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Brenna Collins

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“…a very unsavoury-looking girl…”

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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 20h
Put all my messages on a spike, please — I shan’t be leaving the house until I’ve finished reading this marvelous book! (“Take Part” wasn’t included because, apparently, it was filmed in Ottawa, not Toronto! Dang. I didn’t know Ottawa had such a stranglehold on Javax bottle puppetry!)
“Imagination: The Golden Age of Toronto Kids’ TV,” by Ed Conroy.
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This adorable creature…!! 😭😭😭 She watches for me to pass by, then meows at me until I come visit!
Grey cat lying on a colourful mat, her left forepaw extended delicately before her, staring at the camera
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Me: "OK I'll come but I'm only having one drink" Also me an hour later:
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ooo here’s a selfie from, like, over seven years ago…!
Me, circa 2019, when I was a GPK groupie
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yesterday I enjoyed a black licorice milkshake, which got me to wondering: how awesome would a cinnamon ice pop taste? 👅
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Clawdia is nocturnal…! She woke me up mewing this morning, and wouldn’t stop until I joined her in my office for pets. I fell asleep on the floor, so she woke me up by slapping me in the face with her claws extended. Wanted more pets. This went on for four hours. I adore this sweet l’il kitty cat!
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Goodnight from Las Vegas, USA!
A vibrant West Coast sunset, featuring a rare display of clouds illuminated by the orange rays of the downed sun
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
She’s still quite skittish, but nowhere near as wild as she was those first few days! This little cat’s going to be fine. 💕 They said she’s 2, but there’s wayyy too much kitten left in her to be much older than 18 months. Her little mew is too delicate to be a full-fledged adult!
Grey cat lying down on her side, facing camera
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
She is sooo adorable! 🥰
Cute grey cat tearing up my nice chair
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An updated version of Garry Trudeau’s earlier musical (circa 1984) with Grenada bits exchanged for Iran Contra musical numbers!
youtube.com
Rap Master Ronnie: A Report Card (Jon Cryer) | 1988 Cinemax Comedy Experiment Full Movie Musical
YouTube video by Kev The Ripper
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh dear… Clawdia has found my partner’s action figure collectibles, and she’s dragged the accessories all around the living room rug. I personally took the fall for yesterday’s Lego fiasco, but I don’t think my partner’s going to believe these are my bite marks all over everything… 😥
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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy October Eve! For Hallozeen this year, I made a 16-page walkthrough for a 36 year-old shareware classic. Primarily out of trash. I have no idea who the target audience is for this, besides me, but here you go! emmfoolery.itch.io/a-hallozeen-... #dosgaming #retrogaming
The opening game screen of Hugo's House of Horrors, by David P. Gray, for MS-DOS. A game released like, two weeks before I was born. Hugo's outside a haunted house! Spooky.
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It will become my pilgrimage to make at least one foray to Mirror Lake before my ultimate destination, Fire Lake. 💕
Mirror Lake, deep within the bowls of Carlsbad Caverns, as seen from a 1955 View Master (tm) reel
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Did you know that Carlsbad Caverns has a SUBTERRANEAN CAFETERIA!? Since 1930!?!? I knew I’d find some reason to live…! 🥰🥰🥰 This is incredible news to me. I have to get to Carlsbad Caverns before I get too old to enjoy it!
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Considering depositing these VIZ Comics annuals in one of the neighbourhood Little Free Libraries, but I’m also scared of being arrested for spreading filth throughout the community. 😅 There’s no easy way to get rid of these once you own them. Heh.
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Iced coffee at a job interview? Only if you bring enough for everyone. That’s basic etiquette.
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I sorta love you, in a weird kind of way. Do with this information what you will.
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Overnight, Clawdia got out of my office and ended up discovering my partner’s Lego flower collection. She must’ve carried one of the more delicate pieces into the living room, as there were a million little Legos all over the floor. 😅 She’s basically still a kitten, so it’s okay!
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
imagination.retrontario.com
ImagiNation: The Golden Age of Toronto Kids' TV - New Book - Retrontario
A new book by Ed Conroy, founder of Retrontario. The book takes a nostalgic look back at fifty years of children’s television from the beloved — Polka Dot Door, Today’s Special — to the bizarre — Kidd...
