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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Dark Winds season 3 anachronism. Episode set in early to mid 70s showed a white plastic grocery bag with smiley face & HAVE A NICE DAY printed on it. Unless NM or AZ started using thin plastic grocery bags 15-20 years earlier than Michigan, that's a goof.

White plastic grocery bag with smiley face and Have a nice day, Thanks for shopping here! printed on it. Similar to one seen on Dark Winds S3E2.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Dark Winds is a great thriller/police procedural series set on Navajo reservation in the 1970s. Executive producers Robert Redford & George RR Martin had a cameo in first episode of season 3. Two guys playing chess in a jail cell. Redford says, "George, the whole world's waiting. Make a move." 😄

George RR Martin, close up of face, black cowboy hat, glasses. Fingers of rght hand are under his mouth. Caption says: George, the whole world's waiting.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I haven't added eyes or nose to this 6 inch bunny yet but I crocheted this within a single day.

Six inch tall bunny doll crocheted from multicolored cotton yarn. Mostly shades of green with some blue, yellow, red. Big head, nubby legs, arms, long ears. No eyes or facial features.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The yellow and orange marks indicate where underground gas or cable lines are buried. The white mark indicates Kurt Vonnegut was here.

Spray paint on side walk. A white line, an orange H shape and white asterisk.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This was Leguizamo's third acting credit listed on IMDB.

The four oldest acting credits on John Leguizamo's IMDB page.

Casualties of War (1989)
Miami Vice (3 episodes, 1986-1989)
Mixed Blood (1984)
Madonna: Borderline (music video, 1984)

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Miami Vice season 2 finale guest-starred John Leguizamo and Lee Iacocca.

Actors Michael Talbott and Lee Iacocca on Miami Vice

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Those half black, half white guys on Star Trek were humanoid felines.

Frank Gorshin and Lou Antonio as Cherons, a humanoid race on the original Star Trek with their bodies half black and half white, bisected from head to toe. From the 1969 episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield."

Chimera cat with face half orange tabby with yellow-orange eye, half black with blue eye. Its chest hair seems to be half black and half tabby, but mixes to combine colors towards the back of its body.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A recognizable blob of characters you can stick into any setting, you say? These mystify me. I guess owners of IP gotta keep eye-peeing.

Poster of dvd cover of Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz shows Tom and Jerry and key characters from the wiz.

Poster or dvd cover from Tom and Jerry Spy Quest showing the two of them along with Jonny Quest, Hadji and some villainous cats over a volcano island.

DVD cover of Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes.

DVD cover of Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"When you feel your lifetime is critically endangered, think of the retirement planning company with the critically endangered mascot."

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And here's the Central Fire Station in Jackson, Mich.

Fire station with brick visible on some walls, fire trucks and rescue vehicles peeking out from the first floor doors, second floor is a line of windows side by side with red panels above and below.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Would you call this color turquoise or aquamarine? My grandparents lived across the street from Cleary College in Ypsilanti, Mich on Washtenaw Ave. Torn down & replaced by a Walgreen's in late 90s, but they relocated. Now Cleary University. See what I mean abt color panels?

Postcard of Cleary College, Ypsilanti, Mich circa 1960s or 1970s. A three story building with brick on the narrow end with entrance, and a long row of windows down the length of the longer side with aquamarine panels between the rows.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Is there a term for this 50s or 60s style of exterior on buildings? Blocks of color around windows. Neo-Mondrian? I'll post a few other examples.

Two story brick building. One wall of the upper story has reddish-orange panels above and below a line of rectangular windows.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Here's a new trend that can fuck off: search boxes or fields on apps or webpages that blend seamlessly with the background. No outline, no color difference to show it's there. Where's the search box on this thing? It's a point & click game now! Try to find it!

Partial screenshot show Yahoo!mail , Search your mail, New message button, some sorting options. The section with "Search your mail" is the box to type your search parameters in, but it has no outline or color differences to indicate that it's a search box. Lousy design.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Possible recession indicator: claw machine at the mall full of apparently disposable coffee cups. Are they sturdy reusable cups that only look disposable? I can't imagine why else a person would spend $1 for a *chance* to win one. Does it contain a code or giftcard for 20 x $5 grandes?

Claw machine full of apparently disposable coffee cups & lids.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1969 episode of Mission: Impossible features a hubcap-sized drone with 6 propellers underneath to make it hover.

Jim from Mission: Impossible sits near a coffee table with a small gray drone on it, about the size of a hubcap.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every few months, my wife and I do the Perry-Mason Run. We haven't been to Hell in a few years though. It's a little north of where I grew up.

Map shows the route from Perry, MI to Mason, MI.

Map shows Hell, MI and some nearby lakes.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Food prices are pretty high today. Audience: HOW HIGH ARE THEY? The new jingle from Subway is "FIVE DOLLAR INCH-LONG."

Johnny Carson in blue-gray jacket, white shirt, red tie, leaning back a bit towards multicolor curtains.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm watching another delightful episode of the 80s British series "Let Me Tell You What an Arsehole My Partner Was" based on stories by Penname Pseudonym. I mean All Creatures Great & Small by "James Herriot."

The three lead characters from 1980s UK tv show All Creatures Great and Small: Siegfried, James and Tristan.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Looks like Mr. Roper from Three's Company. (Norman Fell)

Mister & Mrs. Roper from Three's Company.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Your nana is your grandmother. My Nana is a dancer, an alien, the rebooted mother of Jason Voorhees. We are not the same.

