I appreciate the skepticism but this is a famous photo (one of many) by Achille Villani.

Both of our mothers were raised in hillbilly culture. Both grew up in poverty, surrounded by violence, drugs, and alcoholism. Only one of us grew up to be a shill for billionaires and is willing to be Trump's lickspittle. (This was 7 years ago).

They have to toss some money over first.

Remembering the time a producer called and wanted me to give him a free option on my first novel. He said he'd spend $100k on a spec script and I could help choose the screenwriter. I said, "Whoever it is, they're not starting with a blank fucking page, Bob." Conversation went downhill from there.

My favorite is the one about D&D.

Why do I have trust issues? Because when I went trick-or-treating as a little kid, Christian parents said, "Do you want a comic book?" Then gave me this.

Someone posted to Reddit three years ago. Stumbled upon it while looking for info on Daniel Ortega (long story).

Argh. 1935 instead of 1938, for you history purists.

Whow. Was not adequately prepared for meta Mussolini.

Here's a staged propaganda photo of facist leader, Benito Mussolini "harvesting" wheat in 1938. Posting for no reason whatsoever.