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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 28/09/2026

The NY Times is hot on the trail of whichever guy did this.

Tim Robinson wears a hot dog costume in a wrecked clothing store and exclaims, "We're all trying to find the guy who did this." He did the thing. He is that guy. He did it.

This is what the New York Times sounds like.

Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 25/09/2026

Here’s a picture of Edward from earlier in the month, wearing a little surgery recovery suit we bought for him when hated the E-collar. (I think it makes him look like a science officer about to beam down to look for dilithium.)

A small, scruffy dog lays on a yard full of dry grass, with a backdrop of vinca growing wildly. Edward wears a blue onesie and has a small tag with stars against a blue backdrop.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 17/09/2026

Kingdom of Loathing www.kingdomofloathing.com It's the high-quality art that sets it apart!

Header image for Kingdom of Loathing

Completely white background, where two stick figures hold a martini glass in one hand and a sword in the other.

Text on the banner reads:
The Kingdom of Loathing
An Adventurer is You!

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 17/09/2026

I can only imagine the web team at Guitar Center discovering in real-time why you should have a submission/moderation queue.

Submission by Kirk Van Houten, performing "Can I Borrow A Feeling?"

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 15/09/2026

Cena should get an Oscar nomination for Coyote vs Acme. He's spectacular in it.

From a Reddit ask-me-anything thread, Coyote is asked about a real-life coyote that had caught a road runner. He responded, "We cannot judge our worth on the work of others" by writing on a sign and holding it up.

It's a limited number of signs.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 07/09/2026

One of the things I love about this ad is it's the same style as Atari 2600 game covers. Also, that's a name I've not heard in a long time.

Ben Kenobi is dressed in a dark-brown robe with a lighter-colored under robe and a turtleneck. He stands in the pale sands of Tattooine and reacts to the name "Obi-Wan Kenobi."

"Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time."

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 04/09/2026

Trying the mydialect.us test I see going around. Results are very interesting, I wonder if this is why somebody once pegged me as a Midwesterner when the only word I'd said to them was "Hello." Be interested to see this as what you said over time. I used to call it "pop" but now it's "soda."

Map of the United States with a spectrum of colors on it. Two main areas are highlighted: one covering most of Iowa, the other the Pacific Northwest.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 31/08/2026

By the transitive property, she too, must be as Vulcan as a moth*********.

On the USS Cerritos, T'Lyn sits in a dimly-lit cabin at her computer while composes a message to her former captain. Mariner Beckett appears at the doorway and begins to interrupt her.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 23/08/2026

You Only Move Twice, featuring the best boss ever: Hank Scorpio

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 21/08/2026

I believe Kate Beaton's mermaid said it best.

A comic from Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

Panel one: A mermaid lounges on a rock and strums a lyre all on her own, playing music
Panel two: A boat passes by, and a swarthy pirate captain says, "I don't like the thing you are doing can you do a different thing that I like"
Panel three: Close-up on the mermaid, she says "I will fucking increase the fucking thing"

Let her cook

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 20/08/2026

I knew I've seen this expression before!

George Bluth (played by Jeffrey Tambor) pictured here with his aide, Kitty Sanchez (played by comedic genius Judy Greer). They sit in a room with wood paneling on the walls and several glasses in front of them. Both George and Kitty are making the same closed-eyed, open-mouthed smile.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 08/08/2026

My fellow MiSTies know what time it is.

The ending speech from It Conquered the World. Picture Peter Graves saying this:

"He learned too late that man is a feeling He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection, they find only death... fire... loss... disillusionment... the end of everything that's gone forward. Men have always sought an end to the toil and misery, but it can't be given, it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside from Man himself!"

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 08/08/2026

Leaving money on the table, Philadelphia! We need this crossover.

Krusty the Clown looks very agitated. He stares at the camera and mutters, "I heartily endorse this event or product."

