Thursday Cartoons: Jaws
Posted: December 18, 2025 Filed under: just because 3 Comments
Christmas is coming…faster and faster.
A couple of days ago Trump posted this on his shit app:
Last night he spoke to the American people:
Now, I wrote this post earlier in the evening. I am afraid of what that shitwad has to say…especially when the Epstein files are supposed to be released on Friday.
Now…I can’t bare to listen to this asshole. So I will drop a few BlueSky post on the speech here:
Oh yeah, and he is planning on bribing the military too.
Well, there you have it.
In other news:
Oh yeah…and this:
When you have Stephen Miller posting shit like this:
Cartoons via Cagle:
This is an open thread, stay safe.
Tuesday Cartoon Overload
Posted: December 16, 2025 Filed under: just because 9 Comments
Let’s get straight to the cartoons…
These are from the Cagle website:
There you go…take it easy.
Sunday Cartoons: RIP Stanley Baxter
Posted: December 14, 2025 Filed under: just because 8 Comments
It is Sunday, and I have a lot of instagram post for you today so you may want to reload the page now…that way you have a chance to get these embedded post loaded correctly.
So, an iconic British comedian passed away this week:
As you will see in the video clips below…
The description “special” is overused in television schedules; Stanley Baxter’s programmes justify it. The comedian is one of the few stars whose reputation rests on a handful of astonishing one-offs – standalone comic extravaganzas screened in the 1970s and 1980s, first by ITV’s London Weekend Television and then the BBC.
In both cases, the networks ended their associations with Baxter not because of lack of audience interest – at their peak, the shows reached more than 20 million viewers – but due to the colossal costs demanded by the performer’s vast and perfectionist visual ambition. One of Baxter’s favourite conceits was to re-create, in witty pastiche, scenes from big-budget Hollywood movies that made it look as if his versions had also spent millions of dollars.
Cashflow was further stretched by the fact that Baxter played multiple roles – 18 of them in one sketch. Recent digital technology has made such multiplications relatively easy, but at the time Baxter was sharing a screen with several selves, primitive image-mixing technology left a giveaway outline – like the chalk marks homicide cops put around a corpse on the sidewalk – when scenes recorded at different times were merged together.
But his drag performances are the ones that truly stand out…
A surprise to those rewatching TV comedy from the 1960s to 1980s is the prevalence of drag acting. This was largely necessity. Because almost all star comedians were male but their material often involved marriage and/or misogyny, light entertainment resembled an all-boys school trying to put on a production of The Trojan Women. But, whereas frequent cross-dressers such as Les Dawson, Dick Emery and Terry Jones were built to play somewhat squat matriarchs, Baxter had calves and ankles of such unusual shapeliness for a man that he could plausibly portray superstar actresses of the Hollywood golden age. When he portrayed Fred Astaire, he could also play his dance partner, Ginger Rogers.
In a 2019 Channel 5 profile in the Comedy National Treasures strand, the then 93-year-old Baxter explained that he did detailed impressions of Hollywood legends before knowing who they were. His mother, who had been prevented from becoming an actor by parents who believed that the profession was a euphemism for prostitution, trained Stanley from a very young age to entertain relatives and friends with versions of her favourite chanteuses, such as Marlene Dietrich and Gracie Fields. As her son had never seen nor heard the originals, she would do impersonations for him, from which he would create his own version. In retrospect, this was another key stage in the development of his exceptional ability to re-create cinematic scenes.
I think a great example of this is his play on Upstairs Downstairs:
Innit magic?
Take a look at these videos:
Part one:
Part two:
I may have put in a few too many videos, but I just love his comedy.
Cartoons next time…
You all stay safe, this is an open thread.
Thursday Cartoons: But I don’t want to be a Pirate!
Posted: December 11, 2025 Filed under: just because 12 Comments
Pissing on the moon…
Hello. I don’t know what will happen next year, when things are getting so desperate these days. Before we get to the disgusting mess Trump has made of late…take a look at these images:
Well, the biggest WTF from yesterday has to be this shit:
Yeah…so now we are pirates?
No shit! It’s because you are murdering them…you fuckwad.
In other news:
Cartoons via Cagle:
The last cartoon is really great…
This is an open thread.
Tuesday Cartoons: Pussy Power!
Posted: December 9, 2025 Filed under: just because 8 Comments
I wish I could kick some ass over there on Trump and his people…with some pussy power!
Now that is what I’m talking about!!!!!
Things are getting worse:
Cartoons via Cagle:
I love that last picture…
The next images are:
Repost: @archaeologyart Depictions of Demons (Divs) from a Divination Book on Magic and Astrology. Culture: Iran (Late Qajar Period). Date: 1921. Medium: Ink and watercolor on paper. Collection: Princeton University Library, Islamic Manuscripts Collection.
You are looking at a divinatory and magico‑medical catalog that was used by some occult healers in early 20th-century Iran. Itinerant sorcerers wandering the streets of Isfahan, known as “Rammal” (fortune-teller/healer), could use manuscripts like this rather than modern instruments such as a stethoscope to treat their patients. Since modern medicine had not yet become widespread in the provinces at that time, many people believed that various mysterious illnesses were caused by the attacks of “Divs” haunting a specific sign (Zodiac) rather than purely biological causes.
If you examine the visuals carefully, you can see the logic behind the drawings. For example, the purplish demon kneeling beside a swaddled baby placed in front of it (Image 112-1) recalls figures such as the “Lamashtu / Lilith / Al Karisi” (or Ummu Subyan), one of the oldest horror myths stretching from Anatolia to Mesopotamia. This entity, held responsible for puerperal fever and sudden infant deaths, was the greatest nightmare of mothers. Another interesting detail is the leopard-like spots covering the bodies of the demons; while this may also be an artistic convention, it can be read as a visual coding of epidemics frequently seen in that era that left marks on the skin, such as smallpox, measles, or the plague.
Some of the demons in the book are depicted with gold rings or shackles on their wrists and ankles. This detail suggests that these chaotic entities have been “bound” and controlled, evoking the authority of Prophet Solomon (The Master of the Djinn). Indeed, on some pages in the collection, highly specific and bizarre demons named “Palis” are described, which steal the blood and life energy of sleeping people by licking the soles of their feet. A Rammal could have shown this picture to his patient and said, “Your illness stems from this demon,” and read the talismanic prayers scrawled on the margins of the page to cast it out.
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With all the shit that has been going on, I’m going to leave it at that…please take care of yourselves. This is obviously an open thread.
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