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The TSA website list of things you can bring on a plane. Circled in the entry for the Magic 8 Ball. You can't take it in your carry on, but you can take it in checked. The quote is, "For Carry-on bags: We asked the Magic 8 Ball and it told us...Outlook not so good! For Checked bags: We asked the Magic 8 Ball and it told us...it is certain!"

Even the TSA has some fun.

A close up, grainy picture of a white coffee mug in the bottom of the frame. You can just see the brown liquid inside. Beyond, and occupying most of the top of the frame, is a dark, out of focus bookshelf.

Some mornings, you just breathe. ☕️

Presence, 2024 - ★★★

Watched on Sunday February 2, 2025. Read more

The Boy and the Heron, 2023

Watched on Saturday February 1, 2025. Read more

Auto-generated description: A cat is sitting on a black electronic device, bathed in sunlight, with a shelf displaying a yellow We Want Miles record behind it.

Retsina is the Queen of all she surveys. 🐈

Cecil B. Demented, 2000

Perfect movie. Read more

Auto-generated description: Two individuals pose in a playful and confident manner, wearing stylish and eclectic outfits.

My friend Alex reminded me of the time we performed in a drag show circa 2008. We did a little comedy medley and lip synced some tunes. That’s me on the right. We’re looking good.

Wolf Man, 2025 - ★½

The narrative was thin and boring, which was also my nickname in collage. Read more

Auto-generated description: A view of tall buildings in a city with a foggy sky partially obscuring the top of a skyscraper.

A foggy day in lower Manhattan.

Stalker, 1979

Watched on Saturday January 18, 2025. Read more

A Complete Unknown, 2024

I now know less about Bob Dylan. Read more

Street Fighter, 1994

As I’ve been told in no uncertain terms, this movie exists only in the present. Read more

Cat hat. 🎩 🐈‍⬛

Me, a bald white guy with glasses and a big ass beard, sitting in a chair. There’s a black cat, superbass, sitting on the back of the chair, and it kind of looks like I’m wearing her as a hat. Kind of.
Auto-generated description: A calico cat is lounging comfortably, gazing at the camera and stretching out one paw.

Kitty cuddle season continues. 🐱

Galaxy of Terror, 1981

There’s terror spilling over the brim of this galaxy. Alien meets Jacob’s ladder. Pre Freddy Kruger Robert Englund fights himself. The mom from twin peaks is a crazed captain. A man says in all … Read more

The Menu, 2022 - ★★★½

What a bunch of silly gooses. Read more

Silent Night, Deadly Night, 1984

Proof that horror movies were about trauma before 2010. Also Santa will kick your fucking ass. Read more

Nosferatu, 2024

Come for the sumptuous dark visuals, stay for the blood drinking sounds. Read more

Sonic the Hedgehog 2, 2022

Gotta go faster. Read more

Sonic the Hedgehog, 2020

Gotta go fast. Read more

Babygirl, 2024

…but is it, tho? Read more

While sorting through old papers, I found a copy of the first cover letter I wrote out of collage.

Auto-generated description: A humorous letter requests a job to afford duct tape for living in a cardboard box, with a resume enclosed.

I was trying to score a writing gig, and knew absolutely nothing about anything. I walked around NYC in a suit and handed out this cover letter and a resume with can’t-not-hire credits like, “wrote for my collage paper” to doormen at The Daily Show and Late Night and places like that. I tried to mask my inexperience with a funny cover letter, which, like Carmex on a blister, only servered to highlight it.

The whole thing was, of course, phenomenally ineffective. On the plus side, only several people openly laughed in my face.

The cover letter did give me a chuckle now almost twenty years later, so I’ll take that as a personal win.

Here’s the letter transcribed in its entirety.

To Whom It May Concern:

Please give me a job. I have recently graduated college with an English Degree, and am currently living in a cardboard box. I would like to purchase some duct tape to waterproof said cardboard box, but in today’s unstable economy it runs as high as $4.00, which is well outside my budget. If you could give me a position paying between twenty and thirty dollars a year, it would really help me out. Obviously, I would prefer a job paying at least $100,000.00 a tear, as I could by a lifetime supply of duct tape. Please respond as soon as possible, as the box is getting rather mushy.

Enclosed is my resume. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Christopher DeLuca

Auto-generated description: A spiral notebook page filled with various black ink doodles, including abstract shapes, faces, and text, rests on a wooden floor with other notebooks underneath.

Found some old doodles while cleaning out old notebooks.

A cute kitty sitting on a blanket with tigers on it. Hat on a hat? Bad. Cat on a cat? The best. 🐱

The Frighteners, 1996

Oh, so you wanted to get throat punched by lovable murder ghost lore? Stink your neck through this movie. Read more