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 04/08/2026

“How’s the economy going?” you might ask. Well, ribeye is $20/pound and has anti-shoplifting tags on it. So it’s guess everything is great.

Selections of ribeye at my grocery store, they caught my eye because you seldom see anti-shoplifting devices in the meat aisles.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 03/08/2026

One step outside and it already smells like burning. Gonna be a long couple of days. (I don’t remember this happening when I moved here decades ago.)

The EPA AirNow monitor for air quality, which has shot up in the last hour. This will probably be the lowest reading for a while.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 27/07/2026

Glad I hadn't taken a sip of anything before looking it up. Great googly-moogly.

Screenshot of Amazon listing for a 1 TB MicroSD Express Card for Switch.

A bargain at $349! Thanks, AI!

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 24/07/2026

Oh my gosh, my summer reading package from @charliejane.bsky.social arrived! 😍 Can’t wait to dig into these books!

Books in the summer reading package: a House is a Body by Shruti Swamy, The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, and The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy. Plus a cute little bit and a bookmark! 😍

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 11/07/2026

Chili crisp deviled eggs with lap cheong and Lao Man Ga garnish.

Deviled eggs with chili crisp and Kewpie mayo, also garnished with some lap cheong and additional Lao Gan Ma sauce. Not spicy but quite umami.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 09/07/2026

Minnesota State Fair food game does not miss. Also Brandy Old Fashioned Cookie Dough onna stick? Wisconsin, they're on your turf!

Listing for Kora and Mila's Cookie Dough, which offers a Brandy Old Fashioned Cookie Dough on a stick.

Edible cookie dough infused with nonalcoholic brandy flavor and combined with orange zest, cinnamon, dark chocolate chips and tart dried cherries. Served on-a-stick, hand-dipped in brandy-flavored bittersweet chocolate, and rolled in Biscoff® cookie crumbs. (Vegetarian)

Portrait of the aforementioned item, a chocolate-covered lump of cookie dough on a stick, dusted with cookie crumbles.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 05/07/2026

What is it that makes a man turn... neutral?!

Two figures in gray clothing, wearing red sashes, stare at a screen. The image on screen is of a flaming spacecraft about to impact their planet. The assistant says, "Your Neutralness, it's a beige alert."
The leader replies, "If I don't survive, tell my wife, 'Hello.'"

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 04/07/2026

Abe Simpson writing an angry letter to the President is always on my mind.

Abe Simpson sites at a typewriter in a cluttered office. Behind him is a corkboard covered in papers. He writes:

Dear Mr President
There are too many states nowadays.
Please eliminate three.
I am not a crackpot.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 27/06/2026

We could have nice things again if companies and the rich would pay their share.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 22/06/2026

The new BTS Oreo flavor (brown-sugar pancake) is an instant classic. Really hoping this becomes the cookie equivalent to Colbert Americone Dream.

Display shelf full of the BTS Oreo flavor, which they call Brown Sugar Pancake.

The Oreos themselves are somewhat purple, with a tan filling that tastes a lot like brown sugar. Sweeter than the usual Oreo flavor, quite tasty.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 21/06/2026

Pete and Pete, if only for the pure distillation of summer's heat that is "What We Did on Our Summer Vacation." www.imdb.com/title/tt0506...

Mr Tastee in the window of his ice cream van. He has white gloves, a red-and-white-striped shirt, and an ice cream cone head.

Where did he go with his big plastic head?

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 18/06/2026

Just gonna post this political cartoon from Peter Kuper from back in 2017. I assure you that it's completely random and in no way related to anything current. www.instagram.com/p/BXBU8i9l06D/

Cartoon by Peter Kuper depicting the five stages of White House employment from back in 2017.

People come in on a conveyor belt. At their first stop, they are smiling and wearing a MAGA hat. Next they shake hands with the President and get to work. In the third station, they look a bit nervous. On the fourth stop, Trump is angrily tweeting about them and raising a knife. Finally, they leave the White House with a knife in their back.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 13/06/2026

NASA's worm logo is and was perfect.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 13/06/2026

I kinda regret not picking up a package of these yesterday. And I can’t even name one of their songs!

