take for me - "was that...?"

Crappy video screen capture of a woman with interestingly styled short brunette hair and heavy eyeliner in a Starfleet uniform, with flashes of a starship bridge behind her.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 12/09/2026

Oh hey, how could I forget FreakyLinks (“from the producers of The Blair Witch Project!”)?

A closeup of an eye that is overexposed and blurred, with four people reflected in the pupil (in sharp focus). text reads “FREAKYLINKS - What you don’t know can’t hurt you, but what you search for might get you.”

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 10/09/2026

I recall that the high temperature on Santa Cruz on that day was 62º because THERE WAS NO SUN. The streetlights were on all day because it never got bright enough to switch them off, and it was nearly full dark by 4 pm.

A photograph of a parking lot with a road in the background. Streetlights are on and the sky is an apocalyptic orange hue.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 04/09/2026

Well, they’ve got me pinned.

A map of the United States showing distribution of regional dialects which shades from blue (least like) to red (most like). The reddest area is in California, roughly centered on the Monterey Bay, which is the area in which I have lived for most of my life.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 04/09/2026

114 years ago, Fraser's Million Dollar Pier, a waterfront amusement park in Ocean Park, California, was destroyed by a fire that spread from the park into the city, burning eight square blocks of hotels and apartments. Amazingly, only one person died in the blaze.

A black-and-white image with two views - the top showing an amusement pier with a theater, dance hall, and roller coaster among other structures, the bottom showing a row of pilings surrounded by smoldering debris. Text at the top reads "The Million Dollar Pier before and after the fire - Ocean Park, Cal."

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 02/09/2026

Of course, the mountains of Radiator Springs are a riff on Cadillac Ranch, and I’m pretty sure the table mesa is a hood ornament.

Cadillac Ranch, an art installation of ten Cadillacs ranging from 1949-1963, buried hood-down and fins-up in a line. The art installation was created in 1974 and moved to its current location outside Amarillo, Texas in 1997. The exposed portions of the cars are covered in spray-painted graffiti.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 28/08/2026

My eclipse viewing tonight

A six panel cartoon. Top left, a man is looking at a screen that says “TONIGHT: METEOR SHOWER! ONLY HAPPENS ONCE EVERY 1000 YEARS!”
Top right, he goes outside and sees the sky obscured by clouds.
Center left, same guy, screen now says “TONIGHT: LUNAR ECLIPSE! ONLY ONCE IN OUR LIFETIMES!”
Center right, again he finds the sky obscured by clouds.
Bottom left, same guy, screen now says “TONIGHT: INCREDIBLY RARE CLOUDS! SEE ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME CLOUD FORMATIONS”
Bottom right, he goes outside, the sky is perfectly clear, stars shining brightly, and he says “Oh, for fuck’s sake.”
The phrase “The Oatmeal” appears in the lower right corner.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 27/08/2026

Yeah, it’s a screenshot from Xitter. But I didn’t find it there, and I thought it was worth sharing.

Post from X user Sprat (@RealSprat):
Reading Tim Curry’s autobiography. Just got to the part about HOME ALONE 2
(Photograph of a section of a book page.Text as follows:)
was positively ghastly. Or maybe that was her vision of a fancy hotel. Later in the week, Donald Trump and Marla Maples—who was his mistress at the time—did a walk-through while we were shooting one of the scenes, eager to find the director.
“I want Marla to meet Chris Columbus,” Trump said to me, “because Marla is a *very* talented actress.”
“I’m… sure she is,” I said, leaning into the conciliatory tones of a top-notch concierge. That wasn’t a complete lie. I have no doubt she was good at faking it.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 27/08/2026

Similar to this, but teal and hot pink. Also not “Youth Soccer Tournament” but “Preliminary Rounds Stanford Stadium”.

A t-shirt from the 1984 Olympic Youth Soccer Tournament, showing a red square with an abstract human figure in white winding up to kick a ball. It’s red and white because the tournament was sponsored by Coca-Cola.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 25/08/2026

One of the writers is also responsible for a movie called "House Shark". www.imdb.com/title/tt8387...

Poster for a movie called "House Shark" starring Trey Harrison, Wes Reid, and Michael Merchant. Tagline is "You're gonna need a bigger house!" Image shows an enormous shark apparently bursting up through the ground and looming over a typical two-story suburban house with a white picket fence, extensive lawn, and an asphalt driveway leading to a two-car garage. The house is tan with white trim.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 25/08/2026

Share someone who looks stylish wearing PLAID.

Alan Cumming wearing the Hunting Cumming tartan in kilt, waistcoat, and jacket. He has a brown leather sporran at his waist and the medal of the Order of the British Empire pinned to his left lapel.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 20/08/2026

Give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear a song from the soundtrack in your head

Marty McFly duck-walks across the stage, playing a red Gibson ES-345. A man playing an upright bass is behind him, and the backdrop is a silver curtain with a banner that reads “Enchantme(nt) Under (T)he (Sea)” (you can’t see the letters in parentheses.)