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m reading this book about her, by Bill Griffith!
Three Rocks: The story of Ernie Bushmiller, the man who created Nancy
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I was a kid, there was this late-night PSA that aired, just before sign off. “When Moses came down the mountain…” People stabbing, doing drugs, making sexy time…Moses smashed the tablets, only to have little kids piecing them back together. It was a cartoon commercial. The 70s were wild!
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s probably rude to say, but I’ve always found her drawings to be a bit scary.
“Corpses will be scattered among the idols,” by Swiss artist Annie Vallotton.
It is a line drawing illustration in the form of minimalist sketch, depicting a barren landscape beaten into rubble, with a cracked pillar in the foreground amidst shards of broken detritus, and dead trees against the backdrop. We see the figures of dead and dying people crawling or sprawled about, hopelessly.
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I want to read this book about Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau, but I’m at the halfway point, so when I open it, it goes: POLITICSPOLITICSPOLITICSPOLITICSPOLITICSPOLITICSPOLITICS I’m not sure I’m in the mood for peri-Watergate antics at the moment. ☹️
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don’t want to change the world. I’m not looking for a new England. I just wish I had some Taco Bell.
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My brother just got this new little puppy!
A sweet little tiny black puppy
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A 4-panel urDoonesbury strip, circa 1970:

Panel 1: A dark-haired hockey player stands on the left side of the rink, holding his hockey stick and facing toward the right. He appears to be calling out aggressively to someone approaching him. His speech balloon reads: “HERE I COME, FELLA! BETTER MOVE OUT OF THE WAY!”
Panel 2: The first player remains on the left while a second hockey player approaches from the right, also carrying a hockey stick. The second player is speaking in French and says: “FICHE-MOI LA PAIX, ALORS! COCHON, VA-T’EN!” A hockey puck lies on the ice between them.
Panel 3: The two players now stand facing one another. The first player, on the left, appears amused and apologetic. His speech balloon reads: “HEH, HEH, GEE, I’M SORRY. I HAD NO IDEA YOU WERE CANADIAN… HEH, HEH! GUESS I’LL JUST BE MOVING ON…” The second player stands calmly on the right, still holding his stick.
Panel 4: The second player is now shown skating away toward the right, while the first player is no longer visible. The departing player says: “ACTUALLY, I’M JUST A FRENCH MAJOR FROM THE BRONX.” A hockey puck sits on the ice in front of him. The comic uses the misunderstanding between French language and Canadian identity as its punchline.
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ohh wow, Day 2 of sick. I’m into cartoonist’s biographies for the autumn; next is the Crumb bio, followed by Bill Griffith’s Buschmiller one!
Biography: “Trudeau & Doonesbury: a biography,” by Joshua Kendall
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another home sick day with abdominal cramps. Ugh. I really should get that endoscopy seen to. Unpleasantness…! 😥
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In 1979 I stole a toffee crisp. To this day I cannot eat one.
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
thewritersblock.org
ERIN SINGER | The Writer's Block
An independent bookstore in downtown Las Vegas, offering free creative-writing classes to grades K–12.
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
*whine* I wanna go to Carlsbad Caverns sooo bad…! I’ve wanted to since I was a child, and that trip to Fantastic Caverns just didn’t quite satisfy it. 🥺🥺🥺
Stereovision device (similar to a View Master (tm)) with a bunch of old reels from the 1960s showing scenes from Carlsbad CavernsA scene from said device, labeled “COLORED STALACTITES,” Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Clawdia woke me up crying around 2:30 this morning. Apparently she was just lonely because she seemed fine for the next hour. Gave her some pets until she started skewering me with those claws… 😅 She’s not going to like getting those trimmed. I’m scared to even try, to be honest.
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The editors made fun of me by name in this, the last “legacy” issue of MAD Magazine. I made VIZ Comics around the same time, actually, with an entry for Roger’s Profanisaurus. What a year, was 2018!
MAD Magazine #550, April 2018
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Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The two kittens were separated and put into separate enclosures because they kept fighting 🤣😹🐈 #Caturday
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jordan (from Mark Beyer’s “Amy & Jordan” comic strip) sitting at a lunch table, saying, “WELL I GOT MY OWN APARTMENT. I FEEL BAD THAT I HAD TO LEAVE AMY THE WAY I DID BUT THAT'S JUST THE WAY THINGS ARE!
