iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Other than some outdated textbooks, I always pass my unwanted books along, rather than dumping them in the trash or recycling. About ten years ago, I made an exception for Scott Adams.

000

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I'm too lazy to look up how to take a screenshot on this tablet, so my word for 2026 is.... AGAIN?

000

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I take a small amount of comfort from the fact that while I know who this is about, I don't know (and don't want to know) any of the specifics.

000

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Humpty Hump saw this, noped out, and went to Burger King.

000

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

In a better world than this, Sara is a massive star. I feel fortunate that I caught a PMJ show with her in the cast.

020

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

My New Year's Day resolution: I'm not going to drag you down with my crushing depression and anxiety over (waves arms) all of this. But tomorrow is another day.

010

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

That church is Trinity Episcopal in Lawrence, Kansas. Not as gothic, but you're in the ballpark.

Trinity Episcopal Church, Lawrence KS. Limestone construction with the nave on the left and the spire on the right.

110

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Chiefs-Titans is the only game I can watch in the early window. I probably deserve that. #NFL

000

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

"Rudy, that Red Beaked Reindeer" IIRC. I haven't been in the mood for holiday music in the last decade, so I may be misremembering.

030

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

My mom says I loved canned beets when I was little, but when I was twelve I decided I was done with them. They taste like dirt, and no one will change my mind on that.

010

Reposted by Jim. From Kansas.

Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Found her.

87515

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called The Eagles!!

000

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The #1 movie when you were 10 is how your 2026 is going to go. So I'm either going to be eaten by a shark, or narrowly avoid being eaten by a shark. That tracks.

A late scene from 1975's Jaws, with Chief Brody on the mast of the nearly-sunken Orca. He's ready to put a bullet into the oxygen tank in the shark's mouth.

010

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Commando Cody? That's a, um, choice.

110

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I was grown up and a married to a Jr High science teacher when I realized that the 9th grade Biology teacher my group of miscreant smart-kid friends drove insane couldn't have been more than ten years older than we were at the time I'm sorry, Joanne.

010

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

It's been a couple of weeks. Let's see if I'm ready to deal with the political hot takes that sneak into my feed no matter how hard I try to keep them out. I'm just tired, boss.

010

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Finally, a One Sheet poster for 1969's Academy Award Winning (for best visual effects) Marooned, aka Space Travelers when it received the MST3K treatment. All of these people had prime roles in 70s disaster films in their futures. #MST3K

One sheet poster for "Marooned". On top, you've got small pictures of the astronauts - Richard Crenna, Gene Hackman, and James Franciscus. At the bottom, you've got Gregory Peck, David Janssen, and the much lower billed Lee Grant, Nancy Kovack, and Mariette Hartley. In the middle, the very large names of the five male stars and a rocket taking off from the pad.

000

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Next up, that 1961 Bert I Gordon classic, The Magic Sword. Rathbone! Winwood! Lockwood! All willing to pick up a check from the notorious B. I. G. #MST3K

Lobby cards from 1961's "The Magic Sword." In the top card a red-velour-swathed Basil Rathbone gestures with both arms raised. Various castmembers in medieval palace garb stand around the palace behind him.

In the lower, our hero, the chainmail and tabard wearing Gary Lockwood appears to be ready to spring into action of some kind. Anne Helm stands slightly behind him in a pinkish dress, while more of those medieval types stand in the background. Some of them are coneheads. No, I don't remember why.

100

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

One of my low-key hobbies is collecting cheap One Sheets and Lobby Cards for movies I've seen on MST3K. (emphasis on the cheap) I picked some beauties up at an antique show this weekend. First: The Killer Shrews! I guess the dogs covered in carpets didn't photograph well. #MST3K

Two lobby cards for the cheapo 1959 horror movie "The Killer Shrews." In the top card, our tan-uniformed hero has someone slung over his shoulder. In the lower card, our hero and a few other characters kneel around a victim of those killer shrews. Both cards have "all that was left after.. THE KILLER SHREWS" on the right hand side, with a tentacle laying across a pink women's shoe below. The background is green.