Actress Nana Visitor lying on wooden floor wearing black, one-piece bathing suit with fishnet stockings and gold shoes that might be made for tap-dancing. She's propping up her head and shoulders, has one knee in the air with foot on the ground, the other ankle on top of her knee, and a black top hat on her higher foot. She is smiling slightly toward the camera and has bobbed dark hair.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Learn this or get left behind (how to play blues guitar and harmonica at the same time)

Black and white photo of Jimmy Reed seated on a round, cushioned footstool with a guitar in his hands and a harmonica rack around his neck.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ok, if you want personal pizzas you can fit them in a backpack that won't pull you onto you back as helpless as a turtle. No way he delivered that pizza from this bag. m.made-in-china.com/product/Prom...

Orange insulated bag with flaps that unzip. In bottom section are some boxes or containers of food. In top section are two boxes the same size labeled "PIZZA."

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Watching the first episode of a British cop show called A Touch of Frost. I think this line below shows that the transcriptionist wasn't British. Yes, the way Brits pronounce "clerks" and "clocks" is indistinguishable to Yanks.

White-haired man seated behind a desk wearing a green sweater over a shirt and tie. Subtitle reads: "The two clocks who would be making the delivery."

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Print ad from Dragon Magazine #153 (Jan 1990). On the one hand it's cool that a company in Gulfport, Mississippi was making indie ttrpgs in 1990. On the other hand, they're rescuing Ollie North and fighting "hussies" and "bimbos." 😬

RESCUE OLLIE NORTH! (CF 01) $4.00 An extremely tongue-in-cheek game “liberally’’ (you should excuse the expression) laced with satire. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to rescue Lt. Col. Ollie North from the midst of courtroom proceedings and rabid reporters, in the grand tradition of red-blooded heroism (see also any “Rambo” movie. For solo or 2-player fun.

PIZZA WARS (HTE 01) $4.00 This Zany combat game gives a new meaning to. “food fight”: Two or more players can engage in brutally omnivorous conquest in the fands of the Imperator. Includes all rules necessary for conducting both basic PIZZA WARS and PIZZA WARS IMPERIUM, You'll! need a Pizza and toppings, toothpicks and one or more dice to play.

MACHO WOMEN WITH GUNS
(BTRC MW-01) $4.00 Silly fun in shameless (hussy!) style, lampoons that mainstay and cliche of SF, fantasy and superheroics (not to mention pin-up calendars) and answering the burning question, “How do they run with those @+f$%*!! high heets''? Now in. its 2nd edition, with an even larger map and a full set of spiffy Cardboard Bimbos!

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Two Doctors Who in this episode of All Creatures Great and Small from 1980. Peter Davison was a regular on All Creatures and the 5th Doctor. Under all that hair and beard is Patrick Troughton, the 2nd Doctor.

Picture from a 1980 episode of the tv show All Creatures Great and small. Two veterinarians investigate a dog laid on a table while aman with bushy gray hair and beard watches. Actor Robert Hardy is bent over so we only see the top of his head. Patrick Troughton looks on with concern and Peter Davison holds the dog still.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I noticed this in Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos. Boston guy, Jewish guy, African-American, Italian-American, Southern guy, etc. Then I couldn't help seeing it in WWII movies. As a kid, I didn't pick up clues to spot Jewish guy, but you can't miss Southern dialect, Italian mug, etc.

Cover of Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #18 (May 1965) shows Fury battling a Nazi underwater, surrounded by head and shoulders of the many regular characters.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mega Bloks Plasma Dragons came with a rubbery membrane that you could put around the plastic egg, or make it look like slimy afterbirth oozing out of the open egg. (The yellow part in this picture.)

Mega Bloks Plasma dragon toy with plastic egg and disgusting rubber membrane from which it can emerge.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Hi. I'm Uncle Ben. Peter Parker's uncle, not the rice guy. And I'm here to tell you about Miller Lite."

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Leather and the Suedes featuring Richie Cunningham will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.

Pic from tv show Happy Days shows Ron Howard playing sax and Suzy Quattro playing guitar at Arnold's.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It shouldn't have been a mystery whether the dust would be toxic. Here's a magazine ad from 1960s or 70s bragging about the asbestos used in the towers.

Magazine ad from Asbestos Corporation Limited shows black and white photo of the WTC towers. Not sure of the date, presumably 1960s or 1970s. "When the fire alarm went off, it took two hours to evacuate New York's World Trade Centre." The text brags about how good asbestos is. "Asbestos contains fire, cannot burn and holds up after metal and glass have melted down, giving vital time for people to escape."
I'm not vouching for the claims in white letters with black background at bottom.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bin Laden was nationally known/suspected of planning attacks on US embassies. It's not that wild a guess. In the movie Hannibal that came out in Feb 2001, there's a shot of the FBI's 10 most wanted list & Bin Laden is one of the ten. That's not conspiracy. He'd already made a name for himself.

Screengrab from the 2001 movie Hannibal shows the title character photoshopped into a computer screen of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. One of the other fugitives pictured is Osama Bin Laden.

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Rob Northrup. This Gun in My Hand podcast🕵 @deidzoeb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The outline reminds me of Klimt's The Kiss, but flipped horizontally.

"The Kiss" painting by Klimt (1908) flipped horizontally.

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