The paper got all wet and wrinkled! I could just kill somebody...

      The weekly black powder club meeting.         https://youtu.be/WO23WBji_Z0?list=RDWO23WBji_Z0  

  ’Twas on a lofty vase’s side, Where China’s gayest art had dyed The azure flowers that blow; Demurest of the tabby kind, The pensive Selima, reclined, Gazed on the lake below. Her conscious tail her joy declared; The fair round face, the snowy beard, The velvet of her paws, Her coat, that with the tortoise vies, Her ears of jet, and emerald eyes, She saw; and purred applause. Still had she gazed; but ’midst the tide Two angel forms were seen to glide, The genii of the stream; Their scaly armour’s Tyrian hue Through richest purple to the view Betrayed a golden gleam. The hapless nymph with wonder saw; A whisker first and then a claw, With many an ardent wish, She stretched in vain to reach the prize. What female heart can gold despise? What cat’s averse to fish? Presumptuous maid! with looks intent Again she stretch’d, again she bent, Nor knew the gulf between. (Malignant Fate sat by, and smiled) The slippery verge her feet beguiled, She tumbled headlong in...

  Bielsko-Biała, Poland.  1903.  The sculptor is unknown, the architect was either   Albert Pèpe or Emanuel Rost Jr.  Art Nouveau at it's best.     https://misterscribbles.blogspot.com/2020/04/vampire-bunny-of-newcastle-on-tyne.html     We could use some of this here. 

  “I see nobody on the road,” said Alice. “I only wish I had such eyes,” the King remarked in a fretful tone. “To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance, too! Why, it’s as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!” All this was lost on Alice, who was still looking intently along the road, shading her eyes with one hand. “I see somebody now!” she exclaimed at last. “But he’s coming very slowly—and what curious attitudes he goes into!” (For the messenger kept skipping up and down, and wriggling like an eel, as he came along, with his great hands spread out like fans on each side.) “Not at all,” said the King. “He’s an Anglo-Saxon Messenger—and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes. He only does them when he’s happy. His name is Haigha.” (He pronounced it so as to rhyme with “mayor.”) “I love my love with an H,” Alice couldn’t help beginning, “because he is Happy. I hate him with an H, because he is Hideous. I fed him with—with—with Ham-sandwiches and Hay. H...

 Sinbad and The Old Man of the Sea.   One of my favorite books ever, I was given this when I was a child.  I still have it, and it started a lifelong love for the artist, Gustav Tenggren.    Tenggren worked for Disney at one point in his life, notably Bambi and Pinocchio.  Is this awesome or what?    Aladdin.    Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.    Sinbad in the Valley of the Snakes.    Scheherazade.    The Serpent Queen.    The Serpent Queen.    Sinbad.    Morgan about to save her master.  Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.    I've never been the same after reading this. Tales From The Arabian Nights Margaret Soifer and Irwin Shapiro, Illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren. Golden Press, 1957.    His illustrations for the Poky Littel Puppy made it the number one best seller of a kid's book of all time. https://ia902800.us.archive.org/6/items/PokyLittlePuppy/Poky%20l...

The Friendly Shadow is the hero of Autodale. A cyborg. he is incorruptible and fearless,. He does the work the robot Handymen can't do. Here we see him in action- https://youtu.be/D0sCsXFAdjY   There is no need for imagined concerns, valued citizens, our city is as safe and well managed as it can be! Autodale is the creation of the amazing David James Armsby,

For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him. For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way. For this is done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness. For then he leaps up to catch the musk, which is the blessing of God upon his prayer. For he rolls upon prank to work it in. For having done duty and received blessing he begins to consider himself. For this he performs in ten degrees. For first he looks upon his forepaws to see if they are clean. For secondly he kicks up behind to clear away there. For thirdly he works it upon stretch with the forepaws extended. For fourthly he sharpens his paws by wood. For fifthly he washes himself. For sixthly he rolls upon wash. For seventhly he fleas himself, that he may not be interrupted upon the beat. For eighthly he rubs himself against a post. For ninthly he looks up for his instructions. For tenthly he goes in que...

  Red Rabbit #5, September 1947. Dearfield Publishing. The artist is Harvey Eisenberg.    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Eisenberg