I bought this in a thrift store a couple three years ago for two dollars.  It was, and is in a lovely pink frame with orange matting.  I guessed that this was a young person who did this.  If this article is correct, and I have the right artist here, then I could not have been more wrong. https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/meet-helen-williams-a-94-year-old-painter-whose-art-is-brightening-corpus-christi/ Who still thinks Furry is just for kids?

My private life is my own! Johnny Craig, who else? The Hares were so persecuted by the other beasts, they did not know where to go. As soon as they saw a single animal approach them, off they used to run. One day they saw a troop of wild Horses stampeding about, and in quite a panic all the Hares scuttled off to a lake hard by, determined to drown themselves rather than live in such a continual state of fear. But just as they got near the bank of the lake, a troop of Frogs, frightened in their turn by the approach of the Hares scuttled off, and jumped into the water. “Truly,” said one of the Hares, “things are not so bad as they seem: “There is always someone worse off than yourself.” Drawing by Gustave Dore, 1867, and real fucking good too. Amidst the mists and coldest frosts, with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts, he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

The last cartoon with an unamed Bugs Bunny in it.  Elmer's Pet Rabbit has a rabbit identified as Bugs Bunny but it is the old design of Bugs.   Porky's Hare Hunt, 1938.  Nascent Bugs Bunny. Elmer's Pet Rabbit, 1941.  Identified as Bugs but he is the earlier design, and no visible front teeth.  His personality was not set until Wild Hare, by Tex Avery. Bugs in the more familiar design, his personality more flamboyant and less thuggish. The Trickster Rabbit arrives. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4053d   From tiny acorns... Bugs is something else!

Billy believes he is the most recent stud he saw on TV.  I think he was watching Douglas Fairbanks last night.  i.pinimg.com/originals/68/ea/5…   In fact, I am certain of it.  Oh, yeah, this is exactly what Billy sounds like when he talks - youtu.be/cSVPc4GZSUM?t=20

Billy does not start something and just let's it go unfinished, uh uh, No Sir!

I have always wanted to post a WIP, and here it is.  Billy is feeling a bit sad today, he was out at his property and is just overwhelmed by how much work he has to do.  So he idly carved his name on one of the trees bordering the cattle ranch.  That should do it, he thought as he proudly surveyed his work, I've done something today!

So, I'm looking up the Casa Loma Orchestra and I find out that their big hit was Girl Of My Dreams, which was used very well in an excellent movie, Angel Heart. I'm reading the comments on You Tube and it seemed like everybody there knew the movie inside out just like I do.  This caught my eye: Deana Kathaleen - Mickey Rourke looks like the cowardly lion now. A five year old comment.  But let us see if this observation has a grounding in truth. Mickey Rourke. The Cowardly Lion. A big shout out to Deana Kathaleen for this priceless, blue ribbon wisecrack.  Take that, youth and glory! Seems only yesterday I sat through this movie 4 nights in a row. https://youtu.be/Hce32X6TXoA