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For Your Consideration

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This is from       steve @_livingdog - Instagram  I got to choose which version I liked and I went with this one.  Then I swore to God on a stack of bibles that I would not put up the other one.  Here it is - Yes, when searching the net for meaningless but well drawn ephemera, remember steve @_livingdog - Instagram  K-9 capers!

Time To Move

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From steve @_livingdog - Instagram   Vroom.

An Old Halloween And Astronomical Observation In One!

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In 2016, Halloween night, an asteroid come within 300,000 miles of Earth.  This near miss was bad enough, but it photographed from some angles as a human skull.  In a Hammer film this would have been considered tremendously silly and overdone, even as Peter Cushing futilely warns an indifferent world of the danger.  Of course I had to get my bunny in on the action.   "I am Time, the mighty force which destroys everything, fully Manifesting Myself, I am here engaged in destroying the worlds"! 2015 TB145  "Either slain thou shalt go to heaven; or victorious thou shalt enjoy the Earth". Enjoy your earth. https://youtu.be/yYmzk-SyZ-Y Boo, y'all! Quotes from a conversation between Prince Arjuna and some chariot driver.

Blueprint (Source Redacted)

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This has been in the files for years.   A disgruntled BillyCo employee made this available.  Here is incontrovertible evidence for the first time, like any is needed, of the animal nature of this rabbit and his creator.  This might as well be called "fuck the public, we are too big to be bothered".  Well, we will let said public and the law have the final say in this, see if we don't.  Here then is proof positive of Mister Scribbles's knowledge of what he has unleashed upon the world, upon common decency, and upon our nation built according to the laws given from on high by the Omnipotent himself at Mount Sinai.  This is a nation of citizen yeomanry, and not pervert rabbits! This bunny abomination has been a synodus horrenda to decent folk throughout the world.  Today we expose the naked truth of this horrible rabbit and all his pomps.  Know then, miscreants, that the day of reckoning is at hand.  No longer will this furry perversion hide, as it

The Thing, 1982

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I saw this in Dallas when it opened.  This movie started with a bang and never let up.  Panned at the time, I knew I had just seen greatness in story telling. Time has proved me right. The head crab from that fantastic movie, The Thing, John Carpenter's magnum opus. Why are these crazy Norwegians chasing this dog with rifles and grenades? He is just the friendliest dog, aren't you, snookums, yes you are! What the Hell? Use the technology, lose the biology, most ricky-tik! If this had crashed anywhere else the age of Earth life would have been over.  Fast. James Arness deals with a fool scientist who thinks he can reason with a completely different species, much like a mouse reasoning with a snake.  These same eggheads would have had us sharing atomic research with Russia! The Thing From Another World, 1951. This hyper original story was written by John W. Campbell, and he could

Kraven The Hunter

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Kraven is no one to fuck with. His fashion sense is up to the minute! Him and Dr. Benton Quest have never been seen together. Makes you wonder... But the ballet was his first love, and it shows. He likes to win. Sergei Kravinoff, super genius. Cosplay and poppers! Lithe. Russians seem to gravitate toward insane, ruthless sport.  And this guy is a general, for Christ's sake.  Dapper, I have to admit! Maybe it is a Cossack thing. (Kraven is the property of Marvel Comics, and all those pics are by Steve Ditko.  Leslie Banks stars as General Zaroff, The Most Dangerous Game, RKO).

Halloween 1991

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My brother and I were driving around San Antonio when I saw this woman.  I was holding a camera loaded with Tri-X pan, ASA 400.  I had the shutter set about 1/30th of a second.  As we drove by her, I focused on her and moved the camera when I snapped the shot in order to keep her image sharp.  It was a crisp and cloudy day.  This is the best picture I have ever taken.  I used to call it "Who are we?  Where are we going?  What are we doing here"?  but this was a little too obvious and could be regarded as plagiarism.   Now it looks too me like she is looking into the future and can see that the wind is rising.  A cold, dry, furious wind back lit by the red light of a dying sun.  But what does that matter to humans?  The mutated virus that escaped from that biowep lab, no one knows whose, swept through all borders and obliterated most chordata.  The only mammals left are the animal/human grafts and it will take millions of years for intelligence to re-appear, if at

The Dunwich Horror

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The Dunwich Horror is my fave Halloween story, and one of my favorite stories period.  I first read it in one of those books we used to order in grade school, by Scholastic or Dell or some other entity.  I loved it then and now.  The tale of a family that is up to no good whatsoever in the boondocks outside of the village of Dunwich, roadsigns since removed, is extremely gripping and very well written.  It is Lovecraft's masterpiece, and one of the few pulp stories to survive with all it's power untouched by 21st century movie conditioned taste.  It is curious that it has never been filmed the way it was written.  With CGI it can now be done right, and can now be done in such a way as to unleash the impact of Lovecraft's story and prose.   I don't participate in Inktober, I could care less as I have nothing to do with other artists, or ink.  But this month I am going to do a Halloween post, and I believe Wilbur Whateley will be my subject.  I have searched the n