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 19/08/2026

81 years ago, the last American combat death of WWII occurred, as a flight of B-32 Dominators on a photo reconnaissance mission over Japan to confirm the ceasefire agreement was attacked by 17 Japanese fighters. Sergeant Anthony Marchione, a photographer, was fatally wounded in the attack.

The Consolidated B-32 Dominator, successor to the B-24 Liberator and Consolidated's answer to the same USAAF requirement that produced the B-29 Superfortress. It is a four-engined bomber with a high, narrow wing, a stepped cockpit, and a tall tail fin. Consolidated had multiple problems with production and it only started being delivered in May 1945, by which time the war was nearly over. Only 118 ended up being built, and the last one was scrapped in 1949.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 18/08/2026

I got CDs two years before I had a CD player - dubbed them to cassette at my next door neighbor's house so I could play them in the car. This set was my first CD purchase (and all three of them fit on a C90):

The cover of the Rhino Records compilation "Frat Rock! The Greatest Rock'N'Roll Party Tunes Of All Time"
Track listing:
1 Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs– Wooly Bully 2:19
2 The Kingsmen– Louie Louie 2:43
3 Swingin' Medallions– Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) 2:13
4 The Human Beinz– Nobody But Me 2:17
5 The Righteous Brothers– Little Latin Lupe Lu 2:14
6 The Spencer Davis Group– Gimme Some Lovin' 2:57
7 Paul Revere & The Raiders– Hungry 2:59
8 The Gentrys– Keep On Dancing 2:09
9 The Beach Boys– Barbara Ann 2:06
10 The Surfaris– Wipe Out 2:38
11 Paul Revere & The Raiders– Just Like Me 2:24
12 The Troggs– Wild Thing 2:35
13 Barrett Strong– Money (That's What I Want) 2:35
14 The Contours– Do You Love Me 2:53
15 Sly & The Family Stone– Dance To The Music 2:57
16 Shorty Long– Function At The Junction 2:54
17 Chuck Berry– Reelin' And Rockin' 6:59
18 The Dynatones– Shout 7:00

The cover of the Rhino Records compilation "Son of Frat Rock! More Of The Greatest Rock'N'Roll Party Tunes Of All Time"
Track listing:
1 The Music Explosion– Little Bit O' Soul
2 The Premiers– Farmer John
3 The Kinks– You Really Got Me
4 Tommy James & The Shondells– Mony Mony
5 Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels– Devil With A Blue Dress On & Good Golly Miss Molly
6 The Capitols– Cool Jerk
7 Bill Deal & The Rhondels– What Kind Of Fool Do You Think I Am
8 Ernie Maresca– Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)
9 Jimmy Soul– If You Wanna Be Happy
10 The Marathons– Peanut Butter
11 The Fireballs– Bottle Of Wine
12 Cannibal & The Headhunters– Land Of 1000 Dances
13 The Blendells– La La La La La
14 Ritchie Valens– La Bamba
15 The Rivieras– California Sun
16 Bobby Fuller Four– I Fought The Law
17 U.S. Bonds– Quarter To Three
18 The Dartells– Hot Pastrami

The front of the Rhino Records compilation "Grandson of Frat Rock! Vol. 3 Even More Of The Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Party Tunes Of All Time"
Track listing:
1 The Isley Brothers– Twist And Shout
2 The McCoys– Hang On Sloopy
3 The Strangeloves– I Want Candy
4 The Trashmen– Surfin' Bird
5 The Champs– Tequila
6 The Guess Who– Shakin' All Over
7 Del Shannon– Do You Want To Dance
8 The Castaways– Liar, Liar
9 The Standells– Dirty Water
10 The Newbeats– Bread And Butter
11 Roger Miller– Chug-A-Lug
12 Crazy Elephant– Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'
13 Cat Mother And The All-Night Newsboys– Good Old Rock 'N Roll
14 Chuck Berry– Johnny B. Goode
15 Thee Midniters– Whittier Blvd.
16 Ray Charles– What'd I Say - Pt. 1
17 James & Bobby Purify– Shake A Tail Feather
18 The Isley Brothers– Shout - Pts. 1 & 2

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 15/08/2026

See a ranger, post a ranger

USS Ranger (CV-61), the third of the Forrestal-class supercarriers and the first US carrier to be designed with the angled landing deck, cruises in the Pacific Ocean in 1961. Navy photo by Bill Larkins. Appeared in two movies in 1986 - Top Gun (as herself) and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (as USS Enterprise, CVN-65).

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 12/08/2026

For fiction? The Westing Game. For non-fiction? A book of disasters.