Oreo has a tie-in flavor with BTS. The package says Brown Sugar Pancake flavor creme, which sounds like an ideal companion to the chocolate Oreos. For some reason the cookies are vaguely purple.

On sale at Fred Meyer for $3.99.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 10/06/2026

Ron Glass as the Devil, tempting Sherman Hemsley in the New Twilight Zone. Shirt changes every scene, which must have been a pain to keep track of between shots.

Ron Glass appears in Sherman Helmsley's classroom as he works a problem on the board, trying to solve a theorem. As he offers help, his t-shirt switches in every scene.

Wearing sunglasses, the Devil wears a red t-shirt with white lettering that reads HELL IS A CITY MUCH LIKE NEWARK

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 24/05/2026

He added #LowerDecks to the Star Trek title card generator! I could do this all day. (Because this show needed at least six seasons and a movie.) trek.epicrandomness.com

The USS Cerritos is in space, and the title for the episode reads "Dr Migleemo's Baadassssss Song"

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 23/05/2026

For a moment I thought about putting Mario Puzo on as the writer, but I don't think this was his particular genre.

A green, cratered planet nestles in the lower right corner of the screen as the Star Trek: The Animated Series title card comes up. It reads, "Lt Arex and the Third Arm of Fate, written by Larry Niven."

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 23/05/2026

I think this was a Robert Bloch script they didn't pick for Season Three.

The USS Enterprise orbits a blue-and-white planet, covered in clouds. The title of the episode: "What Yonder Soul Doth Go Hence... A Brother?"

This is the TOS half of the observation that this is a standard TOS title, as opposed to the TNG standard title of "Explosion."

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 18/05/2026

Troy McClure called it back in the 138th Episode Spectacular.

Troy McClure in the Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular poses in front of the pictures mounted on the wall by the stairs in the Simpsons' house. "Who knows what adventures they'll have between now and the time the show becomes unprofitable?"

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 15/05/2026

If you see this post a STAR TREK

Chief Engineers Scott informs the captain that the tribbles have found the food supply. "Aye, they've got into the food synthesizers..."

They have interrupted the captain's chicken sandwich and coffee.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 15/05/2026

Going through my old screenshots folder and this seems important as a reaction. Senshi gets to make bread! #DungeonMeshi

Senshi is excited that now is an excellent time to make BREAD. A screengrab from the anime Delicious in Dungeon.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 14/05/2026

I mean look at them playing fetch!!

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 14/05/2026

We had these two guys for a while but their unhappiness with our cat and some family stuff meant it couldn’t work out. They are so special and I miss them terribly. www.otatpdx.org/dogs/bobandg...

Two dogs (available at One Tail at a Time in Portland) lounge on a dog bed. They are approximately 35 pounds each with adorable underbites and tufts of fur.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 13/05/2026

Hard to believe Video-Man from Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends never took off

Video-Man, who has all the powers and abilities of Living Electronic Data

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 10/05/2026

Reminds me so much of my late dog Buddy. It was his name and his job description.

Buddy the dog at the beach. He enjoyed the wind and the sun.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 08/05/2026

Give me your favorite non-Trek performance from a Star Trek actor. Patrick Stewart as the Maitre D' of the snooty restaurant L'Idiot in LA Story. "You think with a financial statement like this you can have ze duck!?"

Patrick Stewart as yet another French character, here he is gatekeeping the clientele of L'Idiot.

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Doug Hanke @dougmakingstuff.com · 08/05/2026

I wonder what the crossover is between the 28% of the people who approve of Trump's ballroom and the 30% who are against the Pope advocating peace. Gotta be a near-circle on the Venn diagram, right? bsky.app/profile/atru... bsky.app/profile/junl...