WITHOUT ANY SPECIFIC GUIDELINES FOR BEHAVIOR IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW HOW TO ACT TOWARDS ANY GIVEN PERSON AT ANY GIVEN TIME!”
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My 9 anime #My9Anime
my9animes.com
My 9 Animes | Shared anime picks
A shared 9-panel anime collage.
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You know what’s great? At my job, my phone calls are transcribed — and sometimes I’ll say, “Oh my goodness!” but the transcript will attribute to me: “G—d—- it!” I don’t feel that’s the same thing at all. I do not, generally, speak the latter, nor have I ever whilst at work. Oh heck.
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy birthday, Steve King! I listened to The Dark Half audiobook. It was scary.
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
First name, Mister. Middle name’s that period. Last name, T!
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
(Watching The Golden Girls with my partner) “This is from Season Two, 1986! I was in Grade 4, and had only learned of Garbage Pail Kids ten months prior! I can’t believe these ladies are gone. I loved Betty. Her ‘n’ Bob, and now Bob’s gone, too…” “Uh, can you put the captions on…?”
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The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
On 20 September 1977, “Lou Grant” starring Ed Asner, premiered on CBS. The third spin-off from “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”, it aired for 5 seasons with 114 episodes and would capture 13 Emmy Awards. #LouGrant #EdAsner
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 20,1943
P1- NANCY IS STAYING WITH THE SPUTTERS 
( THE NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS OF FRITZI)
NANCY IS HER TRICYCLE SHOUTING CLANG CLANG CLANG  CLANG WHILE CIRCLING MR SPUTTER AS HE ATTEMPTS TO READ HIS NEWSPAPER 
P2-NANCY IS AGGRAVATING MR SPUTTER VERY MUCH BY CAUSING SUCH A COMMOTION 
P3- MRS. SPEAKS WITH NANCY 
MRS. SPUTTER: NANCY-- IT'S TIME TO DO YOUR HOMEWORK
P4- NANCY IS TRYING TO DO HER HOMEWORK BUT MR.SPUTTER IS ON NANCY’S TRICYCLE SHOUTING CLANG CLANG CLANG WHILE CIRCLING HER
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Look at this sweet precious animal!!! 😭😭😭 I’m up late because she’s letting me pet her, and she keeps coming back for more! This is a major milestone! 💕
My formerly-stray cat, looking a bit grumpy
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Deeper 80s @deeper80s.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Join us at 6pm on @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social for your weekly delve into the obscurer end of the fluorescent decade as we play those 80s singles that didn't chart here 😃 Plus b-sides and album tracks too! Listen online madwaspradio.com or via radio apps and tweet along #Deeper80s
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cat update: she no longer tries to break my skin when she bats me away! And she allowed a brief head-petting tonight. The thing is, she commences to purr, and it makes her nervous so she panics after a few seconds. She enjoys it, but it scares her still.
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Share a television show that raised you…
static.klipy.com
Janet Wood Joyce De Witt
ALT: Janet Wood Joyce De Witt
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Archie is terrific! Nobody’s been able to draw them right since DeCarlo, though. I love this redraw though!
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What’s in the lunchbox for tomorrow? 😄 I like to pack awesome lunches and tell my coworkers my partner made it. Kinda makes me feel like a big shot, lol 😂
Serial Experiments Lain Metal lunchboxA BlackBerry Bubbly, a caramel Starbucks Double Shot can, an orange crème Yoplait Whips!, and a chik’n salad bagel with butter lettuce and yellow bell pepper 😋
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
😭😭😭 I discovered Gasoline Alley as a teenager, and the Skeezix series caused me to well up more than once!
openlibrary.org
Skeezix and Uncle Walt by King, Frank | Open Library
Skeezix and Uncle Walt by King, Frank, 1924, Reilly & Lee, The Reilly & Lee Co. edition, in English
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Brenna Collins @thegrendal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s much more Jandek now. Honestly I kinda prefer it to the original lol
youtu.be
Ed Sheeran - SHREDS - Thinking Out Loud -
YouTube video by TheKosmic8
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