120

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Sam's not a businessman, he's a business, man.

000

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Crap. I missed Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day. Where can I get Belated Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day cards? #Watchmen

000

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

BNL saw that and said "hm, maybe we have had enough Kraft Dinner."

030

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

There's a performance aspect to great teaching most people don't understand. You're putting on a one-man/woman show several times a day for an easily distracted audience that may not want to be there. That takes skill and passion, and you're not rewarded nearly well enough for it.

000

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I once had the chance to watch my wife teach a class. That was a true "Holy shit she's good at what she does!" moment for me.

0110

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

True, but Chicago certainly didn't return to what they were after his departure.

000

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I was 24 in 1989. IIRC, I had gone retro and was listening to "Who's Next" and the like for a couple of years.

000

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The death of Terry Kath ruined Chicago. Making Cetera the frontman was like paving over their entire history.

010

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

It's been several years since the Chiefs offense was this much fun to watch. Amazing what a healthy recieving corps and finding a couple of guys who can actually play LT can do.

020

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Hmm. I believe this pumpkin patch lacks a certain..... sincerity. Try again next year.

010

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Cold roast beef. Lord Sandwich. You're about a century too early to make that combination, Sam.

000

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Wow!! I know Jack Davis drew a lot of stuff. I did not know he drew lunch boxes.

000

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Hey now, Greg Kihn did a great cover of "For You."

030

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I see the "person in every television commercial" crown has been passed to Heidi Gardner.

000

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Butker's wife would have made that PAT, if he'd let her out of the kitchen.

010

Reposted by Jim. From Kansas.

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Hard to think of a father and son who had more divergent careers than Richard and Mojo Nixon

451176125

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

If you enjoy infomercials from 15+ years ago, this Iowa State - Cincinnati game is for you! The local ad spots must have been unsellable in most areas.

000

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

My future wife drove one our freshman year of college. It was not good. Not good at all. But it was transportation.

010

Reposted by Jim. From Kansas.

Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 01/10/2025

utahraptor pay a guy to fix it. utahraptor you have to pay a guy when you mess up real bad qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: I replaced a deadbolt on my front door and it was actually really easy!

T-Rex: Then I replaced the kitchen faucet and THAT was a breeze too!

T-Rex: I spent YEARS thinking these things were hard, but it turns out - nope! There's a whole UNIVERSE of easy-to-accomplish things, and I had NO IDEA.
T-Rex: THE END.

Utahraptor: I tried to replace a bathroom faucet and it was a NIGHTMARE!
T-Rex: Oh no!

Utahraptor: Thing after thing went wrong! It was a nightmare from start to finish!!
T-Rex: So: there's ALSO a universe of hard-to-accomplish things, and it is impossible to know which is which until you start doing them.
T-Rex: Much to consider.

T-Rex: Actually there wasn't THAT much to consider: the universe is a mystery and I'm out here exploring it!!
Off panel: Same, only I'M doing it while at the same time having a broken bathroom faucet back at home!
T-Rex: Neat!!

516926

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I've been in Sicily all week (and holy shit do I not want to leave) so seeing you people post FROM THE PAST is really trippy.

000

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Centrist Dems would rather attract eight Republican voters and still lose, when they could move their policies about fifteen inches to the left and bring hundreds of thousands of disaffected voters to the polls and win. Billionaire money. It's a drug.

010

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The New York Times is not your friend. Never has been, never will be. Stop expecting it to act like one.

040

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Yeeeah, I think I'm just going to keep my thoughts to myself this evening. Except about cheese. Cheese is good.

000

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

My wife's tech-savvy aunt upgraded her equipment and gave us her old one in 1989. It was a freaking tank, but constantly needed one adjustment or another.

010

Jim. From Kansas. @escapecar.bsky.social · 08/09/2025