Brian McMullen

memes for toymakers 🧵

It’s the end of the world as we know it

Yesterday I texted my son a Philip Larkin poem. Today I texted him a Ross Gay poem and said “this could be a reply to the last poem.” He wrote back: “I feel like this new poem is a tad less bleak.”

Not bad Mr. Connors. You say this is your first lesson?

live now ✨

My son Alton drew this excellent flyer for Videoteca Nod’s upcoming marathon screening of GROUNDHOG DAY this Monday Feb 2 🎩 Check it out!

@bookofjoe What

bring back this poster @USNatArchives

1995 beer coaster by artist Tim Ayres for Amsterdam’s Café Schiller

a great way to make myself weep is to read the 1980 Sharon Olds poem ARMOR and the 1996 Sharon Olds poem MY SON THE MAN in quick succession

Hot Wheels’ Commissioner Gordon car reminds me of Harvey Keitel’s car in Bad Lieutenant

Six weeks ago, the last public mailbox in our town was run over by an Amazon delivery truck. Still waiting for the U.S. Postal Service to install a replacement

The last public mailbox in my town was just run over by an Amazon delivery truck

My son just won an 8th grade wrestling match against a kid named World Peace

*hammers

Things are very slow in Europe, Oh, Disarmament’s a bore! I’m embarrassed, sir, to say this, But we sure could use a war! Speaking economically: When the hanmers aren’t hammering, It’s financial Götterdämmerung! —from “1934,” the song that opens ANNIE 2: MISS HANNIGAN’S REVENGE

Leather postcards got popular around 1903. Recipients would turn handfuls of ’em into pillowcases. The post office banned the cards in 1907—too unwieldy. The ban was later lifted (mailing one today costs ~$1.29) but our world has yet to see a revival of leather postcard mania

“I have no choice but to let the wild inhaling and exhaling of the godzzz push me relentlessly ahead, and to always surrender, come what may, to the divine and cosmic rhythm, on and on, to the break of dawn……boom bap boom ba boom bap.” —Flea

“Dante’s Inferno times ten.” —Anthony Kiedis

goin’ hard in 1849 with McGuffey’s Newly Revised Eclectic Primer

Genmoji feels like a big win for the limitless vista of confusion