The cover of Ellen Raskin’s novel “The Westing Game”, showing a house made of large-denomination currency with fireworks shooting out of its chimney. The Newbery Medal is displayed above the title on the left.

The cover of the Bantam/Britannica Book “Catastrophe! When Man Loses Control”, showing the tail of an airplane sticking up in front of a red background that suggests flames.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 09/08/2026

There was also the D100 "Warlock" but that was more of a trim package than a performance package.

The 1978 Dodge Warlock, a D100 pickup with a stepside bed and timber slats above the bed sides. It is painted deep, glossy black, with gold wheels and gold pinstripe graphics. A gold lozenge on the door reads "Midnite Express Truck".

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 09/08/2026

This was the equivalent Dodge truck from the '70s

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 06/08/2026

195 years ago, Bolivia declared its independence from Spain. 220 years ago, Holy Roman Emperor Francis II declared the Holy Roman Empire dissolved. 239 years ago, the initial proofs of the US Constitution were delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, for approval.

An image of the Preamble to the US Constitution, from the original printing in 1787. Text reads as follows:
We, the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 06/08/2026

136 years ago, at Auburn Prison in New York, convicted murderer William Kemmler became the first person executed by electric chair. It did not go well - it required multiple shocks over 8 minutes before he was pronounced dead.

A black-and-white engraving showing the execution of William Kemmler. By Ernest Clair-Guyot - Le Petit Parisien - Supplément littéraire illustré, 17 août 1890., Public Domain

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 06/08/2026

114 years ago, the convention of the Progressive Party, popularly known as the Bull Moose Party, was held in Chicago. Theodore Roosevelt was nominated as its Presidential candidate, with California governor Hiram Johnson (see previous) as the VP candidate.

Theodore Roosevelt, a stocky white man with a mustache and spectacles, shakes hands with Hiram Johnson, a clean-shaven white man. Both are wearing three-piece suits.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 06/08/2026

100 years ago, 20-year-old Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel, from Cap Gris Nez in France to Kingsdown, Kent, taking 14 hours and 34 minutes (and beating the best time by a man by nearly two hours.) Her record would stand for 24 years.

A black-and-white photograph of a young woman wearing a swimming cap, with only her head and her left shoulder and arm visible above the water. She has a very intense expression on her face.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 06/08/2026

Elsewhere in the United States, California Senator Hiram W. Johnson died of a stroke in Washington, DC. A fervent isolationist, his last official act was casting the sole dissenting vote against the United States joining the United Nations. He had previously been Governor of California.

A clip from the center column of the previously posted LA Times front page, with the headline "Death Ends Career of Sen. Johnson" and the subhead "Californian Fought to Last Against All Foreign Alliances". Column text is as follows:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, (AP)–Sen. Hiram Warren Johnson died today, fighting to the end the battle against tie-ups with foreign nations which he began a quarter-century ago in the bitter battle against the League of Nations." A photograph of Senator Johnson, a white man with glasses wearing a jacket and tie, appears to the right.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 06/08/2026

Elsewhere in the world, Major Richard Ira Bong, the top US ace of WWII (and, indeed, ever) with 40 kills, died in Burbank, CA in the crash of a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star on which he was performing its final acceptance flight. He was 24 years old.

The front page of the Los Angeles Times for August 7, 1945. The banner headline reads "ATOMIC BOMB HITS JAPAN" while the subhead reads "Jet Explosion Kills Major Bong". The left column head reads "Ace's 'Shooting Star' Blows Up in Test Flight Over North Hollywood" and features a photograph of Dick Bong. The right column head reads "Man's Most Destructive Force, One Equal to 2000 B-29 Loads, Blasts Nips" (sic). The center column will be addressed in the next skeet.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 06/08/2026

Of course, the big one - 81 years ago today, the first use of a nuclear weapon in war. The Japanese city of Hiroshima was largely destroyed by the blast of the "Little Boy" enriched-uranium bomb, dropped from B-29 "Enola Gay".

The Hiroshima Prefecture Industrial Promotion Hall, a four-story masonry building with a domed cupola on the bank of the Ōta River. To its left is a smaller two-story building with a tile roof - this was the Shima Medical Clinic which was the epicenter of the atomic explosion.

The ruins of the Industrial Promotion Hall, photographed in October 1945.

A panoramic view of the Hiroshima Peace Park, with the preserved ruins of the Industrial Promotion Hall in the center. The bridge to the left was the aiming point for the bomb drop.

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Marc Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 06/08/2026

61 years ago, Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. 66 years ago, the communist Cuban government nationalized all foreign-owned property. 81 years ago, a lot of stuff happened. (next three skeets.)

After signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, President Lyndon Johnson prepares to shake hands with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Photo by By Yoichi Okamoto - Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. Image Serial Number: A1030-17a. https://www.lbjlibrary.org/object/photo/signing-voting-rights-act-9, Public Domain

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